Big news: The Sinica Podcast network is expanding!
Today, we introduce a new podcast: TechBuzz China by Pandaily, a weekly show about technology, innovation, and startups in China, created by Pandaily, a China-focused tech news site. The show is co-hosted by Rui Ma and Ying-Ying Lu, seasoned China-watchers with years of experience working in tech in China. They discuss the most important tech news from China every week, and include commentary from investors, industry experts, and entrepreneurs.
Subscribe to TechBuzz China on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or Stitcher, or click here for the RSS feed.
Right after the TechBuzz preview episode (the third of the series; subscribe to listen to previous episodes), Joanna Chiu of Agence France-Presse joins Kaiser to discuss the illicit wildlife trade in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Joanna went undercover in the two cities to search for stores that would illegally sell her two items in particular: scales of the endangered pangolin — the most heavily poached mammal in the world — and rare totoaba swim bladders. Click on the links to read her AFP reports on her investigations.
Recommendations:
Joanna: Crime and the Chinese Dream, by a leading criminologist of China, Børge Bakken, who discusses different examples of how Chinese people are sometimes pushed into a life of crime, as they feel the “Chinese Dream” is unattainable for them by normal means.
Kaiser: “Homo Orbánicus,” by Jan-Werner Müller in the New York Review of Books, an analysis of how the strongman Viktor Orbán came to power and maintains power in Hungary. Also, “The Right to Kill,” an essay by Cleuci de Oliveira in Foreign Policy, which asks the question, “Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?”
Authoritarian schooling in Shanghai vs. the American approach
A conversation with Chinese adoptees in the U.S.
Alarm bells in the ivory tower: Jim Millward on the Cambridge University Press censorship fiasco
Richard McGregor on the complicated ties between China, Japan, and the U.S. since World War II
North Korea behind the scenes, with Evan Osnos
China in drag: Michael Bristow discusses his new book on China’s — and one man’s — incredible transformation
China’s tightening grip on cyberspace
China’s environmental challenges: Overfishing, toxic soil, and unbreathable air
U.S.-China relations after six months of Trump, with Susan Shirk and Stan Rosen
Of dirty words and Party-speak: Sinica Podcast live in D.C.
Gillian Wong and Josh Chin on journalism careers in China
China’s great spiritual revival
Joan Kaufman on foreign nonprofits and academia in China
Straight talk on North Korea and China, with Lyle Goldstein
China’s Asian power play: Tom Miller on the future of Belt and Road
Jerome A. Cohen on human rights and law in China
Guo Wengui: The extraordinary tale of a Chinese billionaire turned dissident, told by Mike Forsythe and Alexandra Stevenson
David Rank, top U.S. diplomat, on why he resigned to protest Trump
Islamophobia in China, explained by Alice Su and Ma Tianjie
How does investigative reporting happen in China? A conversation with Li Xin of Caixin
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