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[Podcast] Zunyi: The three-day meeting that pushed the CCP toward Mao
On January 15, 1935, a warlord’s palace in the remote mountains of Guizhou was the setting for a meeting that, over the course of three...
[Podcast] China looks to the Western classics
As American universities reevaluate the role of Western classical education, Latin and Greek courses are proliferating in China, where students see the Classics as a...
[Podcast] KFC faces regulatory heat after scalpers drive up price of limited-edition collectibles
Fried chicken and collectible mystery dolls — what could go wrong with a collaboration between KFC and Pop Mart? A lot, as it turns out...
Mental models for understanding complexity, with Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp
What we think about China depends in large measure on how we think about China. As a nation of 1.4 billion people in the throes of world-historic change...
The curious case of Eileen Gu, and stay away from Olympic car crashes!
Freestyle skier Eileen Gu is poised to take the Beijing Olympics by storm, but a new story from The Wall Street Journal raises questions about her citizenship...
The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, episode 190
This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: Major layoffs at short video company Kuaishou; India orders Chinese mobile phone giant Xiaomi to pay $90 million...
Why typing characters is better than handwriting
Jared and John talk about why typing characters leads to better learning outcomes than handwriting. They dispel conventional wisdom backed by science from an academic...
[SupChina] China’s ‘five-anti’ campaign of 1952
The tactics employed in the movement, which ostensibly targeted corruption among business owners, foreshadowed the Chinese Communist Party’s dark excesses in the decades to come...
The sociologist watching the China-watchers: A conversation with David McCourt
This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with David McCourt, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. For the last several years, David...