The Chinese Communist Party at 100
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by historian Timothy Cheek of the University of British Columbia, political scientist Elizabeth Perry of Harvard, and our very own Jeremy Goldkorn, editor-in-chief of SupChina, in a wide-ranging discussion of the Chinese Communist Party on the occasion of its 100th birthday. The three each contributed chapters to a new volume called The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in 10 Lives, edited by Timothy Cheek, Klaus Mülhahn, and Hans van de Ven. Don’t miss this one!
8:59: Cosmopolitan traditions within the CCP
13:10: Continuity and change within the Party
20:19: The oscillations between flexibility and rigidity
34:25: Intellectuals and their relationship with the Party
50:37: Wang Guangmei and the Peach Garden Experience
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full transcript of this episode is available on SupChina.com.
Recommendations:
Jeremy: The Dairy Restaurant, by Ben Katchor.
Elizabeth: Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement, by Cheng Li, and The Wuhan Lockdown, by Yang Guobin.
Timothy: The Internationale, performed by heavy metal band Tang Dynasty.
Kaiser: The July/August edition of Foreign Affairs, especially the pieces by Wang Jisi and Yan Xuetong.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cynica podcast, |
| 0:10.6 | and good discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SUPChina. |
| 0:14.7 | Subscribe to SUPChina's daily access newsletter to keep on top of all the latest news from China |
| 0:19.1 | from hundreds of different news sources, or check out all the original writing on the site at supchina.com, including reported stories, |
| 0:26.8 | editorials, and regular columns, as well as a growing library of videos and, of course, podcasts. |
| 0:31.9 | We cover everything from China's fraught foreign relations to its ingenious entrepreneurs, |
| 0:36.9 | from the ongoing repression of Uyghurs and other Muslim people in China's fraught foreign relations to its ingenious entrepreneurs, from the ongoing repression |
| 0:37.9 | of Uyghurs and other Muslim people in China's Xinjiang region, to China's ambitious efforts |
| 0:43.4 | to eliminate poverty. |
| 0:45.1 | It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world. |
| 0:50.9 | I am Kaiser Guo. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm coming to you today for my home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| 0:55.3 | Joining me from stately goldhorn manor in the Tony suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, is a man |
| 1:00.7 | who was recently outed as a Jiang Zemin fetishist. In fact, I think a Zhang Toti, as they say, |
| 1:07.6 | Mr. Tzu Mi, Tiyumi, Sienro. |
| 1:13.6 | How's life post-vaccination for you, man? |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah, it's pretty good. |
| 1:18.6 | I have to say, I didn't realize quite how much I miss talking to strangers. |
| 1:24.6 | Jeremy, if those of you don't know him, is notoriously misanthropic. |
| 1:25.8 | He was a sociopath. |
| 1:27.8 | He was the guy who would always say when I'd want to go get a beer after a taping of the show. He was a sociopath. He was the guy who we'd always say, |
| 1:32.7 | when I'd want to go get a beer after a taping of the show. Let's not go there. No one goes, |
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