Latest Chineseculture Podcast Episodes
Gombo's Prayers on the Plateau
Wo Men Podcast - July 19, 2021 10:16 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWhen 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 mil...
Downsizing in Dali
Wo Men Podcast - June 21, 2021 10:41 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsAre 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 tra...
The cost of beauty: Why is cosmetic surgery so popular in China?
Wo Men Podcast - May 24, 2021 10:37 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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....
Buzzing and Bubbling Business Start-ups for the Covid-19 Era
Wo Men Podcast - April 23, 2021 01:49 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWhile 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 sel...
Promoting LGBTQ rights in today's China
Wo Men Podcast - March 30, 2021 01:23 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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...
Traveling for Change
Wo Men Podcast - March 04, 2021 03:21 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsMany 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...
Davos Dads
Wo Men Podcast - January 28, 2021 10:06 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHow 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 a...
Study, Study, Now What?
Wo Men Podcast - January 11, 2021 10:36 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSchools 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 entran...
The Women Podcast "2021 can't possibly be worse, right?" Year in Review Episode
Wo Men Podcast - December 28, 2020 08:49 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIt 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 t...
I'm from China and I support Donald Trump
Wo Men Podcast - December 01, 2020 10:19 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOver 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 ag...
Ok, Now What? Young professionals in China wonder about their life after Covid
Wo Men Podcast - November 16, 2020 10:24 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsChina’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 ...
One Couple, Two Systems?
Wo Men Podcast - October 26, 2020 04:48 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsFor 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 girl...
Giving Birth in a time of Covid-19
Wo Men Podcast - October 12, 2020 11:06 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings2020 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,...
How Porn Helped Me Through Lockdown
Wo Men Podcast - June 30, 2020 07:45 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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 ...
How Covid-19 has Changed Chinese People’s Attitudes to Personal Finance
Wo Men Podcast - June 22, 2020 04:32 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn 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 e...
The Unsung Heroes of International Media’s China Coverage
Wo Men Podcast - May 27, 2020 09:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTo 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 ...
Has Covid-19 Ended China’s Consumption Boom?
Wo Men Podcast - May 12, 2020 10:33 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsAs 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 ...
Life Under Lockdown for a Chinese Student in the UK
Wo Men Podcast - April 23, 2020 02:59 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWhile 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 ...
#431 LimitlessLIFE: Daily JOY Hacks
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - April 03, 2020 06:23 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsI think we'll all agree that these are insane times we're living in—times like we've literally never experienced before. Are you experiencing JOY on a regular basis? I mean, is that even possible as our fear ramps up, we're losing jobs, and the economy is tanking? We think so. Tune in to get som...
Journalist Yuli Yang on Her #GoWuhan Campaign
Wo Men Podcast - March 23, 2020 10:16 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWhen 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...
#430 Living with the Coronavirus: Insights from Ground Zero
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - March 15, 2020 03:34 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIt's been two months since Covid-19 turned our lives upside down in Shenzhen, China. Outside of Wuhan, our province has been hit the hardest. Ally and her four-year-old daughter, Grace, spent 5 nights in the hospital directly about the Covid-19 quarantine ward. Save to say, it got pretty close t...
One Man’s Beijing Business Struggles in the Face of Covid-19
Wo Men Podcast - March 09, 2020 06:10 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsAs 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 ...
Life Under Quarantine
Wo Men Podcast - February 25, 2020 01:02 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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 ...
#10 Withinlink CEO & Angel Investor Bessie Lee (former CEO WPP China) on Chinese Creativity & Tech
China, WTF?! - February 13, 2020 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Arnold Ma chats to Bessie Lee, formerly the CEO of WPP China and Group M, a China marketing guru in her own right, about her experience, tips and predictions of doing marketing in and to China. Arnold addresses 3 main topics: The difference between Chinese and Western marketing...
The View From Davos 2020
Wo Men Podcast - January 27, 2020 23:32 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsLast 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. J...
Wǒ Men Podcast: 2020 Vision
Wo Men Podcast - January 06, 2020 08:21 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsPodcast hosts Yajun Zhang and Jingjing Zhang come together at the start of 2020 to discuss their hopes, aspirations, and resolutions for the New Year.
#9 China 2020: Trends for the new decade
China, WTF?! - January 03, 2020 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChina was an innovation and tech powerhouse in 2019, with many trends emerging ready for the new decade. This episode is all about what marketers looking to China should watch out for in 2020. Host Arnold Ma chats to Thomas Nixon (Qumin Co-Founder) and Louisa Loehrig (Qumin’s Marketing Manager)...
Being an LGBTQ+ Ally in China
Wo Men Podcast - December 23, 2019 21:17 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis 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 h...
The China Fear?
Wo Men Podcast - December 11, 2019 03:45 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsChina 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 livin...
#8 Football and Sports Marketing in China
China, WTF?! - November 26, 2019 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFootball has climbed its way up to second place in China’s favourite sports. With over 300 million Chinese football fans and counting, China has become a hot market for international club managers. This episode is not just about Football and Sports Marketing in China but also has a special foc...
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