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 [ … ]
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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 [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #66: Translating Jin Yong’s Legends of the Condor Heroes with Gigi Chang and Shelly Bryant, Part 1
In a special two-part podcast, Gigi Chang and Shelly Bryant discuss their work translating Jin Yong’s legendary wuxia series Legends of the Condor Heroes from Chinese to English, a revered martial-arts and [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #65: Xinjiang, HK, and Sanctions with Sophie Richardson, China Director of Human Rights Watch
Sophie Richardson is the China Director at Human Rights Watch, a position she’s held since 2006. She frequently testifies to parliaments around the world and is the author of China, [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #64: China Unbound: A Conversation with Joanna Chiu and Madeleine O’Dea
Former foreign correspondent and NüVoices chair Joanna Chiu’s new book, China Unbound, details China’s rapid international rise, and the ways Western nations have contributed to a state of global disorder. The book [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #63: China-New Zealand Relations with NZ Ambassador Clare Fearnley
Clare Fearnley became New Zealand’s ambassador to China in 2018, cross-accredited to Mongolia. She was previously ambassador in Seoul, where she also oversaw Pyongyang, consul-general in Shanghai and head of [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #62: Eat the Buddha: A conversation with award-winning author Barbara Demick
Barbara Demick is the author of Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town (2020), Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2009), and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #61: Decoding Chinese technology policy, with Lotus Ruan
Lotus Ruan conducts research and writes at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Her work focuses on the roles of [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #60: Getting tea drunk, with Shunan Teng
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]