American Mandarin Society's Podcast

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our event with Jin Yan (金焱), Caijing magazine’s DC bureau chief. In her talk, Jin Yan shares her observations of America, gained during her seven eventful years in Washington DC reporting for one of China’s leading business magazines on topics ranging from politics, to economics, to society. This is a helpful talk for anyone who wants to improve their Chinese listening skills and is interested in looking at US-China affairs from a different perspective.

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with  Dr. Huang Ping, senior research professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).    This lecture focuses on perspectives from China on U.S.-China relations and where the relationship is heading.

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with Dr. Chen Ping-Kuei, assistant professor in the Department of Diplomacy at National Chengchi University. This lecture focuses on the Tsai administration's Southbound Policy, an aim to strengthen ties with countries in Southeast, South, and Austral-Asia. This is a helpful lecture for anyone wanting to better understand Cross-Straight relations, the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific,” and the future of Asia-Pacific security.

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with Dr. Zhao Long, associate professor at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and visiting fellow at CSIS. The lecture focuses on heightened tensions between the United States and Russia as well as increasing cooperation between China and Russia. 

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with Dr. Chelsea Chia-chen Chou, Assistant Professor in the Graduate Institute of National Development at National Taiwan University. The lecture focuses on elements that have led to progress in healthcare reform in China, including increased investment, expanded coverage, technological advances, and the beginnings of a shift from hospital-centered to more patient-focused strategies. 

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with Dr. Yang Xuedong, Director of the Central Documents Translation Center (CDTC) of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of CCP Central Committee and senior research fellow of the China Center for Global Governance and Development Strategies (CCGGD). The lecture focuses on China’s policy process. The Central Compilation and Translation Department plays an important yet little known role in the production of official Chinese government documents.

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States and AMS board member. The lecture focuses on building Mandarin fluency after formal studies have finished, how to incorporate it into professional practice, and how to continue to not only maintain it, but actually improve it. Robert has dedicated a large portion of his life to studying Chinese and has wrestled, as many of us have (and continue to do!), with the difficulties of maintaining language skills while working full-time, often outside of China.  

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with Chia-Huan Chang, a visiting fellow of the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS and a former instructor at Taiwan's National Defense University. Chia-Huan Chang's research interests include the issues related to the international law of the sea, maritime policies, and the South China Sea disputes.

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with Dr. Arthur Ding, one of Taiwan's leading experts on Chinese politics and foreign policy. Dr. Ding is the director and distinguished research fellow of the Institute of International Relations of National Zhengzhi University in Taipei.

In this episode, we bring you a recording of our recent event with Dr. Zhang Zhexin, research fellow at the Center for Asia Pacific Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and visiting fellow at CSIS. The title of his talk is China’s Pursuit of a New Asia Pacific Security Architecture and Implications for US-China Relations. Amid growing tensions over territorial disputes and increasingly confrontational security postures, Chinese leaders have been advocating for a new Asia Pacific security architecture. What exactly is this architecture? Does it symbolise China’s growing ambition for regional hegemony? Or is it ultimately a response to America’s rebalance to Asia? What is China’s vision of such an architecture and how is China going to achieve it? What does this mean for US-China relations? This talk is longer than our typical podcast, clocking in at about an hour, but it is well worth the listen.