This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Paul French, the best-selling author of Midnight in Peking. Paul has just written an outstanding new book called City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir, in which he tells a captivating story of two foreigners rising to prominence through conducting shady business in the underworld of Shanghai in the 1930s — a chaotic yet fascinating period, when the city was still known as the Paris of the Orient, leading up to the bleak realities of the war with Japan.
Recommendations:
Paul: A Killing Winter and A Spring Betrayal, two crime novels written by British author Tom Callaghan. Also, Hidden Man, a new movie directed by Chinese award-winning filmmaker Jiang Wen 姜文.
Kaiser: The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert O. Paxton.
Jeremy: Jo Nesbø, Norway’s best-selling crime writer, whose notable books include The Snowman, The Thirst, and The Redbreast.
The Nature Conservancy in China
‘Shaken Authority’: Party-speak, propaganda, and the Sichuan earthquake of 2008
Mythbusting China’s social credit system
Shadow banking, P2P lending, and pyramid schemes: Lucy Hornby on China's gray economy
Introducing the Ta for Ta Podcast
Kevin Rudd on Xi Jinping’s worldview
Danny Russel on the rebalancing and decoupling
Kai-Fu Lee and the U.S.-China AI rivalry
Nury Turkel and the Uyghur plight
Introducing the ChinaEconTalk podcast
Xi Jinping's long, hot summer
Paul Haenle on North Korea, Taiwan, U.S.-China relations, and more
China's 'reliable friendship' with Pakistan, explained by Andrew Small
The strange tale of a kung-fu master in Madagascar
Legendary diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr., on U.S.-China strategy and history: Part 3
Legendary diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr., on U.S.-China strategy and history: Part 2
Legendary diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr., on U.S.-China strategy and history: Part 1
Introducing the NüVoices Podcast
Australia's Beijing problem
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