All Episodes
Barbarians at the Gate — 115 episodes
Mao More Than Ever
The Last Emperor of China with author Paul French
Somerset Maugham's On a Chinese Screen: Missionaries, Taipans, and Expats Who Never Leave (but probably should)
Barbarian Remix: The Secrets and History behind Beijing's Forbidden City
Neysun Mahboubi on the past, present, and future of US-China Academic Exchanges
AI Slop, AI Detectors, and Authentic Voice: A China-Tech Insider on Writing and Working With AI
China Books Review x Barbarians at the Gate: The Private Life of Chairman Mao
This Was Funnier in China: Jesse Appell's Cross-Cultural Comedy Journey
The Business of Burgers in Beijing: What Fast Food Festivals Reveal About China's Economy
Barbarians Remix: Do you really need to learn to write characters to study Chinese?
The Many Lives of Da Shan: Mark Rowswell on Chinese Poetry, Performing Live, and Staging Shawshank in Mandarin
Lee Moore's China Backstory: Why Saying "History Proves" Actually Means "I Haven't Done the Reading"
Décadence Mandchoue: The wild (and almost certainly fictional) affair between Sir Edmund Backhouse and Empress Dowager Cixi
Barbarians at the Gate x By Their Own Compass: Emily Hahn's Shanghai
Lost in Thailand: The New Chinese Diaspora from Bangkok to Addis Ababa
Perilous Prognostications for China in 2026 with Yajun Zhang
Barbarians Remix: Horse Racing, History, and the Final Champion's Day in Old Shanghai
The Dowager and the Dynasty: How did Empress Dowager Cixi rule China and should we blame her for bringing down an empire?
Barbarians at the Gate x China Books Review: From Heaven Lake
The Destruction of the Old Summer Palace (Remix)
The Voyages of Zheng He
Barbarians at the Gate x China Books Review: The Records of the Grand Historian
Barbarians Remix: Seeking News, Making China
AI-Laoshi Will See You Now: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Chinese Language Learning
Calling all China Nerds
Barbarians Remix: The Year of the Boxers with historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Is America Beginning to Look More Like China?
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
Barbarians Remix: Mandarin Mayhem I
Emergency Pod: The Trump Administration restricts Harvard International Enrollment as State Department Reviews Chinese Student Visas
The Six: Recovering the Lost Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors
Dealing with Culture Shock when Studying and Living in China
Let Only Red Flowers Bloom with NPR Correspondent Emily Feng
Curating Chinese Internet Culture for Global Audiences with What's on Weibo founder Manya Koetse
Is this America's Cultural Revolution Moment? with Chris Stewart of the History of China Podcast
Experiencing the World of Jazz in China
The Challenges of Foreign Reporting in China: An In-Depth Discussion with Jane Perlez
From the Archives: Xi Built This City
Shalama: An Epic Story of Family, Community, and Survival in Republican-era China
Where have all the American China Experts Gone?
Laws of the Land: Feng Shui in Chinese History
What can the end of the Ming Dynasty tell us about the election of Donald Trump and what comes next
Historical Battles: Rewriting China's Past to Shape the Future
Back to School 2: The View from the EU
Back to School?
Edge of Empire with author and journalist Edward Wong
There and Back Again: Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour and the Legacy of Reform and Opening in China
From Firefly to Fox News: The Evolution of "Chimerican" Media
What happens after a Barbarian walks away from the Gate?
Seeking News, Making China
The Mountains Are High with author Alec Ash
Exile from Expat-ville
Xi Built This City
No Laughing Matters: The State of Stand-up in China Today
Art with Altitude
History Wars: The PRC pushes back against unsanctioned views of the past
Riding the "Harmony Express" with author Thomas Bird
Do you really need to learn to write characters to study Chinese?
A Career of Change Making: A Conversation with Isabel Nepstad of BellaTerra Consulting
Have Tunes, Will Travel: The Musical Adventures of DJ Bo
One From the Vault: Ideology and Education in China with Educator Jiang Xueqin
A Great Leap Backwards?: The Closing of Cultural Spaces and the New Normal in Beijing
Rocking China with Historian Andrew Field
Tik-Tok-for-Tat: Jeremiah and David try to Fix US-China Relations
What Xi Said: Comedy and Cross-Cultural Communication with Performer and Content Creator Jesse Appell
The Peking Express with Author James Zimmerman
Getting Elevated in Qinghai with Entrepreneur and Mountain Guide Ben Cubbage
The Forbidden City with Matthew Hu
CCTV Follies with Journalist and Author Philip Cunningham
When will China re-open its doors for study abroad and educational exchanges?
One from the Vault: Touring China with Historian Mo Yajun
Notes from the Medical Tent: Beijing Learns to Live with COVID
Standing Up to Zero COVID: The View from Beijing
Lockdowns, Legacies, and Looking Back with Journalist Melinda Liu
Back to the Land: Author Alec Ash on escaping to Dali, rural retreats, and a return to England
CoCo19 and the Quarantines: The Scene from Beijing
Beijing Calling Taipei
The Destruction of Yuanmingyuan (One from the Vault)
It's a Matter of Trust: Social and Political Confidence in the United States and the PRC
Writing about China for the World
Teaching Values: Ideology and Education in China with Jiang Xueqin
Pride, Politics, and Pandemics: Understanding China's Nationalism with Peter Gries
Lockdown 2: Shacked up in Shanghai
Locked Down in Beijing!
Touring China with Professor Mo Yajun
Communication Breakdown: Asymmetry, Decoupling, and the Information Deficit affecting China and the World
Sporting Superpower: China's Olympic Dreams
From Vienna to Shanghai: A Memoir of Escape, Survival and Resistance
Mandarin Mayhem III: The Cantonese Conundrum
Studying China in the 21st Century (What Everybody Needs to Know) with special guest Maura Cunningham
"Yellow Jazz, Black Music" with Marketus Presswood
China Tripping
Elegy for the Eighties
Talking the Line between Culture Shock and Racism
Jeremiah and David Have Got No Class
Chinese Funny Business
A Long Walk across an Expanding Beijing
Beijing Remixed
The Destruction of the Yuanmingyuan
China's New Youth
Raising Little Soldiers: Education in China, Part II
Xi Don't Need No Education: Education in China, Part I
Are We Welcome Here, Part II
Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
Mandarin Mayhem, Part II: Dialect and Nationalism in China
Neither boxers nor a rebellion...Discuss!
Politics, Patio Furniture, and China History Pods
Mandarin Mayhem
Are we still welcome here?
The Language and History of Public Health in China
Barbarians at the Gate Podcast: Yaqub Beg and the Provincializing of Western China
Barbarians at the Gate Podcast: China’s territorial claims on the rocks in the South China Sea
Barbarians at the Gate Podcast: Keeping up with the Khitans
Barbarians at the Gate Podcast: A couple of characters talking about Chinese characters
Barbarians at the Gate Podcast: The An Lushan Rebellion