A weekly discussion of current affairs in China with journalists, writers, academics, policymakers, business people and anyone with something compelling to say about the country that's reshaping the world. Hosted by Kaiser Kuo.
This week on Sinica, I chat with Jane Hayward, lecturer at King's College London, about her excellent YouTube channel, Jane Hayward China, and her efforts to bring up-to-date scholarship on modern and contemporary China to audiences through internet video, slaying various bugbears along the way.
3:28 Why Jane started her YouTube channel, her intended versus actual audiences, and navigating the current toxic media environment
10:56 The benefits of an area studies approach, and why Jane chose a U.S. PhD program
14:46 Defining the complicated public discourse in the West
19:35 Jane’s videos: the surprising popularity of “Xi Jinping is NOT like an Emperor;” and more controversial videos
26:28 New Qing History and different critiques of it
34:50 Jane's series on types of communism, and her video on reporting on China in British media
42:31 What may be coming next on Jane’s channel
Recommendations
Jane: David Priestland’s The Red Flag: A History of Communism
Kaiser: The YouTube channel Chinese Cooking Demystified, and specifically their video “63 Chinese Cuisines: the Complete Guide”
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