On this episode, we discuss the paradoxical process by which the infrastructure for creative industries in Beijing has grown at roughly the same speed at which the roughness that gave art being made there its edge has receded

Full info: https://radiichina.com/b-side-china-ep-08/

ChaCha and Kayla Briët talk about the delicate balance between cultural preservation and innovation, how new media can tell old stories, and how a return to cultural roots is pointing out new creative directions

Full info: https://radiichina.com/b-side-china-ep-07/

We catch up with some participants in the inaugural Found Sound China cultural exchange program, which created bilateral creative flows between 3 American and 3 Chinese musicians this past summer

Full info: https://radiichina.com/b-side-china-podcast-found-sound-china/

Josh Feola sits down with Krish Raghav, an organizer of the annual Concrete & Grass music festival, and Becky Davis, a Beijing-based reporter for French paper AFP, to discuss music, art, and culture within the context of China's "radical uncertainty"

full info: http://radiichina.com/b-side-china-podcast-underground-music-and-social-ritual

Selecting some tunes from the back catalog of Beijing-based vinyl label Genjing Records, and talking about the unique hybrids that have come out of China in the 12 years that label founder Nevin Domer has been organizing here

Full info: https://radiichina.com/b-side-china-podcast-genjing-jukebox-w-nevin-domer/

A seasoned observer of tech-mediated "social ritual" in China discusses internet worlds, "systems of mutual influence," and how accessing China at the level of underground culture can feel like "skating along a parallel dimension"

Full info: http://radiichina.com/b-side-china-ep3

NYC rapper Bohan Phoenix talks about cultural exchange through hip hop with tour-mates DJ TOY and Its Ralph Tho

Full info: http://radiichina.com/b-side-china-podcast-rap-in-china-with-bohan-phoenix-dj-toy-itsralphtho

Photo by William Griffith/Live Beijing Music for Radii

Kiwi/Chinese cultural maven Kristen Ng describes the underground flows that she helps to facilitate in Chengdu

Full info: http://radiichina.com/b-side-china-podcast-chengdu-underground-with-kristen-ng

Cover photo by Colin四四