‘Critical’ journalism in China, explained by Maria Repnikova
Outside observers typically view China’s media as utterly shackled by the bonds of censorship, unable to critique the government or speak truth to power in any meaningful sense. In part, this is true ...
15 Feb 20181h 6min
Kishore Mahbubani on China’s rise and America’s myopia
China, as we say at the beginning of each Sinica Podcast episode, is a nation that is reshaping the world. But what does that reshaping really look like, and how does — and should — the world react to...
8 Feb 201854min
Gerry Shih on China’s Uyghur Muslims, under pressure at home and abroad
Associated Press (AP) reporter Gerry Shih was hard at work in 2017 writing a remarkable series of articles on China’s Uyghur Muslim minority. By traveling not just to China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomou...
1 Feb 201854min
Yukon Huang, the China economy contrarian
Yukon Huang thinks that China’s economy is extremely unconventional. Unsurprisingly, then, that nearly all the conventional economic wisdom we hear about this economy — particularly the two hugely pop...
26 Jan 201857min
Jerry Yang of Yahoo: Why I Believed in Alibaba
This week on Sinica, we bring you a special preview of a new podcast called 996 Podcast with GGV Capital, which we are very excited to co-produce. Subscribe to the 996 Podcast here on iTunes, and her...
17 Jan 20181h 24min
Inside China’s AI revolution, with Jessi Hempel
China is a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. If you had said that even five years ago — or in many circles, as recently as three years ago — you might have been laughed out of t...
11 Jan 201849min
Jiayang Fan on beauty in China
Jiayang Fan is a staff writer at the New Yorker who writes on many topics, but in the past year, has penned several one-of-a-kind pieces on Chinese society. She has been on Sinica before to discuss wh...
28 Dec 20171h 3min
Stephen Roach on the unhealthy economic codependency of China and America
Stephen Roach is a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at the Yale School of Management. He was formerly the chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia a...
21 Dec 20171h 14min
