Chinese millennials are fed up with the 996 grind (working from 9 AM until 9 PM, 6 days a week) and are going remote. Office workers across the country are [ … ]
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NüVoices Podcast #95: Jan Wong on her Legendary Journalism Career
This week, NüVoices host and co-founder Joanna Chiu speaks to Canadian journalist and author Jan Wong. Jan was one of very few foreigners able to travel to China during the [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #94: A Conversation with Yaxue Cao, founder of ChinaChange.org
This week, Yaxue Cao, the founder and editor of ChinaChange.org, joins the NüVoices podcast. ChinaChange.org is an English-language website devoted to news and commentary related to civil society, rule of law, and [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #93: What the West Gets Wrong about TikTok with Zeyi Yang
Today, we have a special guest on the podcast (and a worthy NüVoices ally) MIT Tech Review reporter, Zeyi Yang! Together with co-hosts Megan Cattel and Solarina Ho, Zeyi talks [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #92: The World of Chinese Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Translation with Emily Xueni Jin
This week, host Megan Cattel speaks to essayist and science fiction translator, Emily Xueni Jin, on the art of translation and the rise of Chinese science fiction. During the course [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #91: Tania Branigan on her book, Red Memory, and the lasting impact of China’s Cultural Revolution
Trigger warning: This episode briefly mentions suicide at 01:15 and 15:45. This week, host Lijia Zhang speaks to Tania Branigan, current Foreign Leader Writer and former China Correspondent at The Guardian. [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #90: A Conversation with Lindsay Wong, author of Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality & The Woo-Woo
A Ming Dynasty courtesan who transforms into a zombie. A family of ghosts wreaking havoc on a local hot spring. Elite Hong Kong bankers who are secretly serial killers. Welcome [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #89: A Conversation with Liza Lin on Digital Surveillance in China
“When we first started writing the book in 2017, 2018, I would probably characterize Xinjiang as the true, perfect surveillance state … Now I think that you can apply that [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #88: The End of China’s Zero-Covid Policy with Dr. Jennifer Bouey
Note: As current events regarding Covid are rapidly changing, we want to acknowledge this episode was recorded in early January 2023. The text below is a paraphrased version of host [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #87: Our 2022 Year-End Recap! A Discussion with the NüVoices Podcast Team
As 2022 draws to a close, so must this season of the NüVoices podcast. But fear not! Before we sign off for a winter hiatus, we wanted to bring together [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #86: Angela Hui about her memoir, Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
Growing up in the Welsh countryside and working at her family’s Chinese takeaway was anything but peaceful, writes Angela Hui in her memoir, Takeaway. With her parents at the helm, [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #85: Becoming a Stand-up Comedian with He Huang
“Hello everyone, my name is He. It’s spelled as H-E. Yes, it is my name, not my pronoun.” Last month, Sydney-based comedian He Huang went viral with her 4-minute Australia’s [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #84: A Conversation with Sue-Lin Wong on ‘The Prince’ podcast & China’s 20th Party Congress
“People have been asking me…what do people need to know about Xi Jinping? And over the course of this podcast, I learned he really fears chaos and he’s obsessed with [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #83: A Map for the Missing, a Conversation with Belinda Huijuan Tang
This week, we talk to Belinda Huijuan Tang about her sweeping and tender debut novel, A Map for the Missing, which was recently longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #82: Chinese Canadian Immigrant Histories with Arlene Chan and Melanie Ng
In this episode of the NüVoices podcast, historians Arlene Chan and Melanie Ng chat with us about the first Chinese migrants who made their way to Canada in the 19th [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #81: Food journalism & Taiwanese cuisine with Clarissa Wei
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 [ … ]
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, [ … ]