For SupChina Access members only: An exclusive early listen to the interviews on the Sinica Podcast, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn.
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Reporting on China with neither fear nor favor
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In Creative Independents, your hosts Si Willmore and Jen Matichuk will speak to successful and passionate entrepreneurs, who have won in the creator economy. They’ll explore the philosophies of these business owners who enjoy the freedom to do what they love, and the fulfillment that comes from knowing others support their work. Are you seeking insights from experts who have created ethical and successful independent businesses? Then you’ll love Creative Independents, a podcast by Memberful.
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The Slowbrow Show explore the artist world focusing mainly on female artists, artist parents, and people who experience various life changes clashing with the fresh coolness of artlife. Fear not! I will also hand out useful techniques for various styles and helpful advice from inspiring artists and curators. Do you have a question for me or my guests? Email me at theslowbrowshow@gmail.com or record a voice message using the free Anchor app. Thank you for listening!
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This week on Sinica, a live recording from New York on the eve of the 2023 NEXTChina Conference. Jeremy Goldkorn joins Kaiser as co-host, with...By The China Project
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Live from New York: China and the Global South, with Maria Repnikova and Eric Olander
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This week on Sinica, a live recording from New York on the eve of the 2023 NEXTChina Conference. Jeremy Goldkorn joins Kaiser as co-host, with guests Maria Repnikova of Georgia State University, who specializes in Chinese soft power in Africa and on Sino-Russian relations, and Eric Olander, co-founder of the China Global South Project and co-host o…
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So you want to get back into learning Chinese after taking a break. John and Jared give you tips on how to get back into...By The China Project
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In the aftermath of an off-leash Rottweiler’s attack of a two-year-old in China last week, officials in several counties have enacted sweeping measures against stray...By The China Project
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China is undergoing a great experiment — tightly controlled and driven by big data — that it hopes will offer an alternative way of protecting...By The China Project
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This week on Sinica, we’re running an interview with Jeffrey Bader from early last year. We learned on Monday morning that Jeff had died, and...By The China Project
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China’s media presence in Africa is far more pervasive today than it was a decade ago, but not in the conventional way. Very few people...By The China Project
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In October 1871, 10% of the Chinese population in Los Angeles was wiped out in a senseless spasm of violence. Click here to read the...By The China Project
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In the early years of the Chinese republic, progressives looked west for political inspiration. This was how Deng Xiaoping — who would eventually lead China...By The China Project
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In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Bader, from February 2022
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This week on Sinica, I'm re-running an interview with Jeffrey Bader from early last year. I learned on Monday morning that Jeff had died, and I dedicate this interview to his memory. ___ This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Jeff Bader, who served as senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council during the first years of the O…
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Five of the 24 heads of state who attended this week’s Belt and Road Forum in Beijing were from African countries, highlighting the prominent role...By The China Project
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This week on Sinica, a live recording from October 10 in Chicago, Kaiser asks Chang-Tai Hsieh of the Booth School of Business at the University...By The China Project
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Chilean President Gabriel Boric oversaw the signing of a $233 million lithium deal with Chinese mining giant Tsingshan Holding Group, the latest investment that solidifies...By The China Project
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Live from Chicago: Decoding China — China’s economic miracle interrupted?
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This week on Sinica, a live recording from October 10 in Chicago, Kaiser asks Chang-Tai Hsieh of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, Damien Ma of the Paulson Institute’s think tank MacroPolo, and our own Lizzi Lee, host of The Signal with Lizzi Lee, to right-size the peril that the Chinese economy now faces from slow consumer…
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There is no shortage of advice on how to learn a language, but in this episode, hosts John and Jared not only talk about 10...By The China Project
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Four are arrested in India on alleged links to a Vivo money-laundering investigation, Golden Week tourism revenues top pre-pandemic levels, but just barely, and China...By The China Project
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Had any of the earlier uprisings against the Qing achieved their goals, 1911 would be just another year. But the 1911 Revolution succeeded, and catalyzed...By The China Project
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Across Africa, public opinion about China has been quite positive overall with favorability ratings surpassing those of other major powers, including the United States. But...By The China Project
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This week on the Sinica Podcast: a lecture by Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute, delivered last year to D.C.-based Faith &...By The China Project
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China’s economy emerged from the pandemic much weaker than before. Unemployment is up, exports are down and a burgeoning property crisis is having a devastating...By The China Project
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Robert Daly of the Kissinger Institute on the morality of U.S. China policy
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This week on the Sinica Podcast: a lecture by Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute, delivered last year to D.C.-based Faith & Law at their Friday Forum. The lecture, titled "Is Our Foreign Policy Good? American Moral Absolutism and the China Challenge," is a powerful and thought-provoking talk. Kaiser follows up with a l…
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This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jason McLure, a correspondent for a new investigative reporting outfit called The Examination, and reporter Jude Chan, who...By The China Project
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There’s growing anxiety in the United States over China’s expanding presence in the Latin America-Caribbean (LAC) region. Last week, a Congressional subcommittee held another breathless...By The China Project
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The rise of Chinese niche luxury brands. Click here to read the article by Capucine Cogné. Narrated by Sarah Kutulakos. China Stories is published twice...By The China Project
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China Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smoking
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This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jason McLure, a correspondent for a new investigative reporting outfit called The Examination, and reporter Jude Chan, who writes for Initium Media. The two worked with two other reporters on a fascinating expose, funded by the Pulitzer Center, of China's tobacco monopoly, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administ…
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Jared Turner and John Pasden discuss the impact of extensive reading on language learning by sharing stories from research that illustrate the impact it has...By The China Project
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This week on Sinica, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1950 concert tour of China by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973, Kaiser...By The China Project
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Dramatic scenes this week in Italy where 7,000 people, mostly from Africa, came ashore after making the dangerous trek across the Mediterranean. It was a...By The China Project
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China enacted its one-child policy in 1980. It was met with wildly divergent opinions, and resulted in suffering and trauma on a scale that family...By The China Project
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The Chinese economy is in trouble. Exports, manufacturing output, and investment are all down. Unemployment, particularly among young people is up. Provincial debt is now...By The China Project
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The Philadelphia Orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking China tour
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This week on Sinica, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1950 concert tour of China by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973, Kaiser chats with Matías Tarnopolsky, the orchestra’s president and chief executive; Alison Friedman, executive and creative director of Carolina Performing Arts; and virtuoso guzheng player and composer Wu Fei about…
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This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: U.S. firms reported falling optimism for their China operations amid concerns over Sino-U.S. tensions, but many are still...By The China Project
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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...By The China Project
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Chinese lending to African countries plunged to below a billion dollars in 2022, the lowest level in two decades, according to new data from the...By The China Project
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The Mukden Incident — when explosives detonated along the route of the South Manchurian Railway near Shenyang — was a pretext for Japanese aggression in...By The China Project
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Ian Johnson on his new book on China's underground historians
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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 Underground HIstorians and their Battle for the Future. Profiling both prominent and lesser-known individuals working to expose dark truths about some of the…
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There was a glimmer of hope last month that China and India would pull back from their increasingly contentious standoff when military commanders concluded talks...By The China Project
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The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, episode 246: The EU announces a probe into Chinese EV subsidies, and the Chinese gov denies reports of an iPhone ban
This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: The EU says it will launch an investigation into Chinese subsidies for electric vehicles in a bid to...By The China Project
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The Chinese Foreign Ministry was among the first major governments this week to welcome the African Union as the newest member of the G20. The...By The China Project
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This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Representative Rick Larsen of the Washington 2nd District, the co-founder and continuously serving Democratic co-chair of the bipartisan...By The China Project
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Lin Biao was a principal architect of the cult of Mao Zedong. It would lead to his undoing. Click here to read the article by...By The China Project
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Beijing’s ban on Japanese seafood, coupled with rising animosity toward all things Japanese, have sent sushi restaurants in China searching for alternative supplies and, in...By The China Project
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative marked its 10th anniversary this month, prompting a lot of discussion about what’s next for Beijing’s controversial development agenda. While...By The China Project
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Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) on his new U.S.-China policy white paper
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This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Representative Rick Larsen of the Washington 2nd District, the co-founder and continuously serving Democratic co-chair of the bipartisan U.S.-China Working Group. Last month, he published a white paper outlining his recommendations for how the U.S. can more effectively compete. That paper and its recommendati…
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China is known for its megacities, but 42% of it is wilderness — the barren and primitive, but also pockets of spectacular biodiversity. As the...By The China Project
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“Being bullied in school is something that can happen to anyone,” Lui shares. “The subjects in my photos are meant to simply be symbolic. The...By The China Project
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This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: China’s retail sales growth may have been weak in the first half of the year, but spending on...By The China Project
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In the early 20th century, Chessboard Street in Shanghai was the heart of the Chinese publishing industry. This is where our story begins: when Li...By The China Project
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This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Karen Hao, a reporter recently with the Wall Street Journal whose previous work with the MIT Technology Review has been featured on Sinica; and by Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, who has been on the show many times just in the last three years. Both Karen …
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There’s been a surge of activity in Africa-ASEAN relations in recent weeks highlighted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s recent African tour and the Singapore-Africa Business...By The China Project
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