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Interview Archives: China
Friday April 06, 2012, 10:06 AM
Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration
Michelle Dammon Loyalka, Freelance Journalist and Editor
Host: David Inge
China is developing at a pace never before seen in human history. Journalist Michelle Loyalka says that rapid growth has been made possible by the millions of people who have left the countryside and flocked to China’s urban centers. She says they are overworked and underpaid and that there isn’t a single Chinese city that can function without them. We’ll explore China's great urban migration, the subject of Loyalka’s book "Eating Bitterness."
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Monday January 30, 2012, 10:06 AM
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel, Ph.D., Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Host: David Inge
This interview was recorded on January 26, 2012
We’ll bring you a conversation with one of America’s leading scholars of East Asia, Ezra Vogel, emeritus professor of social sciences at Harvard. His 1979 best-selling book "Japan as Number One," predicted the rise of Japan as an economic powerhouse. His most recent book looks at China’s development and role Deng Xiaoping played in that country’s modernization. The first book, he says, played a role in educating America about Japan. His hope is that the new book will do the same for China.
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Categories: Economics • History • International Affairs • Politics • Asia • China • Japan
Friday June 24, 2011, 10:06 AM
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Mara Hvistendahl, Beijing-Based Correspondent for Science
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Gender issues • Asia • China • India
Wednesday May 04, 2011, 11:06 AM
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin, Lessons in Life, Love, and Language
Deborah Fallows, Ph.D., Journalist
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Language and Linguistics • Asia • China
Thursday February 03, 2011, 11:06 AM
China's International Relations
David M. Lampton, Ph.D., Dean of Faculty; the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies; Director of the China Studies Program, Johns Hopkins, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Host: David Inge
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Categories: International Affairs • Asia • China
Thursday October 07, 2010, 10:06 AM
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Gardner Bovington, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies; Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures; Associate Professor, Political Science, Indiana University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Cultural Studies • History • Religion • Asia • China
Tuesday August 03, 2010, 10:06 AM
The Labor Movement in China
Mary E. Gallagher, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Manfred Elfstrom, MIA, formerly with the International Labor Rights Forum
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Human Rights • Labor/worker issues • Asia • China
Wednesday January 27, 2010, 11:06 AM
"Why is Europe, not China or India, the Second Superpower of the 21st Century?"
Andrew Moravcsik, Ph.D., Professor of Politics and international Affairs and Director of the European Union Program, Princeton University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • International Affairs • Asia • China • India • Europe
Monday August 03, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Snake Head: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Patrick Radden Keefe, Fellow at The Century Foundation
Host: David Inge
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Categories: History • United States history • Immigration • Asia • China
Thursday July 30, 2009, 10:06 AM
China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa
Serge Michel, Award-Winning Journalist; former West Africa Correspondent for the Le Monde; founder of the the Bloody Blog, a citizen journalism project in the suburbs of Paris
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Business and Economy • Asia • China • Africa
