Sinica comes roaring back in the Year of the Dragon: A chat with Jeremy Goldkorn
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Sinica is back, and on this first post-China Project show, Kaiser chats with TCP’s ex-editor-in-chief and Sinica’s co-founder and former co-host, Jeremy Goldkorn. They chat about the Beijing that was, their theories as to why things changed as they did, and share some of their favorite precepts for understanding contemporary China.
03:15 – What’s new with Sinica in the post-TCP era
04:34 – Jeremy reflects on the history of Sinica and of The China Project
20:25 – Jeremy’s characterization of how his approach to China differs from Kaiser’s
25:01 – How our China experiences shaped our perspectives
26:44 – Jeremy’s long, fraught relationship with the media biz in China
36:47 – What brought on the end of the golden years of liberalization in China?
47:45 – How China changed our politics
1:08:44 – Jeremy’s reveals (some of) his big plans
1:10:15 – Gen X China-watchers and what made them special
Recommendations:
Jeremy: The Ghosts of Evolution by Connie Barlow
Kaiser: Ma in All Caps by Jay Kuo (the audiobook version, read by Kaiser); and the Captain Alatriste novels by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cynical Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China. |
| 0:14.0 | In this program, we'll look at books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural |
| 0:20.3 | trends that can help us better understand |
| 0:22.3 | what's happening in China's politics, foreign relations, economics, and society. Join me each |
| 0:28.5 | week for in-depth conversations that shed more light and bring less heat to the way we think |
| 0:34.5 | and talk about China. I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| 0:40.5 | Happy year the dragon to all the listeners, it is great to be back. |
| 0:44.6 | Seneca is supported this year by the Center for East Asian Studies |
| 0:48.0 | at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a National Resource Center for the Study of East Asia. |
| 0:54.3 | As we kick off this new season, I want you all to know that I won't be charging a subscription |
| 0:58.6 | for Cynica, but if you work for an organization that believes in what I'm doing with the podcast, |
| 1:04.2 | please consider lending your support. |
| 1:06.2 | You can get me at CinecaPod at gmail.com. |
| 1:09.7 | You can also support me as an individual on patreon.com slash synica. |
| 1:14.2 | There will be a link in the show notes and sign up for the new Seneca substack, which I'll |
| 1:19.5 | tell you more about later on. |
| 1:21.5 | I also want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Anla Chang. |
| 1:26.6 | Anla, who was the owner and the founder of the China Project, made it to say a huge thank you to Anla Chang. Anla, who was the owner and the founder of the China |
| 1:30.1 | project, made it possible for Jeremy and for me and for all of the other people on our team |
| 1:36.1 | to do the work that we did for seven and a half amazing and memorable years. I'm grateful |
| 1:41.9 | for trusting in our editorial judgment and never at all |
| 1:47.1 | interfering in the work that we did. I want to thank her for her just incredible generosity, |
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