Latest Womeninchina Podcast Episodes
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Buy, Buy, Buy
Wo Men Podcast - November 09, 2018 08:58 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings11.11, 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,...
Wǒ Men Podcast: I Changed My Name Because of a Chinese Fortune Teller
Wo Men Podcast - November 02, 2018 01:46 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWhat’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 An...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Prison Breaker
Wo Men Podcast - October 08, 2018 11:06 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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 explore...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Gu Xi, Female Coding Pioneer (Redux)
Wo Men Podcast - September 24, 2018 03:54 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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 o...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Collector’s Edition
Wo Men Podcast - September 07, 2018 13:17 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsFolks 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....
Wǒ Men Podcast: “Sitting the Month” – Postpartum Confinement in China
Wo Men Podcast - August 26, 2018 08:10 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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. Imagine not being allowed to take a shower, leave your house, or even open a window for an ...
Wǒ Men Podcast: #MeToo Finally Takes Off in China
Wo Men Podcast - August 10, 2018 22:43 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOver the past month, a somewhat belated #MeToo campaign has finally sprouted in China. Over three dozen sexual harassment cases mushroomed in universities, media organizations, NGOs and the private sector in China. Suddenly, this campaign has become a hot topic on Chinese social media. But why...
Wǒ Men Podcast: The Changing Landscape of Chinese Media
Wo Men Podcast - July 28, 2018 13:24 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsOur new episode features an editor of international news at a major Chinese news portal, who gives us a rare peek inside a Chinese media organization and see their daily operations, story angles, and how they deal with censorship. Thanks to technology, the format of media keeps evolving from p...
Wǒ Men Podcast: One Year Anniversary Party
Wo Men Podcast - July 13, 2018 00:27 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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. On Saturday 7 July, the RADII-sponsored Wǒ Men Podcast celebrated its first anniversary at ...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Author Lijia Zhang on China, Changes, and Prostitution
Wo Men Podcast - June 22, 2018 09:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsZhang Lijia is a free spirit and rebellious soul. After being forced to drop out of school and work in a rocket factory for ten years in the early stages of the Reform and Opening up era, Lijia taught herself English and chased her childhood dream to eventually become one of the best-known Chi...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Children's Day Special
Wo Men Podcast - June 01, 2018 10:33 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWhat’s your fondest childhood memory? What was your favorite entertainment as a kid? Do you still remember your first toy? If you ask these questions to Chinese kids born in the 1980s, ’90s or 2000s, you will receive very different responses. Both Jingjing and Yajun were born in the 1980s, dur...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Let’s Talk About Sexual Consent
Wo Men Podcast - May 28, 2018 06:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsHow do you know whether your partner agrees with the sexual engagement or not? What kind of signals can be considered as a “yes”? Does going back to your apartment mean he or she definitely agrees to have sex with you? If he/she is drunk is he/she qualified to give consent? These are the quest...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Tackling Mental Health Issues in a “Hidden Emotion” Culture
Wo Men Podcast - May 11, 2018 20:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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. According to the World Health Organization, there are over 300 million people suffering fro...
Wǒ Men Podcast: Searching for Home
Wo Men Podcast - April 28, 2018 10:13 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe 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. There are approximately 46 million ethnic Chinese people living outside China. The term “ov...
Wǒ Men Podcast: The Real Girl Code
Wo Men Podcast - April 13, 2018 08:23 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWho says that women and coding have nothing to do with each other? Gu Xi didn’t believe that and broke the barrier by building one of the first Chinese tech communities for women when she was 18-year-old. (It makes Jingjing and Yajun wonder what they have missed when they were 18.) ...
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