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, [ … ]
Category: Podcast
NüVoices Podcast #41: Development finance and Chinese identity, with Yunnan Chen
Yunnan Chen is a senior research officer for the Overseas Development Institute, a London think tank focused on international development and humanitarian issues. She joins Cindy for a conversation on China-Africa [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #39: Beijing Lights: A conversation with Huang Chenkuang
This week’s bonus episode of NüVoices was recorded live from Beijing, where Anthony Tao had a conversation with Huang Chenkuang, a journalist and creative who runs the interview series [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #38: Fulbright’s exit from China and Hong Kong
An executive order signed in July has indefinitely ended the Fulbright program in China and Hong Kong. What happened in the lead-up to the program’s cancellation, and where does the [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #37: Chinese cuisine in America, with Simone Tong
Simone Tong is a chef and co-owner of Little Tong Noodle Shop and the newly opened restaurant Silver Apricot in New York City. Cindy sat down with her to discuss [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #36: Mobility for Africa, with Shantha Bloemen
Shantha Bloemen is the founding director of Mobility for Africa, a social enterprise that aims to bring the electric mobility revolution to rural Africa. Having spent the last two decades working [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #35: The nation of diaspora: April Zhu on reporting from Nairobi, part 2
April Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on gender, urban inequality, and China–Kenya relations. In this episode, NüVoices board member Cindy Gao [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #34: April Zhu on reporting from Nairobi, part 1
April Zhu is a freelance journalist and writer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on gender, urban inequality, and China-Kenya relations. In this episode, NüVoices board member Cindy Gao [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #32: Creative entrepreneurship with Qian Zhang
Qiàn Zhāng 张倩 is a cross-border creative entrepreneur who founded the tea brand The Puer Movement while at Harvard Business School, and currently serves as chief of staff to the global president at SharkNinja. [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #31: Seeking creativity through multimedia journalism with Yuan Ren
Journalism is a tough industry to break into, but expanding your multimedia and broadcast skills is a great way to enhance your versatility and job prospects. For Chinese journalist Yuan [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #30: Foreign correspondence and China, with Megha Rajagopalan
Megha Rajagopalan is an award-winning international correspondent for BuzzFeed News, based in London. In this conversation recorded on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in London and New York, Megha [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #28: Coronavirus and the racism epidemic, with Sophie Lu and Jessie Tu
As racism and the COVID-19 virus spread simultaneously, Asian people around the world are finding themselves terrified to step outside — and not just because they’re worried about getting sick. [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #27: U.S.-China cyber competition and cooperation with Julia Voo
Julia Voo is the research director for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center’s new China Cyber Policy Initiative. In this episode, Julia and NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talk about [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #26: Di Wang on LGBTQ rights and representation in China
Di Wang is a feminist researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She joined NüVoices co-host Cindy Gao in Brooklyn to converse about the LGBTQ movement that is underway in [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #25: A wealth of anger and a wealth of time – Wuhan and the coronavirus, with Rui Zhong
Wuhan native Rui Zhong is a program associate for the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center, in Washington, D.C. In this episode, Rui and [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #24: Chinese philanthropy in the 21st century, with Emily Weaver
Emily Weaver, a social impact and philanthropy consultant who was based in China for over a decade, joins Chenni and Cindy as their guest this week. She has worked with [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #21: Sino-Black relations with Keisha Brown
Keisha Brown is an assistant professor of history at Tennessee State University and a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. In this episode, she explains the [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast #20: Contemporary Chinese art and techno-orientalism with Xin Wang
Xin Wang is a John Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and a Ph.D. student studying contemporary art at the NYU Institute of [ … ]