Barbarians at the Gate
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The Many Lives of Da Shan: Mark Rowswell on Chinese Poetry, Performing Live, and Staging Shawshank in Mandarin
45 mins; March 24, 2026
Lee Moore's China Backstory: Why Saying "History Proves" Actually Means "I Haven't Done the Reading"
42 mins; March 10, 2026
Décadence Mandchoue: The wild (and almost certainly fictional) affair between Sir Edmund Backhouse and Empress Dowager Cixi
39 mins; February 23, 2026
Barbarians at the Gate x By Their Own Compass: Emily Hahn's Shanghai
61 hours 10 mins; February 10, 2026
Lost in Thailand: The New Chinese Diaspora from Bangkok to Addis Ababa
35 mins; January 27, 2026
Perilous Prognostications for China in 2026
47 mins; January 13, 2026
Barbarians Remix: Horse Racing, History, and the Final Champion's Day in Old Shanghai
31 mins; December 30, 2025
The Dowager and the Dynasty
51 mins; December 16, 2025
Barbarians at the Gate x China Books Review: From Heaven Lake
27 mins; November 13, 2025
The Destruction of the Old Summer Palace
42 mins; October 29, 2025
The Voyages of Zheng He
33 mins; October 16, 2025
Barbarians at the Gate x China Books Review: The Records of the Grand Historian
23 mins; September 29, 2025
Barbarians Remix: Seeking News, Making China
37 mins; September 16, 2025
AI-Laoshi Will See You Now
26 mins; August 31, 2025
Calling all China nerds and Sinology Geeks
32 mins; August 14, 2025
Barbarians Remix: The Year of the Boxers with historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom
22 mins; July 29, 2025
Is America Beginning to Look More Like China?
41 mins; July 15, 2025
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
31 mins; July 01, 2025
Barbarians Remixed: Mandarin Mayhem I
28 mins; June 17, 2025
Emergency Pod: The Trump Administration restricts Harvard International Enrollment as State Department Reviews Chinese Student Visas
24 mins; June 02, 2025
The Six: Recovering the Lost Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors
44 mins; May 20, 2025
Dealing with Culture Shock when Studying and Living in China
31 mins; May 01, 2025
Let Only Red Flowers Bloom
27 mins; April 15, 2025
Curating Chinese Internet Culture for Global Audiences
27 mins; April 01, 2025
Is this America's Cultural Revolution Moment?
34 mins; March 21, 2025
Experiencing the World of Jazz in China
36 mins; March 07, 2025
Challenges of Foreign Reporting in China
34 mins; February 14, 2025
From the Archives: Xi Built this City
38 mins; January 29, 2025
Shalama: An Epic Story of Family, Community, and Survival in Republican-era China
33 mins; January 15, 2025
Where have all the American China Experts Gone?
37 mins; December 23, 2024
Laws of the Land: Feng Shui in Chinese History
41 mins; November 26, 2024
What can the end of the Ming Dynasty tell us about the election of Donald Trump and what comes next
34 mins; November 12, 2024
Historical Battles: Rewriting China's Past to Shape the Future
44 mins; October 16, 2024
Back to School 2: The View from the EU
29 mins; September 19, 2024
Back to School?
39 mins; August 27, 2024
Edge of Empire with author and journalist Edward Wong
36 mins; July 22, 2024
There and Back Again: Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour and the Legacy of Reform and Opening in China
36 mins; June 27, 2024
From Firefly to Fox News: The Evolution of "Chimerican" Media
39 mins; June 05, 2024
What happens after a Barbarian walks away from the Gate?
33 mins; April 17, 2024
Seeking News, Making China
37 mins; March 26, 2024
The Mountains Are High with author Alec Ash
35 mins; March 06, 2024
Expat from Expat-ville
43 mins; February 09, 2024
Xi Built this City
38 mins; January 16, 2024
Has the Chinese government killed stand-up comedy in China?
38 mins; December 19, 2023
Art with Altitude
42 mins; December 05, 2023
History Wars: The PRC pushes back against unsanctioned views of the past
47 mins; November 16, 2023
Riding the "Harmony Express" with author Thomas Bird
37 mins; October 31, 2023
Do you really need to learn to write characters to study Chinese?
55 mins; October 03, 2023
A Career of Change Making: A Conversation with Isabel Nepstad of BellaTerra Consulting
41 mins; August 21, 2023
Have Tunes, Will Travel: The Musical Adventures of DJ Bo
35 mins; August 08, 2023
One From the Vault: Ideology and Education in China with Educator Jiang Xueqin
55 mins; July 19, 2023
A Great Leap Backwards?: The Closing of Cultural Spaces and the New Normal in Beijing
41 mins; June 28, 2023
Rocking China with Historian Andrew Field
44 mins; June 06, 2023
Tik-Tok-for-Tat: Jeremiah and David try to Fix US-China Relations
42 mins; May 15, 2023
What Xi Said: Comedy and Cross-Cultural Communication with Performer and Content Creator Jesse Appell
48 mins; April 18, 2023
The Peking Express with Author James Zimmerman
42 mins; April 03, 2023
Getting Elevated in Qinghai with Entrepreneur and Mountain Guide Ben Cubbage
36 mins; March 22, 2023
The Forbidden City with Matthew Hu
40 mins; March 06, 2023
CCTV Follies
31 mins; February 14, 2023
When will China re-open its doors for study abroad and educational exchanges?
42 mins; January 16, 2023
One from the Vault: Touring China with Historian Mo Yajun
39 mins; January 03, 2023
Notes from the Medical Tent: Beijing Learns to Live with COVID
39 mins; December 15, 2022
Standing Up to Zero COVID
35 mins; November 28, 2022
Lockdowns, Legacies, and Looking Back with Journalist Melinda Liu
51 mins; November 15, 2022
Back to the Land: Author Alec Ash on escaping to Dali, rural retreats, and a return to England
45 mins; October 30, 2022
Back to the Land: Author Alec Ash on escaping to Dali, rural retreats, and a return to England
45 mins; October 30, 2022
CoCo19 and the Quarantines: The Scene from Beijing
41 mins; October 02, 2022
Beijing Calling Taipei
38 mins; August 30, 2022
The Destruction of Yuanmingyuan (One from the Vault)
46 mins; August 03, 2022
It's a Matter of Trust
43 mins; July 18, 2022
Writing about China for the World
60 hours 17 mins; July 07, 2022
Teaching Values
55 mins; June 01, 2022
Pride, Politics, and Pandemics: Understanding China's Nationalism with Peter Gries
50 mins; May 17, 2022
Lockdown 2: Shacked up in Shanghai
45 mins; April 19, 2022
Locked Down in Beijing!
46 mins; March 28, 2022
Touring China with Professor Mo Yajun
39 mins; March 17, 2022
Communication Breakdown
52 mins; March 03, 2022
China's Olympic Dreams
40 mins; January 26, 2022
From Vienna to Shanghai: A Memoir of Escape, Survival and Resistance
38 mins; January 13, 2022
Mandarin Mayhem III: The Cantonese Conundrum
47 mins; December 30, 2021
Studying China in the 21st Century (What Everybody Needs to Know) with special guest Maura Cunningham
45 mins; November 18, 2021
Yellow Jazz, Black Music
49 mins; September 17, 2021
China Tripping
47 mins; July 29, 2021
Elegy for the Eighties
43 mins; June 06, 2021
Talking the Line between Culture Shock and Racism
41 mins; May 14, 2021
Jeremiah and David Have Got No Class
46 mins; April 21, 2021
Chinese Funny Business
50 mins; February 11, 2021
A Long Walk across an Expanding Beijing
41 mins; January 07, 2021
Beijing Remixed
41 mins; December 14, 2020
The Destruction of the Yuanmingyuan
46 mins; October 26, 2020
China's New Youth
43 mins; October 01, 2020
Raising Little Soldiers: Education in China, Part II
41 mins; August 26, 2020
Xi Don't Need No Education: Education in China, Part I
39 mins; July 30, 2020
Are We Welcome Here, Part II
33 mins; July 08, 2020
Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai
34 mins; June 22, 2020
Mandarin Mayhem, Part II: Dialect and Nationalism in China
38 mins; June 02, 2020
Neither boxers nor a rebellion...Discuss!
0 secs; May 18, 2020
Politics, Patio Furniture and China History Pods
0 secs; May 01, 2020
Mandarin Mayhem
0 secs; April 10, 2020
Are we still welcome here?
0 secs; April 01, 2020