This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Keisha Brown, Mark Akpaninyie, and Leland Lazarus about initiatives they're involved with to increase black representation in China-related fields. Keisha Brown is a historian of modern China who is an assistant professor in the Department of History, Political Science, Geography, and Africana Studies at Tennessee State University. Mark Akpaninyie is a researcher focusing on China's Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese investment abroad, and China-Africa relations. Leland Lazarus is a foreign service officer stationed in Barbuda, who recently joined Sinica for a discussion on China's influence in the Caribbean.
8:24: Disciplines within China studies that need black voices
10:45: Underrepresentation within China studies
20:31: Black role models in East Asian academia
44:59: Right-wing populist parallels in America and China
51:35: Engaging communities of color in China studies
Recommendations:
Keisha: Asian Studies and Black Lives Matter, a digital dialogue conducted by the Association for Asian Studies, and the podcast Code Switch, by NPR.
Mark: A Chinese-language Black Lives Matter syllabus created by Amani Core.
Leland: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, by John M. Barry.
Kaiser: How the pandemic defeated America, a story in the September issue of The Atlantic, by Ed Yong.
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Earth Day episode: How can the U.S. and China cooperate on climate in this era of competition?
Legendary CNN reporter Mike Chinoy on his book and documentary series "Assignment China"
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Sinica at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston 2023: Capsule interviews
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The Xi-Putin meetings, with Maria Repnikova
The expansion of China's administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law's Taisu Zhang
Jude Blanchette on the Select Committee and the American moral panic over China
Inside Tencent's "Influence Empire," with Bloomberg's Lulu Chen
China and the electric vehicle battery supply chain, with Henry Sanderson
China and the Ukraine War one year after the invasion, with Evan Feigenbaum and Alexander Gabuev
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Talking China on TikTok with The China Project's Susan St. Denis
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