Welcome to the Cynical podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China coming to you from Beijing.

I'm your host, Kaiser Guo. This week we'll be looking at some aspects of the legacy of Maldodong.

Joining me this week here in the pop-up Chinese studios are regular as Jeremy Goldhorn of Danway.org.

Hi Jeremy, and thanks for taking over hosting these last week. Nice job.

Thanks, Kaiser.

And Gotti Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief for Forbes magazine. How's it going, Gotti?

Good, thanks, Kaiser.

Also with us today is David Moser, one of Beijing's true Renaissance men, academic director of CET Beijing Chinese Studies by day, virtuoso, jazz pianist by

night. And at all times, one of the more astute observer of things Chinese that I know. Welcome to

Seneca, David. Gosh, thanks, Kaiser. Today, we're going to talk about Yentong Fei, a young and very popular history teacher

here in Beijing, who's created something of a firestorm of controversy with, among

other things, this very frank critique of Mao.

We're also going to discuss a subject that was raised in the New York Times by Emily D. Parker,

a senior fellow at the Asia Society.

In our essay, Censors Without Borders, Parker suggests that the reach of China's censorship is long indeed,

and that it's actually stifling voices that are critical of the Communist Party, even in the West.

But first, let's jump right in with a topic that we've discussed a bit before in a previous

podcast about Wunjabau and Huyaabang and the Pian that Wunjabau wrote about his old mentor,

Hu.

So Richard McGregor, who is the former Beijing Bureau Chief of the Financial Times and is now

deputy news editor, is that right? Deputy

News editor at the FT in London. He has a new book out. I think it's out next month in June.

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