Barbarians at the Gate

Recent Episodes

Lockdown 2: Shacked up in Shanghai

Posted April 19, 2022 • 00:45:54

No sooner had Jeremiah’s lockdown experience come to an end when Shanghai announced plans to shut down the entire city as cases of the Omicron variant...

Locked Down in Beijing!

Posted March 28, 2022 • 00:46:58

As China launches the most stringent lockdowns since the first Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan two years ago, Jeremiah enters his second week in...

Touring China with Professor Mo Yajun

Posted March 17, 2022 • 00:39:36

As Covid-19 gradually recedes and China resumes domestic travel, we are pleased to interview Mo Yajun about her book

Communication Breakdown: Asymmetry, Decoupling, and the Information Deficit affecting China and the World

Posted March 3, 2022 • 00:52:45

Do Chinese people know more about the US than Americans know about China? Is there an “information deficit” between average educated Americans and...

Sporting Superpower: China's Olympic Dreams

Posted January 26, 2022 • 00:40:44

On the cusp of the Chinese New Year and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Jeremiah and David record an Olympian episode of the podcast. The guest is...