China and India: Pallavi Aiyar and Ananth Krishnan on mutual misperceptions
This week on Sinica, we bring you a conversation with Pallavi Aiyar, a prolific writer and, until 2008, a Beijing-based journalist, and Ananth Krishnan, who reported from China for The Hindu and India...
10 Dec 20201h
Is coercive environmentalism the answer?
In this episode of Sinica, which was taped live at the fourth annual NEXTChina Conference on November 11, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro, co-authors of a new book called China...
3 Dec 202034min
Chilies and China: Brian Dott on how a New World import defined regional cuisines in China
This week on Sinica, we teamed up with Columbia University Press and the Columbia Global Centers to convene a conversation with Brian Dott, a professor of history and Middle Eastern studies at Whitman...
27 Nov 202040min
Jennifer Pan studied clickbait in Chinese propaganda. You won’t believe what she discovered!
This week on Sinica, we present the first installment in a three-part series produced in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), highlighting the groundbreaking work of young so...
19 Nov 202052min
Rana Mitter on the reshaping of China’s World War II legacy
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Rana Mitter, professor of the history and politics of modern China at St. Cross College, Oxford, and director of the University of Oxford China Centre, about his...
12 Nov 20201h 25min
A China policy for the progressive left
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner about what a progressive U.S. policy toward China should look like. Tobita is the director of Justice Is Global, a special projec...
5 Nov 20201h 4min
The wuxia storyverse of Peter Shiao
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with the Los Angeles–based film producer Peter Shiao about his vision of bringing wuxia 武侠 — a genre that tells stories of chivalrous martial artists with supernatura...
29 Okt 202042min
Southeast Asia in the dragon's shadow: A conversation with Sebastian Strangio
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Sebastian Strangio, the Southeast Asia editor at The Diplomat, about his new book, In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century. The b...
22 Okt 20201h 3min
