Wo Men Podcast
79 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTwo Women. One Country. Modern China from the Inside.
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Gombo's Prayers on the Plateau
July 19, 2021 10:16 - 32 minutes - 47.3 MBWhen most people think about China in the 21st century, they picture the big coastal megacities like Beijing or Shanghai. But that’s only a small part of the picture. For this episode, we traveled out west to Qinghai Province, which has an area the size of France but a population of just six million people. The region where Qinghai and southern Gansu Province meet has long been a frontier zone, a point of contact for many different ethnic groups, including people who still live a nomadic lif...
Downsizing in Dali
June 21, 2021 10:41 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBAre you tired of big city life? Ever think of escaping the noise, dust, and exhausting pace of life for a slice of the country? For many young people in China, work means 12-hour days, six days a week, with a long and crowded commute to and from work. No wonder so many people are considering trading urban living for a rural lifestyle. In recent years, Dali has become a magnet for writers, musicians, artists, painters, and people looking to simplify their lives. In this episode, Karoline Kan ...
The cost of beauty: Why is cosmetic surgery so popular in China?
May 24, 2021 10:37 - 23 minutes - 37.2 MBThe Medical Aesthetics industry (what your grandmother calls “plastic surgery”) is booming in China. According to Deloitte, China's aesthetic medicine market grew from 65 billion yuan (US$10 billion) in 2015 to 175 billion yuan in 2019. That’s three times faster than the global industry average. Why are Chinese women -- and men -- so crazy about beauty treatments? Don’t they worry about the risks and possible side effects? Today we talked to Guli Ai, a consumer with ten years of experience...
Buzzing and Bubbling Business Start-ups for the Covid-19 Era
April 23, 2021 01:49 - 36 minutes - 51.1 MBWhile many companies have felt the impact of Covid-19, some courageous entrepreneurs in China are still willing to take risks and launch new ventures in this time of global economic fluctuations. Our guest today, Lysa Wei, is one of them. In 2020, Lysa started her own company bringing hard seltzer to the China market. Low-calories and sugar-free, hard seltzers have become one of the world’s hottest (or coldest, depending on how you like drinks served) alcoholic beverages in the world. In...
Promoting LGBTQ rights in today's China
March 30, 2021 01:23 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBThe LGBTQ+ community in China is largely out of sight, and awareness of ideas relating to sexual equality is still very low. Ying, who calls herself Iron, is a feminist, activist, and director of the Beijing LGBT Center. She is one of the most prominent activists promoting LGBT rights in China and has played a vital role in arranging mental health services for the LGBTQ community. For the first time, a national survey has been conducted to look at the lives of the LGBTQ community in China....
Traveling for Change
March 04, 2021 03:21 - 39 minutes - 55.7 MBMany people have thought about quitting their 9-to-5 job to travel around the world, but few people carry out their plan. One couple made it happen and found a new career inspiration and life direction along the way. Faye and Celyn live in Beijing. Faye worked at a Chinese agricultural company. Celyn (celynbricker.com) was an artist who had always been interested in using art as a lens to look at social issues. They quit their jobs, left Beijing with just two backpacks, and arrived in Afri...
Davos Dads
January 28, 2021 10:06 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBHow do you do it? Where do you find the time? Women in leadership positions are frequently asked how they balance family life and their career. Which makes us wonder: why don’t we ask the same questions of male executives? Is it less of an issue for men, or are they just more reluctant to talk about work-life balance, fearing that it might not conform to the expectations of a strong boss focused on his work and leading his team? Perhaps what is needed is a safe space for male leaders to chal...
Study, Study, Now What?
January 11, 2021 10:36 - 53 minutes - 77.1 MBSchools all over China have signs and banners exhorting students to hao hao xuexi, tiantian shang shang ("Study hard and make progress every day"). Being a kid -- or a parent! -- in China means a lot of pressure to compete and succeed and the educational system is built around the college entrance exams. Students sacrifice their childhood and freedom for hours and hours of homework and after-school programs to “win the game at the starting point” and secure a promising future. But are exam...
The Women Podcast "2021 can't possibly be worse, right?" Year in Review Episode
December 28, 2020 08:49 - 35 minutes - 50.8 MBIt seems like every email we have received recently begins with “In this challenging year…” Well 2020, your time is almost up. You only have a few days left before we turn the page to 2021. Every year at this time, we look back on the year that was and talk about our plans for the future. In this episode, Yajun, Jingjing, and Karoline discuss surviving a global pandemic, their thoughts on a new global order while also talking about their personal highlights (and low-lights) of 2020, includ...
I'm from China and I support Donald Trump
December 01, 2020 10:19 - 41 minutes - 57.7 MBOver the past few weeks, the US election has dominated the news worldwide, even in China. Chinese people have been fascinated to watch an odd political soap opera unfold in the United States beginning with the election of Donald Trump back in 2016. Four years later, despite harsh rhetoric and aggressive policies directed at China, Trump still has supporters here. Today we ask the question: Why is Donald Trump still so popular in China? Joining us for this episode is Patricia, a Chinese law...
Ok, Now What? Young professionals in China wonder about their life after Covid
November 16, 2020 10:24 - 20 minutes - 23.1 MBChina’s economy is getting back to normal. However, the outbreak of Covid-19 still changed many people’s lives forever. Some of them were fired while others spent months job hunting, and many more used the crisis to re-value the things they used to take for granted. Life almost one year after the first case of coronavirus is permanently different for many people. How has this changed their view of the world and their future? Karoline Kan speaks with Song, a 29-year-old man who used to wo...
One Couple, Two Systems?
October 26, 2020 04:48 - 32 minutes - 48.6 MBFor many people worldwide, the protests in Hong Kong have been a news story in a year full of news. But the demonstrations and political crisis have deeply affected Hong Kongers dividing the city and even families. Michelle is from Hong Kong but living in Japan and has been arguing with her girlfriend – who is from mainland China – about the protests. What happens when different backgrounds, viewpoints, and media consumption starts to come between a couple? In our latest episode, Michelle ...
Giving Birth in a time of Covid-19
October 12, 2020 11:06 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MB2020 has been a challenging year. Many families experienced an incredible sense of loss, sadness, and desperation as they lost family members to Covid-19. Meanwhile, other families welcomed new life who brought love and hope during a difficult time. Our co-host, Jingjing, and our close friend, Annie, each gave birth this year and it was not easy. They suffered from both physical and psychological challenges that a new mother would not face in a typical year, including labor without an epid...
How Porn Helped Me Through Lockdown
June 30, 2020 07:45 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBThe Covid-19 Pandemic has affected many people’s lives and had a detrimental impact on businesses around the world. But some industries have inadvertently benefited from the outbreak — such as pornography. Even though porn is legally prohibited in China, such restrictions don’t stop many people from looking for adult content, most of the time by using a VPN to bypass the country’s internet censorship. For this episode, we talked to Annie Huang, who shares why she uses pornography as a heal...
How Covid-19 has Changed Chinese People’s Attitudes to Personal Finance
June 22, 2020 04:32 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MBIn a recent podcast episode, we discussed how Covid-19 changed the outlook when it came to China’s consumption boom. As a part of the generation that had taken supercharged economic development for granted and had never worried about financial stability, the potential impact of Covid-19 on the economy also requires us to rethink our finances. In this episode, we have invited Jackie You — a former investment banker who previously joined us to discuss following your heart — to share her insi...
The Unsung Heroes of International Media’s China Coverage
May 27, 2020 09:01 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBTo many readers of English-language media, “news assistant” is an unfamiliar term. Yet the people operating in this role are often integral to many overseas outlets’ coverage of China. Also sometimes referred to as “news researchers,” they are Chinese citizens working as journalists for foreign media who often do far more than mere research and yet are rarely credited for their work. News assistants’ responsibilities can include research, looking for interviewees, arranging interviews, tra...
Has Covid-19 Ended China’s Consumption Boom?
May 12, 2020 10:33 - 34 minutes - 47.1 MBAs China continues to recover from the Covid-19 crisis, some experts expected to see a strong consumption rebound in recent weeks. However, it didn’t happen. Instead, the amount of saving in the first quarter of 2020 surged in China. Many Chinese, including the post-’90 and post-’00 generations who are used to living paycheck to paycheck, have started to save money. Seemingly, the global pandemic has changed many families’ and individuals’ consumption habits and lifestyles — at least in the ...
Life Under Lockdown for a Chinese Student in the UK
April 23, 2020 02:59 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBWhile the world is suffering from the global pandemic of novel coronavirus Covid-19, Jingjing talks to Donna, a Chinese student studying in the UK. In this episode, Donna shares her perspectives on life under lockdown overseas, including how she ended up getting military food and her experience with racism in the UK.
Journalist Yuli Yang on Her #GoWuhan Campaign
March 23, 2020 10:16 - 32 minutes - 45 MBWhen her hometown went into lockdown, Yuli Wang decided to help send messages of hope and support from around the world to Wuhan citizens. Yuli Yang, a journalist born and raised in Wuhan, shared with us her #GoWuhan social media campaign launched right after the Covid-19 outbreak began making international headlines. She and a group of volunteers translated kind and encouraging Twitter and Facebook messages sent from all over the world to the people of Wuhan and published them on the Ch...
One Man’s Beijing Business Struggles in the Face of Covid-19
March 09, 2020 06:10 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBAs China continues to deal with novel coronavirus Covid-19, it’s clear that this crisis wasn’t only a test of China’s governance and public health system. It was also a challenge to the resilience of many businesses in the country, particularly small and medium enterprises. What are the biggest challenges they are facing and what kind of measures can be taken to keep them in business? For this episode, we talked to Benjamin Devos, the owner and CEO of the first French bakery in Beijing, Co...
Life Under Quarantine
February 25, 2020 01:02 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBThe novel coronavirus Covid-19 has taken hundreds of lives and caused disruption and psychological damage throughout China and — increasingly — across the world. With millions still under lockdown and self-imposed quarantine within China, and many Chinese unable to return home at an important time of year due to travel restrictions, Wǒ Men hosts Jingjing, Yajun, and Karoline discuss their personal experiences and perspectives of life during the virus.
The View From Davos 2020
January 27, 2020 23:32 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBLast week, before the break out of the coronavirus, much of the world’s attention focused on Davos, a little European ski resort town in Switzerland where this year the World Economic Forum celebrated its 50 year anniversary and welcomed more than 3,000 political, business and other leaders. Jingjing and Yajun, the two co-hosts of Wǒ Men Podcast, met up there and shared their experiences and highlights at the summit from both a participant and organizer’s perspective, respectively.
Wǒ Men Podcast: 2020 Vision
January 06, 2020 08:21 - 28 minutes - 39 MBPodcast hosts Yajun Zhang and Jingjing Zhang come together at the start of 2020 to discuss their hopes, aspirations, and resolutions for the New Year.
Being an LGBTQ+ Ally in China
December 23, 2019 21:17 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBThis year more than 220,000 Chinese people sent online endorsements of gay marriage to China’s top legislative body, arguing for a same-sex marriage amendment to be made to China’s marriage laws. For the system to change in China, the LGBTQ+ community needs allies. Olivia Wang explains to us how she takes action to support the LGBTQ community by attempting to influence both China’s legal system and the people around her.
The China Fear?
December 11, 2019 03:45 - 34 minutes - 48 MBChina dominates global headlines right now — and few of those headlines are positive. But is fear of the country justified? How to separate the people, the government, and the Party? And what impact is the breakdown in dialogue between China and the English-speaking world having on Chinese living and travelling abroad? Hosts Jingjing, Karoline, and Yajun share their perspectives from around the world.
Buy, Buy, Buy: Singles Day Shopping in China
November 18, 2019 09:03 - 24 minutes - 34.4 MBHave you done lots of shopping on Double 11? The reason we ask is that 11/11, also known as Singles Day, has become China’s biggest online shopping holiday and become the Chinese retailer equivalent of Black Friday in the west. Is Singles Day still a culture phenomenon in China where if you have not participated, you feel you would be left out? I have heard some people have started to lose interest this year as they feel the shopping rules have become quite complicated. Do you feel the s...
Sexual Assault in Rural China
October 28, 2019 23:16 - 35 minutes - 54 MBThis week, we have a special guest — who for the purposes of the recording we’re calling “C” — who bravely came forward to share her deeply sad personal experience of being a victim of sexual assault when she was just 4 years old. Through discussing this horrendous experience, this episode looks at the underlying problems in some rural and undereducated areas in China, where gender inequality is a manifest of some purportedly “patriotic” values. It also examines how some criminals can take...
How a Faulty Vaccine Derailed This Woman’s Life – And How She Fought Back
October 14, 2019 10:37 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBLife is not always fair, particularly in a dramatically changing society such as China. While many children from one child families in China enjoy the undivided attention of their parents, others need to fight for themselves to achieve a better future. Cai, our anonymous guest for this episode, was given a faulty vaccine shot as a small child in rural China that caused her to contract polio. For a while she was in critical condition and half of her body was paralyzed. Her illness led to ...
Counting the Cost of Coffee Culture in China’s Yunnan Province
September 30, 2019 02:53 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBHave you ever thought about the true price of your morning cappuccino? It’s more than the five dollars you pay at the cafe on the street corner. The global coffee industry is worth 100 billion USD and rising. But the huge industry profits from the second-most traded commodity in the world are not trickling down to the people who grow the beans. Coffee is extremely sensitive to weather conditions and this year’s drought in the Mekong region — worsened by climate change — has hit the area’s ...
I Changed My Name Because of a Chinese Fortune Teller
September 16, 2019 02:49 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBThis is an encore episode originally released November 2, 2018 Annie recently changed her Chinese given name from Yating (雅婷) to Yiling (奕绫) based on the instruction of a part-time fortune telling master (who incidentally holds a full-time job as a private equity investor). Even though Annie has a well paid and highly regarded job and is in a loving marriage, she was bothered that this may not be what she wants and felt confused as to where her life was going. A new name, the theory goes, ...
Fighting For Change
September 03, 2019 01:16 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBOn the latest Wǒ Men Podcast, we are joined by feminist activist Zhang Leilei, who has played an important role in numerous feminist campaigns in China, including raising awareness around sexual harassment and gender equality. Zhang’s journey as an activist began when she was in university. Now aged 26, she has been a prominent figure in China’s rising feminist movement. One of the most influential campaigns she led was using her body as a moving advertisement on metro trains in Guangzhou,...
Covering the Uncovered Female Stories
August 20, 2019 00:09 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBJocelyn Ford, a reporter, filmmaker, and educator, has dedicated her life to covering rarely-covered female-centric stories. She pushed the Japanese Prime Minister’s press office to build the first lady’s room in the building in the 1990s. She was one of the first reporters in Japan to cover the topic of WWII comfort women and forced the Japanese government and the public to face up to this issue. She was the first bureau chief of Marketplace in China and has shed light on rarely-discussed...
“Mulan” and Hollywood’s Challenges in Pleasing Chinese Audiences
August 05, 2019 09:37 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBThe teaser trailer for Disney’s live-action movie Mulan has sparked a lot of discussion on Chinese social media since it was released in early July. The one-and-a-half minute teaser drew hundreds of thousands of comments on Chinese microblogging site Weibo. Many netizens say they are “satisfied” with the appearance of the first Chinese Disney princess, as well as the settings, costumes, and make-up from the teaser, while others are not so happy with the rewriting of the story and the loss ...
Slut-Shaming is Deeply Rooted in Chinese Culture
July 28, 2019 00:37 - 9 minutes - 13.4 MBThis is a recording Jingjing made when she attended an event in Los Angeles in October 2018 called SlutWalk. Slut Walk is a movement calling for an end to rape culture, including victim blaming and slut shaming of sexual assault victims. She interviewed a sex worker who attends SlutWalk every year calling on people to respect women for who they are, not their profession or how they dress. Slut-shaming is deeply rooted in Chinese culture. When China’s #MeToo movement was at its peak las...
Cycling the Silk Road
June 30, 2019 12:59 - 47 minutes - 64.8 MBWould you be able to ride a bicycle for eight months along the ancient Silk Road through 13 countries, while interviewing tech companies and hosting workshops along the way? Eva Yoo, an international cyclist and writer, just accomplished exactly this feat — and she’s the subject of our latest podcast episode. Born in Korea, Eva has worked in five countries and speaks four languages. Rather than enjoying a nice job in Shanghai, she decided to challenge herself by taking a bike trip from Sha...
Wǒ Men Podcast: China’s Struggle to Tell Its Own Story
June 19, 2019 10:05 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBThe Wǒ Men Podcast is a discussion of life in China hosted by Yajun Zhang, Jingjing Zhang and Karoline Kan. Previous episodes of the Wǒ Men Podcast can be found here, and you can subscribe to Wǒ Men on iTunes here. Against the backdrop of the China-US trade war, the recent “debate” between two presenters from opposing sides of the argument — Trish Regan from the Trump-supporting Fox network and Liu Xin from State-owned Chinese media platform CGTN — attracted a lot of eyeballs. What mater...
Wǒ Men Podcast: The Challenges of Going Zero Waste in China
June 01, 2019 21:23 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MBLiving in an economic and sustainable way is not new in China. Actually, most of our parents and grandparents are still enjoying this kind of lifestyle. They use the same basin of water to wash vegetables, and then to water the plants. They take all their leftover food from the restaurant home. They wear the same clothes for years. They don’t waste anything. However, the younger Chinese generation is totally brainwashed by consumerism and lured by the convenience of easy access to food a...
Wǒ Men Podcast: How Chinese Society Has Given Rise to 996 Work Culture
May 17, 2019 09:20 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBIn late March, the Chinese tech world was rocked by protests from workers against startups’ “996” work culture (the idea that employees should work from 9am-9pm 6 days a week). Although the initial wave of interest in a protest page set up on GitHub has subsided somewhat, the controversy over tech companies’ employment practices has continued in China. Discussions on the topic have examined it from an array of angles, from its legal and ethical status to the mentality and reality of “worki...
Wǒ Men Podcast: How the China Expat Experience is Changing
May 07, 2019 00:51 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBThe international community in China is changing. Chinese still stereotype expatriates as hanging out in bar districts, commute on an old fashioned bicycle and live in a traditional neighborhood such as Beijing’s hutong alleyways. But how do the younger generation of overseas students and expats live in China and immerse themselves in Chinese culture? In the latest Wo Men Podcast, Jingjing and Yajun sit down with Katharina Kempf to learn about her amazing journey in China. She talks ab...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Introducing our new co-host Karoline Kan
April 22, 2019 00:37 - 14 minutes - 21.3 MBAfter nearly two years producing the Wo Men Podcast, Yajun and Jingjing are excited to announce that author and former New York Times researcher and writer Karoline Kan has joined the Wo Men podcast team. Karoline was the guest on our previous episode discussing her debut work of non-fiction, Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss and Hope in China. Karoline was born in Tianjin in 1989 and studied at Beijing International Studies University. After graduating she worked for thre...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Under Red Skies – Inside the Minds of Chinese Millennials
April 02, 2019 07:44 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MBKaroline Kan is a second child born among the one-child generation in 1989. In order to give birth to her, her mother hid from local officials for almost ten months. But the challenges didn’t end there — to her paternal grandparents, she was an unwanted girl, an idea that shadowed her whole childhood. Yet she was also a lucky girl with a strong mother who pushed the family out of a remote Chinese village and completely changed Karoline’s life by providing her with the best education she co...
Wǒ Men Podcast: A Chinese View Behind the Scenes at Davos 2019
February 02, 2019 00:25 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBThe World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland is one of the most prominent meetings of world leaders, business executives and scholars to discuss pressing international topics and issues. Many of us hear about it from afar, either from media coverage or our Twitter/WeChat feeds. But what does Davos really look like? How is the conference put together? And with the US-China relationship currently in a somewhat tense place, what do people talk about at Davos? As a member of...
Wǒ Men Podcast: 2018 in Review
December 28, 2018 10:27 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBBefore we even realized, 2018 has reached its end. It is the time to take a break and look at what we have accomplished or missed in the last year and make a resolution for the new year. In 2018, both Jingjing and Yajun have experienced some ups and downs. We are using this episode to reflect on our lives and to share our thoughts with you. Hopefully, it can provide some perspective for our audience who may have similar experiences. Last but not least, we want to thank all our listen...
Wǒ Men Podcast: A Matter of Debate
December 21, 2018 21:41 - 48 minutes - 66.7 MBDebate is a historical form of discussion which was one of the earliest methods for decision making and even law and legislative making. Six years ago, after witnessing a woman in an English debate by chance, Lysa Wei became deeply fascinated by the nature of debating – logical consistency, factual accuracy, and emotional appeals to win the audience’s hearts and minds. She became determined to be a debater. At that time she could barely present an argument in English. Today, she is the h...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Online Dating in China
November 30, 2018 03:59 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBCompared to the exhausting and time-consuming traditional way of finding a date, online dating apps open another door. In a fast-paced society, we don’t need to stand in a club for hours to fish for a handsome man or be forced to go on unpredictable and awkward blind dates. A few swipes on Tinder can solve it all. Seems like a perfect solution. But is that true? Today, we are talking to Sunny Sun, a cohost of the Chinese podcast 哼哈二将 and an experienced user of online dating apps, who wil...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Buy, Buy, Buy
November 09, 2018 08:58 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MB11.11, also known as Singles’ Day, is a relatively new holiday. Originally founded to celebrate single life in the face of huge societal pressure to marry, the holiday has evolved over the years. Today, Singles’ Day is better recognized as the world’s biggest online shopping festival. Alibaba, China’s biggest e-commerce company and originator of the Singles’ Day shopping phenomenon, achieved sales of over $25 billion in 2017 — it continues to smash its own record each year. Outside of e-...
Wǒ Men Podcast: I Changed My Name Because of a Chinese Fortune Teller
November 02, 2018 01:46 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBWhat’s in a name? For Annie Huang, potentially a new lease of life. Annie recently changed her Chinese given name from Yating (雅婷) to Yiling (奕绫) based on the instruction of a part-time fortune telling master (who incidentally holds a full-time job as a private equity investor). Even though Annie has a well paid and highly regarded job and is in a loving marriage, she was bothered that this may not be what she wants and felt confused as to where her life was going. A new name, the theory g...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Prison Breaker
October 08, 2018 11:06 - 47 minutes - 65 MBThe Wǒ Men podcast is a bi-weekly discussion of life in China hosted by Yajun Zhang and Jingjing Zhang. Previous episodes of the Wǒ Men podcast can be found here, and you can find Wǒ Men on iTunes here. Like millions of Chinese students, Yang Yi took the opportunity to study abroad and explored her future in New Zealand years ago. However, rather than choosing a career which may provide more lucrative financial returns, such as law, economics or finance, she decided to take a bumpier but r...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Gu Xi, Female Coding Pioneer (Redux)
September 24, 2018 03:54 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBThe Wǒ Men podcast is a bi-weekly discussion of life in China hosted by Yajun Zhang and Jingjing Zhang. Previous episodes of the Wǒ Men podcast can be found here, and you can find Wǒ Men on iTunes here. In April 2018, we interviewed Gu Xi, a Chinese female coder and founder of Techie Cat, an online community that teaches Chinese women to code. Earlier this summer, she joined Apple’s “Behind Mac” campaign as a Chinese female innovator in this global initiative. We can see her beautiful face...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Collector’s Edition
September 07, 2018 13:17 - 52 minutes - 71.7 MBFolks in China love their antiques, and unsurprisingly the antique collector industry has long fascinated the Chinese public. During the Cultural Revolution, many priceless artifacts and antiques were destroyed as inconvenient legacies of an old system. But now, antiques are making a comeback. Chinese consumers who in the 1980s and 1990s once rushed to embrace foreign products and brands as trendy status symbols are now starting to develop an appreciation for China’s rich heritage and arti...