History, Travel
Jeremiah Jenne
Phoenicians and Fish Sauce on the Costa del Sol

Jeremiah heads to Malaga where he inexplicably becomes obsessed with the history of an ancient condiment

Phoenicians and Fish Sauce on the Costa del Sol
Book Reviews, History
Jeremiah Jenne
Reginald Johnston: Twilight in the Forbidden ...

A Scotsman’s memoir of tutoring Puyi, China’s “last emperor,” is more than just court gossip — it’s a tantalizing portrait of China’s imperial trappings.

Reginald Johnston: Twilight in the Forbidden City
Audio, Contemporary China, Beijing
Jeremiah Jenne
The Challenges of Foreign Reporting in China: ...

Jeremiah and David welcome Jane Perlez, former Beijing bureau chief for the New York Times. Jane reflects on shifts in media freedom and the challenges faced by reporters covering China. Her podcast series on U.S.-China relations, "Face Off," launches its second season this week.

The Challenges of Foreign Reporting in China: An In-Depth Discussion with Jane Perlez
Book Reviews, History
Jeremiah Jenne
Graham Peck: Two Kinds of Time

An American writer’s memoir of World War II China remains a timely diagnosis of the pathologies of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of the “loss” of China.

Graham Peck: Two Kinds of Time
Audio, History
Jeremiah Jenne
What can the end of the Ming Dynasty tell us ...

Trump's re-election disappointed many in the U.S. and abroad. To help them process, Jeremiah and David talk with literary translator and Pennsylvania voter Brendan O’Kane about Zhang Dai, the Ming-Qing transition, and living through an age of upheaval.

What can the end of the Ming Dynasty tell us about the election of Donald Trump and what comes next

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Do you really need to learn to write characters to study Chinese?

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Do you really need to learn to write characters to study Chinese?

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. 

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A Career of Change Making: A Conversation with Isabel Nepstad of Bellaterra Consulting

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A Career of Change Making: A Conversation with Isabel Nepstad of Bellaterra Consulting

Isabel Nepstad, CEO of BellaTerra Consluting, takes time out of her busy schedule to drop by the Barbarians at the Gate studio to share her career journey, give advice to those looking to pursue their professional lives in China and discuss the challenges and opportunities in the environmental and agricultural sectors in China and around the world.

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Have Tunes, Will Travel: The Musical Adventures of DJ Bo

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Have Tunes, Will Travel: The Musical Adventures of DJ Bo

With David off on summer shenanigans, Jeremiah flies solo as DJ Bo drops by the BATG studio to talk about his adventures performing across China, what drives his passion for music, and the case for Shanghai as the birthplace of Rock n’ Roll.

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Rocking China with Historian Andrew Field

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Rocking China with Historian Andrew Field

In this episode of Barbarians at the Gate, we welcome back Andrew Field to discuss his new book Rocking China: Rock Music Scenes in Beijing, Shanghai, and Beyond. We look back on the bands and people who helped to shape Indie Rock in Beijing and China.

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Tik-Tok-for-Tat: Jeremiah and David try to Fix US-China Relations

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Tik-Tok-for-Tat: Jeremiah and David try to Fix US-China Relations

Fueled by too many red bulls (Jeremiah) and some pretty good pharmaceuticals following an emergency root canal (David), our intrepid cohosts throw caution to the wind and attempt to fix US-China Relations in a single podcast.

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What Xi Said: Comedy and Cross-Cultural Communication with Performer and Content Creator Jesse Appell

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What Xi Said: Comedy and Cross-Cultural Communication with Performer and Content Creator Jesse Appell

Jesse Appell turned a Fulbright Fellowship research into a comedy career in China with 3M+ followers. On this episode of Barbarians at the Gate, Jesse joins us to discuss cultural communication and comedy in the US and China.

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Getting Elevated in Qinghai with Entrepreneur and Mountain Guide Ben Cubbage

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Getting Elevated in Qinghai with Entrepreneur and Mountain Guide Ben Cubbage

In this episode of Barbarians at the Gate, we are joined by Ben Cubbage of Elevated Trips. Ben calls in from the lofty heights of Qinghai to talk about life on the plateau, post-COVID tourism, and running an eco-travel and guiding business in China.

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The Forbidden City with Matthew Hu

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The Forbidden City with Matthew Hu

On this episode of Barbarians at the Gate, Matthew Hu of the Beijing Cultural Heritage Preservation Center joins Jeremiah and David Moser to look at the Forbidden City's past, present, and future and the challenges of restoring and exhibiting the museum’s 1.8 million artifacts.

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CCTV Follies with Journalist and Author Philip Cunningham

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CCTV Follies with Journalist and Author Philip Cunningham

Philip Cunningham joins the Barbarians at the Gate Podcast to discuss his Substack CCTV follies in which Phil watches the nightly Xinwen Lianbo so that you don't have to. We look at the ritual of news in defining the boundaries of discourse and the framing of stories in the Chinese media.

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When will China re-open its doors for study abroad and educational exchanges?

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When will China re-open its doors for study abroad and educational exchanges?

Jeremiah in Florida and David in Taiwan touch base and exchange updates on the evolving Covid-19 situation in China and elsewhere.

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Notes from the Medical Tent: Beijing Learns to Live with COVID

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Notes from the Medical Tent: Beijing Learns to Live with COVID

Podcaster Zhang Yajun joins Jeremiah and David to talk about the situation in Beijing as COVID spreads throughout the city.

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Special episode: The COVID lockdown protests, with David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne (Sinica Podcast)

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Special episode: The COVID lockdown protests, with David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne (Sinica Podcast)

Special bonus episode of the Sinica Podcast: David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne join Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn for a discussion of the weekend's anti-COVID lockdown protests in China.

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Standing Up to Zero COVID

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Standing Up to Zero COVID

This special episode of Barbarians at the Gate recorded last night provides a “time stamp" and an initial reaction to the protests in several major Chinese cities on November 26 and 27, including the situation in Beijing.

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Lockdowns, Legacies, and Looking Back with Journalist Melinda Liu

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Lockdowns, Legacies, and Looking Back with Journalist Melinda Liu

Award-winning journalist, Newsweek Bureau Chief, and long-time Beijing resident Melinda Liu joins David Moser and me on a special episode of Barbarians at the Gate. We're taking the long view of lockdowns, US-China relations, and some fascinating stories of World War II.

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Back to the Land: Author Alec Ash on escaping to Dali, rural retreats, and a return to England

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Back to the Land: Author Alec Ash on escaping to Dali, rural retreats, and a return to England

Author Alec Ash stops by the Barbarians at the Gate studio on his way through Beijing. David and I talk with Alec about Dali in a time of COVID, Alec's new book about urban refugees in the mountains of Yunnan, and his plans for the future.

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Barbarians at the Gate: CoCo19 and the Quarantines (The Scene from Beijing)

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Barbarians at the Gate: CoCo19 and the Quarantines (The Scene from Beijing)

David returns to Beijing and Jeremiah can't leave the city. We're both navigating the new information and media environment in the run-up to the October Party Congress. BATG is back with the scene from Beijing.

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The China History Podcast: Forbidden City

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The China History Podcast: Forbidden City

Few topics have been requested more than the Forbidden City, located in the center of the great city of Beijing. To help introduce this iconic palace complex, Laszlo invited longtime Beijing resident, Jeremiah Jenne of "Barbarians at the Gate Podcast" fame onto the CHP to discuss the history of the Forbidden City from its construction in the Ming Dynasty up to the present day.

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Barbarians at the Gate: The Destruction of the Yuanmingyuan (One from the Vault)

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Barbarians at the Gate: The Destruction of the Yuanmingyuan (One from the Vault)

This month marks the 160th anniversary of the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan. In this episode, David and I talk about the events leading up to the looting and razing of the gardens and the shifting meaning of "National Humiliation" in China today.

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