Tanner Greer of the blog Scholarstage joins the show in a wide-ranging discussion touching on Xi's ideology, incentives in western China-watching, Mormons in China, why it's worth studying classical Chinese history, and AI-assisted writing.
ChinaTalk has hit its 100th episode! That's two and a half full workweeks of informed, respectful, and hopefully entertaining conversation on everything China. As the media industry has cratered, spaces for intelligent and open discussion on China that live outside of paywalls basically don't exist anymore. Since COVID has locked me out of China and forced me to move to the US, my living expenses have gone up, and spending dozens of hours on this podcast is looking increasingly unsustainable. Right now, I make less than $5 an hour producing this show. If you'd like to see ChinaTalk continue to come out weekly,
Please consider supporting me at glow.fm/chinatalk
I'm also thinking about launching some member rewards, like live zoom, tapings of episodes where audience members can ask questions as well as a book club. Thanks so much!
Jordan
Twilight Struggle: Cold War Lessons for US-China Today
How Chinese Ink Painting Survived the CCP
Global Standards: What's the Deal?
Shanghai Lockdown + Wang Huning's Unhappy Travels in America + Classics in China
China/Russia + Why China's Making More Nukes
How will Beijing Respond to the War in Ukraine?
Taiwan indie music 101, the Taipei underground and tankie rappers
Orgies, US Navy Corruption and The Fall of Fat Leonard
UkraineTalk: The View from Berlin
Xi-Putin Relations and the view from Riga
How Eastern Europe Sees China and The War in Ukraine
Emergency Pod: Tooze and Klein on Nuclear War, The EU's Future, and What's Next
Emergency Pod: The View From Prague + Future of the EU
Emergency Pod: What's Driving Putin, Sanctions, Drugs, Echoes from History, Xi, Chips
Emergency Pod: Russia and Cyber Operations
Space Industry Literacy, NASA, and Elon versus the Taliban
Rainbow Farts: Chinese Internet Slang You Need to Know
China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, Part 2
China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, Part 1
Imperial Japan + Export Controls = Pearl Harbor!?
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