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 of non-Chinese students. I was a Yenching Scholar in its… 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 of Chinese can range from that of a perplexed toddler… 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, WeChat, as well as threats on the horizon for the… 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 does China’s development of artificial intelligence stack up against the… 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 policy in the mid-19th century changed the course of history.… 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 talking about China’s political economy and tech scene. 225 episodes… 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 (@SammSacks) | Twitter Samm Sacks, Senior Fellow at CSIS, is… 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 to keep you busy. You can also console yourself with… 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 and popular respones to the trade war, ranging from hard… 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 discuss two recent posts on his blog Baldingsworld which both… Trump's Trade War Tactics with Chris Balding