In this episode, I explore the story behind China’s name. Why is China called China? 

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In this episode, since it’s International Women’s Day, I thought I'd interview my mum about the feminist movement in China and what it meant for her.

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In this episode, my mum talks about her first hand experience of coronavirus when she was in China - the good, the bad and the ugly.

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In this episode, I talk about what happened after the First Opium War. Of course there was the Second Opium War, which paved the way for the collapse of the Qing dynasty. And then what?

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In this episode, I analyse the difference between China's "Empty City" strategy and the Greek's "Trojan Horse" strategy. Both were supposedly used during a war and both use 'hiding' to gain a strategical advantage. However, the tactics were used for different reasons and in different approaches. The comparison highlights the cultural differences between China and the West and the different ways of thinking.

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In this episode, I talk about the First Opium War, which is the first war between China and the UK. 

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In this episode, I talk about the newly discovered coronavirus and its impact across China.

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Whilst we all know that Chinese people like to give red packets at celebratory events, especially Chinese New Year, I dig a little deeper and explain how the tradition came about, what are the practices now and what are some of the interesting values that we can put in the red packets.

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In this episode, I talk about the Kitchen God Festival or what I'd like to call "Little New Year". This is when you start tidying the house and start stocking up for the new year so that you can be ready to welcome the Chinese New Year in a week's time.

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For this episode, my friend Alex (a full-time doctor) kindly joined me to compare and discuss the basics of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, primarily by analysing two common sayings in China and the west respectively.

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