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[Podcast] July 5, 2009: The riots that changed everything in Xinjiang
In Urumqi on July 5, 2009, a Uyghur protest against racism and mistreatment turned into a riot, resulting in crowds attacking Han Chinese. The state’s...
[Podcast] The global semiconductor industry is interconnected, like it or not
The global production of semiconductors will be interdependent for at least the next decade. China and the U.S. may want chip self-sufficiency, but neither will...
Fighting back: Exploring China’s self-defense scene
In an special interview edition of the show, Mark and Haig speak to Yonina Chan, who helps run the Beijing chapter of the famed Israeli...
Historian Andrew Liu on COVID origins: Orientalism and the “Asiatic racial form”
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Villanova University historian Andrew Liu. Andy published an excellent essay in n+1 magazine in April that captured how...
It was a bad, very bad week for Chinese mining in Africa
Two of China’s largest and most important mining ventures in Africa encountered major problems this week. In Guinea, the government shut down the Sino-Australian joint...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, episode 209
This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: Xi Jinping swears in Hong Kong’s new chief executive, John Lee, and says that Hong Kong must be...
A discussion with the journalists behind the BBC doc “Racism For Sale”
A Discussion With the Journalists Behind the BBC Doc “Racism For Sale” The BBC investigative unit Africa Eye turned a powerful spotlight last month on...
[Podcast] When the Yellow River changes course
For weeks in June 1855, wave after wave of floodwaters laid waste to central China. More than 200,000 people died, while seven million lost their...
[Podcast] ‘A Lifelong Journey’: A family saga through China’s past five decades
A drama focusing on the shifting fortunes of a Chinese family beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, filled with struggle and bittersweet...