A data-driven dive into Chinese politics, with Stanford's Yiqing Xu
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yiqing Xu, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University, about his work in applying modern methods in political science to the politics of ...
22 Juli 20211h
Avoiding ideological conflict with Beijing: Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss, both professors of government at Cornell University, about their recent essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Clash of Systems? ...
18 Juli 20211h 6min
How China escaped shock therapy: Isabella Weber unpacks the debates of the 1980s
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Isabella Weber, assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, about her new book, How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Ref...
8 Juli 20211h 35min
The Chinese Communist Party at 100
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by historian Timothy Cheek of the University of British Columbia, political scientist Elizabeth Perry of Harvard, and our very own Jeremy Goldkorn, editor-in-chie...
1 Juli 20211h 21min
China's population conundrum, with UNC demographer Yong Cai
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yong Cai, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This episode — the first in-person interview ...
24 Juni 202152min
COVID-19 origins revisited, with Deborah Seligsohn
Shortly after Deborah Seligsohn was last on Sinica, in April, the lab leak hypothesis seemed suddenly to gain traction — at least in American media. This week, Kaiser invites Deborah back to the show ...
17 Juni 20211h 1min
Journalist Andrew Jones on China's space program
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Andrew Jones, a Helsinki-based reporter who over the last several years has secured a place as the go-to English-language journalist covering China’s space progr...
10 Juni 20211h 15min
Chinese college students in the U.S., with Yingyi Ma
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Yingyi Ma, an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University and the author of the book Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and ...
3 Juni 20211h 26min
