That’s Marbury. At 40 years old, he played hero-ball for the last 10 minutes of the game and put up 35 pts. Meeting Tupac As… Read More »Jan 15, 2018: Meeting Tupac, Shanghai, Jordan as Jew in China, One Day in Taiwan, a Touchy Russian, and Goals for 2018
Max Zhou 周喆吾 is an Uber alum who until November of 2017 was the head of Mobile at Mobike. He is currently working as the… Read More »Ex-Head of Mobile at Mobike Max Zhou on Dockless Bikeshares in China
Keller Easterling, architect and professor at Yale, discusses her research on free zones (aka Special Economic Zones). We start by discussing the history of free… Read More »Keller Easterling on Free Zones and the Origins and Global Impact of SEZs
Peter Lorentzen, professor of economics at the University of San Francisco, talks protests and provincial politics. We start by discussing ‘Designing Contentious Politics in Post-1989… Read More »Peter Lorentzen on the Politics of Protest in China
Xi’an Lower Schoolers I was walking around the Muslim district and got some street food at a stall. We started chatting with the guy who… Read More »November 2017, 乖 Kids, Singles Day, Badminton, Tug of War, Taiwan, and Cabbies on Brexit
Matt Sheehan is a fellow at the Paulson Institute and writes his own newsletter, ‘Chinafornia‘. We discussed the evolving relationship between China and Silicon Valley,… Read More »Matt Sheehan on 'Chinafornia'
Dr. Jonathan Woetzel, Mckinsey Global Institute Director and Senior Partner in the Shanghai office, recently co-authored a report entitled China’s Digital Economy. In this podcast,… Read More »Jonathan Woetzel on China's Digital Economy
Julian Gewritz is currently a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of “Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global… Read More »Julian Gewirtz on Unlikely Partners: Western Economists and Reform and Opening
I was catching up with Marc who mentioned that you guys see this newsletter not just as me having adventures but also with the sense… Read More »October 2017: Hillbilly Elegy, Being Foreign, Dating in China, and VPN Dying
In Zhang Yingyu’s work from the late Ming Dynasty, you’ll encounter swindling concubines, clever commoners, and even eunuch cannibals trying to regrow their members. “We… Read More »The Book of Swindles: Cons from the Late Ming Dynasty