Live at the Bookworm, part one: How has Beijing changed over the years?

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

🗓️ 14 November 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Our episode of Sinica this week was captured during a special live event at the Bookworm Literary Festival, where David Moser and Kaiser Kuo were joined by China-newcomer Jeremy Goldkorn, fresh off the plane from Nashville. During the show we talked about Beijing-lifers and how the city has changed during our time here. If you're a long-time listener, be sure to check out this unusual episode recorded in front of a live audience. Recommendations: Chublic Opinion https://chublicopinion.com/ Jeremy Goldkorn Holiday Inn Express on 春秀路 David Moser The World According to Xi Jinping, by Benjamin Carlson http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/xi-jinping-china-book-chinese-dream/406387/ Kaiser Kuo Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie http://www.amazon.com/Americanah-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie/dp/0307455920 Here’s What All The Chinese Students at Your School are Reading, by Matt Sheehan http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-what-the-300000-chinese-students-in-the-us-are-reading_55f9b409e4b0e333e54c3e22 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this special live edition of the Cynica podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, coming to you from that story bastion of pretension and snot, I'm culture and learning, the bookworm in Beijing. I am Kaiser Guo,
0:22.6	joined here by the prodigal son, Jeremy Goldhorn, implacable enemy of the people, and yet dear friend
0:29.3	to me, the man behind Danway.com, who by great good fortune, happens to be back this week in his
0:36.8	familiar stomping grounds here in old chokie.
0:40.2	For those of you who haven't been following the plot, Jeremy moved from Beijing back in February to follow his lovely wife, Uffay, very talented musician, to Nashville, Tennessee.
0:50.9	And this is his first time back in Beijing. The longest time he's been away in 20 years, Jeremy, greet the people of Beijing in that
0:58.1	genteel Tennessee accent.
0:59.7	I can't do it yet, but hello Beijing.
1:02.7	Oh, good.
1:03.7	Yes.
1:04.7	I should say hi y'all.
1:07.7	Hi, y'all.
1:09.7	We're also joined by David Moser, whose wisdom, his erudition, his musical virtuosity,
1:15.1	have been inspiring petty resentment accruing to me now across the many years I've had the pleasure of knowing him.
1:20.8	David is, of course, academic director of the CET program here in Beijing, most of whom are present tonight.
1:26.0	Look, oh my God, Moser-dicious, he's got the present tonight. Look, oh my god, Mozerlicious.
1:28.7	He's got the fan club. Your song is upside down, dear.
1:34.6	My students are a little challenge. They read too much Chinese. It sort of screws up their
1:41.9	brains. Okay. Great to see you, man. Great to see you.
1:45.6	And we would have been joined by the absurdly tall Eric Abramson, the king of Beijing translation nerds.
1:52.2	But apparently he was physically assaulted by Chinese literary dissidents who are enraged by his insistence in a recent New York Times editorial that Chinese literary dissidents don't actually exist.
2:06.6	He's given us actually his express permission to mock him ruthlessly during this event, and so guys, let us not squander this rare opportunity.
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