Introducing 'Strangers in China'

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Sinica Podcast Network is proud to introduce the latest member of our family, Strangers in China, hosted by Clay Baldo. It features the voices of an emergent new China. Dissident voices, outspoken voices, marginalized voices, queer voices. Some are people who just find one aspect of living in China unreasonable, others are people who are rebellious. Some want to push the boundaries creatively, while others are just fighting to be seen. All are uniquely Chinese.

People who think differently can feel out of place in China and we capture that experience. Our perspective: If they live differently, they see Chinese society in a new way. We’re here to listen closely and illuminate their stories.

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0:00.0	Hey, Cynica listeners, Kaiser here. We're delighted to take the wraps off the latest show in the Cynica podcast network powered by SopChina.
0:08.1	So sit back and enjoy Chapter 1 of Strangers in China with Clay Baldo and Shri Xu.
0:14.8	And make sure to subscribe to the show.
0:17.6	Cynica will be back next week with a show about the situation in Xinjiang and the shift in party policy toward China's minzu, its ethnicities, its nationalities, its minorities.
0:29.7	That shift underlies the coercive assimilationist approach that we've seen now in Xinjiang, where over a million Uyghurs and other Muslims have been
0:38.8	extra-legally detained in so-called re-education camps.
0:43.0	We'll see you then.
0:47.6	Hi, this is Sheree.
0:49.2	And this is Clay.
0:50.8	Welcome to strangers in China.
0:58.6	Okay. Welcome to strangers in China. So, Clay, why are we interviewing strangers in China?
1:03.4	I like that way I put in it.
1:05.3	Why are we interviewing strangers in China?
1:08.5	I think I want to get to know China in a different way on a more individual
1:12.9	level. How do you think we typically understand China? I think we think of China monolithically
1:19.2	as this giant culture, billions of people, big numbers, and we don't ever really think on a more
1:25.8	granular level. Yeah, I've always found that when I'm reading coverage about China.
1:30.7	It's typically on a very geopolitical global level,
1:35.2	and it tends not to go into, I think, a lot of humanism.
1:40.6	Right, and I think that's what we want to focus on.
1:43.3	Focus in more on people. So what kind of people do we want to focus on. Focus in more on people.
1:45.0	So what kind of people do we want to talk to?
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