Silk And Steel Podcast

I inteviewed fellow War Nerd Francis Terpening who recently became a Fresh Off the Boat American Expat in China about his China experience

We continue our chronological retelling of Chinese history from very beginning. Our story begins with monumental work on ancient Chinese history, The Records of the Grand Historian. The Record begins with stories of 5 Emperors, a lost Golden Age of Ideal sage rulers according Confucian canonical history. I will tell the tale and deconstruct it...  

I interviewed gifted geneticist and ploymath Razib Khan who runs blog Gene Expression and Brown Pundits Podcast about latest studies on Chinese population genetics. We geeked out on everything from ancient and modern DNA to early human migration out of Africa, Bronze Age East-West contact, Indian DNA impact on Southeast Asia. Spread of Chariot technology, the complex relatedness of different human populations from Africa to Europe to China to Americas This is a nice supplement to the new Chinese history podcast series that I just started.

I am starting a chronological retelling of Chinese history from the very beginning

I appeared as guest on Plan A Podcast to talk about my travels in China, Western media reporting on China amid current US-China tensions

We continue our discussion on traveling in China with returning guest Davide Melia

We continue to revisit the events of Chinese students protest in 1989 in the final part of the series

We continue to recount the events of 1989 Chinese student protest up to the deadly night of June 3rd

For non-subscribers, here is a 40+ minute preview of EP#18-My Tiananmen Memories where I talked about my own Tiananmen Student Protest memories as a 13 year old in China 1989 Would you like to know more? Subscribe to Silk and Steel Podcast here on our patreon page, to listen to the full interview and all previous locked episodes.  You can also get our downloadable RSS feed for your podcast app from our patreon page on PC browser and more

I talk to Razib Khan and Zachary Latif from Brownpundits podcast on report of abuse of Pakistani Bride in China and intimate geopolitics of Belt and Road Initiative

I talk with returning guest Davide Melia on our travel together in Southwest China province of Yunnan, with an excursion into Yunnan history and Qianlong Emperor's Expedition against Myanmar.

I get personal by discussing Zha family history from collapse of Tang Dynasty

I appeared as guest on Uproar in the Studio podcast to talk Chinese movies, in particular Chinese blockbuster Monster Hunt

Exciting conclusion of epic Rome vs Parthia battle of Carrhae with Amir Askari of  Eran un Turan, living history re-enactment group ,  For the Part 1 see our previous episode with Amir   EP11 Rome vs Parthia Battle of Carrhae with Amir Askari Part 1

We revisit the epic battle between Rome and Parthian Empire with Amir Askari of  Eran un Turan, living history re-enactment group. For the prelude leading to the battle see our previous episodes with Amir 

We continue our conversation with English translator of  Chinese Karl Marx Anime, on Karl Marx anime, Marxism and Chinese politics Karl Marx anime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T0a_jXHiDo

China made Karl Marx Anime has gained a cult following since its debut on Youtube. I interviewed the man who was responsible for introducing the show to non-Chinese speaking audience by translating it into English, Sun Feiyang. Check out his very funny Facebook meme page  President Xi, Delete This Account  subscribe at my Patreon: Silk and Steel Podcast for the full interview

British Chinese YPG Volunteer Huang Lei talk about Battle of Manbij against ISIS, and the most intense firefight he found himself took part on the streets of Manbij. This is his story... Please support my podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/silknsteel Intro and Outro: Kobani by Mansour Izadpanah  in Kurdish Sorani language   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ahsfdqmUL8  intermission music: NUARİN GERİLLA   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGeGIKOTlAU 

British Chinese YPG Volunteer Huang Lei had been fighting ISIS in Northern Syria for 3 and 1/2 years. This is his story, part 2...

I interviewed British Chinese YPG Volunteer Huang Lei who had been fighting ISIS in Northern Syria on and off for three and half years. This is his story Part 1