Bonus: A Free-Range Father in a Tiger Mom World — Reflections on Chinese and American Education
Here's a little bonus ep for you ahead of tomorrow's show, which will be a re-run of a really fun one from about 10 years ago! I'm driving the rest of this week to the Midwest to drop my kids off at t...
14 Aug 202413min
China's Response to U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls, with Paul Triolo and Kevin Xu
This week on Sinica, Paul Triolo rejoins the show for a deep, deep dive into China's response to American export controls on advanced semiconductors and related technologies. How much hurt has the pol...
8 Aug 20241h 35min
Eric Olander on China in the Global South
This week on Sinica, I'm joined by Eric Olander, host of the outstanding China in Africa Podcast and the indispensable China-Global South Podcast, and creator of the China-Global South Project. Eric's...
1 Aug 20241h 3min
A Letter from Beijing
This week, my narration of a longish essay about my recently-concluded four-week trip to Dalian and, more importantly, Beijing — my first time back in the city I called home for so long since the COVI...
25 Juli 202434min
Anthony Tao: The Poetry and Soul of Beijing
This week on Sinica, I'm in Beijing, where I spoke with my dear friend Anthony Tao, an English-language poet and a builder of community in the city where I lived for over 20 years. Anthony recently pu...
18 Juli 20241h 2min
Sinica Unscripted: Wang Zichen of CCG with a Third Plenum Preview and more
I'm trying something different: totally unscripted and very, very lightly edited recordings grabbed on the go where I happen to be. For the inaugural episode, I've got Wang Zichen, the author of the a...
12 Juli 202456min
Improbable Diplomats: Historian Pete Millwood on how Scientific and Cultural Exchange Remade U.S.-China Relations
This week on Sinica, I chat with University of Melbourne transnational historian Pete Millwood about his outstanding book Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade ...
11 Juli 20241h 20min
Adam Tooze on the U.S., China, the Energy Transition — and Saying the Unsayable
This week on Sinica, in a show recorded on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, historian Adam Tooze joins to chat about what the U.S. wants from China, Chi...
4 Juli 20241h 5min
