Best Adam Kaiser Podcasts (2024)

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Anthony Tao: The Poetry and Soul of Beijing 1:02:08

4m ago1:02:08

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This week on Sinica, I'm in Beijing, where I spoke with my dear friend Anthony Tao, an English-language poet and a builder of community in the city where I lived for over 20 years. Anthony recently published a volume of his poetry called We Met in Beijing, and it captures the relationship that so many have with the city wherever they might come fro…

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Sinica Unscripted: Wang Zichen of CCG with a Third Plenum Preview and more 56:37

1d ago56:37

56:37

I'm trying something different: totally unscripted and very, very lightly edited recordings grabbed on the go where I happen to be. For the inaugural episode, I've got Wang Zichen, the author of the amazing Pekingnology newsletter on Substack, as well as the man behind the Center for China and Globalization's newsletter "The East is Read." Hear Zic…

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Improbable Diplomats: Historian Pete Millwood on how Scientific and Cultural Exchange Remade U.S.-China Relations 1:20:19

2d ago1:20:19

1:20:19

This week on Sinica, I chat with University of Melbourne transnational historian Pete Millwood about his outstanding book Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade U.S.-China Relations. The road to normalization is told too often with a focus only on the Nixon-Kissinger opening and official diplomatic efforts cul…

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Adam Tooze on the U.S., China, the Energy Transition — and Saying the Unsayable 1:05:48

13d ago1:05:48

1:05:48

This week on Sinica, in a show recorded on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions, historian Adam Tooze joins to chat about what the U.S. wants from China, China's vaulting green energy ambitions, and much more. Don't miss this episode: Tooze gets pretty darn spicy! 3:13 How Adam launched Chartbook in Chines…

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An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 2 1:15:14

16d ago1:15:14

1:15:14

This week on Sinica, Part 2 of the interview with anthropologist Stevan Harrell, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, about his magnum opus, An Ecological History of China. Be sure to listen to Part 1 first, as many important framing concepts are discussed in that episode! 1:44 “– The Four Horsemen of Ecopocalypse” and ecological dis…

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An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 1 1:14:07

27d ago1:14:07

1:14:07

This week on Sinica, Part 1 of a two-part podcast with Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Washington. Steve's groundbreaking book An Ecological History of Modern China represents the culmination of a professional lifetime of work in disparate fields. It synthesizes ideas from geography, earth science, biology, a…

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Peter Hessler on his new book, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" 1:26:15

1M ago1:26:15

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This week on Sinica, the highly-regarded writer Peter Hessler joins to talk about his new book, out July 9: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Over 20 years after teaching with the Peace Corps in Fuling (the subject of his first book, Rivertown, Pete returns to China to teach at Sichuan University in Chengdu. He writes about the two cohorts of stud…

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Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Sino-American Rivalry 1:19:21

1M ago1:19:21

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This week on Sinica, a conversation that I moderated on May 30th called “Assessing the Impact of US-China Rivalry on Ukraine and Taiwan,” put on by the Ukrainian Platform for Contemporary China. The main organizer was my friend Vita Golod, who is the chair of the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists. The panelists are: Dmytro Burtsev, a Junior Fell…

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Jonathan Chatwin on Deng Xiaoping's 1992 Southern Tour 1:00:09

2M ago1:00:09

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This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jonathan Chatwin, author of a new book about Deng Xiaoping's "Southern Tour" of early 1992 — a pivotal event that renewed a commitment to economic reforms after they'd stalled following 1989, and seized the initiative from conservatives in the Chinese leadership. The book is called The Southern Tour: Deng Xi…

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Ed Lanfranco: from Hoarder to Historian 1:06:07

2M ago1:06:07

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This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser is joined by old friend Ed Lanfranco, who lived in Beijing from 1988 to 2009. An inveterate packrat, Ed managed to accumulate an incredible trove of documents, maps, photos, and ephemera from his years there and from the decades and even centuries before his arrival. Ed talks about his collection, and invites…

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Jay Kuo on Beijing's Gay 90s 1:09:15

2M ago1:09:15

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This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to welcome — my brother! Jay Kuo is a Broadway writer & producer, and the man behind the terrific U.S. politics-focused Substack newsletter The Status Kuo. In a previous life, from 1996 to 2000, he was also really active in Beijing's gay community, just at the time when homosexuality was being decriminalized and w…

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The Struggle for Taiwan: Sulmaan Wasif Khan of Tufts University on his new book 1:46:08

2M ago1:46:08

1:46:08

This week on Sinica, I chat with Sulmaan Wasif Khan, professor of history and international relations at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, about his book The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between, which comes on May 14. 4:28 — The Cairo Agreement 6:59 — General George Marshall, George Kennan, and the…

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jane Perlez on her new podcast series, Face-Off 1:02:00

2M ago1:02:00

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This week on Sinica, veteran reporter Jane Perlez, who served as bureau chief for the New York Times in Beijing until 2019, joins to discuss her new podcast series Face-Off, which explores different facets of the U.S.-China relationship. We also talk about the state of Western journalism in China in the wake of tit-for-tat expulsions of reporters f…

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Political Scientist Iza Ding on Authoritarianism, Legitimacy, and "Resilience" 1:00:10

3M ago1:00:10

1:00:10

This week on Sinica, Iza Ding, associate professor of political science at Northwestern University and author of The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China, joins to share her ideas on how American academia has framed and problematized authoritarianism, especially when it comes to China. A deep and subtle thinker,…

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The View from China: Leading IR scholar Da Wei of Tsinghua's CISS 1:25:27

3M ago1:25:27

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This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to welcome Dá Wēi (达巍), one of China’s foremost scholars of China’s foreign relations and especially relations with the U.S. Da Wei is the director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and is a professor in the department of International Relations at the …

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Did Netflix's Adaptation Ruin The Three-Body Problem? 1:09:43

3M ago1:09:43

1:09:43

This week on Sinica, a discussion of Netflix's adaptation of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem (or more accurately, Remembrance of Earth's Past). Joining me to chat about the big-budget show is Cindy Yu, host of The Spectator’s “Chinese Whispers” podcast, one of the very best China-focused podcasts; and Christopher T. Fan, who teaches English, Asi…

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Live from AAS in Seattle: What has become clear to you recently? 49:19

3M ago49:19

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This week on Sinica: I wandered the halls at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Seattle and talked to 14 participants and asked them all the same question: What has become clear to you about our field recently? The fantastic diversity of areas of inquiry and of perspectives was really energizing. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did! 0…

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Back to the Future: David M. Lampton and Thomas Fingar on What Went Wrong and How to Fix It 1:24:15

4M ago1:24:15

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This week on Sinica, I speak with veteran China analysts Thomas Fingar and David M. Lampton — Mike Lampton — about a paper they published in the Winter 2024 edition of the Washington Quarterly. It's an excellent overview of how and why the bilateral relationship took such a bad turn roughly 15 years ago, citing mistakes both sides made and the reas…

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Kerry Brown: on What does the West Wants from China, and the Exercise of Chinese Power 1:30:36

4M ago1:30:36

1:30:36

This week on the Sinica Podcast, a show taped in Salzburg, Austria, at the Salzburg Global Seminar with Kerry Brown of King's College, London, on the prolific author's latest book, China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One. 05:22 – Chinese worldview and historical perceptions 07:51 – The unease with China's rise 10:42 – …

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Historian Rana Mitter on ideology in China's "New Era" — live from Salzburg, Austria 1:07:36

4M ago1:07:36

1:07:36

Historian Rana Mitter joins Sinica this week in a show taped live in Salzburg, Austria at the Salzburg Global Seminar, in which he discusses efforts by Party ideologists to create a Confucian-Marxist synthesis that can serve as an enduring foundation for a modern Chinese worldview in the self-proclaimed “new era.” 01:28 – Is China a revisionist pow…

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Schwarzman Scholars Capstone Showcase: The 2023 Winners 1:24:09

4M ago1:24:09

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This week on Sinica, the winners of the 2023 Schwarzman Capstone Showcase. Two individuals and one team were selected as the best research projects after review of their projects and presentation of their findings. Their work is first-rate — and if you don’t factor in the very young age of the Schwarzman Scholars in competition. You’ll meet Shawn H…

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The Ukrainian Factor in China's Strategy: a roundtable 1:27:05

5M ago1:27:05

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This week on Sinica, a special taping of an online event I moderated on February 22, just two days shy of the second anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The session was titled “The Ukrainian Factor in China’s Strategy,” and it was organized by the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists, and featured that organiza…

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Peter Hessler, live at Duke University's Nasher Museum 1:19:26

5M ago1:19:26

1:19:26

This week on Sinica I'm delighted to bring you a live conversation with writer Peter Hessler, recorded at Duke University's Nasher Auditorium in Durham, North Carolina on November 10, 2023. The event was sponsored by the Duke Middle East Studies Center and the Asian Pacific Studies Institute, and was titled "Modern Revolutions in Ancient Civilizati…

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Remote Investigations, Me Too Movement, and Being a Business Enabler with Starbuck's Andria Kelly 22:10

5M ago22:10

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We're continuing our look back on Season 1. And in this replay episode, hosts Adam Kaiser and Jordan Feise sit down with Andria Kelly, Director of Ethics and Compliance, Anti-Corruption, and Investigations at Starbucks. Andria’s career began as a lawyer in a medium-sized firm, but she found her passion for compliance when she joined the investigati…

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This Week in China's History: The Qing Abdication — February 12, 1912 12:16

5M ago12:16

12:16

Sinica is proud to present historian James Carter's column "This Week in China's History," one of the most popular offerings from the late great China Project. I'm delighted to be able to bring this back and to narrate it. You can expect a new column every other week, and we'll be publishing on Fridays. This week, Jay looks at the last Qing emperor…

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Sinica comes roaring back in the Year of the Dragon: A chat with Jeremy Goldkorn 1:26:39

5M ago1:26:39

1:26:39

Sinica is back, and on this first post-China Project show, Kaiser chats with TCP’s ex-editor-in-chief and Sinica’s co-founder and former co-host, Jeremy Goldkorn. They chat about the Beijing that was, their theories as to why things changed as they did, and share some of their favorite precepts for understanding contemporary China. 03:15 – What’s n…

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Anthony Tao: The Poetry and Soul of Beijing 1:02:08

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Sinica Unscripted: Wang Zichen of CCG with a Third Plenum Preview and more 56:37

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Improbable Diplomats: Historian Pete Millwood on how Scientific and Cultural Exchange Remade U.S.-China Relations 1:20:19

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Adam Tooze on the U.S., China, the Energy Transition — and Saying the Unsayable 1:05:48

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An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 2 1:15:14

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An Ecological History of Modern China, with Stevan Harrell — Part 1 1:14:07

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Peter Hessler on his new book, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education" 1:26:15

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Taiwan, Ukraine, and the Sino-American Rivalry 1:19:21

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Jonathan Chatwin on Deng Xiaoping's 1992 Southern Tour 1:00:09

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Ed Lanfranco: from Hoarder to Historian 1:06:07

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Jay Kuo on Beijing's Gay 90s 1:09:15

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The Struggle for Taiwan: Sulmaan Wasif Khan of Tufts University on his new book 1:46:08

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jane Perlez on her new podcast series, Face-Off 1:02:00

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Political Scientist Iza Ding on Authoritarianism, Legitimacy, and "Resilience" 1:00:10

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The View from China: Leading IR scholar Da Wei of Tsinghua's CISS 1:25:27

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Did Netflix's Adaptation Ruin The Three-Body Problem? 1:09:43

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Live from AAS in Seattle: What has become clear to you recently? 49:19

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Back to the Future: David M. Lampton and Thomas Fingar on What Went Wrong and How to Fix It 1:24:15

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Kerry Brown: on What does the West Wants from China, and the Exercise of Chinese Power 1:30:36

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Historian Rana Mitter on ideology in China's "New Era" — live from Salzburg, Austria 1:07:36

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Schwarzman Scholars Capstone Showcase: The 2023 Winners 1:24:09

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The Ukrainian Factor in China's Strategy: a roundtable 1:27:05

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Peter Hessler, live at Duke University's Nasher Museum 1:19:26

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Remote Investigations, Me Too Movement, and Being a Business Enabler with Starbuck's Andria Kelly 22:10

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This Week in China's History: The Qing Abdication — February 12, 1912 12:16

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Sinica comes roaring back in the Year of the Dragon: A chat with Jeremy Goldkorn 1:26:39

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