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China Stories from the Sinica Network on The China Project brings you audio narration of the best articles and op-eds appearing in Sixth Tone, Caixin Global, Week in China, The World of Chinese, and of course The China Project. Subscribe to the podcast and you can listen to features on the go, with narrators who won’t butcher the pronunciation of Chinese names and words.

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[The China Project] China launches its youngest-ever astronauts into space

2023/11/08

Three new astronauts are heading to China’s Tiangong space station, which is about to get even bigger in the coming years.

[Caixin Global] The struggle facing big-box supermarkets in China

2023/11/08

Carrefour’s shrinking presence is emblematic of broader gloom that has befallen the country’s supermarket operators that are competing with e-commerce platforms and smaller stores.

[The China Project] Toddler mauling in China prompts crackdown on dogs, rekindles debate over pet etiquette

2023/11/03

In the aftermath of an off-leash Rottweiler’s attack of a two-year-old in China last week, officials in several counties have enacted sweeping measures against stray dogs.

[The World of Chinese] How did ancient Chinese advertise?

2023/11/03

Slogans, music, celebrities, and rhymes all helped ancient Chinese advertise their wares for sale.

[The World of Chinese] Bitter no more: How young Chinese became obsessed with TCM

2023/10/31

Forget bubble tea, traditional Chinese medicine is the latest trend among youth.

[Caixin Global] Chinese in the crosshairs of ‘mushrooming’ transnational cybercrime

2023/10/27

UN says hundreds of thousands have been forced into participating in unlawful online scam operations in Myanmar and Cambodia, many of them Chinese.

[The China Project] How China is attempting to change nature conservation

2023/10/27

China is undergoing a great experiment — tightly controlled and driven by big data — that it hopes will offer an alternative way of protecting the planet. For all our sakes, let’s hope it works.

[The China Project] Los Angeles Chinatown, 1871: The forgotten mass lynching

2023/10/25

In October 1871, 10% of the Chinese population in Los Angeles was wiped out in a senseless spasm of violence.

[The World of Chinese] Acrobats, tai chi, kids: What makes a Chinese opening ceremony?

2023/10/24

From celebrations of workers at the 1959 National Games to vast displays of technological prowess during this year’s Asian Games, China’s opening ceremonies have evolved dramatically over time.

[The World of Chinese] Community Canteens For Seniors Take Off Among Chinese Youth

2023/10/24

Young people turn to government-funded community canteens for seniors in China amid food safety scandals and the rising cost of meals.

[The China Project] A young Deng Xiaoping in France

2023/10/23

In the early years of the Chinese republic, progressives looked west for political inspiration. This was how Deng Xiaoping — who would eventually lead China — came to be in France in the 1920s. He and his peers did indeed find inspiration abroad — just not the kind that his bourgeois sponsors anticipated.

[Rest of World] Why thousands of young Chinese people use a pink dinosaur as their alias

2023/10/20

Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment, and protect personal privacy on Douban and Xiaohongshu.

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4.7 out of 5

51 reviews

★★★★★

mkcheshire 2024/01/23

Is this podcast still going?

This is one of my favorite podcasts but apparently it is not being updated.

★★★★★

Dr. Dreidel 2021/02/08

Amazing

I absolutely love this, short, well written stories that you won’t get anywhere else. I listen to this with my morning coffee!

★★★☆☆

JMSMAINE 2023/06/12

Lose the accent

Echoing other comments here. Please please stop with the accents. They are all so terrible, from several readers. It's so distracting. And I imagine o...

★☆☆☆☆

MGP Terps 2022/09/05

Awful

One word Awful.

★★★★☆

Boulez25 2022/05/27

Great except one thing…

I love this podcast. The stories are well curated and provided a good slice of Chinese life, culture, and history. All of the readers are terrific…ex...

★★★☆☆

Matt Saleh 2021/05/21

Great content but...

Great content but weird voices from Kaiser when reading for most female talking heads + a really odd Russian impression for good measure

★★★★★

Eduardoj151 2021/01/31

Been hoping for something like this

I recently started using audm, an app that lets you listen to long form journalism, and have thought about how great it would be if there were an aggr...

★★★★★

ahaooyuser8 2021/01/29

Love this show

Kaiser’s fan here (both for Tang Dynasty and Sinica). Started listen to this podcast and love it once Kaiser recommended it. Good long forms and good ...

★★★★★

Lenenach 2021/01/28

Fantastic

Best English-speaking podcast on China :)

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