This week, veteran food journalist Clarissa Wei joins us on the NüVoices podcast! Clarissa was previously a senior reporter for Goldthread – a publication incubated by the South China Morning [ … ]
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NüVoices Podcast #79: Taiwan and US Foreign Policy with Meia and Veerle Nouwens
Show notes:“Nancy Pelosi’s Trip to Taiwan Is Too Dangerous” an op-ed in The New York Times by Bonnie S. Glaser and Zack Cooper This week we’re interrupting our summer hiatus [ … ]
Podcast Crossover: Self-Evident, ‘A Day at the Mall’
Hello from our summer hiatus! While we’re away, the pod squad is thrilled to share episodes from podcasts we love and admire. This week, we have an episode from Self-Evident, [ … ]
Podcast Crossover: Time To Say Goodbye on ‘Ascension’, a documentary about Chinese consumerism and labor force
Hello from our summer hiatus! While we’re away, the pod squad is thrilled to share episodes from podcasts we love and admire. This week, we have an episode from Time [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #78: Outsourcing Repression, a Conversation with Lynette Ong
Professor Lynette Ong joins us on the podcast this week to discuss her new book Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China. While in conversation with Joanna Chiu, Lynette discusses China’s [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #77: Voice Actress Nancy Wu on Diversity in Audiobooks
Nancy Wu, a masterful voice actress and audiobook narrator, joins the NüVoices podcast this week to talk about her storied career. She has narrated the “Avatar the Last Airbender” prequels [ … ]
NüVoices is hiring a podcast producer!
The NüVoices podcast is looking for a new producer! We’d love someone who is experienced in audio editing, cutting tape, and working with hosts to create compelling bi-weekly episodes (every [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #76: A Conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou on her debut novel, Disorientation
TIME STAMP, SPOILERS FOR DISORIENTATION BEGIN AT: 33:20 We’re delighted to have Elaine Hsieh Chou (pronounced “Shay-Chow”) come on the NüVoices podcast to discuss her debut novel, Disorientation, which came out [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #75: Dancing on Bones book launch, a conversation with Katie Stallard
This week, journalist and former foreign correspondent Katie Stallard joins the NüVoices podcast in a special, live stream recording to celebrate the launch of her new book Dancing on Bones: History [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #74: Business, billionaires, and global supply chain woes with journalist Hope King
Business reporter Hope King joins the podcast this week on a conversation about China’s pandemic lockdowns impacting global supply chains, the surprising amount of female self-made billionaires, and multinational companies [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #73: China’s stance on the Russian war in Ukraine with Elizabeth Wishnick
China’s perspective on the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been what experts call a “checkered response”. While Chinese authorities maintain they are neutral in the war and encourage peace negotiations, [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #72: Messy Roots, a Conversation with Laura Gao
Graphic novelist and cartoonist Laura Gao joins the podcast this week to discuss her new memoir, Messy Roots: The Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American. Wuhan, China captured the world’s attention as [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #71: The Impossible City, a Conversation with Karen Cheung
This week’s episode is a conversation with Hong Konger Karen Cheung about her memoir The Impossible City which was released in February 2022. Skillfully blending reportage and personal writing, Karen takes readers [ … ]
Behind the Scenes: how April Zhu recorded our new podcast theme song
In case you missed it, the 2022 season of the NüVoices podcast has new theme music composed and recorded by April Zhu! April is not only a journalist and a [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #70: Subcultures, trends, and being a non-visible “foreign” correspondent in East Asia with Crystal Tai
Happy Year of the Tiger to our listeners! Our first podcast of the year is with journalist and business trends researcher Crystal Tai. She talks about her work across East [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #69: Chinese AI, Cybersecurity, and Internet Policy with Shazeda Ahmed
Our last podcast episode of 2021 features Shazeda Ahmed on Chinese cybersecurity, technology, and internet policy. Shazeda is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Information and is joined [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #68: More Than One Child: A Conversation with memoirist Shen Yang
Scriptwriter Shen Yang is the author of More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter, which was just translated into English by Nicky Harman earlier this year in August. She [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #67: Translating Jin Yong’s Legends of the Condor Heroes with Gigi Chang and Shelly Bryant, Part 2
The second half of Gigi Chang and Shelly Bryant‘s discussion about translating Jin Yong’s legendary wuxia series Legends of the Condor Heroes from Chinese to English is here! Guest host and NüVoices [ … ]