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The Little Red Podcast: interviews and chat celebrating China beyond the Beijing beltway. Hosted by Graeme Smith, China studies academic at the Australian National University's Department of...
In our new series—China Rules—we look at how China is a global exporter, not just of goods, but also of standards, ideas, techno...
As an Easter treat, we're bringing you a cracking tale of espionage from one of our favourite China podcasts: Face Off. We'll be back shortl...
Britain is the latest country to be plunged into yet another espionage scandal after an MP's husband was arrested on suspicion of spying for...
In 2013, to mark International Consumers Day, China's state-run TV network labelled Apple a 'bad company'. More than a decade later, despite...
China's college exam, the gaokao , is fetishized as the ultimate test, yet a lesser-known story is how it entrenches regional education disc...
In the latest episode in our series on belief, we're looking at the CCP's faith in Artificial Intelligence. China has embraced AI like no ot...
In the latest episode in our series on belief, we're exploring the surprising revival of shamanism in China, which has made a comeback despi...
In the latest in our series on belief, we're examining the emergence of incels in the world's largest manosphere. China's growing incel comm...
Continuing our series on belief in China, we look at the revival of Buddhism, which is being embraced by citizens and the Chinese state. Whi...
In the latest in our series on belief, we're looking at China's official belief system—Marxism. In recent years, netizens have argued...
In our third episode on beliefs and ideologies, we explore China's newfound enthusiasm for psychiatry. Counselling was only registered as a...
To welcome the Year of the Snake, we're launching a new series looking at belief in China. Young Chinese people are increasingly turning to...
China is in the grip of a gender war. While government officials are texting and even cold calling women to urge them have children, the fer...
Few outside the Chinese wedding banquet circuit have heard of fish maw, a flavourless, unappetising-looking swim bladder found in bony fish....
Writers from Hong Kong face a Kafkaesque decision in the years since draconian security legislation was imposed on the city: to stay and be...
In our third episode on pig butchering scams, we explore the origins of the Chinese criminal syndicates that enslave people from at least 66...
Taiwan is ground zero for cognitive warfare, with the island subject to more disinformation than any other democracy. The targets are politi...
After our last episode on an online romance scam operating out of Palau we were contacted by Neo Lu, who was trafficked to work in an online...
Chinese triads have been making a Pacific play, notably in the tiny nation of Palau. There a notorious triad boss - nicknamed Broken Tooth -...
For our hundredth episode, there was only one choice in the Year of the Dragon. We tackle the scaly mythical beast, which now finds itself c...
China’s largesse in the Pacific is nothing if not visible. From mobile phone towers to gleaming stadiums and government buildings, Beijing’s...
Stand-up comedy looked set to be the next big thing on China’s entertainment scene, with shows like Roast Convention drawing billions of vie...
Every generation in modern China has been richer and more ambitious than the one before—until Gen Z. With youth unemployment so high that th...
The exponential trauma produced by the Cultural Revolution is barely mentioned in China, yet has been foundational to a generation. Now the...
Writing history in China has never been easy; China’s first historian, Sima Qian, was forced to choose between execution and castration and...
Just as satirical writers struggled in Trump's America, China's sci-fi writers are facing a challenge: how do you write in a world where rea...
Beijing's recent ban on the export of two rare metals represents the latest front in the global battle to control chipmaking technology. Now...
New Zealand is in Beijing's good books, attracting state media praise as setting 'a good example' for other countries in its ties, as Prime...
In the final episode exploring China's Strategic New Frontiers, we are investigating China's growing cyberpower ambitions. On the National C...
China appears to have restarted construction on its fifth Antarctic station for the first time since 2018. It’s just one sign that Beijing i...
China's reaching not just for the stars, but also for the deepest ocean depths. It's even parked its deepwater submersible in the Mariana Tr...
In a new series of episodes, we’re examining how China is pushing the boundaries of science and territory. First up, China’s space program,...
In a few short months, Chinese officials have gone from COVID cover-up to competing over who has the highest number of infections. After urb...
Finally, China’s sloughing off the Zero Covid policy it’s embraced for three years. This followed a spasm of discontent, with people taking...
“Controlling data means controlling the future.” Those are not George Orwell's words, but instead were uttered in 2015 by Jack Ma, founder o...
China's political event of the decade - its 20th Party Congress - will confirm Xi Jinping's third term as leader of the CCP and could even b...
The Southeast Asian nation has historically been seen as China's first client state, with the Khmer Rouge's hardline interpretation of Maois...
Chinese households under lockdown have lacked food, company, and access to medical care. But they’ve had an almost endless supply of a tradi...
It’s now been twenty-five years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty with a pledge not to change Hong Kong’s way of life for fift...
After two long months, Shanghai's brutal lockdown is over in name, but Xi Jinping is telling officials to 'unswervingly adhere' to Zero COVI...
For the past year, China has been in the grip of a crackdown on niangpao , or ‘sissy men’, with the People’s Daily warning that effeminate m...
As Australia’s Defence Minister warns his nation to ‘prepare for war’ with China, there’s a growing feeling of inevitability about a future...
How is Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine redrawing the geopolitical landscape? In this episode, we examine China's interests in the conflic...
America's elites love to talk about China's '5000 years of civilization', but such language - which could come straight from the pages of th...
By any metric, China's rural residents face massive disadvantages compared to their urban counterparts. More than half of rural teenagers ar...
As China's economy slows down, Xi Jinping's charting a new economic course that will redefine the country's future. From reining in tech gia...
Become an instant expert on the new historical resolution issued by China's Communist Party for all your cocktail season smalltalk needs. It...
China’s Communist Party’s rewriting of history doesn’t stop at their own borders, but has even reached as far as Wandiligong, a town of 453...
The purge that followed the killings by PLA soldiers in and around Tiananmen Square three decades ago has continued into the present, even p...
Nationalism in China seems to have taken a feral turn, with Chinese netizens viciously turning on Olympic athletes, celebrities and even the...