What China is reading and why it matters: A conversation with author Megan Walsh
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Megan Walsh, journalist, literary critic, and author of the brand-new book The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters. The book offers an ...
17 Feb 20221h
China's ideological landscape, with Jason Wu
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Indiana University political scientist Jason Wu about his work on China's ideological landscape. With so many now framing the contest between the U.S...
10 Feb 202259min
Why the law matters in China, with Jeremy Daum of Yale's Paul Tsai China Law Center
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jeremy Daum, senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at Yale University's Paul Tsai China Center. Jeremy runs ChinaLawTranslate.com, a Wiki-style resour...
3 Feb 202252min
Personality and political discontent in China, with Rory Truex
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser welcomes back Rory Truex, who teaches politics and international affairs at Princeton. In a fascinating as-yet-unpublished paper, Rory draws on extensive survey...
27 Jan 20221h 3min
Dan Wang on China in 2021: "Common prosperity," cultural stunting, and shortcomings of the "modal China story
This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser welcomes back Dan Wang, technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, to talk about this year's annual letter. Dan's letters have become something of an institutio...
20 Jan 20221h 15min
Mental models for understanding complexity, with Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp
What we think about China depends in large measure on how we think about China. As a nation of 1.4 billion people in the throes of world-historic change, it's more important than ever to examine our o...
13 Jan 20221h 48min
The sociologist watching the China-watchers: A conversation with David McCourt
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David McCourt, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. For the last several years, David — who is not himself a China specialist...
6 Jan 20221h 21min
Damien Ma of MacroPolo on China's economic and political outlook
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Damien Ma, managing director and co-founder of the Paulson Institute’s think-tank, MacroPolo. Damien discusses MacroPolo's new forecast of the property market in...
30 Dec 202157min
