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The Little Red Podcast

Graeme Smith and Louisa Lim

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The Little Red Podcast: interviews and chat celebrating China beyond the Beijing beltway. Hosted by Graeme Smith, China studies academic at the Australian National University's Department of Pacific Affairs and Louisa Lim, former China correspondent for the BBC and NPR, now with the Centre for Advancing Journalism at Melbourne University. We are the 2018 winners of podcast of the year in the News & Current Affairs category of the Australian Podcast Awards. Follow us @limlouisa and @GraemeKSmith,...

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Episodes (205)

Money (That’s What I Want): China’s New Investment Regime

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Aug 28, 202639:05pending

Out of Battery? China's EV Dreams Flicker

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Jul 14, 202652:58pending

Lightning Strikes: China’s Robot Revolution

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May 6, 202650:57pending

China Rules: Autocracy for sale

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Apr 21, 202648:38failed

Little Red Podcast x Face Off

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Mar 31, 202633:48failed

State Capture or Mind Capture? China's Spy Strategy on 3 Continents

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Mar 5, 202656:06pending

Bad Apple? How the World’s Greatest Company Changed Chinese Tech

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Jan 7, 202649:17pending

Education Nation: China’s Exam Fetish

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Dec 8, 202547:33pending

The Lead Goose: China’s AI Embrace

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Nov 4, 202552:58pending

Wolf Spirits and Wild Shamans: The Revival of Spirit Mediums

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Oct 7, 202551:17pending

Man Up: The Rise and Rise of China’s Manosphere

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Aug 20, 202536:22pending

Karma Chameleon: The CCP turns to Buddhism

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Jul 22, 202549:27pending

The Garbage Time of History: Is China Still Marxist?

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Jun 26, 202541:44pending

China on the Couch: Xi Jinping's Psy-boom

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Apr 1, 202548:02pending

Let's Get Spiritual: State, Digital Spirituality and Feng Shui in China

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Feb 5, 202546:54pending

Sisters doing it for themselves? Marriage Refusal and Little Milk Puppies

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Jan 13, 202544:27pending

Give me Maw: China's Craze for the Cocaine of the Seas

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Dec 10, 202442:48pending

The Centre of the Vortex: Survivors' Notes from Hong Kong Writers

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Nov 8, 202440:30pending

Special Criminal Zones: China’s Pig Butchers Pivot to the West

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Oct 2, 202448:05pending

Cognitive hazing: The Disinformation War on Taiwan?

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Aug 31, 202444:22pending

The Pig Butcher’s Payroll: Inside a Romance Scam

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Jul 24, 202449:18pending

Fraud Factories and Pig Butchery: Chinese Triads go Pacific

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Jun 12, 202446:33pending

Here be Dragons: LRP turns 100

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May 13, 202440:19pending

Hold my popcorn: Diplomatic war in the Pacific Theatre

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Mar 27, 202436:45pending

The Feminists have Stood Up: Gender and Comedy in China

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Feb 8, 202445:42pending

Full time children or half dead: China’s Gen Z goes to ground

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Dec 13, 202340:36pending

Bombard the Past: Exhuming the Cultural Revolution

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Nov 8, 202350:04pending

The Battle for the Future: The Mission of China's Underground Historians

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Sep 27, 202348:21pending

Cat Years in Cat Country: Sci-Fi in China

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Aug 29, 202352:55pending

Gone to ground: China’s rare earths strategy

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Aug 7, 202347:41pending

China’s Best Mate: New Zealand’s Muddled China Ties

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Jun 27, 202339:41pending

China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Welcome to the Internet

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Jun 14, 202343:32pending

China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: The Polar Express

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May 4, 202342:46pending

China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Rolling in the Deep

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Mar 29, 202343:28pending

China Beyond the Ends of the Earth: Space

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Feb 28, 202344:40pending

COVID infections: The New Bumper Harvest

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Feb 6, 202347:57pending

The Death of Covid Zero?

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Dec 15, 202248:52pending

Controlling the future: Inside China’s surveillance state

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Nov 28, 202249:17pending

Spies, Lies and Peaceful Rise

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Oct 14, 202254:34pending

Cambodia: China’s first client state?

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Sep 19, 202244:13pending

Herbal Gold: Chinese medicine, COVID and the CCP

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Aug 2, 202244:26pending

Cheongsams and Coppers:  Beijing's Stealth Infiltration of Hong Kong

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Jun 30, 202247:19pending

Shanghaied: Living with Zero Covid

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Jun 6, 202245:49pending

Gimme, gimme, gimme a Han after midnight: China’s masculinity crisis

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May 11, 202238:25pending

Kevin Rudd: Is War With China Inevitable?

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Apr 28, 202241:46pending

Ukraine: A Win-Win for China

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Apr 6, 202244:39pending

Elite Capture: A CCP Primer in Making Friends and Influencing People

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Mar 9, 202243:59pending

Caste Aside: The Future for China's Peasants

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Feb 2, 202245:37pending

Shakeup or Shakedown?  China's New Red Economy

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Jan 2, 202249:04pending

The Great Reconciler and the End of Chinese History

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Nov 21, 202150:46pending