This month, Apollo on Call and W5H Book Club are uploading together. Dave and Luki read Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler. The book focuses on the quirks and challenges in the education system the author witnessed as a visiting professor in China. At the end, Dave and Luki reflect on an entire year of reading books about China, and how they feel at the end of this journey.

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For this month’s W5H Book Club episode, we read Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick. The focus is on the children that were trafficked from China to the United States as a result of the CCP’s one-child policy.

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In this episode, Luki and I discuss the unbelievable growth of China on the world stage. So unbelievable, in fact, that some experts don’t believe it!

This month, Luki and I sit down to talk about AI, and the AI arms race between China and the USA, which is entirely foretold in Kai-Fu Lee's 2018 book about AI!

Hey everyone, we are back with a special announcement.!We are bringing the W5H Book Club approach to the world of Medical Humanities! Through medhum.org. Dave has started a new podcast called Apollo On Call, a monthly discussion about medical humanities. The goal of medhum is to explore the human condition as expressed through medicine, literature, and the arts. To that end, Luki will be joining him there for regular discussion about books and podcasts. Check us out at the link here:

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/apollooncall

Thanks for listening!

W5H discusses Louisa Lim's 2014 book on the events of Tiananmen Square 1989.

This month, Luki and Dave convene to talk about China through the lens of understanding the conflict between the U.S. and China over Taiwan.

This month, we sit down to discuss Wild Swans by Jung Chang, an epic look at three generations of women in a Chinese family that spans the history of modern China from the turn of the century through the 1990s.

This month, Luki and Dave break down Richard McGregor's The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers. We try to understand if the book really manages to lift the veil off one of the most secretive and powerful organizations in the world.

For our second book on China, the W5H team convenes to discuss Leslie T. Chang's book on the migrant worker phenomenon in China, circa early 2000s, when millions of young people, mostly women, left the countryside to seek out a new life in the booming country's factories and cities.