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If you're looking to keep up your Chinese and learn about critical issues relating to U.S.-China policy, then you've come to the right place. This podcast provides a selection of audio recordings from AMS lectures in Washington, D.C., as well as readings from key policy documents often featured in AMS weekly newsletters. If you are not a member of the American Mandarin Society, go to www.mandarinsociety.us and sign up. Thanks for listening!

  1. 10/08/2019

    美国的中国化 - 金焱

    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.

    31 min

  2. 10/19/2018

    The Future of U.S.-China Relations - Huang Ping

    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.

    40 min

  3. 09/26/2018

    The New Southbound Policy and U.S.-Taiwan Relations — Dr. Chen Ping-Kuei

    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.

    31 min

  4. 05/01/2018

    The Status and Future of China-Russia-U.S. Relations - Dr. Zhao Long

    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.

    45 min

  5. 08/09/2017

    Healthcare Reform in China - Dr. Chelsea Chia-chen Chou

    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.

    48 min

  6. 05/30/2017

    How a Chinese Government Document is Born – Dr. Yang Xuedong

    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.

    33 min

  7. 04/26/2017

    After the Homework Stops: Retaining Mandarin Proficiency Throughout Your Career - Robert Daly

    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.

    1h 20m

  8. 03/12/2017

    Legal Discussion of China's SCS Land Reclamation

    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.

    33 min
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If you're looking to keep up your Chinese and learn about critical issues relating to U.S.-China policy, then you've come to the right place. This podcast provides a selection of audio recordings from AMS lectures in Washington, D.C., as well as readings from key policy documents often featured in AMS weekly newsletters. If you are not a member of the American Mandarin Society, go to www.mandarinsociety.us and sign up. Thanks for listening!

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    American Mandarin Society
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2019
  • Episodes
    18
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