Sinica Podcast

A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers,

Episodes

Total: 487

When Ernest Hemingway somewhat presciently referred to Paris as a "moveable feast" ("wherever you go

Amazing research now suggests that Beijing's swifts, the tiny creatures most residents pass by witho

This is the second part of our episode of Sinica recorded during a special live event at the Bookwor

Our episode of Sinica this week was captured during a special live event at the Bookworm Literary Fe

The West has spent decades pleading with China to become a responsible stakeholder in the global com

This week on Sinica, we are delighted to present a show on Tu Youyou, the Chinese scientist who rece

Edmund Backhouse, the 20th-century Sinologist, long-time Beijing resident, and occasional con artist

Great Leap Brewery is an institution. As one of the earliest American-style microbreweries in China,

Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to be joined in Popup Towers by Rogier Creemers, post-docto

This week on Sinica, we are delighted to be joined by Lucy Hornby, China correspondent for the Finan

Under the Dome

2015/3/9

"Under the Dome," Chai Jing's breakout documentary on China's catastrophic air pollution problem, fi

LGBT China

2014/9/20

Jeremy Goldkorn and David Moser are joined by Fan Popo for a discussion of the way life works for th

With the recent capture of a Chinese ISIS soldier (in September of 2014) triggering speculation abou

The spectacular trial of Bo Xilai seized the media's attention last week as the fallen politburo mem

  While the African community in Guangzhou has taken to the streets to protest the suspicious death

It seems to be the consensus among long-time China watchers that the Chinese media has become more r

China makes an about-face on Libya, we discuss a recent controversy in Beijing's arts community over

A spate of suicides leaves ten dead at the Shenzhen campus of Foxconn, the giant electronics manufac

Is the "Western media" biased in its reporting about China? What are the frames and narratives that

Videos of lectures by Tengfei Yuan, a history teacher in a middle school in Beijing, recently went v