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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.
Episodes
15 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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36:30
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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36:18
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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45:06
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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59:16
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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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 ...
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Episode 10
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55:11
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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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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59:57
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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Ep. 7: Why China's ahead in the green energy 'gold rush'
China has bet big over the past couple of decades on how building up its renewable energy sector -- solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and their batteries, and the metals and minerals that make them all possible -- will help China a...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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49:08
Ep. 6: Spy novels, a real-life thriller, and the BBC
Acclaimed spy novelist Adam Brookes started out in China as a languge student in the mid-'80s, skipping class to travel in trucks and buses to Tibet and other parts of China that had just opened up after being shut off to foreign visitors for d...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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56:05
Ep. 5: China's Economic Challenges, Explained
The sizzle has come off of China's decades of economic growth, as the country contends with deflation, slumping consumer confidence, plummeting foreign investment, a cratered urban property sector, high local government debt, overcapacity in ma...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:09:47
Ep. 4: How "Leftover Women" may reshape China's future
A funny thing happened at the height of China's economic boom, as more and more Chinese women were getting college degrees, good jobs, and promising careers. The government launched a propaganda campaign, urging women to get married young, befo...
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Episode 4
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47:29
Ep. 3: How China's Future Looked in the Past
Dreams of a better future have driven many a revolution, but not all have turned out the way the dreamers imagined. China's early revolutionaries, a century ago, aimed to rid the country of what they saw as corrupt capitalis...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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47:46
Ep. 2: American Correspondents in China
China's rise is one of the great stories of the past century, and China correspondents have told that story in myriad ways -- as a story of transformation, of falling poverty rates and rising power, of new wealth and old political elites, of ne...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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45:44
Ep. 1: Chinese Fiction in the Reform & Opening Up Era
China's epic transformation over the past four decades has seen cities expand, fortunes rise, and expectations change. It has left Chinese people to either ride the waves of change, or scramble -- perhaps struggle -- to keep up. In the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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