Chinese Whispers
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes (282)
Young and jobless: Is the government letting down China's Generation Z?
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Japan's role in the making of modern China
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Hollywood and China: happily ever after?
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What Beijing wants out of the Russian invasion
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Spy planes and infiltrators: a history of the CIA in China
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Tiananmen and the Tang: the rise of rock in China
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Have Xinjiang's camps been closed?
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Covid's legacy: how will China remember the pandemic?
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Should Britain's Confucius Institutes be shut down?
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Strangers in a strange land: being foreign in China
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Echoes of 1989: where the protests go next
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Second class citizens: the lives of China's internal migrants
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Reflections on the 20th Party Congress: how Xi took complete control
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Censorship and sexuality: being gay in China
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Succession and power: a look ahead to the 20th Party Congress
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History and belonging: life in a Chinese mega-city
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Will Liz Truss declare a genocide in Xinjiang?
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The new great game: how China replaced Russia in Kazakhstan and beyond
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Pelosi's swansong: the Taiwanese view on her fleeting visit
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Is China's property market about to go bust?
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Semiconductors: the next technological arms race
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The radical age of Chinese cinema
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Mythbusting the social credit system
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How the Cultural Revolution shaped China's leaders today
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How powerful is the People's Liberation Army?
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Does China want to change the international rules-based order?
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Algorithms and lockdowns: how China's gig economy works
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Reinventing the Chinese language
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The Taiwanese view on Ukraine
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Freud and China: a love affair
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Baby bust: what happens when China's population shrinks?
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The Xi-Putin alliance: how China and Russia are getting ever closer
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Politics and language: decoding the CCP
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Why does China care about the Olympics?
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The power of Weibo
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What is it to be 'Chinese'?
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Is 'common prosperity' the road to common poverty?
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Healing the 'cancer' of the Cultural Revolution
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Will Xi invade Taiwan?
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The Chinese love of drinking
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Has China got over the Japanese invasion?
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Ancestors and demons: a brief history of Chinese religion
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Will China become Afghanistan's new sponsor?
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Ketamine in China: has the country got over the opium wars?
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Black cat or white cat? Reconciling the two Deng Xiaopings
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China's 'snowflake generation'
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Hong Kong's National Security Law, one year on
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Has economic engagement with China failed?
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Journalism in China: what can and can't you say?
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The fightback against facial recognition
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