Latest Chineseculture Podcast Episodes
Buy, Buy, Buy: Singles Day Shopping in China
Wo Men Podcast - November 18, 2019 09:03 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHave 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 ha...
#7 China's super-rich and what you need to know with Sara Jane Ho
China, WTF?! - October 30, 2019 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are Chinese shoppers… and there are RICH Chinese shoppers. China now has more millionaires than the US and they are fast becoming an important target for Western brands. But how do these wealthy consumers tick? What do they care about, which marketing messages do they respond to and wher...
#7 China's super-rich and what you need to know
China, WTF?! - October 30, 2019 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are Chinese shoppers… and there are RICH Chinese shoppers. China now has more millionaires than the US and they are fast becoming an important target for Western brands. But how do these wealthy consumers tick? What do they care about, which marketing messages do they respond to and wher...
Sexual Assault in Rural China
Wo Men Podcast - October 28, 2019 23:16 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis 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 loo...
How a Faulty Vaccine Derailed This Woman’s Life – And How She Fought Back
Wo Men Podcast - October 14, 2019 10:37 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsLife 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...
#6 Deepdive into Douyin, TikTok's hyperdeveloped Chinese twin
China, WTF?! - October 03, 2019 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome back to the only podcast to ask: China, WTF?! What’s The Future? In this episode, we chat about Douyin, China’s hyper-developed TikTok twin. It is no secret that short-form video is taking over the world and that brands need to jump on the social train, so now is the right time to be lo...
Counting the Cost of Coffee Culture in China’s Yunnan Province
Wo Men Podcast - September 30, 2019 02:53 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHave 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 ...
I Changed My Name Because of a Chinese Fortune Teller
Wo Men Podcast - September 16, 2019 02:49 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis 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 h...
#5 The Value of Targeting Overseas Chinese with Vera Wang
China, WTF?! - September 04, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome back to the only podcast to ask: China, WTF?! What’s The Future? Arnold Ma, founder of Chinese creative agency Qumin https://qumin.co.uk/, gets to the bottom of what tomorrow may look like, globally, by dissecting China's today. The podcast focuses on Chinese tech disrupters, people an...
#5 The Value of Targeting Overseas Chinese
China, WTF?! - September 04, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome back to the only podcast to ask: China, WTF?! What’s The Future? Arnold Ma, founder of Chinese creative agency Qumin https://qumin.co.uk/, gets to the bottom of what tomorrow may look like, globally, by dissecting China's today. The podcast focuses on Chinese tech disrupters, people an...
Fighting For Change
Wo Men Podcast - September 03, 2019 01:16 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOn 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. No...
Covering the Uncovered Female Stories
Wo Men Podcast - August 20, 2019 00:09 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsJocelyn 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 t...
#4 A Day on Chinese Platforms
China, WTF?! - August 13, 2019 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome back to the only podcast to ask: China, WTF?! What’s The Future? Arnold Ma, founder of Chinese creative agency Qumin https://qumin.co.uk/, gets to the bottom of what tomorrow may look like, globally, by dissecting China's today. The podcast focuses on Chinese tech disrupters, people an...
“Mulan” and Hollywood’s Challenges in Pleasing Chinese Audiences
Wo Men Podcast - August 05, 2019 09:37 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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 “satisfie...
Slut-Shaming is Deeply Rooted in Chinese Culture
Wo Men Podcast - July 28, 2019 00:37 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis 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 ever...
#3 Insight into Chinese Consumers, the Boosters of Global Economy
China, WTF?! - July 15, 2019 18:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome back to the only podcast to ask: China, WTF?! What’s The Future? Arnold Ma, founder of Chinese creative agency Qumin https://qumin.co.uk/ , gets to the bottom of what tomorrow may look like, globally, by dissecting China's today. The podcast focuses on Chinese tech disrupters, people...
#2 Deepdive into WeChat with Tencent expert Matthew Brennan
China, WTF?! - July 03, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome back to the only podcast to ask: China, WTF?! What’s The Future? Arnold Ma, founder of Chinese creative agency Qumin https://qumin.co.uk/ , gets to the bottom of what tomorrow may look like, globally, by dissecting China's today. The podcast focuses on Chinese tech disrupters, people a...
Cycling the Silk Road
Wo Men Podcast - June 30, 2019 12:59 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWould 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 po...
Wǒ Men Podcast: China’s Struggle to Tell Its Own Story
Wo Men Podcast - June 19, 2019 10:05 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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...
#1 Chinese Influencer Marketing and Live Streaming with Lauren Hallanan
China, WTF?! - June 05, 2019 18:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to the only podcast to ask: China, WTF?! What’s The Future? Arnold Ma, founder of Chinese creative agency Qumin, gets to the bottom of what tomorrow may look like, globally, by dissecting China's today. The podcast focuses on Chinese tech disrupters, people and cultures. In this first ...
Wǒ Men Podcast: The Challenges of Going Zero Waste in China
Wo Men Podcast - June 01, 2019 21:23 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsLiving 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. ...
Wǒ Men Podcast: How Chinese Society Has Given Rise to 996 Work Culture
Wo Men Podcast - May 17, 2019 09:20 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsIn 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 te...
Wǒ Men Podcast: How the China Expat Experience is Changing
Wo Men Podcast - May 07, 2019 00:51 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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 ex...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Introducing our new co-host Karoline Kan
Wo Men Podcast - April 22, 2019 00:37 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsAfter 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, ...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Under Red Skies – Inside the Minds of Chinese Millennials
Wo Men Podcast - April 02, 2019 07:44 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsKaroline 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 chil...
Wǒ Men Podcast: A Chinese View Behind the Scenes at Davos 2019
Wo Men Podcast - February 02, 2019 00:25 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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...
Wǒ Men Podcast: 2018 in Review
Wo Men Podcast - December 28, 2018 10:27 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsBefore 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 ...
Wǒ Men Podcast: A Matter of Debate
Wo Men Podcast - December 21, 2018 21:41 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsDebate 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, fa...
#429 Update and Personal Invitation
Limitless Laowai — Expat Life, Business Strategy, Personal Development & Cultural Adjustment in China | Learn Chinese - December 19, 2018 03:18 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIn this show, I give you a raw, unedited update into my life for the past 14 months since I last released content, an apology, and a personal invitation to reconnect on a new platform with a renewed purpose. The link mentioned in the show is bit.ly/joinallymona
Wǒ Men Podcast: Online Dating in China
Wo Men Podcast - November 30, 2018 03:59 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsCompared 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 Tinde...
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