Sinica presents the best of China Stories 2021
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
This week, we bring you a selection of the best of our China Stories podcast. Launched in late January this year, it has published nearly 400 narrated pieces from the best English-language media outlets focused on China: Sixth Tone, Caixin Global, The Wire China, Protocol China, The World of Chinese, and Week in China — plus, of course, SupChina. The stories are read by Chinese-speaking narrators who won't badly mispronounce Chinese names and other words. If you enjoy this sampling, please make sure to subscribe to China Stories wherever you get your podcasts.
3:04 – Peter Hessler's last class, published in Sixth Tone, written by He Yujia, and read by Elyse Ribbons
25:07 – Luo Jialing, a.k.a. Liza Hardoon, and the height of global Shanghai, written by James Carter, published in SupChina, and read by John D. Van Fleet
37:22 – Qianlong Emperor: The worst poet in Chinese history?, written by Sun Jiahui, published in The World of Chinese, and read by Cliff Larsen
46:52 – Partners in profit, published by Week in China, and read by Sylvia Franke
52:36 – Shot heard round the world: China's Olympic return, written by Sam Davies, published in The World of Chinese, and read by Sarah Kutulakos
58:32 – China's culture wars, now playing on Bilibili, written by Shen Lu, published in Protocol China, and read by Kaiser Kuo
1:07:23 – I sacrificed 16 years to the mines, as told to Gushi FM in Chinese by Chen Nianxi, translated by Nathaniel J. Gan, published in The World of Chinese, and read by Elyse Ribbons
1:34:50 – Family values, excerpted from One Thousand Years of Joys and Sorrows, by Ai Weiwei, published in The Wire China, and read by Kaiser Kuo
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cynica podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina. |
| 0:15.2 | Subscribe to SubChina's daily access newsletter to keep on top of all the latest news from China from hundreds of different |
| 0:21.2 | news sources or check out all the original writing on our site at supChina.com, including |
| 0:27.1 | reported stories, editorials, and regular columns, as well as a growing library of videos |
| 0:33.0 | and, of course, podcasts. We cover everything from China's fraught foreign relations to its ingenious |
| 0:38.8 | entrepreneurs, from the ongoing repression of Uyghurs and other Muslim people in China's |
| 0:43.3 | Xinjiang region to the tectonic shifts underway as China rolls out what we call the Red |
| 0:49.3 | New Deal. It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world. |
| 0:56.4 | We cover China with neither fear nor favor. |
| 0:59.9 | I'm Kaiser Guo, coming to you from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| 1:04.3 | This week we present a best of from our China Stories podcast. |
| 1:09.4 | If you aren't already subscribing to China Stories, I can't recommend it more highly. |
| 1:14.9 | Every Tuesday and Friday, we publish audio versions of some of the best writing from the major |
| 1:19.9 | China-focused English-language news sources around. |
| 1:23.0 | I read for you by a wonderful team of volunteer readers, all of whom speak Chinese and therefore do |
| 1:29.2 | not butcher the pronunciation of Chinese words as they read. Our publishing partners are |
| 1:34.4 | sixth tone, an editor at which Kevin Schoenmacher's was the one who first approached me with |
| 1:40.8 | the idea for this. Taiseen Global, we've got the Wire China, Protocol China, the world of Chinese, and weak in China. |
| 1:49.0 | We also featured some of the best pieces from the sadly now defunct L.A. review of books, |
| 1:54.7 | their China channel. |
| 1:56.1 | Our readers include Elise Ribbons, our own Anthony Tao, Sarah Kutalakos, Sylvia Franca, Cliff Larson, John |
| 2:04.7 | Darwin Van Fleet, Heather Mowbray, and myself, with occasional contributions by sub-China |
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