We're talking Chinese TV this week on ChinaTalk! Hollywood writer Trey Kollmer and ChinaTalk editor Irene Zhang discuss farming reality tv, a dongbei murder, and some super creative animated content out of Bilibili.
Farmer show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fklN-OnYuGc
Dongbei show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs0OJVemJz4
Animated show: https://www.yo ... Show More
Jul 2020
Episode 73: Chinese Weave May Be Made By Forced Labor, Sparrows Are Remixing Birdsong, And Black Death Is On The Rise In Mongolia
US authorities have raised concerns that weave supplied from Chinese companies may actually have been made with forced labor from ethnic minorities locked away in internment camps. In North America, a hot new sparrow song is spreading like wildfire throughout the bird population. ... Show More
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Nov 2019
Understanding TikTok: From viral teen videos to Chinese political censorship
This week, TikTok was in the news for pulling a video critical of China's mass detention of Uighurs. Most of the popular Chinese-owned social media app's users are children and teens who share lip-syncing videos, dance crazes and comedy skits. But in today's episode, Alex Hern, t ... Show More
23m 58s