The prominent economic historian was frustrated with the common story of China’s rise that “goes from GDP to defense budgets, to a challenge to American hegemony.” He appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss which historical comparisons and context help — or don’t — in making sense of modern China.
The political scientist Yiqing Xu explains his “new-ish” methods for studying the dynamics of politics in China, including ways to map public sentiment and public opinion in authoritarian states.
A recent essay by scholars Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss argues a persuasive case that the Biden administration is making a bad move in foregrounding the ideological dimension of competition with China.
A new book by Isabella Weber, “How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate,” challenges conventional wisdom about China’s crucial decade of economic reforms.
For the 10th anniversary of the Sinica Podcast, hosts Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn recorded live on Zoom, sharing some reminiscences, reflecting on how China and the podcast have changed in the years since they started the show.
This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live. In a podcast taped live for the Asia Society of Switzerland in Zurich, Kaiser is joined by Kristin...
This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live. Fuchsia Dunlop, the preeminent writer on Chinese cuisine in the English language, has published a completely revised and...
This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live. This week on Sinica, Kaiser talks about the state of charitable giving in China with Scott Kennedy, senior...
This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live. In this live show taped at New York University on October 16, Jeremy and Kaiser spoke with Jerry...