The 10 Best Sinica Podcast Episodes
1) The Xinjiang camps on Clubhouse
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with three of the guests in a remarkable room on the drop-in voice chat app Clubhouse, which ran for 14 hours on Saturday, February 6. The room, called “Is ...Show More
2) China’s struggle for tech ascendancy, with Dan Wang of Gavekal Dragonomics
This week on Sinica, Kaiser talks with Dan Wang, a Shanghai-based analyst at research firm Gavekal Dragonomics, who also contributes a regular opinion column to Bloomberg. Combining firsthand knowledg...Show More
3) Jennifer Pan studied clickbait in Chinese propaganda. You won’t believe what she discovered!
This week on Sinica, we present the first installment in a three-part series produced in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), highlighting the groundbreaking work of young so...Show More
4) Censored: Molly Roberts on how China uses deterrence, distraction, and dilution to control its internet
This week on Sinica, we continue with the ongoing California series of podcasts that Kaiser recorded last winter, and present a conversation taped in December, when he chatted with Margaret (Molly) Ro...Show More
5) Ryan Hass on the Biden administration's China direction
This week on Sinica, Kaiser welcomes back former National Security Council China director Ryan Hass, who offers his perspective on the likely direction that the incoming Biden administration will take...Show More
6) Ian Johnson and Lin Yao on "liberal" Chinese Trump supporters
Why have so many prominent critical and dissident intellectuals from China come out vocally in support of Donald Trump? This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy set out to answer that question, and are ...Show More
Ian Johnson and Lin Yao on "liberal" Chinese Trump supporters
1:16:52 | Dec 31st, 2020
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7) China and India: Pallavi Aiyar and Ananth Krishnan on mutual misperceptions
This week on Sinica, we bring you a conversation with Pallavi Aiyar, a prolific writer and, until 2008, a Beijing-based journalist, and Ananth Krishnan, who reported from China for The Hindu and India...Show More
8) China and the techno-authoritarian narrative
In a podcast taped live for the Asia Society of Switzerland in Zurich, Kaiser is joined by Kristin Shi-Kupfer, director of the Research Area on Public Policy and Society at the Mercator Institute for ...Show More
9) Ian Johnson on "Sparks," his new book on China's underground historians
This week on Sinica, Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Ian Johnson, now a senior China fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Kaiser to discuss his new book, Sparks" China's Undergr...Show More
Ian Johnson on "Sparks," his new book on China's underground historians
1:07:33 | Sep 21st, 2023
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10) A firsthand view of China's chaotic COVID re-opening, with Deborah Seligsohn
This week on Sinica, we welcome back Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University. Debbi spent October 2022 through early January 2023 in Shanghai and Beijing, e...Show More