China Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smoking
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jason McLure, a correspondent for a new investigative reporting outfit called The Examination, and reporter Jude Chan, who writes for Initium Media. The two wo...
5 Okt 20231h 15min
The Philadelphia Orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking China tour
This week on Sinica, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1950 concert tour of China by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973, Kaiser chats with Matías Tarnopolsky, the orchestra’s president an...
28 Sep 202354min
Ian Johnson on "Sparks," his new book on China's underground historians
This week on Sinica, Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Ian Johnson, now a senior China fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Kaiser to discuss his new book, Sparks" China's Undergr...
21 Sep 20231h 7min
U.S. Congressman Rick Larsen (D-WA) on his new U.S.-China policy white paper
This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Representative Rick Larsen of the Washington 2nd District, the co-founder and continuously serving Democratic co-chair of the bipartisan U.S.-China Working Grou...
14 Sep 202345min
The case for the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Karen Hao, a reporter recently with the Wall Street Journal whose previous work with the MIT Technology Review has been featured on Sinica; and by Deborah Seli...
7 Sep 20231h 7min
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: MIT's Yasheng Huang on his new book
This week on Sinica, MIT professor Yasheng Huang joins Kaiser to talk about his brand new book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and...
31 Aug 20232h 7min
China Stories summer special: The best of This Week in China's HIstory
Something different this week on Sinica: A selection of "This Week in China's History" columns by James Carter, all narrated by Kaiser with a little interstitial music by Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn).The...
24 Aug 20231h 7min
Wargaming a Taiwan invasion scenario: Lyle Goldstein on the CSIS wargame “The First Battle of the Next War"
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back Lyle Goldstein, director for China engagement at the think tank Defense Priorities and previously a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught f...
17 Aug 20231h 7min
