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Neysun Mahboubi on the past, present, and future of US-China Academic Exchanges

July 02, 2026 4:42am 1:01

We are honored to have Professor Neysun Mahboubi, Director of the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations, a program that provides a platform for talented U.S.-based China scholars to contribute academically i...

AI Slop, AI Detectors, and Authentic Voice: A China-Tech Insider on Writing and Working With AI

June 18, 2026 8:00am 39 min

Should we view today’s powerful AI language tools as intellectual crutches or as incredibly useful assets? Can they be safely integrated into our existing toolkit for business and academia, or should we approach them wit...

China Books Review x Barbarians at the Gate: The Private Life of Chairman Mao

June 04, 2026 2:08pm 26 min

The Politburo had given Mao Zedong’s personal physician Li Zhisui a direct order: prepare the Chairman’s body so that he can be on permanent display. Li was aghast. It was not what Mao had wanted, and besides, “How to pi...

This Was Funnier in China: Jesse Appell's Cross-Cultural Comedy Journey

May 05, 2026 2:17am 48 min

On this episode, we sit down with the one and only Jesse Appell—Chinese TV stand-up comedian, blogger, lecturer, tea entrepreneur, and passionate bridge-builder for US–China cultural exchange. In his newly published book...

The Business of Burgers in Beijing: What Fast Food Festivals Reveal About China's Economy

April 21, 2026 3:12am 33 min

Mike Wester launched the first Burger Fest in Beijing 13 years ago as a scrappy response to the collapse of print ad revenue. Today, burger festivals run in third-tier cities across China, subsidized by local governments...

Barbarians Remix: Do you really need to learn to write characters to study Chinese?

April 07, 2026 2:19am 27 min

Warning: GEEKY CONTENT Hosting solo in this week’s episode, David takes a geeky deep dive into the digital revolution in Chinese language learning in conversation with Chinese language pedagogy expert Matt Coss. The Sis...

The Many Lives of Da Shan: Mark Rowswell on Chinese Poetry, Performing Live, and Staging Shawshank in Mandarin

March 24, 2026 3:04am 45 min

In this episode, we reconnect with an old friend of the podcast, Canadian performer Mark Rowswell—better known in China as Dashan, or “Big Mountain.” Mark reflects on his early career in China, where his remarkable fluen...

Lee Moore's China Backstory: Why Saying "History Proves" Actually Means "I Haven't Done the Reading"

March 10, 2026 7:00am 42 min

Lee Moore's new book challenges both Chinese state propaganda and Western pundits on Taiwan, Xinjiang, the Chinese economy, and Hong Kong with 1400 endnotes, and a drinking game for beheadings. A historian who writes ab...

Décadence Mandchoue: The wild (and almost certainly fictional) affair between Sir Edmund Backhouse and Empress Dowager Cixi

February 23, 2026 11:55pm 39 min

It’s another Barbarians at the Gate crossover with China Books Review. This month’s China Archives column covers Decadence Mandchoue by Edmund Backhouse, edited and annotated by Derek Sandhaus. CBR Associate Editor Alexa...

Barbarians at the Gate x By Their Own Compass: Emily Hahn's Shanghai

February 10, 2026 1:47am 1:01

Welcome to a special episode of Barbarians at the Gate. David and Jeremiah are off this week preparing for Chinese New Year, but as a special gift to our listeners, we are cross-posting this bonus episode about the life ...

Lost in Thailand: The New Chinese Diaspora from Bangkok to Addis Ababa

January 27, 2026 5:36am 35 min

It’s high season in Thailand. The weather is perfect. But look around the hotel lobbies and the night markets, and you’ll notice something missing: the tour buses. For the last decade, Thailand bet the house on Chinese ...

Perilous Prognostications for China in 2026

January 13, 2026 5:05am 47 min

Following a tumultuous 2025, we gallop into the Year of the Horse. Tradition says it should be a year of dynamism and progress, but which way is the stampede heading? To help us read the tea leaves, we welcome back our ...

Barbarians Remix: Horse Racing, History, and the Final Champion's Day in Old Shanghai

December 30, 2025 2:49am 31 min

Champions Day in the city of Shanghai, November 1941. The world was at war, but the clubhouse at the Shanghai Race Club (now People's Park) was packed with owners and punters cheering on the pony. The funeral of Shangha...

The Dowager and the Dynasty

December 16, 2025 6:00am 51 min

How does a teenage girl from Beijing’s hutongs end up ruling the world’s largest empire—without ever technically sitting on the throne? In this episode, Jeremiah traces the improbable ascent of Empress Dowager Cixi, who ...

Barbarians at the Gate x China Books Review: From Heaven Lake

November 13, 2025 7:08pm 27 min

In 1981, the Indian writer and poet Vikram Seth traveled from Nanjing, where he was studying literature, to his hometown of Delhi. Moving by train across China to Gansu, then hitchhiking southwest through Qinghai and Tib...

The Destruction of the Old Summer Palace

October 29, 2025 12:00am 42 min

Yuanmingyuan, the "Garden of Perfect Brightness," commonly referred to as the Old Summer Palace, was a Qing Dynasty imperial residence comprised of hundreds of buildings, halls, gardens, temples, artificial lakes, and la...

The Voyages of Zheng He

October 16, 2025 10:30am 33 min

It’s just two guys talking China's naval history. In this episode, David and Jeremiah dig into the story of Zheng He, the 15th-century admiral who took China's treasure fleets halfway around the world as Western Europe w...

Barbarians at the Gate x China Books Review: The Records of the Grand Historian

September 29, 2025 1:00pm 23 min

Picture this: You’re 45 years old, halfway through writing the definitive history of your civilization. Writing this history is the family business, and you’ve made a promise to your dying father to finish his work no ma...

Barbarians Remix: Seeking News, Making China

September 16, 2025 10:33am 37 min

In this encore episode of Barbarians at the Gate, first broadcast in March 2024, John Alekna talks about his fascinating new book Seeking News, Making China: Information Technology and the Emergence of Mass Society. In 2...

AI-Laoshi Will See You Now

August 31, 2025 6:04am 26 min

Teachers are an excitable lot prone to excessive consumption of caffeine and loudly proclaiming that [Insert New Technology Here] will doom a generation to intellectual oblivion. Whether it was television, computers, the...

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