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
An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 2
This week on Sinica, Part 2 of the interview with anthropologist Stevan Harrell, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, about his magnum opus, An Ecological History of China. Be sure to l...
27 Juni 20241h 15min
An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 1
This week on Sinica, Part 1 of a two-part podcast with Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Washington. Steve's groundbreaking book An Ecological History of Modern C...
20 Juni 20241h 14min
Peter Hessler on his new book, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education"
This week on Sinica, the highly-regarded writer Peter Hessler joins to talk about his new book, out July 9: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Over 20 years after teaching with the Peace Corps in Fuli...
13 Juni 20241h 26min
Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Sino-American Rivalry
This week on Sinica, a conversation that I moderated on May 30th called “Assessing the Impact of US-China Rivalry on Ukraine and Taiwan,” put on by the Ukrainian Platform for Contemporary China. The m...
6 Juni 20241h 19min
Jonathan Chatwin on Deng Xiaoping's 1992 Southern Tour
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jonathan Chatwin, author of a new book about Deng Xiaoping's "Southern Tour" of early 1992 — a pivotal event that renewed a commitment to economic reforms afte...
30 Maj 20241h
Ed Lanfranco: from Hoarder to Historian
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by old friend Ed Lanfranco, who lived in Beijing from 1988 to 2009. An inveterate packrat, Ed managed to accumulate an incredible trove of documents, ...
23 Maj 20241h 6min
Jay Kuo on Beijing's Gay 90s
This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to welcome — my brother! Jay Kuo is a Broadway writer & producer, and the man behind the terrific U.S. politics-focused Substack newsletter The Status Kuo. In a prev...
16 Maj 20241h 9min
