Chinese Whispers

By The Spectator

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Episodes: 113

DaGeeze
 May 9, 2024
great pod about a subject that is hard to get a more insightful perspective on. Cindy Yu is an excellent host and mmm mmm MMM what a silky smooth voice and annunciation.

Teri
 Apr 5, 2022
Very informative about China now and in the past.

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A fortnightly podcast from the Spectator on the latest in Chinese politics, society, and more. From Huawei to Hong Kong, Cindy Yu talks to experts, journalists, and long time China-watchers on what you need to know about China.

Episode Date
What’s in a name? Peter Hessler on what English names can reveal about China
Dec 23, 2024
Xi Jinping's PLA purges
Dec 09, 2024
What's behind the Chinese migrant surge at the Darien Gap?
Nov 25, 2024
Why Beijing is wary of a Russo-North Korean alliance
Nov 11, 2024
Battle of Ideas – is China in decline?
Oct 28, 2024
Corruption, power and the truth about my wife’s disappearance – with Desmond Shum
Oct 14, 2024
Will AI be the next arms race?
Sep 30, 2024
A father and son at the edge of the Chinese empire
Sep 16, 2024
Investigating China's 'historic' claims in the South China Sea
Sep 02, 2024
What would a second Trump presidency bring for China?
Aug 19, 2024
How oil became the latest Chinese food scandal
Aug 05, 2024
Why China loves Taylor Swift
Jul 22, 2024
Shock To The System (II): How China's electric cars dominated the world
Jul 08, 2024
Shock To The System (I): Can the EU fend off the threat of Chinese electric cars?
Jun 24, 2024
How would Britain's Labour party change UK-China relations?
Jun 10, 2024
Life in a changing China
May 27, 2024
China's vendetta against Nato
May 13, 2024
How China is quietly cutting out American tech
Apr 29, 2024
Was Marco Polo a 'sexpat'?
Apr 15, 2024
What Chinese hackers want
Mar 28, 2024
Life on the margins pt II: Li Ziqi and the phenomenon of the rural influencer
Mar 18, 2024
Life on the margins: how China's rural deprivation curbs its success
Mar 04, 2024
What the Messi row reveals about Chinese football
Feb 19, 2024
Why do people join the CCP?
Feb 05, 2024
Was China's economic boom 'made in America'?
Jan 22, 2024
What lies at the root of the India-China rivalry?
Jan 08, 2024
Who will be Taiwan's next President?
Dec 11, 2023
Dialect and identity: is Mandarin bad for China?
Nov 28, 2023
Battling the official narrative – China's 'underground historians'
Nov 13, 2023
Rethinking Chinese food with Fuchsia Dunlop
Oct 30, 2023
'The mask has slipped' – Tuvia Gering on China, Israel and Hamas
Oct 16, 2023
Does China care what Britain thinks?
Oct 02, 2023
What we know about Beijing's spies
Sep 18, 2023
Is China still a Confucian country?
Sep 04, 2023
What Beidaihe reveals about the changing nature of Communist leadership
Aug 21, 2023
Does China need a new economic playbook?
Aug 07, 2023
Did some good come from the Qing’s dying century?
Jul 24, 2023
Beijing and Prigozhin: what does China think of the Wagner uprising?
Jun 30, 2023
How divided is Europe on China?
Jun 19, 2023
Why China won't invade Taiwan
Jun 05, 2023
How China's mail-order brides are taking back control
May 15, 2023
Young and jobless: Is the government letting down China's Generation Z?
May 01, 2023
Japan's role in the making of modern China
Apr 17, 2023
Hollywood and China: happily ever after?
Apr 03, 2023
What Beijing wants out of the Russian invasion
Mar 20, 2023
Spy planes and infiltrators: a history of the CIA in China
Mar 06, 2023
Tiananmen and the Tang: the rise of rock in China
Feb 20, 2023
Have Xinjiang's camps been closed?
Feb 06, 2023
Covid's legacy: how will China remember the pandemic?
Jan 23, 2023
Should Britain's Confucius Institutes be shut down?
Jan 09, 2023
Strangers in a strange land: being foreign in China
Dec 12, 2022
Echoes of 1989: where the protests go next
Nov 29, 2022
Second class citizens: the lives of China's internal migrants
Nov 14, 2022
Reflections on the 20th Party Congress: how Xi took complete control
Oct 28, 2022
Censorship and sexuality: being gay in China
Oct 17, 2022
Succession and power: a look ahead to the 20th Party Congress
Oct 03, 2022
History and belonging: life in a Chinese mega-city
Sep 20, 2022
Will Liz Truss declare a genocide in Xinjiang?
Sep 05, 2022
The new great game: how China replaced Russia in Kazakhstan and beyond
Aug 22, 2022
Pelosi's swansong: the Taiwanese view on her fleeting visit
Aug 05, 2022
Is China's property market about to go bust?
Jul 25, 2022
Semiconductors: the next technological arms race
Jul 11, 2022
The radical age of Chinese cinema
Jun 27, 2022
Mythbusting the social credit system
Jun 13, 2022
How the Cultural Revolution shaped China's leaders today
May 30, 2022
How powerful is the People's Liberation Army?
May 16, 2022
Does China want to change the international rules-based order?
May 02, 2022
Algorithms and lockdowns: how China's gig economy works
Apr 18, 2022
Reinventing the Chinese language
Apr 04, 2022
The Taiwanese view on Ukraine
Mar 21, 2022
Freud and China: a love affair
Mar 07, 2022
Baby bust: what happens when China's population shrinks?
Feb 21, 2022
The Xi-Putin alliance: how China and Russia are getting ever closer
Feb 07, 2022
Politics and language: decoding the CCP
Jan 24, 2022
Why does China care about the Olympics?
Jan 10, 2022
The power of Weibo
Dec 13, 2021
What is it to be 'Chinese'?
Nov 29, 2021
Is 'common prosperity' the road to common poverty?
Nov 15, 2021
Healing the 'cancer' of the Cultural Revolution
Nov 01, 2021
Will Xi invade Taiwan?
Oct 18, 2021
The Chinese love of drinking
Oct 04, 2021
Has China got over the Japanese invasion?
Sep 20, 2021
Ancestors and demons: a brief history of Chinese religion
Sep 06, 2021
Will China become Afghanistan's new sponsor?
Aug 20, 2021
Ketamine in China: has the country got over the opium wars?
Aug 09, 2021
Black cat or white cat? Reconciling the two Deng Xiaopings
Jul 26, 2021
China's 'snowflake generation'
Jul 12, 2021
Hong Kong's National Security Law, one year on
Jun 28, 2021
Has economic engagement with China failed?
Jun 14, 2021
Journalism in China: what can and can't you say?
May 31, 2021
The fightback against facial recognition
May 17, 2021
Respect your elders: how the Chinese see family life
May 03, 2021
Do China's intellectual elite support the government?
Apr 19, 2021
Why does China care about Taiwan?
Apr 05, 2021
Is anyone still communist in the Chinese Communist Party?
Mar 22, 2021
The sacrifices and rewards of a Chinese-style education
Mar 08, 2021
Is China 'eating America's lunch'?
Feb 22, 2021
How Hong Kong became what it is today
Feb 08, 2021
The Chinese backlash against Big Tech
Jan 25, 2021
What's behind Beijing's treatment of the Uyghurs?
Jan 11, 2021
Is China turning away from the world?
Dec 21, 2020
China's long history of student protests
Dec 07, 2020
Has China really beaten Covid?
Nov 23, 2020
How China's richest man flew too close to the sun
Nov 09, 2020
Who are the Chinese-Americans voting for Trump?
Oct 26, 2020
Half the sky: the woman's place in Chinese society
Oct 12, 2020
How green is China?
Sep 28, 2020
The real housewives of Beijing: why the Chinese love luxury goods
Sep 14, 2020
What tickles China's political elite?
Aug 31, 2020
Trump's Great Firewall
Aug 17, 2020
What do the 'wolf warrior' diplomats want?
Aug 03, 2020
Are Chinese companies arms of the state?
Jul 20, 2020
What does Beijing want with Hong Kong?
Jul 06, 2020