Understanding China through a vibrant Shanghai street

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

🗓️ 6 July 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Rob Schmitz, China correspondent for American Public Media’s Marketplace, has been living in the nation on and off since 1995. He is the author of Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road, a book about the people living and working on Changle Lu in Shanghai. You can read the fourth chapter here. Many of the characters who Rob writes about are waidiren — people who moved to Shanghai from elsewhere and tried to make a living by catering to the tastes of well-off residents of the city. One of them, CK, is an accordion salesman turned sandwich restaurant proprietor. Other people featured in the book are Shanghai natives, such as a couple who fights to keep their old house while facing fire-setting thugs hired by developers trying to remake the neighborhood. And then there are Auntie Fu and ‘Mr Clean,’ veterans of the People’s Liberation Army’s Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, or the bingtuan. They’re spending their pensions and trying to make a fortune selling questionable sexual potency medicines. We also talk about some people who didn’t make the final edit and why they were left out. They include a paranoid kung fu master and a gay clothing merchant whose sister put the kibosh on his participation in the book. Recommendations: Jeremy: Longform Podcast. Rob: Forthcoming book by Ian Johnson about religion in China (release scheduled for year end). Kaiser: Flipboard reading app for mobile phone. 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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1:16.9	We are coming to you this week from the studios of the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan.
1:22.3	I'm Jeremy Goldhorn, joined of course by Shampu advertisement model and former Minister for the Suppression of Barbarian Lies for Baidu, Kaiser Gore.
1:31.4	How you doing, KK?
1:33.0	K.K. I'm all right, man. I'm good. I'm enjoying my time here in New York, definitely.
1:37.9	So today, we are joined by Rob Schmitz, who has been radio correspondent for Marketplace in Shanghai since 2010.
1:46.7	You know, you've heard him on our show before.
1:48.4	He was the guy who came on to destroy utterly the fabulous Mike Daisy,
1:52.7	who made up all sorts of idiotic stories about children working in iPhone factories.
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