This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with three of the guests in a remarkable room on the drop-in voice chat app Clubhouse, which ran for 14 hours on Saturday, February 6. The room, called “Is there a concentration camp in Xinjiang?,” brought thousands of listeners from China and around the world to talk about the ongoing extralegal internment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang. We spoke with the Han Chinese filmmaker who started the room (and wishes to remain anonymous); one of the main moderators, the journalist Muyi Xiao of the New York Times; and Rayhan Asat, a Uyghur attorney in the U.S. whose brother, a successful tech entrepreneur, has been put in the camps and has been incommunicado for three years.
Recommendations:
Jeremy: The Ministry for the Future: A Novel, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Rayhan: The Queen’s Gambit, available on Netflix.
Muyi: A type of Wuhan hot dry noodle: 想念武汉热干面 (xiǎngniàn wǔhàn règānmiàn), available for purchase on Yamibuy.
L: The 2012 film No, directed by Pablo Larraín.
Kaiser: The book Land of Big Numbers: Stories, by Te-Ping Chen.
Howard French on how China's past shapes its present ambitions
Strength in Numbers: USTR veteran Wendy Cutler on managing trade with China
An American Futurist in China: Alvin Toffler and Reform & Opening
Mark Rowswell a.k.a. Dashan Live at the Bookworm Literary Festival
Peter Lorentzen's data-driven analysis of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign
An update on the Xinjiang crisis with Nury Turkel
Samm Sacks on the U.S.-China tech relationship
China, the U.S., and Kenya
Is there really an epidemic of self-censorship among China scholars
Everything you ever wanted to know about Taiwan but were afraid to ask, Part 2
Everything you ever wanted to know about Taiwan but were afraid to ask, Part 1
Sinica Live with Zha Jianying: Dealing with the troublemakers
Introducing the Middle Earth podcast
China’s ethnic policy in Xinjiang and Tibet: The move toward assimilation
Live from the US-China Business Council: The bilateral trade relationship in 2019
Mexican and Canadian diplomats in a changing, challenging China
The U.S. and China: Cold war, or hot air?
Gene-edited babies, CRISPR, and China’s changing ethical landscape
Huawei and the tech cold war
Meng Wanzhou’s arrest: The legal dimension
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