Public opinion with Chinese characteristics

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

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The immense popularity of social media has afforded China watchers a terrific window onto public opinion in China. In recent years, a slew of English-language websites have emerged to interpret the various trends, phenomena, discourse and debates on the Chinese internet for non-Chinese audiences, but for our money, the very best of the bunch is Chublic Opinion — public opinion with Chinese characteristics. Written by Ma Tianjie, a graduate of Peking University who now works for China Dialogue, the blog offers penetrating insight and analysis with great flare. He joins Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn and Ada Shen in the studio for a wide-ranging discussion that reveals the mysterious origins of "diaosi" culture and looks at some of the controversies and conversations that have dominated Weibo and WeChat in recent months. 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 the Cynical Podcast, a week of discussion of current bears in China coming to you from the pop-up Chinese studio here in Beijing.
0:15.1	I'm Kaiser Boy, and let's meet our first contestant this week, Mr. Jeremy Goldcorn, the man behind Danway.com.
0:20.6	I made a move of Johannesburg,
0:21.8	South Africa.
0:22.3	His hobbies include picking fights, causing trouble, and hurting the feelings of the Chinese people.
0:27.0	Welcome to the show, Jeremy.
0:29.8	Good evening, Kaiser.
0:32.0	It's a pleasure to be here in Beijing with you.
0:34.6	Let's also say hi to Ada, who is sitting in for David Moser this week.
0:38.7	Hi, Ada.
0:39.3	How are you doing?
0:40.2	How are you doing?
0:41.6	So, Ada, as podcast listeners, loyal ones anyway, will recall join us for that Charlie
0:47.4	Abdoe podcast back in January.
0:49.1	Many of you may remember Jeremy's infamous ranch from that one and little else.
0:53.4	We really enjoyed having her
0:55.1	and so much that we thought we should convince her to come back in and host every now and again.
1:00.1	Ada does various work in media and in the nonprofit sector, so a do-go-gitter. And I should say, very, very,
1:07.0	very, very old and dear friend of ours. Now, Jeremy, you met her before I did, or did I get her first?
1:12.4	I think I must have met her before you.
1:14.1	I met her the days you got off the plane.
1:15.3	Yes, I think so.
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