Stuck in the Middle Kingdom with You
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#51 | Last Episode
23 mins; October 25, 2023
In Conversation with Lisa, another of the Cradle of Elites’ English Teachers
34 mins; October 07, 2023
#50 | Farewell Drinks
13 mins; September 24, 2023
#49 | A Daring Escape – The Rise and Fall (and Crash and Burn) of Lin Biao
26 mins; September 09, 2023
#48 | Contract Killer
19 mins; August 27, 2023
#47 | Something in the Water – Jinxi Water Town and Tibet
25 mins; August 13, 2023
#47 | Down The Rabbit Hole
14 mins; July 23, 2023
#46 | Newbies
11 mins; July 10, 2023
#45 | The Sino-Soviet Split pt. 3 – Rapprochement with America
39 mins; June 25, 2023
#44 | The Sino-Soviet Split pt.2 – Peaceful Co-Existence?
17 mins; June 11, 2023
#43 | The Sino-Soviet Split pt. 1
19 mins; May 28, 2023
#42 | Red Tourists – Neo-Maoism, Lei Feng, Suzhou’s Gardens
19 mins; May 14, 2023
#41 | “Better to hear two Suzhou people argue than listen to one regular person talking”
15 mins; April 30, 2023
In Conversation | Making sense of touching fish, lying flat, letting it rot and sang culture
30 mins; April 19, 2023
#40 | This is My Town – Office politics, hukou, sang culture, neijuan...white collar work in China
17 mins; April 02, 2023
#39 | Lily’s Town
22 mins; March 19, 2023
#38 | The Yangtze Never Runs backwards; Man Recaptures Not His Youth - More Opium Wars and the Century of Humiliation
16 mins; March 05, 2023
#37 | Choppy Waters – Zheng He, Tea, Opium, and the beating of war drums
15 mins; February 19, 2023
#36 | The New Guy
14 mins; February 05, 2023
#35 | ”The Headdress is no worse than the Eyebrows” – Liu Rushi, Wu Zetian, Cixi, female leaders and little emperors
28 mins; January 22, 2023
#34 | ”Shame the Poor, not the Harlot” | Valentines Days, Ding Ling, Sex Work, and the baifumei look
17 mins; January 08, 2023
#33 | From Revolutions to Resolutions
13 mins; January 01, 2023
Maoism Beyond China pt.2 | The Counterculture, New Left, Black Panthers, Weather Underground, Paris ’68
24 mins; December 08, 2022
Maoism Beyond China pt.1 | Maoist Workers Institute, Shining Path, Pol Pot
26 mins; November 24, 2022
#32 | The Rising Sun – Zhou Enlai, Sun Weishi, and Jiang Qing
22 mins; November 10, 2022
”Either You’re a Wolf or You’re a Sheep.” | In Conversation with ESL teacher Tom
44 mins; October 30, 2022
#31 | 吃人不吐骨头 ...Without Spitting Out the Bones
14 mins; October 13, 2022
#30 | 吃人不吐骨头 Eat a Man...
19 mins; September 30, 2022
#29 | Shut Up and Colour
11 mins; September 15, 2022
#28 | 久病成良医 Long Time Ill Become Doctor
14 mins; September 02, 2022
#27 | Christmas in Changshu
9 mins; August 18, 2022
#26 | Sunset in Nanjing - The Rape of Nanjing/Nanjing Massacre, Meiji Restoration, Sino-Japanese Wars, Xi-an Incident
24 mins; August 03, 2022
#25 | One Loved Money, One Loved Power, and One Loved China
12 mins; July 20, 2022
#24 | Sunrise in Nanjing – Hongwu Emperor, Taiping Rebellion, Sun Yatsen, and Chinese republicanism
19 mins; July 07, 2022
#23 | December – Shivers, fads, Social Credit Scores, and baijiu
12 mins; June 23, 2022
#22 | The Silkworms Will Weave Until They Die
15 mins; June 10, 2022
#21 | Bamboo Blues
15 mins; June 03, 2022
#20 | Dear Diary
11 mins; May 27, 2022
#19 | Temple Tantrums – Religion and Spirituality in China: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Falun Gong, Mao Zedong
30 mins; May 20, 2022
“It’s Not About the Truth!” | Xinjiang, Peng Shuai, and more China-West misunderstandings
36 mins; May 12, 2022
”This society, it works!” A Shanghainese view on how we misunderstand China
24 mins; May 05, 2022
#18 | ...And Quick Mouths
32 mins; April 27, 2022
#17 | Those With Straight Hearts...
21 mins; April 20, 2022
Stuck in the Middle Kingdom with Covid: A chat with a locked-down Shanghainese
19 mins; April 11, 2022
In Conversation: Brian Hioe on Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement & China-Taiwan situation
33 mins; April 06, 2022
#16 | Will of the People – Wuxi, Chinese Democracy, VPNs, Taiwan
18 mins; March 30, 2022
Tech Support Interlude
1 min; March 20, 2022
Ukraine Episode
19 mins; March 05, 2022
#15 | The Grass Bends when the Wind Blows on it – Confucianism in China, a Conversation
26 mins; February 24, 2022
#14 | Plunging Vertically, Lightly Clinking
15 mins; February 17, 2022
#13 | Open Class
16 mins; February 09, 2022
#12 | Random Impulse – The Bund, Sun Yatsen, Shanghai Massacre 1927
21 mins; February 02, 2022
#11 | Getting Away – Shanghai, Colonialism, the French Concession and JG Ballard
21 mins; January 26, 2022
#10 | The Kettle Boils
14 mins; January 19, 2022
#9 | Easy Meat
24 mins; January 12, 2022
In Conversation: A Taiwanese view on life in China’s Shadow
30 mins; January 05, 2022
#8 | Dwelling in the Yushan Mountain
22 mins; December 29, 2021
#7 | Attention! A Day in the Life at the Cradle of Elites
21 mins; December 21, 2021
#6 | Shajiabang – Peng Dehuai and Wu Han, the Start of the Cultural Revolution
22 mins; December 13, 2021
#5 | The Nine Lives of Deng Xiaoping – with Liu Shaoqi, Xi Jinping, and China‘s State Capitalism
24 mins; December 05, 2021
#4 | Settling In
12 mins; November 28, 2021
#3 | Pumped and Deflated – e-bikes, atom bombs, propaganda, Mao Zedong and the Great Leap Forward
15 mins; November 22, 2021
#2 | ”You Don‘t Want a Grenade Blowin‘ up Beside Yer Face”
14 mins; November 14, 2021
#1 | It‘s Not the Worst Punishment...
16 mins; November 07, 2021
On the Word ”Laowai”
15 mins; November 01, 2021
Intro | Stuck in the Middle Kingdom with You
4 mins; October 28, 2021