by Graeme Smith and Louisa Lim
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, and find show notes at www.facebook.com/LittleRedPodcast/
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April 1, 2025
<p>In our third episode on beliefs and ideologies, we explore China’s newfound enthusiasm for psychiatry. Counselling was only registered as a profession in 2001 yet has seen a massive boom under Xi Jinping. The psy-boom is such that even party branch meetings are doing mindfulness exercises, and practitioners are trying to indigenise counselling practices. There’s plenty to work on; the 2022 China Mental Health Survey found seven percent of the population were suffering from depression, half of them schoolchildren. To explore what’s drawing China to the couch, Louisa and Graeme are joined by Yiying Xiong, a counsellor and associate professor at John Hopkins University, Barclay Bram, an audio journalist at the Economist and fellow at the Asia Society, and medical anthropologist Hsuan-Ying Huang, from Taiwan’s National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.</p> <p>Image: c/- Wikimedia Commons, Sigmund Freud's Couch, London, 2004.</p> <p>Episode transcripts are available at: https://ciw.anu.edu.au/podcasts/little-red-podcast</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
February 5, 2025
<p>To welcome the Year of the Snake, we’re launching a new series looking at belief in China. Young Chinese people are increasingly turning to spirituality - even online manifestations of it - and feng shui, in this moment of high unemployment and economic stress. For a Party guided by materialism, this spike in spiritual interest presents a dilemma: how to regulate something you purport not to believe in. To discuss the state's use of spirituality from the Qing to now, we’re joined by Tristan Brown, a historian at MIT and author of Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China and Haoyang Zhai, a researcher at the University of Melbourne.</p> <p>Image: “May The Snake Be With You” c/- Juliette Baxter</p> <p>Episode transcripts available at <a href="https://www.thechinastory.org/lrp/">https://www.thechinastory.org/lrp/</a></p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>
January 13, 2025
Louisa and Graeme discuss the growing female backlash against China's pro-natal policies with experts Chloe Mofei Shen and Qiqi Huang, revealing the complexities of women's choices in a rapidly changing society.
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Kaiser Kuo
The Spectator
CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Darren Lim
The Diplomat
Lowy Institute
ANU National Security College
Council on Foreign Relations
Foreign Policy
The Economist
Foreign Affairs Magazine
CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
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