Chinese Colloquialised - Learn About Chinese Culture In Chinese！

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  • Episode 35: 北京烤鸭 （Crispy Peking Duck）
    We've all seen the 'crispy Peking duck' on a Chinese restaurant menu but do we understand the history, culture and art behind how it's made? Let's find out. In this episode, I talk about how the roast duck dish came about, the two main ways of how it's cooked, the three ways of how it's eaten and the restaurants you should go to in Beijing if you want to taste the true beauty of this dish.

    To see the transcript, visit: https://chinesecolloquialised.com
    6 min
  • Episode 34: 2020同志骄傲月 (I) (2020 Pride Month (I))
    In honour of pride month, in this episode I briefly talk about what life is like for someone in the LGBTQ+ community in China. Lots of people automatically think it's illegal to be part of the LGBTQ+ community in China. It's not. There are LGBTQ+ friendly bars, clubs, dating apps, etc. Is life harder for a LGBTQ+ person? Yes, although to different degrees depending on each individual's circumstance.

    To see the transcript, visit: https://chinesecolloquialised.com
    Original post mentioned in the podcast: https://www.douban.com/group/topic/68869105/

    10 min
  • Episode 33: 关于种族与种族主义 (About Race and Racism)
    In light of the George Floyd incident, in this episode I talk about race and racism, which includes the reading of a Chinese translation version of Reni Eddo-Lodge’s 2014 article named “Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race”. 

    As I was researching, what surprised me was that whilst Reni’s work is praised and celebrated in the West and is widely circulated by western media, there is hardly any mention of her work in Chinese media. So I took the liberty of translating Reni’s 2014 article into Chinese to help expand the conversation about race so that it's available to a wider audience. 

    Reni Eddo-Lodge's 2014 article: http://renieddolodge.co.uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/
     
    To see the transcript, visit: https://chinesecolloquialised.com
    12 min
  • Episode 32: 中国变成今天的中国都经历了什么？(What Did China Have To Go Through To Become Today's China?)
    In past episodes, we have spoken about the two opium wars, the Sikkim expedition and the end of the Qing dynasty. In this episode, I read an excerpt from a book that illustrates very well what China was like during that period of time and how hard China had to fight to become today’s China. Today’s China should not be taken for granted. 

    The book is called 《为什么是毛泽东》(“Why Was It Mao Zedong”). As the title suggests, that period of time played an important role in how Chairman Mao came to power.

    To see the transcript, visit: https://chinesecolloquialised.com
    11 min
  • Episode 29: 提笔忘字 (Forgetting How To Write A Chinese Character)
    In this episode, I talk about the growing tendency of young people in China who are increasing forgetting how to write certain Chinese characters. I also talk about the 6 different ways in which Chinese characters are structured and used; knowing the formation of Chinese characters may help us to better remember the characters. 

    To see the transcript, visit: https://chinesecolloquialised.com 
    7 min

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