Yangyang Cheng Live at NEXT China
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In a show taped in front of a live audience at SupChina’s NEXT China conference, Kaiser and Jeremy chatted with particle physicist Yangyang Cheng, one of the boldest new voices writing on science and contemporary China. Get to know the woman behind SupChina’s Science and China column.
2:38: A day in the life of a particle physicist
8:26: Scientific research and the state
15:15: The overlap between politics and science
24:28: Is technocracy problematic?
Recommendations:
Jeremy: A new podcast called You Can Learn Chinese, hosted by John Pasden and Jared Turner.
Yangyang: The author James Baldwin and his novels, as well as a collection of short films titled Ten Years, which depict a dystopian future for Hong Kong in the year 2025.
Kaiser: Middlemarch, by George Eliot.
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| 0:45.7 | That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. Welcome to this special live recording of the Cynica podcast coming you today from SubChina's Next China conference in Manhattan. |
| 1:05.5 | Hello, New York. |
| 1:13.0 | All right. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm Kaiser Guo, joined by the former ambassador to Ukraine, Jeremy Bad News Goldcorn, |
| 1:22.4 | just back to his testimony at the impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill. |
| 1:25.3 | Jeremy, thank you for your great nonpartisan service. |
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| 1:31.3 | Hello, people. I'm feeling very guilty. |
| 1:33.3 | This is a carbon crime I have before me. |
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