A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers, business people and anyone with something compelling to say about the country that's reshaping the world. Hosted by Kaiser Kuo.
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Join us on the first Thursday of every month for the latest photography and filmmaking news, views and exclusive conversations with the world's leading image-makers. Hosted by David McClelland and brought to you by the team behind the in-person Photography & Video Show at the NEC in Birmingham, England: photographyshow.com/podcast
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Political Scientist Iza Ding on Authoritarianism, Legitimacy, and "Resilience"
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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
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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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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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11: Bonus from Birmingham: Scott Kelby talks responsible AI, James Artaius on INSTAX mini 99 and Canon’s VR lenses, Digital Camera World’s Best in Show
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The Photography and Video Show Podcast, Season 1 Episode 11 Published on Wednesday, 20 March 2024 Hosted by David McClelland with guests Scott Kelby, James Artaius, Ruth Folkard and Chris George Recorded at The Photography and Video Show 2024 in Birmingham: in this bonus episode the original ‘Photoshop Guy’ Scott Kelby discusses responsible use of …
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Historian Rana Mitter on ideology in China's "New Era" — live from Salzburg, Austria
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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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10: Elise Swopes on Instagram and NFTs, Fujifilm X100VI compact camera arrives, therapeutic photography with Gabrielle Motola
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10: Elise Swopes on Instagram and NFTs, Fujifilm X100VI compact camera arrives, therapeutic photography with Gabrielle Motola The Photography and Video Show Podcast, Season 1 Episode 10 Published on Thursday, 7 March 2024 Hosted by David McClelland with Gabrielle Motola and special guest, Elise Swopes In this month’s show: Gabrielle Motola joins ho…
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Schwarzman Scholars Capstone Showcase: The 2023 Winners
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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
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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
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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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This Week in China's History: The Qing Abdication — February 12, 1912
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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
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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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9: Mini drones with Carys Kaiser, Hasselblad 907X & CFV 100C, OM-1 Mark II, Samsung Galaxy S24 and NEC show preview
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The Photography & Video Show Podcast, Season 1 Episode 9 Published on Thursday, 1 February 2024 Hosted by David McClelland with James Artaius and special guests, Carys Kaiser and Hazel Soper In this month’s show: We explore flying cameras with drone master Carys Kaiser, Digital Camera World editor James Artaius brings news of new launches from Hass…
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8: Urban landscapes with Ben Moore, 2024 predictions and 2023 review with Gavin Hoey
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The Photography and Video Show Podcast, Season 1 Episode 8 Published on Thursday, 4 January 2024 Hosted by David McClelland with Gavin Hoey and special guest, Ben Moore. In this month’s show: Gavin Hoey joins David McClelland to look back on 2023 in photography and video, and to make some predictions about 2024; the pair also share tips on how to s…
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7: Film and video with Jim Marks, smartphone photography with Jo Bradford, Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ event shot on iPhone
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The Photography and Video Show Podcast, Season 1 Episode 7 Published on Thursday, 7 December 2023 Hosted by David McClelland with Jim Marks and special guest, Jo Bradford In this month’s show: award-winning DoP Jim Marks joins David to talk about professional video from mirrorless cameras and smartphones, while photographic artist Jo Bradford share…
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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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6: Sun, sea and sandbags in Ukraine with Peter Dench, nailing a career change with Emily Endean, London meet-up and Adobe MAX 2023
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The Photography and Video Show Podcast, Season 1 Episode 6 Published on Thursday, 2 November 2023 Hosted by David McClelland, with Peter Dench and featured guest, Emily Endean. In this month’s show: David speaks with photojournalist Peter Dench about his journey to capture the sun, sea and sandbags of Ukraine at war, and to photographer Emily Endea…
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In Memoriam: Jeffrey A. Bader, from February 2022
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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 we 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 …
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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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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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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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5: Newborn photography with Kelly Brown; hands on with Nikon Z f, Panasonic G9 II and Fujifilm GFX 100 II with Angela Nicholson
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The Photography and Video Show Podcast, Season 1 Episode 5 Published on Thursday, 5 October 2023 Hosted by David McClelland, with Angela Nicholson and featured guest, Kelly Brown. In this month’s show: David speaks with newborn portrait photographer Kelly Brown about working with young children and building a business; SheClicks’ Angela Nicholson g…
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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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Ian Johnson on "Sparks," 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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4: Empowerment Photography with Tigz Rice, Instax and Polaroid Instant Cameras, GoPro HERO 12, Adobe Abandons Creative Cloud File Sync
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The Photography and Video Show Podcast, Season 1 Episode 4 Published on Thursday, 14 September 2023 Hosted by David McClelland, with James Artaius and feature guest, Tigz Rice. In this month’s show: David speaks to empowerment photographer Tigz Rice about body positivity and confidence, James shares his deep knowledge of all things instax and Polar…
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U.S. Congressman 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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The case for the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement
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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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