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Standard Issue Podcast

Yuan Yang explores the new China

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

When journalist Yuan Yang’s activist friend Sam joked about Yuan writing the news story if Sam was ever detained… and then disappeared, Yuan knew there was a bigger story to tell about modern China. Her new book, Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China, looks at modern China through the lives of four women in their 30s.  She’s chatting to Mick about China’s communist lie, the fear of falling off ladders, pigs, parenting, and how the stories of these four brave idealist women in China’s new social order led to Yuan standing for Parliament here in the UK.  Find out about China’s left-behind children, what happened to a magic pig, and more, by becoming a Standard Issue Patreon Champ or Legend at patreon.com/StandardIssue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Standard Issue for all women.

0:10.0

Hello and welcome. Standard Issue for all women.

0:13.0

Hello and welcome to the Monday interview.

0:16.0

Mickey here kicking the week off in fine style.

0:19.0

And on a bank holiday at all.

0:21.0

I've been on the Zoom with former Financial Times China

0:24.0

correspondent Yuan Yang, whose new book of private revolutions coming of age in a

0:28.8

new China looks at modern China through the lives of four women in their 30s. We're talking about

0:34.8

China's communist lie, the fear had fallen off ladders, pigs, and how the stories of

0:40.0

these four brave idealist women in China's new social order led to Yuan standing for Parliament here in the UK.

0:46.5

If you're in the early and wouldly constituency, Yuan's your Labour candidate in the fourth

0:51.1

current general election, please God let it be soon.

0:54.0

Something that is definitely happening soon tomorrow in fact is

0:58.0

Hannah's excellent chat with nurse term comedian Georgie Carroll which she should

1:01.8

definitely took into. Ditto Yuan's book, which will be available in all good bookshops for May the 9th.

1:10.0

Hello, I'm joined on the Zoom by journalist Yuan Yang, author of new book Private

1:15.2

Revolution's Coming of Age in a New China, which is a real eye-opener, looking

1:21.0

at modern China through the lives of four ordinary women born in the 1980s and 1990s,

1:26.0

and exploring the echoes of generational trauma. You Anne, hello?

1:30.5

Hi, nice to be here. Oh, nice to have you. So let's start. Can you tell us what

1:36.2

new China is? Like explain a bit about the time period you're talking about in

1:40.7

private revolutions? Sure, well I was born in China in 1990 and my parents grew up at towards the end of the kind of

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