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Podcast: Barbarians at the Gate
Episode: Are we still welcome here?
Description: China has a long history of inviting barbarians in when useful, trying to civilize them, and then kicking them out when those barbarians prove difficult to domesticate.
As US-China relations sink to a new low and both powers seem obsessed with scoring propaganda points in the middle of global pandemic, Jeremiah and David discuss their lives in Beijing and what the future might hold for those folks living, writing, and working in China.
First, David looks back at the 1980s and 1990s, the rise of the foreign celebrity and how access has changed for researchers...