DiscoverSinica PodcastXinhua's Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang of "Got China" Get Western Journalism
Xinhua's Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang of "Got China" Get Western Journalism

Xinhua's Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang of "Got China" Get Western Journalism

Update: 2024-10-24
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This week on Sinica, in a show recorded in Beijing, I speak with Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang, the authors of two excellent newsletters — The Beijing Channel and Ginger River Review, respectively — and two of the guys behind the YouTube show "Got China." They're making a great effort to bridge Chinese journalism with Anglophone reporting on China with perspectives and insights from within the Chinese state media system.

4:24 – How Jiang Jiang and Liu Yang became journalists 

11:42 – How Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang decided to launch their newsletters, and the advantages of being tǐzhì nèi 体制内

20:29 – Jiang Jiang and Liu Yang’s Got China show 

25:46 – Liu Yang’s and Jiang Jiang’s empathy for American perspectives 

29:53 – The negative American discourse on the Chinese economy and “China collapse theory” 

37:21 The recent press conferences on monetary and policies, and the response in the realty market in Beijing 

46:17 What’s next for Got China 


Recommendations:

Liu Yang: Modern Chinese Government and Politics当代中国政府与政治?》, a Chinese-language textbook

Jiang Jiang: The Chinese podcast Bié de diànbō 别的电波; and Shan Weijian’s Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America

Kaiser: The album The Last Will and Testament by Swedish metal band Opeth; and the Provincial Cuisine Club in Beijing, for trying food from different parts of China

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Xinhua's Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang of "Got China" Get Western Journalism

Xinhua's Liu Yang and Jiang Jiang of "Got China" Get Western Journalism