Best Of

Our Year in Review

Year in recap + 25 biggest US-China events of the century

Jan 15 • Jordan Schneider

Chinese AI in 2025, Wrapped

A year for the history books for the Chinese AI beat.

Dec 11, 2025 • Irene Zhang

AI, history, war, robots, abundance, political gambling

Oct 16, 2025 • Jordan Schneider

China's best short fiction of 2025

+ Jordan looking for Sept housing in the bay!

Aug 27, 2025

Policy: An Early Career Guide REVISED!

why write, how to read, advanced degrees, twitter, and learning Chinese

Jul 30, 2025 • Jordan Schneider

best books of the year

Eastern Front, Flying Nuns, Samizdat, the Rebbe, 1920s, Florida

Jul 17, 2025 • Jordan Schneider

ChinaTalk, distilled

May 12, 2025

tv, movies, music, nyc eats

Mar 31, 2025 • Jordan Schneider

Best of the Month

Xi, Chips, AI, US Policy

Mar 14, 2025 • Lily Ottinger

Best of ChinaTalk 2024

we put in the work

Feb 7, 2025 • Jordan Schneider and Nicholas Welch

a year in podcasts

best of the year of the dragon

Jan 27, 2025 • Jordan Schneider

Imperial Legacy: 1949 to Xi's Death

Was autocracy the key to China's economic miracle?

Oct 4, 2024 • Jordan Schneider, Lily Ottinger, and Ilari Mäkelä

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