podcast interviews

2023: Freakonomics, excerpted earlier interview in new episode

2023: The Ezra Klein Show (NYT), hosted by Ezra Klein

2023: China in Context, hosted by Duncan Bartlett (UK)

2022: ABC’s Counterpoint, hosted by Amanda Vanstone (Australia)

2022: SupChina, hosted by Kaiser Kuo

2022: Freakonomics, replay and update of 2021 episode

2022: Making a Killing, hosted by Nate Sibley

2022: Oxford PPE Society, with Oxford student Zhang Jiayi

2021: INET (Institute for New Economic Thinking), with Rob Johnson - A Clash of Two Gilded Ages 

2021: Freakonomics Radio, with Stephen Dubner 

2021: Sinica Podcast, with Kaiser Kuo - on China’s Gilded Age

2021: The Economist Money Talks, with Simon Cox - on China’s Gilded Age

2021: Center for International Private Enterprise, hosted by Cathy Tai and Frank Brown – on China’s Gilded Age

2021: New Books Network in Political Science, hosted by Susan Liebell – on China’s Gilded Age

2021: Charter City Podcast, hosted by Kurtis Lockhart – on cultural nomadism and my two books

2020: Slate Money, hosted by Felix Salmon – on China’s Gilded Age

2020: ChinaTalk, hosted by Jordan Schneider – on China’s Gilded Age

2020: New Books Network in Economics, hosted by Andrea Bernardi - on China’s Gilded Age

2020: In Pursuit of Development, hosted by Dan Banik – on my two books

2020: From Poverty to Power, hosted by Duncan Green, LSE – on China’s Gilded Age

2020: States of Anarchy, hosted by Hamsini Hariharan – on my two books

2019: New Books Network in Economics, hosted by Andrea Bernardi - on Poverty Trap

2019: Sounds Robotics, hosted by Charles Kenny – On the limits of big data and Chinese innovation

2018: From Poverty to Power, hosted by Duncan Green – on cultural nomadism and Poverty Trap

2018: Rocking Your Priors, hosted by Alice Evans – On Poverty Trap

Podcast interview at Freakonomics 

TV & YOUTUBE Interviews

CGTN-America’s Visionaries (previous guests include Bill Gates, Yo-Yo Ma, Lee Kai-Fu) 

Endgame, hosted by Gita Wirjawan in Indonesia 

A Clash of Two Gilded Ages, with Rob Johnson (President of INET)

print media interviews

2023: The Economy Chosun (in Korean) 

2023: Die Zeit (in German); reprinted in Hankyoreh (South Korea)

2023: Bistandsaktuelt (in Norwegian)

2023: Morgenbladet (in Norwegian)

2023: Aftenposten (in Norwegian)

2022: IMD

2022: Swiss Daily (in German) (paywall-free link

2021: Project Syndicate, Say More [pdf]

2020: Young China Watchers

2020: City Monitor

2020: The Wire China

2020: The Diplomat

2020: CKGSB (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business) Knowledge

2020: CNPolitics / Zhengjian (China)

2019: The New York Times – Chinese, 6 March

2018: Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly / Xinbao

2018: Initium Media / Duanchuanmei (Hong Kong)

2018: Jiemian (China)

2018: Yorokobu (Spain): Reprinted in Spanish in World Economic Forum

2018: Bistandsaktuelt (in Norwegian)

academic interviews

2023: Ask a Political Scientist, Polity (extended interview) [open-access link]

2020: Q&A, Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholar, APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter Fall 2020 [pdf]

2018: Meet 2018 Carnegie Fellow, Political Science Now, Hosted by APSA, 17 August 2018