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Murder in Hong Kong with Simon Elegant
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/2/26 | ![]() Murder in Hong Kong with Simon Elegant✨ | novelthriller+3 | Simon Elegant | City on Fire | Hong Kong | Murder in Hong KongSimon Elegant+3 | — | 32m 50s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() Ancient Chinese Politics with Daniel Bell✨ | Chinese politicsLegalism+4 | Daniel Bell | Asia SocietyThe Wire China+1 | — | Chinese politicsLegalists+5 | — | 38m 01s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Confucius and Women, with Erin Cline✨ | Confucianismmisogyny+4 | Erin Cline | Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China RelationsThe Wire China+2 | — | Confuciuswomen+5 | — | 37m 57s | |
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Chinese Comedy with Jesse Appell✨ | Chinese comedyxiangsheng+3 | Jesse Appell | China Books ReviewAsia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations+1 | — | Chinese comedyxiangsheng+3 | — | 46m 18s | |
| 2/3/26 | ![]() Islamic China with Rian Thum✨ | Islam in ChinaCultural history+3 | Rian Thum | China Books ReviewAsia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations+1 | — | IslamChina+5 | — | 37m 51s | |
| 1/6/26 | ![]() Chinese Horror with Xueting C. Ni✨ | Chinese horrorsocial commentary+3 | Xueting C. Ni | China Books ReviewAsia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations+1 | — | Chinese horrorliterature+3 | — | 30m 14s | |
| 12/2/25 | ![]() Ep. 27: Sex, Scams and Sorcery with Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea✨ | Ming dynastytrickery+3 | Bruce RuskChristopher Rea | China Books ReviewAsia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations+1 | — | Ming dynastytrickery+5 | — | 38m 31s | |
| 11/4/25 | ![]() Ep. 26: Chris Horton on Taiwan’s History and Present✨ | Taiwan historycolonialism+3 | Chris Horton | Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China RelationsThe Wire China+1 | Taiwan | Taiwanhistory+5 | — | 43m 33s | |
| 10/7/25 | ![]() Ep. 25: Timothy Thurston on Tibetan Satire✨ | Tibetan satireresistance+4 | Timothy Thurston | China Books ReviewAsia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations+1 | TibetChina | Tibetsatire+5 | — | 34m 55s | |
| 9/2/25 | ![]() Ep. 24: China Conspiracy Theories✨ | conspiracy theoriesChina+3 | Alexander Boyd | China Books ReviewAsia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations+1 | — | Chinaconspiracy theories+4 | — | 31m 18s | |
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| 8/5/25 | ![]() Ep. 23: Mark Kitto on Shanghai in the 2000s✨ | Shanghaifiction+3 | Mark Kitto | China Books ReviewAsia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations+1 | — | ShanghaiMark Kitto+5 | — | 30m 22s | |
| 7/1/25 | ![]() Ep. 22: Michael Luo on the Chinese-American Story✨ | Chinese-American historyimmigrant identity+3 | Michael Luo | The New YorkerAsia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations+1 | — | Chinese-American storyimmigration+5 | — | 37m 25s | |
| 6/3/25 | ![]() Ep. 21: Jenna Tang on Taiwan’s MeToo Movement | We talked to the translator of a novel that helped launch #MeToo in Taiwan, about why both the movement and the book are having a second wind. The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Review, a project of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and The Wire China. For any queries or comments, please write to info@chinabooksreview.com. | 30m 11s | ||||||
| 5/6/25 | ![]() Ep. 20: Linda Jaivin on the Cultural Revolution | The writer and China watcher talks us through her microhistory of Mao’s last decade in power, and its relevance to Trump’s MAGA movement. The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Review, a project of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and The Wire China. For any queries or comments, please write to info@chinabooksreview.com. | 42m 01s | ||||||
| 4/1/25 | ![]() Ep. 19: Steven Schwankert on the Titanic's Chinese Survivors | The author of "The Six" tells us about the Chinese survivors of the Titanic, and how they were met with racist scorn on arrival in America after the disaster. The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Review, a project of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and The Wire China. For any queries or comments, please write to info@chinabooksreview.com. | 38m 29s | ||||||
| 3/4/25 | ![]() Ep. 18: Lijia Zhang on Women’s Stories | The memoirist and novelist talks us through her grandmother and mother’s stories, as well as her own, and discusses how the status of women has changed in China through the decades. The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Review, a project of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and The Wire China. For any queries or comments, please write to info@chinabooksreview.com. | 39m 06s | ||||||
| 2/4/25 | ![]() Ep. 17: Lau Yee-Wa on Hong Kong Fiction | We talked to the author of "Tongueless" about how Cantonese is disappearing from Hong Kong schools, and what literature can do to raise awareness. Our guest this month is Lau Yee-Wa, one of Hong Kong's most exciting emerging fiction writers, whose debut novel Tongueless (The Feminist Press, 2024) came out in English last summer, translated by Jennifer Feeley. Lau studied literature and then philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she also started writing poetry. She worked as... | 35m 12s | ||||||
| 1/7/25 | ![]() Ep. 16: Oriana Skylar Mastro on China’s Challenge to the U.S. | As 2025 gets into gear, all eyes are on the year ahead, with a degree of trepidation (or excitement, depending on whom you ask) for the early impacts of the incoming Trump administration on U.S.-China relations, and global politics at large. From the Ukraine war to possibility of conflict across the Taiwan Strait, not to mention economic and diplomatic conflict across the Pacific, it’s a fresh era of uncertainty. To unpack these risks, our guest this month is the academic and author Oriana Sk... | 44m 29s | ||||||
| 12/3/24 | ![]() Ep. 15: Paul French on Wallis Simpson's China Year | The American socialite Wallis Simpson is best known as the wife of former British king Edward VIII. When they announced their intention to marry, her status as a divorcée (and an American) caused a constitutional crisis that led to Edward's abdication in 1936. But long before that, Simpson's adventures had led her to spend a year in interwar China, from 1924-25, while fleeing her abusive first husband and allegedly transporting U.S. diplomatic documents. Later maligned by the British press fo... | 36m 30s | ||||||
| 11/5/24 | ![]() Ep. 14: Kishore Mahbubani on the Asian Century | In this episode, we’re pleased to have had the opportunity to talk to Kishore Mahbubani, a Singaporean former diplomat who was Singapore’s representative to the UN in the 1980s and 1990s, and later Dean at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore. Mahbubani is the author of ten books on Asia and the world, most recently Living the Asian Century (2024). Though the book has a broad scope, we focused more generally on China in this conversation, given our remi... | 36m 18s | ||||||
| 10/1/24 | ![]() Ep. 13: Peter Hessler on 'Other Rivers' | Our guest this month is renowned writer Peter Hessler, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of five books about China, most recently Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, published earlier this year by Penguin Press. In the book, Hessler details his most recent stint living in China, teaching writing at Sichuan University in Chengdu from 2019 to 2021. Hessler talked to us about how the new generation of Chinese students differ from those he taught in the late 1990s; his experiences of Cov... | 45m 06s | ||||||
| 9/3/24 | ![]() Ep. 12: China's evolving art scene | China’s edgy contemporary art exploded into global view over decades of China’s meteoric economic growth. Gone were the days of Mao Zedong insisting that art had to “serve the people", by which he meant, the Communist Party, with socialist realist propaganda. Freed from those contraints with Mao's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, successive generations of contemporary artists in China worked through political trauma, explored Chinese identity, experimented with the styles... | 59m 16s | ||||||
| 8/6/24 | ![]() Ep. 11: Beijing in Short Fiction | Beijing is many things to many people, sometimes all at once – a mecca for migrants and artists, a tech hub, a proving ground for young graduates, a capital of politics and power, a smoggy, traffic-choked dystopia, a charming collection of lakes, leafy parks, narrow lanes and courtyard houses, an enduring city with 800 years of history and lore, and millions of stories to tell. Ten such stories are told in The Book of Beijing: A City in Short Fiction, an anthology in English translation... | 40m 34s | ||||||
| 7/2/24 | ![]() Ep. 10: Rethinking U.S.-China trade | Who are the winners and losers in U.S.-China trade over recent decades, and what's a better way forward? Laying out a compelling argument in this episode is Peter Goodman, a former correspondent in China, current global economics correspondent at The New York Times, and author of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain. He takes the supply chain snarls at the peak of the COVID pandemic as a jumping-off point to explore how China became the world's top exporter and ... | 55m 11s | ||||||
| 6/4/24 | ![]() Ep. 9: Tiananmen remembered | Tiananmen -- the place, the protests, the crackdown -- reverberates in memories and imaginations around the world, even 35 years after tanks rolled in Beijing’s streets, and the Chinese military’s crackdown on student demonstrators in the week hours of June 4, 1989, killed at least hundreds and wounded thousands of people. The protesters had been calling for political reforms, for a more open and less corrupt society, after decades of political upheaval under Mao Zedong’s leadership. Wh... | 59m 57s | ||||||
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