Barbarians at the Gate

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Xi Built This City

Posted January 16, 202400:38:41

In this episode, we chat with Andrew Stokols, who is currently a Ph.D. candidate at MIT researching varieties of digital urbanism globally, with an...

No Laughing Matters: The State of Stand-up in China Today

Posted December 19, 202300:38:58

Has the Chinese government killed stand-up comedy in China? 


In May of 2023, a popular standup comedian made an innocuous joke in...

Art with Altitude

Posted December 5, 202300:42:57

On this episode of Barbarians at the Gate, I talk to Kristel Ouwehand, also known by her Tibetan language name, Tenzin Dolma, the founder of Snowland...

History Wars: The PRC pushes back against unsanctioned views of the past

Posted November 16, 202300:47:28

Jeremiah kicks off the podcast with news that the decades-long Qing History Projectn being carried out by, among other institutions, Renmin University...

Riding the "Harmony Express" with author Thomas Bird

Posted October 31, 202300:37:42

In today’s episode, we talk with journalist and travel writer Thomas Bird about his latest book, The Harmony Express


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