121 Episodes

  1. What we know about Beijing's spies

    Published: 18/09/2023
  2. Is China still a Confucian country?

    Published: 04/09/2023
  3. What Beidaihe reveals about the changing nature of Communist leadership

    Published: 21/08/2023
  4. Does China need a new economic playbook?

    Published: 07/08/2023
  5. Did some good come from the Qing’s dying century?

    Published: 24/07/2023
  6. Beijing and Prigozhin: what does China think of the Wagner uprising?

    Published: 30/06/2023
  7. How divided is Europe on China?

    Published: 19/06/2023
  8. Why China won't invade Taiwan

    Published: 05/06/2023
  9. How China's mail-order brides are taking back control

    Published: 15/05/2023
  10. Young and jobless: Is the government letting down China's Generation Z?

    Published: 01/05/2023
  11. Japan's role in the making of modern China

    Published: 17/04/2023
  12. Hollywood and China: happily ever after?

    Published: 03/04/2023
  13. What Beijing wants out of the Russian invasion

    Published: 20/03/2023
  14. Spy planes and infiltrators: a history of the CIA in China

    Published: 06/03/2023
  15. Tiananmen and the Tang: the rise of rock in China

    Published: 20/02/2023
  16. Have Xinjiang's camps been closed?

    Published: 06/02/2023
  17. Covid's legacy: how will China remember the pandemic?

    Published: 23/01/2023
  18. Should Britain's Confucius Institutes be shut down?

    Published: 09/01/2023
  19. Strangers in a strange land: being foreign in China

    Published: 12/12/2022
  20. Echoes of 1989: where the protests go next

    Published: 29/11/2022

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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.

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