Shunan Teng is the founder and owner of Tea Drunk in New York City, which specializes in heritage, wild, historical, and other famous teas. Every spring, she travels to the renowned tea [ … ]
Category: Podcast
NüVoices Podcast #59: COVID-19 origins and the state of science reporting in China, with Kathleen McLaughlin
Kathleen McLaughlin is a science and labor reporter based in Butte, Montana, whose work has been regularly featured in the Washington Post and The Guardian; she was also the Beijing correspondent [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #58: The shrinking China foreign press corps, and reporting in Xinjiang, with Sophia Yan
Sophia Yan is the China correspondent for the Telegraph, has covered the region for a decade, and is based in Beijing. Previously, she reported for CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg, while [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #57: Revolutionary feminism, wuxia, and the politics of translation, with Yilin Wang
Yilin Wang (she/they) is a Vancouver-based writer, editor, Chinese-English translator, educator, and cultural consultant who was longlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Far Horizons Award for Short [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #56: Censorship and resistance, with Sophie Beach
Sophie Beach is the executive editor of China Digital Times (CDT), an independent, bilingual media organization that brings uncensored news and online voices from China to the world. In this conversation, Sophie [ … ]
Introducing: The 异乡人 (Yi Xiang Ren) podcast featuring immigrant stories
BY BESSIE DU 异乡人 (Yi Xiang Ren) is a Mandarin-language podcast that brings you stories of immigrants, by immigrants – for anyone who finds resonance and inspiration. More than 50 million [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #55: Unraveling Australia-China relations, with Natasha Kassam
“China is angry. If you make China the enemy, China will be the enemy,” a Chinese Embassy official told Australian reporter Jonathan Kearsley at a meeting in late 2020. Kearsley wrote that [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #54: Telling Asian and Asian-American stories through video journalism, with Dolly Li
Dolly Li is an award-winning independent video journalist, filmmaker, and correspondent. She is the former host of an award-winning AJ+ (Al Jazeera) show, Untold America, as well as a co-founder of [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #53: Reporting on gender, tech and power with Shen Lu
Shen Lu is a reporter with Protocol | China and a cofounder of Chinese Storytellers. In this conversation, she talks to Cindy Gao about the misogyny and barriers Chinese women [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #52: Talking fiction writing and modern China, with Te-Ping Chen
Throughout the 10 stories in Land of Big Numbers, Te-Ping Chen — a founding member of NüVoices — sketches the interior lives of her protagonists, who live in (or are connected to) China: a [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #51: Making journalism more inclusive, with Jin Ding
Jin Ding is the vice president of finance at the Asian American Journalists Association and the cofounder of Chinese Storytellers. She also oversees grants, awards, and emergency response programs at [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #50: Directing “Finding Yingying”, with Jenny Shi
Jiāyán “Jenny” Shī (施佳妍) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and video journalist based in Chicago. Her first feature-length documentary, Finding Yingying, was the winner of the 2020 SXSW Special Jury Recognition for [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #49: Walking through development mandalas in the eastern Tibetan Plateau, with Pamela Logan
Dr. Pamela Logan’s latest book, Compassion Mandala: The Odyssey of an American Charity in Contemporary Tibet, chronicles her experience founding and running Kham Aid Foundation in the eastern Tibetan Plateau from [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #48: U.S.-Taiwan relations: From Trump to Biden
On January 9, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo announced that the United States would eliminate self-imposed restrictions on exchanges between American and Taiwanese officials. Reactions have been mixed, with [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #47: Women in fintech, with Rita Liu
Rita Liu is a seasoned fintech executive who started her career at American Express, then spent nearly a decade at Alipay building its international business. During her time there, she [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #46: Retail and e-commerce boom and bust in mainland and Hong Kong during COVID-19, with Tiffany Ap
Tiffany Ap is currently the China bureau chief for Women’s Wear Daily. In this episode of the NüVoices Podcast, Tiffany and Cindy discuss the revival of the fashion and retail [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #45: An uncertain future with guaranteed friction: U.S.-China economic coercion, with Ashley Feng
Tensions between the U.S. and China have ratcheted upward in the last four years of the Trump administration. Groundbreaking research from independent Washington, D.C.–based researcher Ashley Feng have shown that acts of [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #44: U.S.-China relations: The rock, the hard place, and those in between, with Zhaoyin Feng
Zhàoyīn Féng 冯兆音 is a bilingual journalist based in Washington, D.C., where she reports on U.S.-China relations for the BBC World Service. In this timely conversation, Zhaoyin and Cindy [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #43: Literary translation and language as resistance, with Anne Henochowicz
Today’s guest, Anne Henochowicz, works at the intersection of literature and human rights. She has translated leaked propaganda directives and subversive Weibo posts, investigative journalism and poetry. She is currently the [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #42: Hong Kong media, redefined
Beijing’s enactment of sweeping national security legislation in Hong Kong spurred fresh fear for the territory’s cherished freedoms as authorities sought to quash months of citywide protests. How have journalists, [ … ]