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When Four Foreigners Walked Onto the Chunwan Stage — with David Moser
David Moser recalls his Xiangsheng performance at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 1999 and his personal journey into the Sinophone world.
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Tiananmen Papers, Charter 08 and Liu Xiaobo: My Activism Through Translation — with Perry Link
Prof. Perry Link talks about bringing the works of Chinese pro-democracy activists to a global audience.
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Mao vs Xi: politicking China’s environment — with Judith Shapiro
Prof. Judith Shapiro reflects on how the environment used to be a cause for which Chinese civil society was allowed to fight, until that too became…
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When a Deng Xiaoping-Approved Marriage Spurred the Hunan Democracy Movement — with Judith Shapiro
Before her career switch to researching environmental politics, Prof. Judith Shapiro spent a whirlwind decade teaching, writing, and living in and about…
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Jimmy Carter, the Unlikely Champion of China’s Village Elections — with Liu Yawei
The Carter Center’s Senior China Advisor talks about the late U.S. President’s relationship with Deng Xiaoping, how China invited him to observe…
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The death of U.S.-China engagement and the political future of China — with Susan Shirk
"I know that the level of dissatisfaction is high. It’s not stable. I can’t predict what will happen, but when it happens, I won’t be surprised."
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How NATO Accidentally Bombed The Chinese Embassy in Belgrade - with Susan Shirk
“The problem was that the Chinese government and people had huge respect for American competence, and they believed that it was impossible for us to…
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WTO Negotiations, life inside State Department, and the peak of American unipolarity — with Susan Shirk
The former academic-turned-State Department official talks about how she joined the Clinton administration and took part in the landmark WTO deal with…
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Ian Johnson

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Larry Diamond

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