This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Jude Blanchette, the Senior Advisor and China Practice Lead at Crumpton Group's China Practice. We pick his brain on the rumors swirling around Beijing this summer, about public criticisms of Xi’s leadership, about the lack of any real succession plan in the eventuality that Xi is somehow incapacitated or steps down, and an emerging political science literature on authoritarianism.
Jude has also discussed Chinese politics on Sinica on three other occasions in the past two years: Neo-Maoists: Everything old is new again; Nationalism in Russia and China; Takeaways from China’s 19th Party Congress.
Recommendations:
Jeremy: War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence, by Ronan Farrow.
Jude: The Youtube channel “Epic rap battles of history,” particularly their 2013 video on “Rasputin vs Stalin” — Jude calls it “a great way to learn about how closed political systems work through OK rap.”
Kaiser: Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.
Books, podcasts and the history of science in China with Carla Nappi
The delights of cooking Chinese food: A conversation with chef and author Fuchsia Dunlop
How has China changed in the past four decades? A conversation with John Holden
How will Donald Trump’s victory impact China and U.S.-China relations?
Love and journalism in wartime China: An interview with Bill Lascher
Why China bears are wrong: An interview with Andy Rothman
Suing for clean air and studying for the bar exam: Rachel Stern on China's legal system
Lines of fracture in Chinese public opinion: A conversation with Ma Tianjie
Mei Fong on the one-child policy, its consequences and what's next for China's demographics
Michael Manning: Behind bars in Beijing
Fan Yang on fakes, pirates and shanzhai culture
Frank H. Wu on Chinese-Americans and China
Andrew Ng on artificial intelligence and startup culture from Beijing to Silicon Valley
Filmmaker Daniel Whelan on Yiwu, a city at the core of cheap Chinese goods
What is cultural about the Cultural Revolution? Paul Clark on creativity amid destruction
It's all connected: Silk Roads old and new
A discussion with Cheng Li: Where is Chinese politics going?
Clay Shirky on tech and the internet in China
Calming the waters of the South China Sea and beyond
Whose century is it, anyway?
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