Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Notes
Ultimate China Bookshelf
Trivium China
You Can Learn Chinese
This Week in China's History
Chinese Phrase of the Week
China-Global South
China Perspectives by Sinology
Archive
Leaderboard
About
Latest
Top
Discussions
Murder House: Zhong Na on the Silicon Valley Tragedy That Exposed the Cracks in China's Meritocracy
This week on Sinica, I speak with Zhong Na, a novelist and essayist whose new piece, “Murder House,” appears in the inaugural issue of Equator — a…
Dec 3
•
Kaiser Y Kuo
2
49:58
Transcript | Murder House: Zhong Na on the Silicon Valley Tragedy That Exposed the Cracks in China's Meritocracy
Note: Just so you have all the links and the timestamps, I’m including the text of the regular podcast page below, and will do so going forward…
Dec 3
•
Kaiser Y Kuo
6
2
November 2025
"A clumsy imitation" — Phrase of the Week
Chery tries to copy Range Rover — but fails
Nov 30
•
Andrew Methven
12
2
Trivium Weekly Roundup | Investment Meltdown
Something funky is happening in China’s economy.
Nov 23
•
Andrew Polk
9
1
"The beauty of an economic upturn" — Phrase of the Week
Double 11 gets dull
Nov 23
•
Andrew Methven
6
1
Trivium China Podcast | How Xi Jinping Thinks about the Rule of Law
Plus, Explaining Why Capital Investment is Tanking
Nov 22
•
Andrew Polk
5
2
50:38
Transcript | Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP on Nexperia, Export Controls, and Europe's Impossible Position
Note: Just so you have all the links and the timestamps, I’m including the no-transcript podcast page below, and will do so going forward. Transcript…
Nov 20
•
Kaiser Y Kuo
5
Finbarr Bermingham of the SCMP on Nexperia, Export Controls, and Europe's Impossible Position
This week on Sinica, I welcome back Finbarr Bermingham, the Brussels-based Europe correspondent for the South China Morning Post, about the Nexperia…
Nov 20
•
Kaiser Y Kuo
8
2
51:01
Is China's Engineering State the New Development Model for the Global South
China’s rapid ascent from rural poverty to industrial superpower reshaped the global economy and established a new center of gravity for manufacturing.
Nov 17
•
Eric Olander
23
1
2
43:09
The Trivium China Weekly Recap | Surprising Resilience
Is China’s economy fully stalling out?
Nov 16
•
Andrew Polk
10
2
"Embodied intelligence" — Phrase of the Week
A new tech phrase takes off
Nov 16
•
Andrew Methven
5
1
Trivium China Podcast | China Shock 2.0: The Trade Implications of China’s New Economic Growth Model
With the US and China having agreed to a détente over trade, now is a good time to step back from the day-to-day back-and-forth of measures and…
Nov 15
•
Andrew Polk
11
1
50:46
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
