Postcards from China

Christopher Lydon
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  • PLACES & TRAVEL

A series of podcast conversations recorded in Shanghai and Beijing by Christopher Lydon in 2014.

Episodes

  1. 08/04/2014

    Ai Weiwei, China’s Artist/Enemy #1

    Not perhaps since Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet Gulag has there been a dissenting artist who got to be as famous as the government that hounds him. But Ai Weiwei’s situation is one-of-a-kind.He’s a scathing ... The post Ai Weiwei, China’s Artist/Enemy #1 appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

    40 min

  2. 06/13/2014

    China Rising

    China is in its own gilded age, says The New Yorker writer Evan Osnos, into a second generation of ultra-modern tech, a still-developing country bristling with billionaires. On the eve of Chris' trip to China, we're wondering how a country with nearly a century of poverty, collectivism, and authoritarian rule adapts to its instant prosperity? The post China Rising appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

  • 2 Episodes

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A series of podcast conversations recorded in Shanghai and Beijing by Christopher Lydon in 2014.

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