David Moser

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

He dreamed of a United States of Africa - The World from PRX February 24 marks sixty years since Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in a military coup. Nkrumah had been a vocal campaigner for Pan-Africanism, a United States of Africa that wo...

An interview about my new book, The Second Emancipation. theworld.org/segments/202...

So basically Trump can post that he’s sending a hospital ship to Greenland for no reason, then do absolutely nothing to actually send a hospital ship to Greenland because it was all a lie, and not one single Republican gets asked about it. That’s where we’re at.

YouTube video by Living History: Stories from the Opening of China David Moser | How I translated this book into Chinese Without Computers

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No one would ever manage to nail him to a piece of wood, that's for damn sure!

Thinking in Chinese and English This book explores the ways that the Chinese language shapes how native speakers see the world, offering insights into comparative politics in the process

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‘Matching Minds With Sondheim’ and ‘Ambigrammia’: The Art of the Puzzle How wordplay and devilish games of deduction can be as satisfying to the soul as a song.

Don't miss the Wall Street Journal's review of 'Ambigrammia' by Douglas Hofstadter!

Ambigram by Douglas Hofstadter, 2001. #lightisawave #lightisaparticle

This is my origin story. I know, I could knock you down with a feather.

#RadioFreeAmerica

The one and only Jeremy @goldkorn.bsky.social returns to the Sinica Podcast to say why he thinks — with DeepSeek, the TikTok Refugees on Xiaohongshu, and more — a narrative shift on China is now underway in the US. Tell us whether you agree! Link in the reply thread below.

500 modern Chinese wormhole back to the Ming Dynasty to jumpstart industrialization. A crowdsourced novel "The Morning Star of Lingao"《临高启明》— the ur-text for China's "Industrial Party." Writer Afra Wang joins the SinicaPodcast to discuss the Industrial Party, Lingao, & how China thinks about power.

Uneasy Calm: Ryan Hass on Three Pathways for U.S.-China Relations Under Trump This week on Sinica, I speak with Ryan Hass, director of the John L.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or at the Sinica Podcast newsletter page, here: www.sinicapodcast.com/p/uneasy-cal...

The failed attempt to silent Stephen Colbert.

Beijing friends: I am looking for a place to film an interview that is related to movies or film history. This is for our "Living History" documentary series. Any help is very much appreciated.

我正在寻找一个与电影或电影历史相关的采访拍摄场地，用于我们的《活历史》纪录片系列。非常感谢任何帮助！

In 1980, Belgian engineer Gilbert Van Kerckhove attended a job interview hoping to persuade a company to hire him. Instead, the firm tried to persuade him. They had won a major contract in China but couldn’t find any engineers willing to relocate.

A Thread:

This morning we've once again been fortunate enough to be invited into the gorgeous Stanford Center at Peking University. Coming soon to Living History: Andy Andreasen, who among other things, built Beijing's Great Wall Hotel.

YouTube video by Living History: Stories from the Opening of China Ma Jian 马健 | The first NCAA athlete from China (supposed to play against Michael Jordan in the NBA)

TV didn’t teach Ma Jian 马健 how to play basketball, but it changed his game.

Meet the man who almost became China's first NBA athlete, scheduled to play against Michael Jordan.

That dream was derailed by Chinese basketball officials.

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Joerg Wuttke arrived in China in 1982. The former China head for BASF and the EU Chamber of Commerce certainly lived up to his reputation for frank talk and spicy takes in the latest Episode of Living History.

Link in the first comment!

The sinologist David Moser talks about moving to China in 1989, his first appearance on the Spring Festival Gala in 1999, and learning xiangsheng from the masters.

Listen to the episode of Peking Hotel: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/16/p...

Listen to David Moser talk about going on Spring Festival Gala in 1999, on the Peking Hotel podcast: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/16/p...

Sir Edmund Backhouse arrived in Beijing in 1898 and, four decades later, wrote a memoir that is 50% memory and roughly 158.5% Qing Dynasty slash fic. Décadence Mandchoue is unreliable, outrageous, and surprisingly informative.

Does a story need to be accurate to contain truth?

One of the best history podcasts out there. Check this one out.

Ed Krassenstein - Why does the DOJ's Epstein list include Ashley Biden and Hunter Biden but not Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Barron Trump?
All of them are mentioned in the files.
The Trump / Pam Bondi cover-up continues. #cdnpoli

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

YouTube video by Democracy Docket URGENT: GOP Passes Bill to Rig the 2026 Elections

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The Tang Dynasty is remembered as a "Golden Age" of art and peace, but it was also marked by a decade-long civil war that left millions dead.

I joined Matt Lewis on Echoes of History to talk about the An Lushan Rebellion and the story behind Assassin's Creed: Dynasty.

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Will the battle for AGI between China and the US heat up? Do kids still need to learn how to write Chinese characters in a digital age? What’s the future of restaurants? Global strategist Yajun Zhang joins @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social and me to make a few prognostications for 2026.

Links below.

Perilous Prognostications for China in 2026 We make a few predictions and look ahead at what 2026 will mean for China. With Global Strategist and Innovator Yajun Zhang.

Perilous Prognostications for China in 2026
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Everything you wanted to know about China* - Bui Jones In this accessible and politically astute primer, acclaimed historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom tackles the questions many are afraid to ask about China.

My VERY short chatty book coming in Feb. buijones.com/books/everyt... --delighted to have blurbs from Cindy Yu, Tania Branigan & Victor Mallet as well as @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social who calls it "readable, enjoyable, and quotable (with) much to offer China savvy folk as well as casual readers.”