Black voices in the China space

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Keisha Brown, Mark Akpaninyie, and Leland Lazarus about initiatives they're involved with to increase black representation in China-related fields. Keisha Brown is a historian of modern China who is an assistant professor in the Department of History, Political Science, Geography, and Africana Studies at Tennessee State University. Mark Akpaninyie is a researcher focusing on China's Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese investment abroad, and China-Africa relations. Leland Lazarus is a foreign service officer stationed in Barbados, who recently joined Sinica for a discussion on China's influence in the Caribbean.

8:24: Disciplines within China studies that need black voices

10:45: Underrepresentation within China studies

20:31: Black role models in East Asian academia

44:59: Right-wing populist parallels in America and China

51:35: Engaging communities of color in China studies

Recommendations:

Keisha: Asian Studies and Black Lives Matter, a digital dialogue conducted by the Association for Asian Studies, and the podcast Code Switch, by NPR.

Mark: A Chinese-language Black Lives Matter syllabus created by Amani Core.

Leland: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, by John M. Barry.

Kaiser: How the pandemic defeated America, a story in the September issue of The Atlantic, by Ed Yong.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the cynical podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina.
0:14.9	SubChina is simply the best way there is to keep on top of all the latest news coming out of China through our daily access newsletter,
0:21.4	our website at suppChina.com, our app, and of course, our growing range of podcasts and videos.
0:28.5	It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world.
0:35.4	I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to today for my home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
0:39.4	The field of China studies, whether in academia, in think tank land, in government, in business,
0:45.0	or even among the unaffiliated, feral China watchers, has a diversity problem.
0:50.9	Let's be honest about this.
0:52.5	Women remain badly underrepresented, whether on
0:55.2	conference panels, as quoted specialists in media, and alas, even on certain podcasts. But if
1:01.7	women are badly underrepresented, the situation is even worse for black specialists in China-related
1:06.8	fields. While we've got some fantastic black journalists working in China or we had in recent years,
1:12.0	people like Marcia Cook from CBS, Howard French with the New York Times, Keith Richburg
1:17.0	from the Washington Post, it's still pretty rare to find black people in many other China-related
1:23.6	fields, and even in journalism, they are still underrepresented by a huge amount.
1:28.6	Well, today we have here on the program three guests who have all worked to try to correct
1:33.0	the problem of black underrepresentation.
1:35.8	Keisha Brown is an historian of modern China, who is assistant professor in the Department
1:39.7	of History, Political Science, Geography, and Africana studies at Tennessee State University.
1:45.4	She's a part of the fantastic public intellectuals program, PIP, or PIP, under the National
1:50.7	Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and among her areas of study is a subject she calls
1:55.7	Sino-Black Relations.
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