We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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I'm going to start by saying to follow our guest today on Twitter.

His handle is at the Dragon Feeder.

Chris Metin, one of our favorite guests, is back on the podcast just in time for the

Beijing, I should say the scenic, idyllic, Beijing Olympics, author of feeding the

Dragon, a wonderful book that a wonderful book that I highly recommend.

Chris, welcome back to the show.

Emily, it's so good to be back on.

I don't even know where we start with stuff to talk about.

The China conversation is just really taking on new forms and it's always a pleasure

being on with you and you've been such a good journalist covering this topic over the

past couple of years.

Well, thank you.

It's been with a great amount of help from your insights and if folks haven't listened

to our conversations with Chris or read any of Chris's work, which you should, but if you

haven't before, Chris feeding the Dragon lays out this story about how Chris got involved

in Hollywood and then started helping Hollywood open up those doors to the Chinese film market

in a way that was very lucrative and came to see the sort of folly of that project and

Chris, the Oscars, were announced just yesterday, the Oscar nominations were announced yesterday.

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