Yenching Academy and the Schwarzman Scholars program comprise China’s attempt to set up a Rhodes/Marshall-style master’s degree. Both programs are fully-funded masters degrees comprised mostly… Read More »So You Want To Be A Yenching Scholar…
Mandarin I’ve been studying Mandarin actively about 15 hours/week and passively another 20/week for a year and a half now. On any given day, command… Read More »What I learned in 2018
Matt Brennan, professional speaker and co-host of China Tech Talk, comes on the show to discuss the history and evolution of China’s most popular app,… Read More »Tencent’s History and Future
What is the history of Google in China? Does the company have any hope of bringing its search engine back into the Chinese market? How… Read More »Google in China and US-China AI Competition
When it came to trade wars, the British didn’t mess around. Four steam-powered battleships sent by the English to force China to change its trade… Read More »When Trade Wars Turned Bloody: The Opium War with Stephen Platt
Who am I and why should you listen to me? I’m Jordan Schneider, the host of the ChinaTalk podcast. My show every week has guests… Read More »Interview-Based Podcast Tips
Guest Samm Sacks Senior Fellow, Technology Policy, Center for Strategic and International Studies @CSIS Samm Sacks | Center for Strategic and International Studies Samm Sacks… Read More »Data Policy with Samm Sacks
So, you wanna learn about China, but you can barely read Chinese street signs, much less longform. Well, that’s ok! There’s plenty of English-language coverage… Read More »A Guide to Newsletters and Podcasts on China
Ma Tianjie, founder of the long-running blog Chublicopinion is perhaps the leading English-language chronicler of Chinese public opinion. In this episode, he discusses the official… Read More »What China Thinks of the Trade War with Chublicopinion's Ma Tianjie
(The audio stops beeping after 1 minute I promise!) Chris Balding as a Bloomberg Views contributor and professor based in Shenzhen. In this interview, we… Read More »Trump's Trade War Tactics with Chris Balding