Introducing the Trivium Podcast, now on the Sinica Network

Welcome to the Cynica Podcast, the weekly discussion of current affairs in China. In this program, we'll look at books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural trends that can help us better understand what's happening in China's politics. foreign relations, economics, and society. Join me each week for in-depth conversations that shed more light and bring less heat to how we think and talk about China. I'm Kaiser Gwall, coming to you from my home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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