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Illustrator Kaitlin Chan on her graphic novel, 'Eric's Sister'
NüVoices - April 03, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week, we have prolific cartoonist and illustrator Kaitlin Chan joining the podcast to discuss her recently published graphic novel, 'Eric's Sister.' Kaitlin talks about why she wanted to focus a narrative on sibling relationships, family, creative doubt, and the importance of friendship and...
Leta Hong Fincher on the 10th Anniversary Edition of her book, Leftover Women
NüVoices - March 13, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhen Leta Hong Fincher’s book “Leftover Women” was first published ten years ago, it was considered a seminal work on Chinese feminism. The book outlines the structural discrimination, wholly reinforced by the government, used to demonize educated women in their late twenties and early thirties ...
A Conversation with Fuchsia Dunlop on her book, Invitation to a Banquet
NüVoices - February 14, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHappy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! To kick off the year of the dragon, we have the one and only Fuchsia Dunlop on our podcast this week. She discusses her recent book, 'Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food.' This episode is hosted by Lijia Zhang. Thank you for your inte...
Feminist Activism Then & Now, a Conversation with Wanqing Zhang, Lijia Zhang & Jessie Lau
NüVoices - January 31, 2024 15:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week, NüVoices board members and co-hosts Jessie Lau and Lijia Zhang are in conversation with Wanqing Zhang, an independent journalist, to discuss China's feminist movement taking place online. Despite formidable challenges such as censorship, harassment, and societal pressures, these femin...
'How to Have an American Baby' with documentary filmmaker Leslie Tai
NüVoices - January 17, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsEveryone in our NüVoices community: happy 2024! To start the new year, host Solarina Ho delves into the new captivating documentary, "How to Have an American Baby" with filmmaker Leslie Tai. An exploration of a shadow economy catering to Chinese tourists seeking U.S. citizenship for their newbor...
Darice Chang and Rita Jhang on #MeToo in Taiwan
NüVoices - December 06, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIt has been more than half a year since a Facebook post referencing the Netflix drama Wave Makers sparked a wave of #MeToo revelations across Taiwanese society. In this episode, we trace the origins of the movement, what has happened since, and where things stand going forward with guests Darice...
Covering Taiwan, Centering Local Perspectives: A Journalism Panel with Silva Shih, Afore Hsieh, Wen-Yee Lee, and Emily Y. Wu
NüVoices - November 22, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIn this special collaboration with Ghost Island Media, host Emily Y. Wu discusses the importance of local and diverse perspectives when it comes to global coverage of Taiwan. Taipei-based journalists Silva Shih, Afore Hsieh, Wen-Yee Lee join Emily in this wide-ranging discussion. Taiwan's up...
Pearl Low on Cantonese Connection and heritage language learning
NüVoices - November 08, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHave you ever been laughed at by family or friends when you tried speaking a new language? It's particularly disheartening when it’s the language your family speaks. In this episode, we speak to artist and illustrator Pearl Low on the difficulties of finding safe spaces for language learning, ...
Taiwan's LGBTQ History with Wen Liu
NüVoices - October 25, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIn this week's episode, we delve deep into the LGBTQ movement in Taiwan. Our guest, Wen Liu, brings her expertise as an assistant research professor at Academia Sinica, adding valuable insights into the history and evolution of queer rights in Taiwan. Wen Liu and our host, Sophia Yan, explore t...
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian on her new book, Beijing Rules
NüVoices - October 11, 2023 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, China reporter at Axios, joins host Joanna Chiu to dive deep into her latest book, Beijing Rules. In its pages, Bethany details China's sophisticated strategy of leveraging its economic prowess, manipulating both access and denial, to shape the behavior of in...
Clarissa Wei and Ivy Chen on their new cookbook, Made in Taiwan
NüVoices - September 27, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsJournalist Clarissa Wei and chef Ivy Chen join us this week to talk about their new book Made in Taiwan: Recipes and Stories from the Island Nation. According to host Solarina Ho, Made in Taiwan is both timeless and timely, and is more than a recipe book. It's a celebration of Taiwanese culture ...
Julia Lovell on China's Hidden Century, an exhibit at The British Museum
NüVoices - September 13, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWe're flying into fall with new episodes two weeks in a row! Scholar and author Julia Lovell is in conversation with host Lijia Zhang about her role as chief organizer of The Hidden Century, an exhibition currently on display at the British Museum until October 8th. The exhibition is the first o...
A Conversation with Yun-Ching Ko on the Taiwan Innocence Project
NüVoices - September 07, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHappy end of summer! We're continuing our Taiwan series with Yun-Ching Ko, campaign director for the Taiwan Innocence Project (TIP), the only NGO in Taiwan that's committed to exonerating the wrongfully convicted by providing legal services and working to reform the judicial system. In this epis...
Adapting YA bestseller 'Loveboat, Taipei' to the big screen with Abigail Hing Wen
NüVoices - August 16, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAuthor Abigail Hing Wen joins NüVoices to discuss her NYT best selling YA novel, Loveboat, Taipei and its film adaptation Love in Taipei, based on the summer study tour that started more than half a century ago. For the price of a plane ticket and about $400, diaspora students between 18 and 23...
Our 100th Episode Special! Remembering Coco Lee, Janet Yellen's Visit to China, and More
NüVoices - July 26, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week, we’ve reached the 100th episode of the NüVoices podcast! To celebrate, we’ve brought together hosts Megan Cattel, Solarina Ho, and Sophia Yan for a panel discussion with a grab-bag of topics – from geopolitical current events to pop culture. We’ll be discussing the recent news of Co...
Introducing our Taiwan Mini-Series: Yu-Jie Chen on China-Taiwan relations
NüVoices - July 12, 2023 01:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFor the next half year leading up to the elections in Taiwan, we will be bringing you a mini-series focusing entirely on the island, from domestic politics to its relationship to neighboring China. For this first installment of the Taiwan mini-series, host Sophia Yan speaks to Yu-Jie Chen, an a...
"Seeking Western Men: Email-order Brides Under China's Global Rise" with Monica Liu
NüVoices - June 21, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings"Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes—younger ... brides being paired with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica Liu finds in Seeking Weste...
A Conversation with Charlotte Ming and Beimeng Fu of Far & Near
NüVoices - June 14, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week, NüVoices co-host and editor of the podcast, Megan Cattel speaks to Charlotte Ming and Beimeng Fu, two founders of the Far & Near Substack newsletter. Far & Near aims to depict China in all its complexity by shining a light on the country's visual journalism and showing the human sid...
A Conversation with Crystal Tai on the Rise of Chinese Digital Nomads
NüVoices - May 31, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsChinese millennials are fed up with the 996 grind (working from 9 AM until 9 PM, 6 days a week) and are going remote. Office workers across the country are freelancing, consulting clients, and starting their own businesses from their laptops; some are traveling to neighboring countries and regio...
Jan Wong on her Legendary Journalism Career
NüVoices - May 17, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week, NüVoices host and co-founder Joanna Chiu speaks to Canadian journalist and author Jan Wong. Jan was one of very few foreigners able to travel to China during the Cultural Revolution where she talked herself into studying at Peking University before working as a news assistant in the...
A Conversation with Yaxue Cao, founder of ChinaChange.org
NüVoices - May 03, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week, Yaxue Cao, the founder and editor of ChinaChange.org, joins the NüVoices podcast. ChinaChange.org is an English-language website devoted to news and commentary related to civil society, rule of law, and human rights activities in China. She works to help the rest of the world understa...
What the West Gets Wrong about TikTok with Zeyi Yang
NüVoices - April 12, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsToday, we have a special guest on the podcast (and a worthy NüVoices ally) MIT Tech Review reporter, Zeyi Yang! Together with co-hosts Megan Cattel and Solarina Ho, Zeyi talks about China's initial reception to ChatGPT and all the uproar and suspicion surrounding TikTok. What are valid concerns ...
The World of Chinese Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Translation with Emily Xueni Jin
NüVoices - March 29, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week, host Megan Cattel speaks to science fiction and fantasy translator, Emily Xueni Jin, on the art of translation and the rise of Chinese science fiction. During the course of this discussion, Emily explains her process of translating work, and the special relationship she develops to w...
A Conversation with Tania Branigan, author of Red Memory
NüVoices - March 08, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsTrigger warning: This episode briefly mentions suicide at 01:15 and 15:45. This week host Lijia Zhang speaks to Tania Branigan, current Foreign Leader Writer and former China Correspondent at The Guardian. In this episode, they discuss her new book Red Memory, about the Cultural Revolution, an...
A Conversation with Lindsay Wong, author of Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality & The Woo-Woo
NüVoices - February 22, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA Ming Dynasty courtesan who transforms into a zombie. A family of ghosts wreaking havoc on a local hot spring. Elite Hong Kong bankers who are secretly serial killers. Welcome to the world of Lindsay Wong's new short story collection Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality, a pleasantly grot...
A Conversation with Liza Lin on Digital Surveillance in China
NüVoices - February 08, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week we speak to Liza Lin, an award-winning journalist and technology reporter at The Wall Street Journal who has covered China for over a decade on topics ranging from digital surveillance to venture capital. Liza has reported on the acceleration of digital tools like facial recognition in...
The End of China's Zero-Covid Policy with Dr. Jennifer Bouey
NüVoices - January 25, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsNote: As current events regarding Covid are rapidly changing, we want to acknowledge that this episode was recorded in early January 2023. In this first episode of our 2023 season, Dr. Jennifer Bouey, an expert on global health equity and security, is here to make sense of zero-Covid's sudden ...
Encore: Revolutionary feminism, wuxia, and the politics of translation, with Yilin Wang
NüVoices - January 11, 2023 23:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis episode was originally released May 29, 2021 * Stay tuned for our new season starting on January 25, 2023! * Learn more about Yilin's new upcoming book, The Lantern and the Nightmoths Yilin Wang (she/they) is a Vancouver-based writer, editor, Chinese-English translator, educator, and c...
Our 2022 Year-End Recap: A Discussion with the NüVoices Podcast Team
NüVoices - December 14, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAs 2022 draws to a close, so must this season of the NüVoices podcast. But fear not! Before we sign off for a winter hiatus, we wanted to bring together our team to reflect on the past year. Joanna Chiu, Rui Zhong, Solarina Ho, Megan Cattel, and Saga Ringmar come together to discuss our podcast'...
A Conversation with Angela Hui, author of Takeaway
NüVoices - November 30, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week, journalist Angela Hui joins the NüVoices podcast with board member (and occasional pod host) Lijia Zhang! Angela discusses the major inspirations behind her memoir, Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter. She writes that growing up in a Chinese takeaway — helmed by her ...
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