China Hands

China Hands

Podcast on historical and contemporary US-China relations, featuring the negotiators, policymakers, and researchers who re-established relations in 1978, the first American students in China and vice-versa, Deans and Chancellors of Sino-foreign joint-venture universities, and so many more!

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May 9, 2024 12 mins

Henry Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a leading Chinese nongovernmental think tank. Previously, Dr Wang held various Fellowships at leading American institutions like Harvard University and Brooking Institution and Adjunct Professorships at leading Chinese universities like Peking and Tsinghua University.

The 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index by the University of Penns...

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Henry Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a leading Chinese nongovernmental think tank. Previously, Dr Wang held various Fellowships at leading American institutions like Harvard University and Brooking Institution and Adjunct Professorships at leading Chinese universities like Peking and Tsinghua University.

The 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index by the University of Penns...

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April 9, 2024 10 mins

As one of China's leading experts on Sino-American relations and US Security & Foreign policy, Da Wei is the Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University, where he is also a Professor at the Department of International Relations of the School of Social Sciences. Prof. Da also led one of the first Chinese student delegations to the United States, which he extensively covers on...

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As one of China's leading experts on Sino-American relations and US Security & Foreign policy, Da Wei is the Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University, where he is also a Professor at the Department of International Relations of the School of Social Sciences. Prof. Da also led one of the first Chinese student delegations to the United States, which he extensively covers on...

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March 5, 2024 85 mins

Frank Hawke was amongst the first American exchange students to China, after which he had a long and distinguished career in banking, finance, and consultancy in Asia. More recently, he was the previous Director of the China Program for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 

Prior to his exchange with Peking University in 1979, Frank completed his BA in Economics and MA in Political Science at Stanford Unive...

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Frank Hawke was amongst the first American exchange students to China, after which he had a long and distinguished career in banking, finance, and consultancy in Asia. More recently, he was the previous Director of the China Program for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 

Prior to his exchange with Peking University in 1979, Frank completed his BA in Economics and MA in Political Science at Stanford Unive...

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Frank Hawke was amongst the first American exchange students to China, after which he had a long and distinguished career in banking, finance, and consultancy in Asia. More recently, he was the previous Director of the China Program for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 

Prior to his exchange with Peking University in 1979, Frank completed his BA in Economics and MA in Political Science at Stanford Unive...

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Joining us today is Andrew Andreasen, the Resident Director of the Inter-University Program (IUP) for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University and previous Executive Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. 

One of the first American exchange students to China, Andrew sailed with the United States Merchant Marine Corps before attending Stanford University for his MA and PhD in Linguistics and East Asia ...

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Joining us today is Andrew Andreasen, the Resident Director of the Inter-University Program (IUP) for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University and previous Executive Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. 

One of the first American exchange students to China, Andrew sailed with the United States Merchant Marine Corps before attending Stanford University for his MA and PhD in Linguistics and East ...
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December 19, 2023 24 mins

Ellen Eliasoph is a film executive and producer who has spent the last 25 years building bridges among China's film industry, Hollywood, and the global film market. Ellen is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and a graduate of Yale Law School, during the latter being amongst the group of the first Americans to study in China. 

Before working in the film industry, she utilised her legal studies to play a key ro...

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December 5, 2023 40 mins

Ellen Eliasoph is a film executive and producer who has spent the last 25 years building bridges among China's film industry, Hollywood, and the global film market. Ellen is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and a graduate of Yale Law School, during the latter being amongst the group of the first Americans to study in China. 

Before working in the film industry, she utilised her legal studies to play a key ro...

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October 31, 2023 40 mins

Ira Kasoff received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1973 and PhD from Princeton University in 1982. During the latter, he spent a year doing research at Peking University as one of the first American students. From 1985 to 2007, Ira was a diplomat, serving seven assignments in Asia with the U.S. Commercial Service, including in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Asia, wh...

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October 17, 2023 60 mins

We are proud to present our first interview in Mandarin for this series with 黄道林, the Director of Academic Exchanges at Peking University from 1978 till 1992!

Since my Mandarin is not yet at the level needed for such a complex conversation I’ve collaborated with Kevin Wei to host this episode. Kevin is a JD Candidate at Harvard Law School and previously a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University. My special thanks also to...

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October 3, 2023 19 mins

David 'Mike' Lampton is Professor Emeritus and former Hyman Professor and Director of SAIS-China and China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Previously, he was the President of the National Committee on US-China Relations, Director of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC (CSCPRC), and headed the China Studies programs at the American Enterprise Institute and The Nixon ...

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September 19, 2023 50 mins

David 'Mike' Lampton is Professor Emeritus and former Hyman Professor and Director of SAIS-China and China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Previously, he was the President of the National Committee on US-China Relations, Director of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC (CSCPRC), and headed the China Studies programs at the American Enterprise Institute and The Nixon ...

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September 12, 2023 90 mins

Mary B. Bullock served as inaugural Vice-Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, President of Agnes Scott College, Professor at Emory University, and Director of the National Committee on US-China Relations, the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC (CSCPRC), the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Henry Luce Foundation. Furthermore, she was part of the Academic Advisory Council of Schwarzman Scholars and ...

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September 5, 2023 46 mins

Mary B. Bullock served as inaugural Vice-Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, President of Agnes Scott College, Professor at Emory University, and Director of the National Committee on US-China Relations, the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC (CSCPRC), the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Henry Luce Foundation. Furthermore, she was part of the Academic Advisory Council of Schwarzman Scholars and ...

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August 29, 2023 51 mins

Thomas (Tom) Fingar is a Shorenstein APARC Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He was the inaugural Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow from 2010 through 2015 and the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford in 2009.

From 2005 through 2008, he served as the first deputy director of national intelligence for analysis and, concurrently, as chairman of the National Intelligence Cou...

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August 29, 2023 13 mins

Thomas Fingar is a Shorenstein APARC Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He was the inaugural Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow from 2010 through 2015 and the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford in 2009.

From 2005 through 2008, he served as the first deputy director of national intelligence for analysis and, concurrently, as chairman of the National Intelligence Council. ...

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August 22, 2023 44 mins

Thomas (Tom) B. Gold is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. While at Harvard University, he was among the group of first eight American exchange students in China, spending a year at Fudan University in Shanghai. Priorly, he worked part-time for many years as a Chinese language escort-interpreter for the State Department. From 2000 to 2016, he has also served as Executive Director of the Inter-Univer...

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