The Sinica Podcast, founded in 2010, is a weekly discussion of current affairs in China hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn. It is the flagship show of the Sinica Podcast Network, powered by The China Project.
Our episode of Sinica this week was captured during a special live event at the Bookworm Literary Festival, where David Moser, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn discussed how Beijing has changed as they have lived in it.
Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to be joined by a Dutch journalist, Fokke Obbema, who is the author of the recent book "China and the West: Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia."
Derek Sandhaus of Earnshaw Books discusses the facts and fictions of the 20th-century Sinologist Edmund Backhouse.
Rogier Creemers, post-doctoral fellow at Oxford and an expert on the governance of the Chinese internet, discusses politics and online China with David Moser and Kaiser.
Lucy Hornby of the Financial Times recounts the post-war history of the survivors of a wartime atrocity.
A discussion on pollution problems in China.
A discussion with Fan Popo, an LGBT activist filmmaker in China.
Edward Wong and Prashant Rao, two journalists with years of experience in Iraq, share thoughts on the Islamic State and its potential impact on China.
Ed Wong from The New York Times and James Miles of The Economist discuss political purges and media transparency in China.