Sorry for the delay in getting this show released, folks (all hail Internet issues), but we're delighted to finally publish Sinica's second annual New Years call-in-show. If you've been following all of the news and gossip involving China for the last year, join Kaiser and Jeremy as we take your questions and talk insider politics on everything from the ongoing anti-corruption campaign to the question of coming media controls and what on earth we are all doing with our lives in China anyway.As we pull into 2015, let us remind you that in addition to listening to Sinica here on Popup Chinese, you are warmly invited to download our show as a standalone mp3 file. Questions or suggestions about the show are welcome by email at sinica@popupchinese.com, while we also encourage everyone to check out our dedicated RSS feed right here.
Sinica
said on January 6, 2015
Recommendations:Obituary - Tashi Tsering:http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21636703-tashi-tsering-exemplar-dilemmas-modern-tibet-died-december-5th-aged-85-betweenChristina Larsen in Bloomberg:http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-10/chinas-main-app-for-gays-attracts-venture-capital
PaulTH
said on January 6, 2015
Aw, bummed I didn't hear the call out, otherwise I would have sent some more weird and wonderful questions for you! Good show as always guys (especially the two stories at the end!), Happy New Year and all the best for 2015.
alanalew
said on January 9, 2015
For a somewhat more Japan-Korea emphasis, I suggest that people checkout Asia News Weekly (actually 4 different podcasts) at: http://asianewsweekly.net/subscribe-asia-news-weekly/While topics cover all of East and Southeast Asia, the podcaster is based in Seoul and, as such, has a clear Korea and Japan emphasis -- though the HK protests were also given a lot of coverage.Unfortunately, since the demise of the ABC's Connect Asia in 2013 and their Asia Pacific news program last year, I have not been able to find good podcasts on Southeast Asia - my favorite part of the continent.
wgj
said on January 14, 2015
I don't understand how Jeremy, like so many other commentators, can say with a straight face that Xi Jinping hasn't touched a single princeling in his anti-corruption campaign, when the very first, and so far most prominent case in Xi's presidency was that of Bo Xilai. Do people have collective amnesia or something?Sure, you can argue that the Bo case is political, but any high profile case, in fact any corruption case is political; you can argue the Bo case is not about corruption, but it was at least on paper, and nobody has provided any evidence (or anything close to it) that the corruption charges are trumped up; you can argue Bo is a unique case, but every case of this high profile would be unique; you can even argue that Bo is an outlier, but it is commonly agreed that he is representative of a significant section of the princeling fraction.At the very least, you have to acknowledge the Bo case, and not just pretend there was nothing there.
jeremy
said on January 14, 2015
Wgj:I can say with a straight face that Xi Jinping hasn't touched a single princeling in his anti-corruption campaign because it's true:Bo Xilai went down after Wang Lijun fled to the US Consulate in Chengdu in February 2012. Xi Jinping didn't become president until November that year: Bo simply was not part of Xi's anti-corruption campaign, his fall preceded it by many months.
trevelyan
said on January 14, 2015
@jeremy, @wgj,The discussion reminded me of the US state department cables published by Wikileaks. Accurate or not, they seem to portray Xi as purposefully clean out of political ambition and a lack of need for money, but also a fundamental elitist, i.e.:<blockquote>After years of conversations with Xi, and having shared a common upbringing with him, the professor said, he is convinced that Xi has a genuine sense of "entitlement," believing that members of his generation are the "legitimate heirs" to the revolutionary achievements of their parents and therefore "deserve to rule China." For this reason, the professor maintained, Xi could never be a "true member" of current President Hu Jintao's camp, even if Xi did not give any indication of opposition to Hu Jintao now. Xi and other first-generation princelings derisively refer to people with non-Party, non-elite, commercial backgrounds like Hu Jintao as "shopkeepers' sons," whose parents did not fight and die for the revolution and therefore do not deserve positions of power. </blockquote>Also:<blockquote>Xi knows how very corrupt China is and is repulsed by the all-encompassing commercialization of Chinese society, with its attendant nouveau riche, official corruption, loss of values, dignity, and self-respect, and such "moral evils" as drugs and prostitution, the professor stated. The professor speculated that if Xi were to become the Party General Secretary, he would likely aggressively attempt to address these evils, perhaps at the expense of the new moneyed class. </blockquote><a href="http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09BEIJING3128.html">http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09BEIJING3128.html</a>
mromarques88
said on January 15, 2015
Any plans to do a Sinica podcast about the jesuit presence in China? :)
amandaucsc
said on January 17, 2015
Great show! Felt like there was a surprise with every new question, and those stories about Michael Jackson's back-up band and the red-headed aggressive drunk... just classic. I think I speak for many when I say, more stories like those, please! I have a reading suggestion for the person with the chess-related question, and possibly Sinica could have the author as guest in a future episode? The book is technically on weiqi, but I've been told it covers more than that:Marc L. MoskowitzGo Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in ChinaUniversity of California Press, 2013<a href="http://newbooksineastasianstudies.com/2014/03/02/marc-l-moskowitz-go-nation-chinese-masculinities-and-the-game-of-weiqi-in-china-university-of-california-press-2013/">http://newbooksineastasianstudies.com/2014/03/02/marc-l-moskowitz-go-nation-chinese-masculinities-and-the-game-of-weiqi-in-china-university-of-california-press-2013/</a>Additionally, for all things game-related in China, I usually ask a colleague of mine, Maggie Greene, who is a gamer and has also written about mahjong before. She has also taught undergraduate courses on gaming. This is her blog, she's also on Twitter:<a href="http://www.mcgreene.org/">http://www.mcgreene.org/</a>(You might remember Maggie as the one who dug up the early 1980s Star Wars lianhuanhua on Kongfz: <a href="http://www.mcgreene.org/archives/296">http://www.mcgreene.org/archives/296</a>)Finally, I myself research tiyu in the early PRC and can say with some certainty that chess in any form is not only not new in China, but that chess experts from the Soviet Union were probably helping train chess "athletes" in the 1950s... Also, Chen Yi was a big fan of Xiaqi. Lots of photos of him playing it back then.In any case, Happy new year!
amandaucsc
said on January 20, 2015
Adding to this in case you're looking for other chess-related people. Turns out a former colleague of mine (who I didn't know personally, actually, since we didn't overlap much), wrote a dissertation on chess history in the Soviet Union. Maybe he can help you out too:HUDSON, Michael (BA, Univ. of Nothern Iowa; MA, Univ. of Nothern Iowa) "Storming Fortresses: A Political History of Chess in the Soviet Union, 1917-1948"
lostinchinese.com
said on February 4, 2015
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said on February 4, 2015
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