Divided hosts. I argue that everything Annie told the press about herself was fiction, and she never actually cycled around the world. Sarah steps up for Annie. Fantabulist or fabulous? Listen and decide. Search for By Their Own Compass on Apple Podcasts and Spotify or follow the link below.

Jeremiah Jenne recounts the unbelievable life of China raconteur and NYer writer Emily Hahn @ China Books Review. How has there not been a movie made about her? chinabooksreview.com/2024/11/12/a...

Heyyy! I'm one with the great Jeremiah Jenne of "Barbarians at the Gates" Podcast to discuss a little shop - China, revolution, America, corruption, and the excesses of autocracy (with, IIRC, a featurette about the Hongwu Emperor's own persnickity feelings about his own bureaucracy. Check it out!

Jeremiah Jenne: In this episode of Barbarians at the Gate, @david__moser and I chat with Andrew Stokols @astoks, who is researching varieties of digital urbanism globally, and we compare notes on the urban development of Beijing in the 21st century. player.blubrry.com?podcast_id=1...

I spent most of the naughts in Beijing so I enjoyed this conversation between three people I knew then, Beijinger editor Mike Wester and hosts David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne, on changes in the expat community and the role of English language media there. www.jeremiahjenne.com/the-archives...

看过这书的来倒下苦水呗。AI已经走上了另一条大力出奇迹之路，侯世达用这样一本八百页的书来折磨人，然后自己躲在普普通通的大学里天天采菊东篱下不觉得亏心吗😤

Photo from a London friend, first copy of my VERY little new book (primer on China in the Xi Era), out March 24 in Europe/Asia/Australia only (hoping to have a North American edition in the future), nice blurbs by @taniabranigan.bsky.social @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social Victor Mallet & Cindy Yu

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

An interview about my new book, The Second Emancipation. theworld.org/segments/202...

So basically Trump can post that he’s sending a hospital ship to Greenland for no reason, then do absolutely nothing to actually send a hospital ship to Greenland because it was all a lie, and not one single Republican gets asked about it. That’s where we’re at.

No one would ever manage to nail him to a piece of wood, that's for damn sure!

Don't miss the Wall Street Journal's review of 'Ambigrammia' by Douglas Hofstadter!

Ambigram by Douglas Hofstadter, 2001. #lightisawave #lightisaparticle

This is my origin story. I know, I could knock you down with a feather.

The one and only Jeremy @goldkorn.bsky.social returns to the Sinica Podcast to say why he thinks — with DeepSeek, the TikTok Refugees on Xiaohongshu, and more — a narrative shift on China is now underway in the US. Tell us whether you agree! Link in the reply thread below.

500 modern Chinese wormhole back to the Ming Dynasty to jumpstart industrialization. A crowdsourced novel "The Morning Star of Lingao"《临高启明》— the ur-text for China's "Industrial Party." Writer Afra Wang joins the SinicaPodcast to discuss the Industrial Party, Lingao, & how China thinks about power.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at the Sinica Podcast newsletter page, here: www.sinicapodcast.com/p/uneasy-cal...

The failed attempt to silent Stephen Colbert.

Beijing friends: I am looking for a place to film an interview that is related to movies or film history. This is for our "Living History" documentary series. Any help is very much appreciated. 我正在寻找一个与电影或电影历史相关的采访拍摄场地，用于我们的《活历史》纪录片系列。非常感谢任何帮助！

In 1980, Belgian engineer Gilbert Van Kerckhove attended a job interview hoping to persuade a company to hire him. Instead, the firm tried to persuade him. They had won a major contract in China but couldn’t find any engineers willing to relocate. A Thread:

This morning we've once again been fortunate enough to be invited into the gorgeous Stanford Center at Peking University. Coming soon to Living History: Andy Andreasen, who among other things, built Beijing's Great Wall Hotel.

TV didn’t teach Ma Jian 马健 how to play basketball, but it changed his game. Meet the man who almost became China's first NBA athlete, scheduled to play against Michael Jordan. That dream was derailed by Chinese basketball officials. youtu.be/GHX9BAH1VBI

Joerg Wuttke arrived in China in 1982. The former China head for BASF and the EU Chamber of Commerce certainly lived up to his reputation for frank talk and spicy takes in the latest Episode of Living History. Link in the first comment!

The sinologist David Moser talks about moving to China in 1989, his first appearance on the Spring Festival Gala in 1999, and learning xiangsheng from the masters. Listen to the episode of Peking Hotel: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/16/p...

Listen to David Moser talk about going on Spring Festival Gala in 1999, on the Peking Hotel podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/16/p...

Sir Edmund Backhouse arrived in Beijing in 1898 and, four decades later, wrote a memoir that is 50% memory and roughly 158.5% Qing Dynasty slash fic. Décadence Mandchoue is unreliable, outrageous, and surprisingly informative. Does a story need to be accurate to contain truth?

One of the best history podcasts out there. Check this one out.

Ed Krassenstein - Why does the DOJ's Epstein list include Ashley Biden and Hunter Biden but not Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Barron Trump? All of them are mentioned in the files. The Trump / Pam Bondi cover-up continues. #cdnpoli

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

The Tang Dynasty is remembered as a "Golden Age" of art and peace, but it was also marked by a decade-long civil war that left millions dead. I joined Matt Lewis on Echoes of History to talk about the An Lushan Rebellion and the story behind Assassin's Creed: Dynasty. Listen at the link below:

Will the battle for AGI between China and the US heat up? Do kids still need to learn how to write Chinese characters in a digital age? What’s the future of restaurants? Global strategist Yajun Zhang joins @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social and me to make a few prognostications for 2026. Links below.

Perilous Prognostications for China in 2026 open.substack.com/pub/jeremiah...

My VERY short chatty book coming in Feb. buijones.com/books/everyt... --delighted to have blurbs from Cindy Yu, Tania Branigan & Victor Mallet as well as @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social who calls it "readable, enjoyable, and quotable (with) much to offer China savvy folk as well as casual readers.”

Evil dragon lady? Misunderstood proto-feminist reformer? Empress Dowager Cixi is one of the most famous and debated rulers in history. Jeremiah and @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social recount the life, times, and legacy of this remarkable woman. Episode link below:

Today is definitely a good day not to have been photographed with Jeffrey Epstein.

First collaboration with a China pop star. I played piano, guitar and arranged the string section www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Zt...

My insistence that the President get congressional authorization for military force isn’t really about weakening the executive. I think what really weakens the executive is going out on a limb & committing US forces without having the debate necessary to get Congress & the public firmly on board.

speaking in a public setting but his words are always for an audience of one

The man elected to end “forever wars” abroad has thoughts.

@richardcarrier.info Have you seen this?

For Bach fans (or any music lovers), check out Stephen Malinowski's amazing visualizations of Bach's music. For those who find Bach's music too complex to grasp, the visual analogs enable the listener to "see" the logic of the musical sounds. Delightful to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyOk...

Recorded this day, 1956: Miles and the Brass Ensemble of the Jazz & Classical Music Society records J.J. Johnson's composition 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝗺 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘀, for the album 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨 (Columbia CL 941). #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

Trump’s “message”: I am a king and I douse you all in shit. I say go ahead and amplify it.

“Retromingent”??