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China Books Podcast
The China Books Podcast is a monthly interview series on all things China and bookish, from ChinaBooksReview.com. Hosted by editor Alec Ash and guests, we talk to authors about their recent works on or from China, from politics and history to fiction and culture. Subscribe to stay in the loop about new China publications. China Books Review is a project of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and The Wire, a digital business platform that also publishes TheWireChina.com.
Podcasting since 2023 • 15 episodes
China Books Podcast
Latest Episodes
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 constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abd...
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Episode 15
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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 Dean at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Poli...
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Episode 14
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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 year by Penguin Press. In the book, H...
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Episode 13
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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 meant, the Communist Party, with socialist real...
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Episode 12
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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-choked dystopia, a charming collection of lake...
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