Sinica Podcast

“I spent the rest of that afternoon reading the book How Africa Works by Joe Studwell in preparation for an interview with him for the show later this week”

“You wrote a book a while back, uh John China's Millennials, basically, uh In fact the book was called China's Millennials”

“I am now reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov”

“the last enormous doorstop of a novel that I read uh from Russia, which is called Uh Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman”

“If you read one book about doing business in China back in the two thousands There's a fair chance that it was his, Mr China”

“He followed it with Chinese rules about his adventures in the carbon credit business”

“The campaign is the focus of his new book Teach the people how to narrow the knowledge gap between China and the West”

“He brings with him a copy of Adam Smith's book but it's not the wealth of nations, it's theory of moral sentiments”

“and the first thing he asked was to be taken to Stratford upon Avon for a performance of King Leah”

“he wrote uh Well, he it there's a collection of forty seven essays. that he wrote. Um after Hey came into contact with Westerners”

“If you look at Hobbes. Leviathan. Then it's remarkably similar to what Yeah, the party would. Say say say in China”

“Dream of the Red Chamber, Dwang Z”

“I read Middle March for the first time just recently, which I I just absolutely loved it”

“I'm gonna recommend Bleak House”

“got this book called The The Reluctant Fundamentalist”

“the other one that I read right after that is called Exit West”

“She wrote a a great piece on the Morning Star of Lingau, the sprawling crowdsourced time travel novel that serves as the kind of Ur text, as we said on the show, of of China's industrial party”

“In Line Behind a Billion People. And it lends a lot of China through the”

“he published a book earlier this year this ring called Journey without a map”

“mine for this week is the novel Home. by Marilyn Robinson”

“series of four that begins with the book Gilead”

“if you've read the book I've still talked about so much, Stoner”

“I think there's also A story called Crash, which I think J D Barr are deliberately using this plain like bureaucratic language to to create a story”

“Her new book is called China Cure, The Rise of a Biotech. AI Medicine and Global Health Superpower, published by Agenda Publishing with a forward by someone I very much admire, Carrie Brown, who's been on the show”

“You write. Deep China. The moral life. of the person”

“mine first is a a novel this week”

“book, Butcher's Crossing, on the show not that l very long ago”

“which had a strange kind of second life as a rediscovered masterpiece”

“Julie Klinger, who is the author of Rare Earth Frontiers, still a very worthwhile book to read”

“your first book, Powerful Patriots, was was about, you know, when the Chinese government permits nationalist protest and when it suppresses it”

“China's battle to defend its rare earths was published in 2011”

“She has recently published an award-winning book with a title Politicizing business, how firms are made to serve the party state in China”

“The book is called Healing the Heart of Democracy by written by Perka Palmer”

“The Scientist and the Spy by Mara Fistendal”

“this time it's his novel Angle of Repose ... a woman named Susan Berling Ward, who is a real genteel eastern ... illustrator and fiction writer who follows her engineer husband ... to the mining camps. of the West in the 1870s and 1880s”

“I have read fiction recently. I read the three body problem finally”

“the first that I am late getting to, but it it was pretty poignant to read is The Guns of August”

“the other one, and I'll stop here, is, uh, is a book that recently came out called Regime Change”

“Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers, How Europe Went to War in 1914”

“It's Robert Harris's Agrippa”

“That period produced Smoke and Mirrors, her wonderful memoir of those years”

“On Japan. uh places where she's lived for good stretches as the wife of a diplomat. Uh more recently she's turned the case inward in her latest excellent book Travels in the other place. Pursuing the self. In eight acts”

“that was in the context of Anand Krishnan's book India and China and I was on there as a discussant”

“I and I refer you to to a a conversation that I had with the authors of a book”

“I read um two. I read one called Um Flashlight by Susan Choi. I've just finished that”

“the second book and first novel by my favorite Pakistani writer called Daniel Moutin And this is where the serpent lives”

“In fact I I just reread something that was recommended last week by Evan Osnos”

“my recommendation for this week is Wallace Stegner's novel Crossing to Safety”

“I'm now about to read another Wallace Stegner novel called Angle of Repose”

“He is the author of the outstanding Age of Ambition, which won the National Book Award in 2014”

“He's since written a couple of books, Wildland, The Making of America's Fury, which is just a fantastic one”

“and The Haves and the Have Yots, which I have yet to read”

“which is often referenced when we try to understand what senior ranks of the Politburo think about about the United States”

“this book is called The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State”

“E Ling Liu. uh the author of The Wall Dancers”

“a book by a young journalist in the United States, Theo Baker, uh called How to Rule the World”

“another novel by John Williams, who's the author of Stoner, which I recommended last episode”

“This one is a Western called Butcher's Crossing”

“recently read True grit”

“if you've recently reread Moby Dick or anything”

“I am reading David Sederis' new book, The Land and Its People. And I am laughing so hard”

“I recently We had over Joseph Tergian to talk about uh and the party's interests come first. And you know”

“by John Williams, which is not Sorry to disappoint you burners out there about a pothead”

“In very much the same vein is the novel Gilead. By Marilyn Robinson”

“I just read this excellent translation by a translator named Yen Yen. of uh Wang Xiaobu's most famous novel, The Golden Age, Huang Jin Shu Dai”

“It's a very thin book. It's called Transcription by Ben Lerner”

“it's called Diddy and Babbitt, and it's about Two Joan Diddy and obviously very well known. But Eve Bavits, who's not as well known, but who were writers and deeply embedded in the rock scene in the seventies in California”

“Angela Zhang is Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, previous previously seven years at uh University of Hong Kong, and she's the author of High Wire, How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy”

“And Chinese antitrust exceptionalism”

“The wages of disc destruction crashed. Shut down”

“The wages of disc destruction crashed. Shut down”

“The wages of disc destruction crashed. Shut down”

“Hayek's Road to Surfdom on the one hand, The Great Transformation on the Other by Polani as one of the great products”

“The Great Transformation on the Other by Polani as one of the great products”

“the The Moral Animal, Why We Are the Way We Are, The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, which was his landmark nineteen ninety four book on evolutionary psychology”

“I had I think I had just read either before or right afterward, Concilience uh by Edward O Wilson”

“There's also Non Zero, The Logic of Human Destiny, which argues that, you know, the long arc of biological and cultural evolution has a direction”

“Uh The Evolution of God, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize”

“And uh why Buddhism is true, a bestseller on meditation and the modern mind”

“It is called the God Test. And it's the reason we're talking today”

“that book enough. It was just a fantastic book about him. It's called Raider by Stephen Platt”

“yeah, my job. That is so, so enlightening of how close our relationship has been”

“Stephen Roach's fairly recent book, it was goes back a couple of years, called Accidental Conflict, America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives”

“I am finally getting around to the book The Wager by David Grant”

“he wrote Killers of the Flower Moon about the Osage killings”

“I read Kevin Rudd's book on Xi, and that was, I think that's like his PhD dissertation, and it really read like that, but it was important”

“Now I'm reading Party of One, The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future by Chun Han Wong”

“Have you read Joseph Tourayin's book, The The Party's Interests Come First? The No. The the biography of Xi Xijong Shun”

“and of course this is all tied into even to Richard McGregor's you know famous book and seminal book party. and seeing the relationship by how the control the party has”

“the author of a remarkable new book from Oxford University Press called To Rule All Under Heaven, a history of classical China from Confucius to the First Emperor”

“Listeners may know him as co-translator with John Major, Sarah Queen, and Harold Roth of the magnificent Huainanze”

“He he's also written the Tao of the military, Liuan's Art of War”

“can you imagine I I read C. V. Wedgewood's book on on Thirty Years War”

“in the book The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama, and he did write other things besides, you know, the end of history and The Last Man, and some of them are great. This book I would argue is really great”

“in the book The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama, and he did write other things besides, you know, the end of history and The Last Man, and some of them are great”

“dogmatically draconian. You know, at all it almost break that out break that out because, you know, this is the most maybe remarkable claim that that the book makes. And yeah, I know it's not just you saying this, but but you've said it very clearly and this is going to be read by a lot of people, so maybe it's worth it for us to take some time to unpack this. You know, you you you point at, you know, that there were 70 erudites that were housed at exp imperial expense and they do repr”

“Have you read um the this three-body problem trilogy by Leo Tzu Shin? Of course”

“he recommended to me a really fun book called To Say Nothing of the Dog or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis”

“He is the author of America's Great Power Opportunity Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition, which the spectator named one of its books of the year in 2022”

“It's by Rebecca Solnet. One of my favorite writers and it's called No Straight Road Takes You There, Essays for Uneven Terrain”

“Michael Pollan's latest book, A World Appears, A Journey into Consciousness”

“this is by Tom Piazza. It's called Living in the Present with John Prine”

“sees the author of the poetry collection Nine Dragon Island”

“the translator of, among many, many works, the landmark anthology uh Iron Moon”

“also author of In the Roar of the Machine, the translator of Roar In the Roar of the Machine”

“Leslie Ti Chang makes this great point in in her book, Factory Girls”

“John Dower, Dover, did this book on World War II and how the US conducted the war in the Pacific differently than they conducted the war against Germ Germany”