Fan Yang on fakes, pirates and shanzhai culture
Fakes, knockoffs, pirate goods, counterfeits: China is notorious as the global manufacturing center of all things ersatz. But in the first decade after the People’s Republic joined the World Trade Org...
22 Sep 201649min
Frank H. Wu on Chinese-Americans and China
What is the Chinese-American identity? How has the rise of China affected American attitudes toward ethnically Chinese people in the United States and elsewhere? How do the 3.8 million Chinese-America...
15 Sep 20161h 7min
Andrew Ng on artificial intelligence and startup culture from Beijing to Silicon Valley
What is the state of the art of artificial intelligence (AI) in China and the United States? How does language recognition differ for Chinese and English? And what’s up with self-driving cars? To ans...
8 Sep 201642min
Filmmaker Daniel Whelan on Yiwu, a city at the core of cheap Chinese goods
Renowned as a trading town during the Qing dynasty, the eastern city of Yiwu again became famous for its markets after China's economic reforms kicked in during the 1980s. Since then, the metropolis o...
1 Sep 201640min
What is cultural about the Cultural Revolution? Paul Clark on creativity amid destruction
This year marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a chaotic decade of Chinese history made infamous in the West through books such as Wild Swans and Life and Death in ...
25 Aug 201637min
It's all connected: Silk Roads old and new
Jim Millward is one of the world’s leading scholars on Xinjiang and Central Asia, and the author of many books and articles, including Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central A...
18 Aug 201655min
A discussion with Cheng Li: Where is Chinese politics going?
This episode of Sinica is a wide-ranging conversation with Cheng Li (李成), one of the most prominent international scholars of elite Chinese politics and its relation to grassroots changes and generati...
11 Aug 201654min
Clay Shirky on tech and the internet in China
In this episode of Sinica, Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody who has written about the internet and its effects on society since the 1990s, joins Kaiser and Jeremy to discuss the strengt...
4 Aug 20161h 6min
