Adam Tooze is Chinamaxxing!

Welcome to the Seneca Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China. In this program, we 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 Go coming to you this week from my home in Beijing.

Seneca is supported this year by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison, a national resource center for the study of East Asia. The Seneca podcast is and will remain free, but if you work for an organization that believes in what I'm doing with the podcast and with the newsletter, please consider lending your support. I'm still looking for new institutional support. The lines are open. You can reach me at cynecapod at gmail.com.

And listeners, please support my work by becoming a paying subscriber at cinecapodcast.com. Seriously, help out. I know there are a lot of substacks out there and they start to add up, but I think this one delivers serious value for your hard-earned dollar, so please do subscribe. Help me to continue to bring you these conversations. Last summer, the last time I caught up with Adam Tues, it was in the mountain idol of Sashi in Yunnan province, where he had dropped in after spending time in China for Summer Davos and other meetings.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (86 minutes, 15,777 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.