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
Year in Review + Future Plans for ChinaTalk
Sci-fi Mecha Wu Zetian, YouTube on China and C-drama Fails
US-China Science Relations and the PhDs Caught in the Middle
CSET: How to Break the Think Tank Mold
Son Eating and Prince-Slaying: Stratagems of the Warring States
6th Plenum: Open Source CCP
Selling China's Story
Red Roulette: It Sucks to be a Chinese Billionaire
Why Does China Have Blackouts?
Science & Technology for National Security
China's Space Plans for the 2020s
What Evergrande Means for China
Mao and the Monkey King
Russia's Pivot to Asia From Czars to Putin
Tech Crackdown, Common Prosperity, and The Dao of ChinaTalk
Tooze and Klein on China's Economic History and Future
SpaceX, Elon and their Chinese Imitators
BadChinaTake on China Twitter
Hot Space Summer: China's Commercial Space Boom
Tough Tech, Roombas, Valleys of Death, and Woolly Mammoths
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