Popup Chinese
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Podcast Description
Fresh from Beijing, PopupChinese teaches Chinese as it is actually spoken. Start with our basic Chinese lessons, and in no time you'll be speaking like a Beijinger. Our free daily podcasts, vibrant community, and love for the real China make us the most powerful and personal way to learn mandarin.
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CleanAll Sinica Federation of Women | Considering that this was the week Zhang Ziyi found her name dragged through the mud on the Bo Xilai scandal, there couldn't be a more topical subject for Sinica than the double standards that are often applied to women in China, and the way Chinese soci | 5/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBeijing Autopia, 2157 | After the construction of the new downtown expressway, drivers had raced through the streets of Beijing with an almost cavalier disregard for the laws of physics, for who among us would not feel exalted to speed from the outskirts of Shunyi to the downto | 5/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanReturn of the Roommate | The hardest thing about Andy's transition to university was adjusting to life with a roommate. Having become accustomed to studying through the night, sleeping in late and otherwise treating his living space as exclusive personal territory, sharing his d | 5/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Indiana Jones of China | After his controversial involvement with the Tarim mummy excavations in Western Xinjiang, Victor Mair might just be the closest thing Sinology has to Indiana Jones, assuming the fictional Spielberg character was a renowned linguist, translator and popula | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Interminable Wait | At forty-five minutes past the hour Mark was visibly restless, and by a quarter past he was positively pacing. It didn't matter to him that this was a sensitive legal affair involving three major parties across two continents. Considering that Hawkins-Bi | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Anti-Foreign Crackdown | If you've been following the news, you'll know our title for this show refers to the latest "official crackdown" going on in Beijing: this time aimed at the apparent flood of itinerant foreigners in China to steal money, jobs and women from Yang Rui at C | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanStirring up the South China Sea | This week on Sinica, as the situation in the South China Sea simmers and Chinese society turns noticeably xenophobic, we're pleased to be joined by Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt from the International Crisis Group, a non-governmental organization which has | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOccupational Hazard | Flying into Los Angeles at night was like falling into the stars themselves. Below the plane, the darkened sprawl stretched to the ends of the horizon, the streets bathed in a hundred thousand glimmering lights, flashing and twinkling as the cars on the | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDrinks with the Boss | Remember the time you worked for that state-owned auto company and got invited to the annual banquet and said yes and were surprised when everyone started relaxing and having a good time and soon you were even flirting with Xiao Li and thinking it might | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanInteresting Times | Joining Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn on Sinica this week are special guests Gady Epstein from the Economist and Ed Wong from the New York Times, here to discuss what has been a surreal two weeks even by Chinese standards, bringing us the spectacle of a | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThinking and Feeling | Our lesson today is for absolute beginners to the Chinese language, which means that even if you don't know any Chinese you should still find it accessible enough to pick up some of the basics. In it we cover two useful verbs you can use to tell others w | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Monkey King: chapter 1, part 3 | The Monkey King is one of the four classic works of Chinese literature, standing alongside Dream of the Red Chamber, the Water Margin and Three Kingdoms as foundational pillars in Chinese civilization. As such, we are pleased to present this unabridged a | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTearing it Up | Our clip today has it all: useful language for subverting the local establishment while showcasing the amazing vocal diversity in mainland film-dubbing circles. And for fun, we're happy to offer useful advice on pronouncing Colin Firth's name at no extra | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSon of Gump | The somnolent corpse twitched as the first jolts of electricity seared through its head, trunk and prostrate limbs until wreaths of blue flame arced up and down the leg braces as the voltage faded and the laboratory returned to silence, a silence filled | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWorkplace Pickup Techniques | Every language learning program needs at least one lesson on creepy workplace stalking. And by this we mean a lesson filled with useful tips and tricks on how to pickup friends and coworkers without coming across like a creepy stalker. And that's why we' | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSex and Marriage | We hurriedly cleaned up the studio and tried to set a bit more of a romantic tone this week, a feat accomplished mostly by positioning small candles and trays of potpourri by the microphones. And why else than because our subject today is sex and marriag | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinese Industrial Policy and the Automotive Market | Even as the Beijing Auto Show prepares to toast the Chinese market with its typical mixture of sex and tech, industry insiders have been stunned by recent news showing the market share of domestic Chinese manufacturers falling relative to their foreign c | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPulling a Car | Max was still not clear on exactly how his Volvo had ended up stuck in this patch of loose sand somewhere off-road in Utah, and Robert was not being exactly forthcoming about the details. The last thing he could remember was dozing off somewhere by Shipr | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Saga of the Bottle Cap | Gandhi said something about being the change you want to see, and we agree. Because while you may have purchased that bottle of orangeade, and even handed over good money for it, it was a transaction made under false pretenses. So go stand up for yoursel | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanIn Dialogue with China Dialogue | "So what you're saying is... you can't give awards for good journalism to bad journalism?" After a few upbeat weeks on political intrigue in Chongqing, Sinica is back this week with another depressing show about the various ways China is killing us all. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanConflicts in the Medical System | We're pretty lucky not to have had to deal with any major medical crises while in China. Which is probably a good thing judging by the contents of this Advanced podcast, which features a native-native Chinese conversation between Echo and Tiansen about t | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMemories of High School | Suffering the mockery of his high school peers, Stephen had retreated into scholastics to escape from pain and loneliness. Eventually, this would lead him to graduate with top honors and be accepted by one of the most prestigious universities in the nati | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMuckraking with Chinese Characteristics | In one of the juicier quotes making the rounds on social networks this week a private equity investor in Shanghai savaged the Chinese media for its unblinking corruption, quipping to the New York Times that "if one of my companies came up with a cure for | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAdvice for Dealing with New Parents | In the spirit of sharing a helpful tip for dealing with friends who procreate, one thing we've learned something of the hard way is the astonishing degree to which parents end up being more patient with their new offspring than they are with their non-ch | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHappy Easter | I know you were doing email long before I signed up for the yahoo, but could anyone really have imagined what the Internet would have become when AOL invented it in 1993? I mean... just look at this beautiful scarf I bought to celebrate our Easter gift-g | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe End of the Expat Package? | Heard the bad news? Word on the street is that Fat Package passed away in a Suzhou bar last month. We never really moved in the same circles as the guy, but if true we'll miss his presence in town. Even while we were hustling to make ends meet downtown, | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanIntroduction to Pinyin | By now we assume you've heard of pinyin: the dominant method of writing the sound of Chinese characters using the roman alphabet. We use pinyin everywhere on Popup Chinese and while we obviously can't teach you all of the sounds in a single podcast, we d | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Visit to the Dentist | Today we are pleased but mystified to present another edition of Popup Total Request Live, this time with an advanced show directed at the astonishingly large number of you (N > 1) who have written in to request a Chinese-only discussion on dental hygien | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhere did you put the plunger? | Long-time listeners may be hard-pressed to forget our first foray into the exciting world of home plumbing, and if you're new to Popup Chinese you may want to listen to that show before exposing yourself to today's sequel, which picks where the last one | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanExcavation and Betrayal | With fears inflated by a few carefully placed rumors, the local populace was wise enough to stay away from the dig site, rightly fearing what might surface in a place which had lain buried for so long in the sands outside Cairo. And yet this same caution | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMad Max Beyond Thunderdome | The world's cultural heritage had been incinerated along with its servers when the first bombs fell, and what little film stock survived had decayed in the years that followed as human society struggled to rebuild itself after the apocalypse. And yet her | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAdventures on the Second Ring Road | Stephen looked at his cab driver with newfound respect. Although traffic on the second ring road was otherwise touch-and-go, here at last was a man attempting to change it. Hunched over the steering wheel with his eyes on the road, the driver pushed forw | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanL'affaire Daisey | If you smell anything burning, it's likely your Internet cable melting from the heat of all these rumors. Which is why at Sinica we turn our unforgiving gaze this week at unsubstantiated press foreign and domestic, focusing first on reports of heightened | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Fate of an Industry | Things were starting to look ugly. While blockbuster films could still draw people to theaters, the rise of Youtube and Bittorrent had savaged the rest of the industry, destroying the rental income most studios relied upon to break even. And while the bi | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHolding Pattern | What was it about his in-law's apartment that put Derek on edge? The kitchen was small but serviceable and the rest of the apartment didn't seem to lack any amenities: the living room had a television and pull-out sofabed, a wireless router provided stea | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMidnight in Peking | In a China accustomed to glacial political change, Bo Xilai's dramatic fall from power this week has stunned observers nationwide. Joining us to help make sense of things is Guardian correspondent Tania Branigan, who helps review what exactly happened to | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Plunge from the Cliff | Given the recent death of Edward's solicitor and the mysterious disappearance of his wife, it seemed natural to suspect foul play in the millionaire's own untimely passing. But who could the culprit be? There were but five people on the island at the tim | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Movie Store | Could the police crackdowns and online competition really be having such a deleterious effect on Shanghai's leading film shop? Whatever the cause, it was clear the quality of the merchandise at Movie World was regressing. As recently as the Shanghai Expo | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Mirror of History: China through the Looking Glass | Sinica is coming out a bit earlier than usual this week: we were lucky enough to catch Jeffrey Wasserstrom this Monday during a well-timed visit to Beijing, and so dragged him into the studio to get his views on the recent elections at Wukan, what is hap | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRoald Amundsen's Shanghai Diaries | Winter had arrived with unexpected vigor, and from his window overlooking People's Square, Roald could still see the scattered husks of several unfortunate souls who had failed to find shelter. This was the survival of the fittest at work - in Shanghai a | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhat happened to my credit card? | We're not suggesting that the Lido hotel is evil in the same way as the Overlook from the Shining, but be informed that at least one of the bank machines in there is on the fritz, and withdrawing cash may involve a longer wait than is customary, with the | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChina in the World | This week on Sinica, your hosts Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn are pleased to welcome Geremie R Barmé, the well-known Chinese historian, author, filmmaker and translator, and the Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian N | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFather, why must you dress up like this every Wednesday? | A comedy-mystery-thriller laced with father-son conflict and a subplot involving the Transportation Security Administration, "Father, why must you dress up like this every Wednesday" is a masterpiece of contemporary drama that defies categorization while | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJourney to the West | This week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn are pleased to host Ed Wong from the New York Times along with Adrienne Mong who you've seen on NBC News. First up is Xi Jinping's recent visit to the United States, and a closer look at the personal an | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanLet the Bullets Fly | In our inaugural episode of the Popup Chinese movie show, opinions split over Let the Bullets Fly, the Chinese western directed by Jiang Wen and starring train-robbing, gun-shooting and horse-riding versions of himself and Chow Yun-Fat. This is the film | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Next Generation | Liu laid the device on the table to the confusion of the assembled crowd. It seemed to be nothing so much as a strange evolutionary variant of the mobile phone, perhaps half the size of a normal wallet, although illustrating the same folding mechanism. G | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMiddle-Child Syndrome | Until the age of five, Simon had never known misery, his life being a series of happy discoveries, as the young boy discovered in turn the pleasures of self-locomotion, the power of speech, and eventually the joy of socializing with a group of well-adjus | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Satellite Conspiracy | Although his vision was still clouded by the drugs in his system, James had enough sense to know he was in a scientific laboratory of sorts, or perhaps a telecommunications center. The distinct hum of an industrial-grade ventilation system and lack of an | 2/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Allure of the Southwest | This week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn take a closer look at the beautiful city of Chongqing with a forthright discussion that delves into the myriad attractions of this beautiful and occasionally mysterious Chinese city, famous recently not | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Great Wall of Music | We're developing a conspiracy theory that the Great Wall was really designed to act as a two-way non-permeable culture membrane. Because while it manages to keep an enormous amount of foreign music from getting into China, it also tends to trap what litt | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanListening Exercise #2 | Today we are pleased to present another HSK listening test for students preparing for China's official test of mandarin proficiency. These questions lie at the more difficult end of the spectrum for the this level. If you have no difficulty with this mat | 2/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRunning Dogs and Locusts | Ongoing tension between Hong Kong and mainland citizens erupted into open flames on February 1 when a Hong Kong group raised more than HKD 100,000 to publish a full-page anti-China advertisement in the Apple Daily comparing mainlanders to parasitic locus | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Beijing Accent and Standard Mandarin | It's probably the biggest source of misinformation out there about the Chinese language, so today Echo and David take to our studio to chat about what exactly constitutes the difference between standard mandarin and the Beijing dialect. If you're totally | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEpilogue to A Scanner Darkly | Today we take a break from showcasing Chinese literature to feature the epilogue from the Chinese translation of Philip K. Dick's well-known short novel, A Scanner Darkly. As fans of PKD, we found the full translations to a number of his books buried in | 1/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Matter of Food Security | It felt as though the household was passing through some horrible wartime rationing. Once a daily luxury, the mid-afternoon milking had become at first irregular before fading to an almost complete absence. Conferring on the crisis from the comfort of th | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Perversion of Justice | It had been particularly dark that evening, which lent some credence to the claims of the parking lot attendants not to have seen the actual killing. But while the evidence against the main suspect was admittedly circumstantial, the drive to secure a con | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Elections in Taiwan | If your impression of Taiwanese politics has been dominated by the island's recurring stories of vote-buying and parliamentary brawls, you'll probably be shocked to hear what Mary Kay Magistad has to say about her recent trip to cover last week's electio | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Ultimatum | The sales report was taking longer than Xiao Hong expected, which was surprising considering that sales were down two hundred percent in the quarter and there wasn't actually that much to write-up. Yet the document weighed on his mind, clouding his mid-m | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanImpressions of Sichuan | Our collective vote for the most incomprehensible Chinese we've ever heard still goes to whatever that farmer selling miniature Terracotta statues was speaking the day we stopped by Qin Shihuang's tomb in Xi'an. And compared to that, the Sichuanese accen | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanYear End Roundup | It was the year of the housing market (up then down), Ai Weiwei's imprisonment, Wukan, the Wenzhou train crash, air pollution, gutter oil, tainted milk, clenbuterol, China bulls and bears, government transparency, the soaring price of Maotai, Guo Meimei | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Trip to the Gym | Surrounded by an objectively unpleasant mass of grunting, sweating fleshcakes, Hank's body resented his mind for its foolish attempt to impose such Spartan discipline on them both. And to have the gall to disguise it as self-improvement? Gone indeed were | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHorrors of the Chinese Rail System | Now that Chinese New Years is barreling down on us like a t-shirt salesperson at the Great Wall, the thoughts of pretty much everyone throughout China are turning to the obvious question of the holidays: how on earth to get home. If you've ever experienc | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanComrades in Space | The Captain grew reflective as earth loomed out the starboard window. His crew would be pleased with their extended shore leave, but the inner planets were far too crowded for his tastes. Although the first few days off-ship were always refreshing, after | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Fleet Street Murders | Fleet Street had embraced the killings with the unbridled enthusiasm of the British press, pouring rivers of ink into outraged editorials denouncing the demise of traditional values and calling for the heads of practically the entire city council. The au | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Wukan Uprising | For the last few days, international attention has focused on the small fishing town of Wukan in southern China where villagers are in open revolt. Simmering tensions caused by corruption and illegal land sales have escalated into an armed uprising by lo | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Trip to the Orphanage | The Shaanxi orphanage was not where Xi Jinping had hoped to spend his weekend, but a western pilgrimage was an easy way to shore up support among the Party's left-leaning student faction and consolidate his lead as front-runner for replacing Hu Jintao as | 12/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Revolutionary Breakthrough | In real life, we suspect this Hollywood conversation would have a lot less breathless talk about "revolutionary breakthroughs" and a lot more apologetic mumbling about how "it seemed like a good idea at the time" and "is there any way we can avoid gettin | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhat Year-End Bonus? | There's a story circulating on Weibo that may or may not be apocryphal, but is whipping up resentment and envy among proles like us nationwide. You may have heard it: it's about a secretary in a Chinese investment company who broke down in tears after re | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCthulhu visits the Wiltshire Bed and Breakfast | The dream had been rich in suffering and in omens of his imminent return: creatures of unspeakable form pooling in the blood-soaked depths, waves of terrible power foaming beneath a darkening midday sun. And through it all the chanting, chanting, chantin | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanLearning Chinese | Shortly after his arrival in China, the late, great, 19th century Sinologist Robert Hart would write his frustrations in his private diary, confiding that the convoluted phonemes of the Chinese language struck him like nothing so much as "the sounds one | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBeijing City Directions | We should have a special show called "Total Request Live" which will be much like MTV's video request show except with less sex and more conversational mandarin. In any event, that's what we're getting today as we're pleased to publish a Chinese lesson o | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsking for Directions | Two days west from Guilin and the riders were all but lost. Despite the effectiveness of China's Imperial road network, which strung together the major cities of the empire and helped ensure the political fealty of the far-flung provinces, nationwide tra | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinese Literature | Our podcast this week is all about books and money in modern China. If you like us are tired of Lu Xun and Lao She, listen to Sinica this week as we look into the state of contemporary Chinese literature, asking what writers are hot, what writers are not | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEcho's Secret Diary | Discovered in a bundle of personal effects years after Popup Chinese morphed into the world's leading educational-military conglomerate, Echo Yao's secret diary paints a different portrait of the organization's early history than that found in the saniti | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Soul of Beijing | Today we're pleased to share a special live edition of Sinica recorded last Saturday at Capital-M in Beijing. Held to a standing-room only crowd, we talked all about our ongoing love-hate relationship with Beijing, and asked what on earth is happening to | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Deaf Pickpocket Gang | "Enough with this small-scale stuff," Wang Zecun signed. Although the pickpocket gang had been working the railroad station for years, using their heightened observation and non-vocal communication skills to outwit the authorities, the encroachments of t | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Bears are Back in Town | Falling housing prices, soaring inflation and an export market peering over the brink of what seems a cataclysmic abyss. If you've been following the economic news lately, you can be forgiven for being overwhelmed by the chorus of bearish voices crying o | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Popup Cheerleading Squad | We'll admit, our Popup Chinese cheerleaders are probably not what you're expecting. First of all because they're all men in an industry dominated by the other gender. But also because their previous cheering experience consists mostly of mild swearing at | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChinese Drinking Games | Since there are doubtless schoolchildren reading this, let us paint a picture for you: you've just arrived in China after a series of adventures in Southeast Asia and - hungry after the eight hour cargo flight from Nepal - head out to a local canteen to | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOccupy Sinica | Earlier this week, the New York Times published an editorial by prominent Chinese academic Yan Xuetong claiming that China would defeat the United States on the grounds of moral superiority. While the American bafflement over this piece has died down wit | 11/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOpportunity Knocks | Now that our strategic T-shirt reserves are nearly depleted, we're having to stop with the blatant bribery and lean more towards intimidation and suggestion when it comes to making new friends. Occasionally this means implanting a subliminal message in o | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanIs soft power always this damn boring? | In some ways, the latest deluge of rhetoric from the Party feels timeless. Ever since Mao's famous speech in Yan'an on literature and art in 1942, the CCP has made clear that culture ought to serve politics. But there's also something new about the renew | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanGet in Line | You know those stories about people lining up for hours at the Mac Store in Palo Alto? Or camping out overnight to get tickets to a movie premiere? Turns out that it doesn't tend to happen in China for a fairly simple reason: waiting in line is still som | 11/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Unsuccessful Journey | Perhaps you've read Tom Friedman's paean to China's high-speed rail technology? Up until the damn things started smashing into each other, China had a fairly successful history of developing high-speed trains. But you don't hear so much about them these | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDonald Trump | When Brendan heard Echo and Sylvia were doing this podcast, he affected the motion of someone rolling over in a grave. But his complaints didn't stop the juggernaut that is this podcast, because despite Trump's bearish and often aggressive comments on Ch | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Extremes of China Media | It seems to be the consensus among long-time China watchers that the Chinese media has become more radicalized over the last five years, with both online and traditional channels now feeding the public conflicting stories of both reflexive scorn for the | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Marriage of True Minds | Now that you're getting married it's time for a short digression. Assuming you're like most people who've clawed their way to some modicum of Chinese competence through traditional language schools, you've likely been taught that 了 indicates past tense | 10/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanStrictly Ballroom | Film Friday returns this afternoon with a longer clip from a Hollywood movie that you've almost certainly seen, but that Echo hadn't by the time we recorded this show. After hearing vague mention of the general theme, she promptly cleared her schedule an | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDwarf Net Epoch Park | The containment system had been designed by the greatest minds in the country. Keeping the animals in their pens were twin layers of barbed wire fencing with enough electricity surging through them to stun a herd of elephants. Cognizant of the dangers of | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Art of the Paraphrase | If you've spent much time in traditional Chinese classes, you've likely had that moment of frustration shortly after arriving in China when you realize your textbooks have been lying to you, or at least featuring a more Panglossian form of mandarin than | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe End of the World | Shortly after the tsunamis wiped out the coasts, those inland were blindsided by solar flares, floods, landslides and volcanic eruptions. Within months the sky had blackened and from the pre-crash population only a handful of survivors remained, living m | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBook Smarts | We know that many of you admire Brendan and Echo for their uncanny ability to make mandarin accessible without reducing it to baby-talk. But what you may not realize is that central to this is a hard-fought policy we created of not letting Brendan discus | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDrinks with the In-Laws | Mike's relations with Julie's family had been poor for as long as he could remember, but this evening felt different. Perhaps it was the beer, or perhaps it was discovering how much he had in common with her older brother. But regardless of the cause, as | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSun Yatsen and the Xinhai Revolution | One hundred years ago this week, local outrage over plans to nationalize provincial railways triggered the Wuchang Uprising, an act of sedition which marked the start of the Xinhai Rebellion and the beginning of the end for China's long-governing Qing co | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Famous Detective MacGregor | It doesn't take much exposure to Chinese television to realize CCTV's recipe for juicing the ratings of any show: adding mandarin-speaking foreigners. And while we're always happy to see our compatriots getting paid by the Chinese government for a change | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCasual Greetings in Chinese | What do native Chinese speakers say when they greet each other? You may be surprised to learn it isn't the standard "hello" you'll find taught in most textbooks. And that's why we've devoted this podcast to casual greetings in mandarin. So regardless of | 10/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEmergency Evacuation | The arrival of the National Guard had done little to turn the tide at Wilmer Creek, where an unrelenting onslaught by the undead had pitched friend against friend, and neighbour against reanimated neighbour in a frenetic battle for control of the town. B | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCCTV Sports Network | The Chairman of CCTV Sports threw the latest ratings report on his desk with a sense of frustration. Despite the enormous sums CCTV was investing in live sports coverage, none of their events seemed to be resonating with mainstream Chinese audience. And | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMid-Autumn Depression | Wang Ziqian contemplated the ceiling from within his cocoon of self-imposed isolation. For the past week our voice actor had remained in his room, substituting regular work for sleep, sleep and more sleep. And the more he withdrew from the world, the str | 10/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Shanghai Train Accident | At least 284 people were injured on Tuesday when a train in the Shanghai metro smashed into another which had stalled on the tracks. The accident, which threw Shanghai into disarray, came only two months after another near-disastrous incident on the same | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDoctor Himmel's Laboratory | The opening door spilled the children into the musty atmosphere of an underground research laboratory. Myriad scientific tracts with names like "Principles of Rocketry" and "Race for the Atom" filled the shelves, packed tightly between strange tanks and | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanImpromptu Home Renovation | Hank had spent the morning preparing for their evening dinner party. And while the dining room had definitely improved from his attention, the living room was perhaps slightly the worse for it. For while the odds of one of their guests fatally tripping o | 9/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Gutter Oil Podcast | "It was really distressing for me to talk to a WHO expert and have him tell me, 'I have no idea where it's safe to buy food here....'" - Sharon LaFraniere. When Luoyang journalist Li Xiang broke China's latest food scandal last week, exposing the indust | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Dinner Party | Rachael wondered what she could possibly bring as a gift to the dinner party. When her ex-roommate had left the United States several years ago no-one could have predicted that living abroad would change her so completely. Yet now that Sylvia had returne | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRunning with Scissors | Zoe bit her lip and watched the clock. It had now been forty minutes since her boyfriend disappeared uptown to fetch art supplies, and with him stuck in traffic on the way back each minute that passed was progressively unbearable. As the minute hand swep | 9/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNorth Korea: open for business? | As the guillotine of debt contagion hangs over Europe, financial pressures in Asia have led an unexpected player to make a strategic shift. After months of escalating tensions with South Korea have shuttered its opportunities for expanded trade southward | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAdvanced Chinese Telephone Kungfu | The Henan factory boss remained prone on his office desk when the phone rang, but Stephen nonetheless froze in alarm. It was true the workers on the assembly line rarely disturbed their employer in his private enclave, but a failure to answer a direct in | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSeafaring in the Industrial Age | As the merchant clipper sailed north, the leaden gloom that had settled on its crew gave way to levity. With the treacherous passage around Cape Horn complete, the sailors began to speak of their arrival as a fait accompli, driving the cabin boy so posit | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanInnovation in the Chinese Dairy Industry | Longtime listeners to Popup Chinese know that we're big fans of the Chinese dairy industry. As such, in addition to forcing our staff to consume unhealthy amounts of milk and yoghurt on a daily basis, we also promote the industry by coming up with new an | 9/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanInsider Gossip | We stood in the hallway watching 9527 ease her hairpin into our lock. "It's Fujianese design," she said biting her lip in concentration before simultaneously twisting the pin and jerking the lever sideways. There was the brief sound of metal scraping rel | 9/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanStanding out from the Crowd | Spent the summer in withdrawal craving more Hollywood films with Chinese soundtracks? Then join us for the latest episode of our Chinese movie guessing game. This week we feature a short clip from a Hollywood film we're sure you've seen. So listen up, an | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Interrogation Room | The world was blue and Stephen floated in it. He could not be sure if he was truly awake or asleep, and it was even possible he was underwater. But why would he be underwater? There seemed to be a dim light somewhere above him which tapered off into dark | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDeath in the Boardroom | As Susan prepared for her board presentation, the junior saleswoman at Cantor Williams reflected on the irony of her position. Despite the fact that her company specialized in selling downsizing packages to the Fortune 500, she had been saddled on this s | 8/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanZhao Liang and the South-North Water Diversion Project | This week on Sinica: China makes an about-face on Libya, we discuss a recent controversy in Beijing's arts community over independent filmmaker Zhao Liang, and get an on-the-ground update on the state of China's South-North Water Diversion Project: a lit | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThey came from the sky.... | There you'll be, ready to collapse into bed after an exhausting day doing whatever and just when you're about to drift off you'll see the first one get brave enough to buzz down from that hole in the ceiling, or out from behind the power sockets, and soo | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Chinese Ice Phobia | Any chance you remember that scene from Goldfinger where James Bond is trussed up on the cutting board, and he turns to the villain who then says something about expecting Bond to die in the slowest and most painful way possible? Well... if Goldfinger we | 8/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNot in my Backyard | While some Chinese media have flown into high dudgeon over allegations of sun-exposed hamburger buns at McDonalds, powder-based soy milk at KFC, and pork broth made from concentrate at Ajisen, a more grassroots protest gained notice across China when pub | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Shared Apartment | For months after purchasing his condominium, Henry Martin found himself experiencing episodes of almost religious transcendence, as if another universe had brushed up against his reality and somehow distorted it. He felt that time had somehow dissolved a | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanClassified Information | Richard Thorpe eyed the customs officer with suspicion. Although his mission came down from the highest levels of government, he was certain that it would cause a scene regardless if homeland security found an intoxicated and possibly drugged cat in his | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Schadenfreude Podcast | Last week must have felt good for embattled Chinese patriots. Not only did the United States lose its coveted triple-A rating from Standard and Poor's, but months after unrest in the Middle East sparked renewed speculation about political disenfranchisem | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMurder in the Red Chamber | Of the twelve beauties of Jinling, only six remained. The first deaths had seemed accidental if strangely prophetic. Yet the discovery of the latest victim hanging from a tree in the Grand View Garden had changed everything. And while the murders were gr | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe China Rock Podcast | "Beijing has one of the best music scenes in the world," one of our guests intoned, triggering a brawl that quickly split along Beijing-Shanghai lines. And while we'll admit a case can be made for Shanghai too, there no question China has come a long way | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Letter from the Cat | Mildred's relationship with her cat had taken a significant turn for the worse in the past few months, degenerating to the point it had started treating her with open resentment. In recent days the creature would sit on its perch by the window surveying | 7/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTrain Wrecks | After a long and hot July marked by the near-absence of most of our guests, Sinica host Kaiser Kuo is pleased to be back this week leading a discussion of the recent accident on the high-speed Hangzhou-Wenzhou rail line, an accident that has shattered pu | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Hottest Hotpot in Beijing | Every now and then someone writes us asking for the "hottest hotpot in Beijing", which is actually one of the easiest questions to answer: if you're a glutton for punishment go to Guijie and check out a restaurant called Kong Liang (孔亮). This restaura | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFriends in China | Given that Friends was such a popular sitcom in the United States, you probably won't be surprised to hear the show picked up a massive following in China as well. But how much of the show did its Chinese audience really understand? While we're not ready | 7/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Beijing Ikea | Much like swimming in the surging waters that flushed out the Augean Stables, shopping at IKEA in Beijing means surrendering yourself to divine will and being carried helplessly along in a wave of Chinese shoppers intent on clearing out everything in the | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCaptains of Finance | Veronica had been chairing Solomon Brothers' hiring committee for several months, and while she had interviewed countless candidates from the nation's leading schools, none of the recent graduates seemed to possess the killer instinct required in investm | 7/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAlternatives to the X-Ray | An older gentleman who began his medical career during the cultural revolution, Doctor Li had been always been slightly suspicious of imaging technology. Which was why the doctor stared at the X-ray with uncertainty. The image seemed to show a hairline f | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Taste of Silicon Valley, China | Robert Lee regretted his trip to California. Although the young Chinese developer was accustomed to the vagaries of doing business in China, he had found his brushes with American capitalism even more frustrating: his meetings had been constantly interru | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCrime and Cryptocurrency | Bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled cryptocurrencies built on artificial hashing algorithms and stochastic probability measures. Bring us your illicit profits from online drug and kidney trades, international money laundering, and late-night pok | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Calculated Risk | "You say you've never played before," Gerard struggled to maintain his composure. The date had been going well until that point: he had leveraged possession of South America to seize control of North America. And he had just been poised to cross into Eur | 6/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAn Evening at the Rock and Roll Club | Consider the stock photo accompanying this lesson illustrative of the truly great times we have had partying at several Beijing clubs that are not the Loft nor Maggies and that Oliver Stone has yet to frequent at three o'clock in the morning, at least as | 6/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEvolutionary Strategies of Household Pets | When your pet starts rummaging through the knife drawer because it hasn't been fed, it's probably time to get another pet. But what about the warning signs? What other clues do cats and dogs give us that something is off in your relationship, or that the | 6/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCrash Landing | A crucial trait for any pilot is constant situational awareness, or keeping watch for small problems which might signify larger ones to come. And while James Washburn was an excellent pilot in this regard, nothing in his career could have prepared the se | 6/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Saga of the Power Crystals | One of the benefits China offers as an expat destination is the refreshing lack of streetside vendors hawking power crystals and comfort necklaces. Unfortunately, while the Orient is insulated from the prevailing trends on late-night American television, | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNot Even Close | So it turns out that not everything in Beijing is really in "walking distance" from your hotel as your tour guide promised. Or that's how it feels now that you're halfway between Xizhimen and Sanlitun with only twenty minutes left before the show. Suffic | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCrisis in Washington | A mere two hours after he had ordered the mission, the President read his security briefing with a seething fury, his thoughts as stormy as the clouds darkening the skies above Washington. His administration could deal with a partisan Congress. And no-on | 6/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Bad China Day for Dashan | We have enormous respect for Mark Rowswell, but there's still something unsettling about the constant cheer his alter ego Dashan manages to project on state television. It's almost as if Mark's creation lives in a different China than us, one where burea | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Lecture Circuit | Much later in life, Qin would still wake from terrible nightmares of his college days. Yet unlike his many classmates who struggled with the math, his decision to major in physics was not the trigger for these episodes so much as his choice of studying i | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanListening Exercise #2 | Today we're pleased to present another HSK listening test for beginner students preparing to take the HSK test. As unlike more advanced levels, at Level 1 on the New HSK exam, you should be allowed to listen to each passage twice during the course of the | 6/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWater on the Brink | As the southern Yangtze region struggles with its worst drought in a century, China's grand plans for water diversion projects and its Three Gorges Dam have come under renewed scrutiny, as have expectations Beijing can maintain economic stability. For be | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSometimes you just can't take it anymore.... | At the Silk Market in Beijing, Robert had been the center of attention, with polo shirts and Timberland jackets thrust at him blindly from all sides. And now, after a brief respite at his hotel, the frenzy had begun again. Barely had the poor man cleared | 5/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Commuting Life | "And then there was the time a fight almost broke out in our studio over the Tokyo metro...." Our advanced Chinese podcast for today another merciless onslaught of full-speed, native-level Chinese. Hosted by Nicole who you might know from our site for | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCosplay Jiang Zemin | The first time the Communist Youth League suggested a cosplay outing to Beihai park, Xiao Wang was taken aback by the idea. She had always thought joining the Communist Party would be a romantic, intellectual journey filled with serious discussions about | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSqueak the Cat | We took Squeak in after a friend found him huddling in the bushes of her apartment complex. As he's grown up, our once-tiny kitten has developed a fondness for gnawing on things as a general solution to any problem, along with a voracious appetite for ly | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanInscrutable China | It may be because we've yet to finish Kissinger's latest book on the subject, but we'll admit to having found life in China a bit more inscrutable than normal these past few weeks, and all evidence suggests we're not alone. Seen through the prism of Yaho | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Lifetime of Remorse | He had heard that the Owl of Minerva flies only at twilight, and yet the old man had dismissed such philosophy when young. As a boy, enlightenment had raced before his grasping fingers. It was only now as he lay on his deathbed that the old man knew the | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Grandmother Enigma | "It says that Chinese people really care about family," Larry Page leafed through the consulting report. For the last few months, impassioned youth from all over the country had been flooding the Internet with impassioned pleas filled with references to | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanListening Exercise #1 | After months of practice, Squeak was beginning to differentiate between the fourth and the second tones. The fourth tone, he had learned, was easier to hear from a distance and almost never accompanied by food. And what a world of difference from the sec | 5/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Dumb, Illiterate Judge of Hakensaw County | Those who say justice is blind never met Samuel Trappers, famed throughout the fourteenth circuit for his unorthodox approach to law and personal hygiene. More than one counsel had met her match arguing the finer points of law before his court, and many | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAn Inclination to Casual Looting | John was the school's most popular thief. Sifting through a bag left unattended for a moment, he'd strike up conversation with the owner as they returned, hardly pausing from his single-minded plunder of their personal electronics. Yet while the boy had | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCrazed Madmen, Foreign and Domestic | Despite losing almost a dollar for every dollar of revenue last year, Chinese Facebook clone 人人网 made a spectacular launch on Wall Street last week, raising $743.4 million in a crazed initial public offering. So it's no surprise that Wall Street is | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Secret Nazi Threat, part II | George S. Patton charged into Hitler's bunker with revolver drawn. Frustrated by the creeping pace of Allied progress, the American general had torn ahead with trusty aide in his private jeep, single-handedly clearing out entire squads of enemy soldiers | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Secret Nazi Threat | Nevermind that filming had been ongoing for weeks, and the script was explicitly based on records of Allied meetings during the Battle of the Bulge. The envoy from the Ministry of Culture had been adamant: changes were needed to both script and cast if s | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNouriel Roubini gets it in the a** in China | China Doomerism, the once familiar retreat of a chummy pantheon of economic cranks, recently went mainstream with Nouriel Roubini's pronouncement that the Chinese economy is wrestling with over-investment and his prediction that it will likely to come to | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPopup Chinese Crossover Madness | There are some things about Chinese that you won't learn in a classroom, and some dialogues that conventional textbooks simply won't feature. For an example of the latter consider our crossover dialogue for today, inspired by a mixture of 1980s films, se | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanListening Exercise #1 | Considering taking the national Chinese proficiency exam? Or are you just wondering how good your mandarin really is? The HSK offers a reasonably objective way of measuring your progress towards fluency, which is why we are pleased to present this listen | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMilitary Escalation | The war had been raging for an eternity. At first the enemy would seize a strategic advantage and seem on the cusp of victory, only to be pushed back at the last moment. And then the pattern would play out in reverse. This ebb and flow had happened so ma | 4/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanChina's Second Internet Bubble? | Interest in Chinese Internet companies has reached fever pitch. Fueled by the fact that roughly fifty percent of the companies that went public on NASDAQ last year were Chinese in origin, at least 17 more high-profile companies are planning foreign IPOs | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBeautiful and Mysterious | Brad's heart was a wreck. The previous evening he had met a girl he could only describe as perfect. And she had seemed interested between their drinks and dancing. Yet when the party drew to a close, she simply smiled when he asked for a telephone number | 4/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Serial Problem | The first murder had seemed accidental, and would have been officially registered a suicide if not for the near imperceptible signs of break-and-enter the forensics team had found at the scene of the crime. And even then the investigation would likely ha | 4/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Rose and Sister Nine | Shen Congwen is one of the most famous Chinese authors of the twentieth century, and also the least known outside his homeland. Born in Hunan in 1902, Shen moved to Beijing in the 1920s where he attended classes at Peking University. He began writing lat | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOur Nearsighted Colleague | Need to express surprise or issue forceful denials? These are two things we find ourselves doing with alarming regularity when escorting a certain nearsighted colleague of ours around Beijing. But while this lesson is inspired by real life, it's fairly e | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHell Freezes Over | In the last three years mandarin has become the de facto language to know for people working in Hollywood. And while we're getting inured to seeing Asian celebrities show up in mainstream Hollywood films, every now and then hell freezes over and we get a | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Betrayal of Family | Like Al Pacino in Coppola's rickety Godfather series, our mob boss is getting cranky as he ages, longing to pass the yoke of his responsibilities to the next generation, but torn by its lack of competence and inclination to familial disloyalty. In this C | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Simple Transaction | The Chinese teaching establishment had cornered us in a bar at Houhai, and was telling us it couldn't be done over shots of tequila. "Who can teach coverbs to absolute beginners," they scoffed. "You want to start with a lesson on drinking tea." The head | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanScandal in Baidu and Chongqing | A year after our first show memorialized Google's retreat from the China market, our first anniversary sees Sinica host Kaiser Kuo and his employer on the defensive as Gady Epstein and Bill Bishop grill Kaiser over recent allegations of copyright infring | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Best Chinese Podcasts Out There
If you're looking for elementary to advanced Chinese lessons like I was, Popup Chinese is great. Their shows are fresh because they play around with lesson formats and have really genuine conversations and skits instead of boring lessons and canned dialogue. I also like the way their teachers actually speak standard Beijing mandarin instead of just pretending to. The onsite HSK stuff is great too. Only problem is that you can't access their tests through iTunes. Given the competition, I'm willing to overlook some of audio level problems in their earlier stuff to give them a five star recommendation. Keep it up!
You'll learn AND have fun
At first glance, learning Chinese can be a very daunting task. For starters, being a tonal language is enough to scare away a westerner like me. This podcast quickly changed my mind. It covers material that "absolute beginners" like me understand and has more advanced lessons for those already initiated. Film Friday is also a neat installment that I look forward to hearing every week. This podcast is also very easy to listen to, unlike the more dry and stiff resources. The hosts bring a light atmosphere to the while still maintaining the academic quality you expect from paid lessons.
泡泡中文 － 满好的
泡泡中文 - Popup Chinese is different from some of the other Chinese Mandarin podcasts that have been out since August 2005. There are a few exception and free Chinese Mandarin language podcasts are CSLPod, iMandarinPod and now PopUp [泡泡中文] Chinese. has come onto the stage with their edgy dialogues. What I like about is that it's sharp and clever. Their instructors, "Apple and Echo", etc. are "edgy" and their concept is slightly different, fun and very interesting. Did I mention edgy? You can't wait until their next lesson. Whether you're 高级，中级，基本，初级，Advance, Intermediate, Elementary, or Beginner, you can learn from PopUp Chinese. 泡泡中文加油！Rock On!
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