China Stories

By The China Project

China Stories from the Sinica Network on The China Project brings you audio narration of the best articles and op-eds appearing in Sixth Tone, Caixin Global, The Wire China, Week in China, The World o... more

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The podcast currently has 150 episodes available.

China Stories episodes:

April 20, 2023 [Podcast] The complex legacy of the Doolittle Raid and U.S.-China allyship
In 1942, a band of American pilots conducted a daring bombing run over Japan, with the plan to land in airfields set up in China...
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10min
April 13, 2023 [Podcast] Titanic’s six Chinese survivors tell a story that goes far beyond a shipwreck
Eight Chinese passengers boarded the Titanic in Southampton, six survived. Their story — largely untold until Steven Schwarkert came across it during his research on Chinese...
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10min
April 07, 2023 [Podcast] High-level talks between China and Japan, but no results
China and Japan are talking again, but relations will probably deteriorate over Beijing’s growing military presence in disputed territories, Tokyo’s crackdown on advanced chipmaking gear...
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8min
April 06, 2023 [Podcast] The Tiananmen protests officially called a ‘revolutionary movement’
When a million people converged on Tiananmen Square on April 4 to 5 in 1976 to mourn Zhōu Ēnlái 周恩来, authorities used violence to disperse...
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11min
April 04, 2023 [Podcast] The RESTRICT Act could unite TikTok, Tucker Carlson, and Shein
New proposed legislation in the U.S. Congress could stop foreign tech companies from operating in the U.S. Everyone’s talking about TikTok — but the implications...
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11min
March 31, 2023 [Podcast] ‘An imperial railway failure’: France’s disastrous colonization project on the China-Vietnam border
As many as 100,000 laborers died in the construction of the Kunming–Haiphong railway, which opened on April 1, 1910. The cost was not worth it...
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10min
March 23, 2023 [Podcast] ‘Canton Coup’ and what could have been for the KMT
In the spring of 1926, Nationalists and Communists in China were in a tenuous alliance. While this “First United Front” technically endured until a year...
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10min
March 17, 2023 [Podcast] New House committee on China: Concerns and caution, but not all doom and gloom
The first meeting of a new House committee on China on February 28 signaled that Washington is serious about figuring out the future of the...
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9min
March 15, 2023 [Podcast] Sanmen Bay Affair: The only European power shut out of Qing China
All the great European powers (plus the U.S.) got a slice of China in the late-19th century. All but Italy, that is. Click here to...
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9min
March 03, 2023 [Podcast] The sad reign of Manchukuo’s only emperor
Within his country, “the last emperor” of China was one of the most hated figures of his time. But for most of his life, Puyi...
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9min

FAQs about China Stories:

How many episodes does China Stories have?

The podcast currently has 150 episodes available.