# Barbarians at the Gate Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733.md RSS feed: https://feeds.blubrry.com/feeds/barbarians.xml Official site: http://granitestudio.org Author: Barbarians at the Gate Episodes: 110 ## Resource A semi-serious deep dive into Chinese history and culture broadcast from Beijing and hosted by Jeremiah Jenne and David Moser. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733.md ## Episodes - [AI Slop, AI Detectors, and Authentic Voice: A China-Tech Insider on Writing and Working With AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/ai-slop-ai-detectors-and-authentic-voice-a-china-tech-insider-on-writing-and-working-with-ai) — 2026-06-18T13:00:00+00:00 - [China Books Review x Barbarians at the Gate: The Private Life of Chairman Mao](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/china-books-review-x-barbarians-at-the-gate-the-private-life-of-chairman-mao) — 2026-06-04T19:08:00+00:00 - [This Was Funnier in China: Jesse Appell's Cross-Cultural Comedy Journey](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/this-was-funnier-in-china-jesse-appell-s-cross-cultural-comedy-journey) — 2026-05-05T07:17:50+00:00 - [The Business of Burgers in Beijing: What Fast Food Festivals Reveal About China's Economy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/the-business-of-burgers-in-beijing-what-fast-food-festivals-reveal-about-china-s-economy) — 2026-04-21T08:12:29+00:00 - [Barbarians Remix: Do you really need to learn to write characters to study Chinese?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-remix-do-you-really-need-to-learn-to-write-characters-to-study-chinese) — 2026-04-07T07:19:57+00:00 - [The Many Lives of Da Shan: Mark Rowswell on Chinese Poetry, Performing Live, and Staging Shawshank in Mandarin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/the-many-lives-of-da-shan-mark-rowswell-on-chinese-poetry-performing-live-and-staging-shawshank-in-mandarin) — 2026-03-24T08:04:53+00:00 - [Lee Moore's China Backstory: Why Saying "History Proves" Actually Means "I Haven't Done the Reading"](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/lee-moore-s-china-backstory-why-saying-history-proves-actually-means-i-haven-t-done-the-reading) — 2026-03-10T12:00:00+00:00 - [Décadence Mandchoue: The wild (and almost certainly fictional) affair between Sir Edmund Backhouse and Empress Dowager Cixi](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/d-cadence-mandchoue-the-wild-and-almost-certainly-fictional-affair-between-sir-edmund-backhouse-and-empress-dowager-cixi) — 2026-02-24T05:55:15+00:00 - [Barbarians at the Gate x By Their Own Compass: Emily Hahn's Shanghai](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-at-the-gate-x-by-their-own-compass-emily-hahn-s-shanghai) — 2026-02-10T07:47:00+00:00 - [Lost in Thailand: The New Chinese Diaspora from Bangkok to Addis Ababa](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/lost-in-thailand-the-new-chinese-diaspora-from-bangkok-to-addis-ababa) — 2026-01-27T11:36:06+00:00 - [Perilous Prognostications for China in 2026 with Yajun Zhang](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/perilous-prognostications-for-china-in-2026-with-yajun-zhang) — 2026-01-13T11:05:58+00:00 - [Barbarians Remix: Horse Racing, History, and the Final Champion's Day in Old Shanghai](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-remix-horse-racing-history-and-the-final-champion-s-day-in-old-shanghai) — 2025-12-30T08:49:34+00:00 - [The Dowager and the Dynasty: How did Empress Dowager Cixi rule China and should we blame her for bringing down an empire?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/the-dowager-and-the-dynasty-how-did-empress-dowager-cixi-rule-china-and-should-we-blame-her-for-bringing-down-an-empire) — 2025-12-16T12:00:00+00:00 - [Barbarians at the Gate x China Books Review: From Heaven Lake](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-at-the-gate-x-china-books-review-from-heaven-lake) — 2025-11-14T01:08:00+00:00 - [The Destruction of the Old Summer Palace (Remix)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/the-destruction-of-the-old-summer-palace-remix) — 2025-10-29T05:00:33+00:00 - [The Voyages of Zheng He](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/the-voyages-of-zheng-he) — 2025-10-16T15:30:10+00:00 - [Barbarians at the Gate x China Books Review: The Records of the Grand Historian](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-at-the-gate-x-china-books-review-the-records-of-the-grand-historian) — 2025-09-29T18:00:00+00:00 - [Barbarians Remix: Seeking News, Making China](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-remix-seeking-news-making-china) — 2025-09-16T15:33:51+00:00 - [AI-Laoshi Will See You Now: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Chinese Language Learning](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/ai-laoshi-will-see-you-now-how-artificial-intelligence-is-transforming-chinese-language-learning) — 2025-08-31T11:04:00+00:00 - [Calling all China Nerds](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/calling-all-china-nerds) — 2025-08-14T06:10:38+00:00 - [Barbarians Remix: The Year of the Boxers with historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-remix-the-year-of-the-boxers-with-historian-jeffrey-wasserstrom) — 2025-07-29T15:30:07+00:00 - [Is America Beginning to Look More Like China?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/is-america-beginning-to-look-more-like-china) — 2025-07-15T15:03:25+00:00 - [Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/raiders-rulers-and-traders-the-horse-and-the-rise-of-empires) — 2025-07-01T14:22:27+00:00 - [Barbarians Remix: Mandarin Mayhem I](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/barbarians-remix-mandarin-mayhem-i) — 2025-06-17T10:09:00+00:00 - [Emergency Pod: The Trump Administration restricts Harvard International Enrollment as State Department Reviews Chinese Student Visas](https://stenobird.com/podcast/barbarians-at-the-gate-434733/emergency-pod-the-trump-administration-restricts-harvard-international-enrollment-as-state-department-reviews-chinese-student-visas) — 2025-06-02T10:39:35+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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