China 21

China 21

21st Century China Center, Harris Doshay

Episodes 47
Avg. Duration 34m
Activity Moderate
Apple Rating 4.6 (25)
Since Mar 2016
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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About This Podcast

China 21 is produced by the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. We are a leading university-based think tank that produces scholarly research and informs policy discussions on China and U.S.-China relations. This podcast features expert voices, insights and stories about China’s economy, politics, society, and the implications for international affairs. Learn more at china.ucsd.edu

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Recent Episodes

S5E47 U.S.-China Relations at a Crossroads — Serah Beran and Victor Shih

Dec 18, 2025 30m

In this episode, recorded in November 2025, Victor Shih sits down with Sarah Beran to discuss key developments in U.S.-China relations and how the relationship has evolved and may continue to evolve…

S5E46 Bureaucracies at War, Featuring Tyler Jost

May 12, 2025 19m

Center Executive Director Lei Guang recently sat down with Tyler Jost to discuss his new book, Bureaucracies at War. This podcast features highlights from their conversation, focusing on how Jost’s…

S5E45 The Micro-Foundations of Capitalism

Jun 01, 2022 32m

In this episode, UC San Diego Professor Barry Naughton talks globalization and economic development in China, Russia and India with Temple Professor Roselyn Hsueh.

S5E44 Retrofitting Lenism - Dimitar Gueorguiev and Harris Doshay

May 03, 2022 32m

21CCC Assistant Director Harris Doshay sits down with Syracuse Associate Professor and UCSD Alum Dimitar Gueorguiev to discuss his latest book, Retrofitting Leninism. In it, they explore the logic…

S5E43 The DOJ's China Initiative: Where it went wrong, and why - Susan Shirk and Carol Lam

Mar 22, 2022 33m

Susan Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Center, and former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam sit down to discuss the ways the China Initiative, from flaws in its inception to views towards the future of…

S4E42 Xinjiang from Qing to Xi - James Millward & Micah Muscolino

Sep 16, 2020 31m

Micah Muscolino interviews James Millward, a leading scholar on China and Central Asia at Georgetown University. They connect the history of Xinjiang in the Qing Empire, to assimilationist policies…

S4E41 Epidemic Control & Medical Diplomacy - Mary Brazelton & Micah Muscolino

Sep 01, 2020 51m

This episode is an extended interview adapted from the China Throughlines web series, which features UC San Diego’s China historians in conversation with their colleagues on the echos and…

S4E40 Remembering June 4 - Perry Link & Paul Pickowicz

Jun 03, 2020 18m

The 21st Century China Center is premiering a new web series: "China Throughlines" - featuring UC San Diego’s China historians in conversation with their colleagues on the echos and connectedness of…

S4E39 Rural China Copes with Covid-19 - Scott Rozelle

May 20, 2020 58m

Since the novel coronavirus outbreak in the megacity of Wuhan in December 2019, lockdowns were also implemented across China’s vast countryside, home to more than 700 million people.Dr. Scott…

S4E38 Investing in US-China Relations - Weijian Shan and James Kralik

May 18, 2020 43m

As we are living through a historic pandemic and ever more turbulent U.S.-China relations, we revisit a conversation recorded at our last public lecture right before the lockdown. 21st Century China…

S4E37 Lessons from 1989 - Wang Dan and Victor Shih

Mar 05, 2020 27m

Wang Dan 王丹 speaks with Victor Shih on the lessons from the 1989 student democracy movement. They discuss Wang’s journey as a young student leading up to the Tiananmen Square protests and his life…

S4E36 Interpreting the Xi Dynasty - Geremie Barmé & Susan Shirk

Feb 27, 2020 51m

Geremie Barmé is an esteemed historian, journalist, translator and film-maker. He spoke at UC San Diego in January on resistance movements in two Chinese cities - the case of Tsinghua Prof. Xu…

S4E35 Defending Digital Rights - Rebecca MacKinnon & Molly Roberts

Nov 01, 2019 37m

Rebecca MacKinnon is the director of Ranking Digital Rights, a program at New America promotes freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for…

S3E33 China Tripping (Part 1) - Paul Pickowicz, Perry Link, Jeremy Murray

Sep 06, 2019 1h 1m

Paul Pickowicz, Perry Link and Jeremy Murray speaks with guest host Lazlo Montgomery in this special co-produced episode with China History Podcast, with excerpts from their new book “China Tripping:…

S3E34 China Tripping (Part 2) - Paul Pickowicz, Perry Link, Jeremy Murray

Sep 06, 2019 46m

Paul Pickowicz, Perry Link and Jeremy Murray speaks with guest host Lazlo Montgomery in this special co-produced episode with China History Podcast, with excerpts from their new book “China Tripping:…

S3E32 Mobilizing Without the Masses - Diana Fu

Jul 05, 2019 17m

Diana Fu describes the evolution of activism, citizenship and civil society in China, and how NGOs engage in unconventional mobilization under authoritarian rule, based on her research on migrant…

S3E31 US-China Rivalry Roils Asia - Danny Russel & Steph Haggard

Jun 27, 2019 31m

Steph Haggard speaks with Danny Russel about the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry that is ushering in new dynamic in the Asia Pacific region. They address the trade war, negotiations with North Korea,…

S3E30 Will China Save the Planet? - Barbara Finamore

May 07, 2019 13m

Barbara Finamore, who founded the National Resource Defense Council’s China program, discusses with China Focus editor-in-chief Charlie Vest about China’s clean energy sectors, domestic environmental…

S3E29 AI, 5G, and the Race for Tech Supremacy - Elsa Kania

Apr 23, 2019 30m

Elsa Kania discusses the potential and concerns of cutting-edge technologies that are underpinning the competition between the U.S. and China, especially in the race towards supremacy in AI and…

S3E28 US-China Symbiosis - Joe Tsai & Susan Shirk

Mar 18, 2019 57m

Alibaba’s Joe Tsai speaks with Susan Shirk in front of a live audience on a wide-ranging conversation about current trade disputes, security concerns, technological competition, and the innovation…

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