{"podcast":{"title":"Pekingology","slug":"pekingology-580593","podcast_index_feed_id":580593,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/pekingology","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1c3c2762-d106-11ea-9755-1b672730c07c/image/uploads_2F1595963372466-j45c0t35uig-78ab17d139a3c14b70aeb7332087a294_2FPekingology_ART.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Center for Strategic and International Studies","episode_count":139,"summary":"China is one of the 21st century’s most consequential nations, and it has never been more important to understand how the country is governed. Pekingology is the podcast that unpacks Chinese politics, the inner workings of the Communist Party, and how China's domestic and foreign policy will impact the world. Pekingology is hosted by Henrietta Levin, Senior Fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. It is produced by Gina Kim.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593"},"episode":{"title":"China’s Quest to Engineer the Future","slug":"china-s-quest-to-engineer-the-future","published_at":"2025-09-04T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593/china-s-quest-to-engineer-the-future","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS8616634075.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS8616634075.mp3","summary":"In this joint episode between Pekingology and the ChinaPower Podcast, CSIS Freeman Chair Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin and co-host CSIS China Power Project Deputy Director and Fellow Brian Hart are joined by Dan Wang to discuss his new book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. The conversation unpacks China’s monumentalism in its grand engineering projects, the advantages and consequences of building at such scale, China’s push to lead in key technologies, Beijing’s social engineering efforts, and much more. Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab. Previously, he was a fellow at the Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and a lecturer at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. From 2017 to 2023, he worked in China as the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, based in Hong Kong, Beijing, and then Shanghai. For more from Dan Wang, please read his latest piece in Foreign Affairs titled The Real China Model: Beijing’s Enduring Formula for Wealth and Power.","meta_description":"In this joint episode between Pekingology and the ChinaPower Podcast, CSIS Freeman Chair Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin and co-host CSIS China Power Projec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2157,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pekingology-580593/episodes/china-s-quest-to-engineer-the-future/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pekingology-580593/china-s-quest-to-engineer-the-future.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}