This week on Sinica, we’re proud to launch the Middle Earth podcast, which discusses China’s culture industry. In this debut episode on the Sinica Network, host Aladin Farré chats with three individuals who have all hit the big time and become internet celebrities in China: Erman, whose musings on love and relationships turned into a viral success and a full-time job; Ben Johnson, an Australian English teacher, whose short videos on cultural differences have attracted millions of views and 3 million followers; and Tang Yiqing, who started Juzi Video and has a venture-backed company with 30 million young fans. Learn their secrets for how to become a wanghong (网红 wǎnghóng; internet celebrity)!
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Live at the Bookworm, part two: What's ahead for China?
Live at the Bookworm, part one: How has Beijing changed over the years?
Fokke Obbema on China's rising power and the nation's relations with the West
Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Edmund Backhouse in the long view of history
Sinica archive: Beijing's Great Leap Forward
Rogier Creemers on cyber Leninism and the political culture of the Chinese internet
Comfort women and the struggle for reparations
Under the Dome
LGBT China
The Islamic State and China
Bo Xilai: The Trial of the Century
The one-child policy, plus the African community in Guangzhou
The extremes of Chinese media, plus Chinese internet humor
Zhao Liang and the South-North Water Diversion Project
Suicides, strikes, and labor unrest in China
Critical media, foreign and domestic
Mao's legacy and foreign self-censorship
Schoolyard violence with Chinese characterisitcs
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