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Sinobabble — 68 episodes

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1

The Promise of China's Renewable Energy Market w/David Fishman

2

When China Rules the World Book Review | Sinobabble Book Club

3

“It is a way for me to seek meaning in this absurd world": Digital vulnerability and the rise of spiritual scams in China

4

How to read China well w/Alexander Boyd

5

Violence as 'family dispute': culture and politics in China's domestic violence laws

6

Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa Review | Sinobabble Book Club

7

Media influence as foreign policy: China’s journalist training in Africa w/Dr Emeka Umejei

8

The Party's Interests Come First Review | Sinobabble Book Club

9

[Preview] How Chinamaxxing foreigners are performing nationalism on Chinese social media

10

From victim to victor: Xenophobia and anti-Japanism as nationalism in China

11

Nationalism with International Characteristics w/Nick Zeller

12

Can an outsider truly portray an ethnic group faithfully? | Last Quarter of the Moon Review (Sinobabble Book Club)

13

China's Ethnic Unity and Progress Law: A breakdown

14

[Archive] Dreaming of East Turkestan: Xinjiang and China, c.700-1950

15

[Archive] Why is Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia? (+Bonus Article)

16

How to glaze your billionaire bestie | The Troublemaker Book Review | Sinobabble Book Club

17

Internal agitprop & 'minimum compliance' in Chinese governance

18

Down to the countryside 2.0 & the myth of the rural reset

19

Consumption as identity and politics in China w/Yaling Jiang

20

Sex and irreverence during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | "Serve the People!" Review (Sinobabble Book club)

21

[Archive] 20th Century History Episode 48 | The Cultural Revolution part 8: The end of the Cultural Revolution

22

[Archive] 20th Century History Episode 51 | The Cultural Revolution part 7: Culture

23

[Archive] 20th Century History Episode 50 | The Cultural Revolution part 6: Economy, Education & Everyday Life

24

[Archive] 20th Century History Episode 49 | The Cultural Revolution part 5: The death of Lin Biao

25

[Archive] 20th Century History Episode 48 | The Cultural Revolution part 4: The party restored (1968-1972)

26

[Archive] 20th Century History Episode 47 | The Cultural Revolution part 3: Ending the chaos (1967-68)

27

[Archive] 20th Century History Episode 46 | The Cultural Revolution Part 2: Violence in the cities, violence in the countryside

28

[Archive] 20th Century History Episode 45 | The Cultural Revolution part 1: The end of the tea party

29

The end of exchange? The state of US-China academic relations w/Rory Truex

30

China travel & Ghost cities w/David Fishman

31

Engineering or Authoritarianism? Breakneck Book Review (Sinobabble Bookclub)

32

Hebei heating scandal & the politics of clean energy in China

33

The CCP's war against bad vibes

34

Does China owe the world good trade?

35

All the China books I read in 2025

36

Xi's PLA purges in their historical context

37

What do Chinese people really think about China? (W/Nick Zeller & Craig Kafura)

38

Did China build too much High-Speed Railway?

39

How China built its own Silicon Valley

40

Why foreign brands are failing in China

41

US Rare earth mineral dependency ends trade war | China news discussion #8 | 15 June 25 BMC

42

China's Soft Power Problem

43

Why the UK is choosing China over the US | China news discussion #7 | 8th June 2025

44

Where do all those stolen iPhones go? | China news discussion #6 | 25th May 2025

45

Scam centres and fake job syndicates: Chinese white collar human trafficking in SE Asia

46

Tariffs paused and Starbucks loses ground | China news discussion #5 | 18th May 2025

47

China and the US meet for tariff talks | China news discussion #4 BMC | 11th May 2025

48

Spies, Secrets & South Korea | China news discussion #3 | 4th May 2025

49

All US-China tariff war analysis sucks and I'm sick of it

50

Deepseek wins, Diplomacy woes | China news discussion #2 | 27th April 2025

51

Tariffs, Tik Tok, TSMC | China news discussion #1 | 20th April 2025

52

Guo Wengui is the scammer the US deserved

53

Zhao Ziyang

54

There is no decoupling from China (#2)

55

There is no decoupling from China (#1)

56

20th Century Chinese History #4: Early Republican China (1912-1919)

57

20th Century Chinese History #3: The Xinhai Revolution of 1911

58

The silliest debate in Chinese academic history (Boodberg v Creel)

59

China's social credit system is real. Everyone is wrong about it though.

60

Think Tank China analysis is worthless, actually.

61

How Xi Jinping became emperor. And how everyone missed it.

62

Authenticity and the Disney-fication of China's Cultural Heritage

63

Announcing the first ever Sinobabble livestream!

64

China's EV industry (was funded by the US)

65

I read all 212 pages of Hong Kong's new National Security Bill. It's not good.

66

Young Chinese people can't find jobs (they actually want)

67

China's ecommerce dystopia: TEMU, SHEIN and the fast-everything model

68

The "White Woman aesthetic" trend and Chinese class struggle