Ep. 15: Paul French on Wallis Simpson's China Year
The American socialite Wallis Simpson is best known as the wife of former British king Edward VIII. When they announced their intention to marry, her status as a divorcée (and an American) caused a co...
3 Dec 202436min
Ep. 14: Kishore Mahbubani on the Asian Century
In this episode, we’re pleased to have had the opportunity to talk to Kishore Mahbubani, a Singaporean former diplomat who was Singapore’s representative to the UN in the 1980s and 1990s, and later De...
5 Nov 202436min
Ep. 13: Peter Hessler on 'Other Rivers'
Our guest this month is renowned writer Peter Hessler, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of five books about China, most recently Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, published earlier this ye...
1 Okt 202445min
Ep. 12: China's evolving art scene
China’s edgy contemporary art exploded into global view over decades of China’s meteoric economic growth. Gone were the days of Mao Zedong insisting that art had to “serve the people", by which he mea...
3 Sep 202459min
Ep. 11: Beijing in Short Fiction
Beijing is many things to many people, sometimes all at once – a mecca for migrants and artists, a tech hub, a proving ground for young graduates, a capital of politics and power, a smoggy, traffic-ch...
6 Aug 202440min
Ep. 10: Rethinking U.S.-China trade
Who are the winners and losers in U.S.-China trade over recent decades, and what's a better way forward? Laying out a compelling argument in this episode is Peter Goodman, a former correspondent in Ch...
2 Juli 202455min
Ep. 9: Tiananmen remembered
Tiananmen -- the place, the protests, the crackdown -- reverberates in memories and imaginations around the world, even 35 years after tanks rolled in Beijing’s streets, and the Chinese military’s cra...
4 Juni 202459min
Ep. 8: Uyghur Women Speaking Out
Genocide is not a word thrown around lightly by the U.S. government, but it uses that term to describe the Chinese government’s ongoing assaults on Uyghurs’ distinct culture, identity, rights, and fre...
7 Maj 202451min
