China Books
Fresh ideas and thought-provoking conversations on fiction and non-fiction about China and/or from China, with host Mary Kay Magistad, a former China correspondent for NPR and PRX's The World.
The China Books podcast is a companion of the China Books Review (chinabooksreview.com), co-published by Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations (where Mary Kay is a senior fellow) and The Wire China.
Podcasting since 2023 • 13 episodes
China Books
Latest Episodes
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...
September 03, 2024
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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...
August 06, 2024
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Episode 11
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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 China, current global economics correspondent ...
July 02, 2024
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Episode 10
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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 crackdown on student demonstrators in the week ...
June 04, 2024
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Episode 9
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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 freedom in China’s far western region of Xinjia...
May 07, 2024
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Episode 8
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