China Stories
SupChina
China Stories from the Sinica Network on The China Project brings you audio narration of the best articles and op-eds appearing in Sixth Tone, Caixin Global, Week in China, The World of Chinese, and of course The China Project. Subscribe to the podcast and you can listen to features on the go, with narrators who won’t butcher the pronunciation of Chinese names and words.
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May 18, 2021 • 11min
[SupChina] Ant’s road to redemption: How the fintech giant can save itself
Ant’s deceptive branding, conflicts of interest, and predatory lending behavior fostered a vicious cycle that called for state intervention.Read the article by Nan Li and John Darwin Van Fleet: https://supchina.com/2021/05/18/ants-road-to-redemption-how-the-fintech-giant-can-save-itself/Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 18, 2021 • 10min
[SupChina] China's anti-American boycott of 1905
The 1905 Anti-American Boycott illustrates not only the Chinese refusal to passively accept the racist legal regime in the United States, but finds unusual resonance as another anti-Western boycott gathers momentum in China, this time with a much more complex ethical calculus.Read the article by James Carter: https://supchina.com/2021/05/12/chinas-anti-american-boycott-of-1905/Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 18, 2021 • 20min
[The Wire China] The drone dealer
China is now the world’s largest armed drone exporter. And when it comes to the future of war, that might present a problem for the United States.Read the article by Eli Binder: https://www.thewirechina.com/2021/05/16/the-drone-dealer/Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 18, 2021 • 11min
[Sixth Tone] The curious case of China’s feminist eugenicists
The country’s extremely online feminists are ditching movement building to go all-in on shaming people for their lack of ‘uterine morality.’Read the article by Li Jun: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1007117/the-curious-case-of-chinas-feminist-eugenicistsNarrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 14, 2021 • 8min
[Sixth Tone] Russian man overjoyed to finally lose Chinese talent show
When aspiring fashion designer Vladislav Sidorov, aka Lelush, reluctantly agreed to be on a Chinese reality show, he expected to be voted off immediately. Instead, he survived until the final vote.Read the article by Ding Yining: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1007318/russian-man-overjoyed-to-finally-lose-chinese-talent-showNarrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 14, 2021 • 18min
[SupChina] ‘Zhu was first’: The rise and fall in Chinese lore of commander-in-chief Zhu De
In the early days of the Chinese Communist Party when it was struggling for survival, Zhu De marched alongside Mao Zedong.Read the article by Alex Colville: https://supchina.com/2021/05/10/zhu-was-first-the-rise-and-fall-of-commander-in-chief-zhu-de/Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 14, 2021 • 21min
[LARB China Channel] Missing Lei Feng
My accidental connection with Mao’s good soldier.Read the article by Andrea Worden: https://chinachannel.org/2021/03/05/missing-lei-feng/Narrated by Andrea Worden.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 11, 2021 • 11min
[SupChina] U.S.-China relations at the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act
On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed a law that for the first time singled out a specific nation — China — and denied its citizens entry into the United States.Read the article by James Carter: https://supchina.com/2021/05/05/u-s-china-relations-at-the-time-of-the-chinese-exclusion-act/Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 11, 2021 • 22min
[The Wire China] Tesla's China endgame
The Tesla-China love affair isn’t winding down just yet. But that may change as autonomous driving — and its requisite data hoarding — ramps up.Read the article by Brent Crane: https://www.thewirechina.com/2021/05/09/teslas-china-endgame/Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
May 11, 2021 • 10min
[Caixin Global] Where’s the pressure on schoolkids coming from?
Guo Qing’s second-grade son often stays up until 11 p.m. struggling through his math homework, which is usually as hard as fourth-grade work, the Beijing father says.Read the article by Ding Jie, Huang Huizhao and Denise Jia: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-03-29/cover-story-wheres-the-pressure-on-schoolkids-coming-from-101681656.htmlNarrated by Sarah Kutulakos.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
