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
Rana Mitter on studying the Nanjing Massacre
This week marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, which began with the fall of the capital of the Republic of China on December 13, 1937. Few events in m...
14 Dec 20171h 3min
Scott Tong on his surprising family history
NOTE: If you haven’t read the book and are allergic to spoilers, please be aware that the interesting surprises of Scott’s story are discussed in this podcast. Scott Tong is a reporter for American ...
7 Dec 20171h 5min
Why China needs a #MeToo campaign but won’t allow it: A conversation with Leta Hong Fincher
Leta Hong Fincher is the author of the book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and the upcoming book Betraying Big Brother: The Rise of China's Feminist Resistance, and a reg...
30 Nov 20171h 2min
When American pilots fell out of the Chinese sky
Everyone knows, or at least recognizes, the image of the Flying Tigers (飞虎队 fēihǔduì). The shark-faced noses of these American airmen’s planes streaked across the skies of China, as they racked up an ...
22 Nov 20171h 6min
Jane Perlez on Trump’s visit to Beijing
Jane Perlez is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beijing bureau chief of the New York Times, and her own reporting focuses on China's foreign policy, in particular its relations with the United States and Ch...
16 Nov 201749min
