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China In Context is a fortnightly podcast by the SOAS China Institute (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) which offers expert analysis on the politics, economy, society, culture and history of China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. It features interviews with leading academics, researchers, journalists and other China-specialists from around the world.
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S5E204 China's Economic Plans — and Consumer Challenges
China’s legislature is meeting in March to approve the nation’s new Five Year Plan, which aims to promote higher quality growth, and make China increasingly self-sufficient in new technology of all…
S5E203 Xi Jinping and his Father — Power, purges, parenting
The run-up to the lunar year has been a busy one for China’s President Xi Jinping, with world leaders beating a path to Beijing to meet him; he also found time to purge two of the Chinese military’s…
S5E202 China and Britain — Thawing ties, underlying tensions
Sir Keir Starmer described his recent trip to China as a chance to end the ‘ice age’ in the two countries’ ties and build a more ‘sophisticated’ relationship. But despite the announcement of visa…
S5E201 Mistress Dispellers and Shanghai Girls — Two female film-makers on love, marriage and divorce in China
In this episode we look at love, marriage and divorce in contemporary China, from the perspective of two female filmmakers. These are topics with a political as well as personal significance — the…
S5E200 Japan-China Tensions — Taiwan, Tourism, Migration
Relations between China and Japan — never smooth, given the legacy of Japan's invasion of China in the 1930s — are currently at their tensest in years. This follows the new Japanese Prime Minister…
S5E199 Involution and Lying Flat — The challenges for China’s young generation
While young people around the world face growing difficulties finding work and coping with the cost-of-living crisis, the situation confronting China’s youth seems particularly acute. Years of…
S5E198 Trade War Truce — and a Five Year Plan
China and the US reached a truce in their trade war at the recent meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in South Korea. And the two leaders even pledged to visit each other’s countries next…
S5E197 Translating China — Prizes, pressures and prospects for Chinese literature today
The inaugural US-based Baifang Schell Book Prize for Chinese language fiction in English translation was recently awarded to the Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi’s novel 'Taiwan Travelogue'. And with…
S5E196 Innovation in China — After the 'DeepSeek moment'
After the sudden emergence of the Chinese company DeepSeek’s generative AI model in January, there has been much excitement about the future of innovation in China. But continuing US efforts to limit…
S5E195 China, the US and WWII — Wartime memories and contemporary resonances
This month’s huge parade in Beijing for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Asia prompted much debate — both about the array of new missiles, drones and other military technology on…
S5E194 After the Dalai Lama — China, India and the Tibetan Succession
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, marked his 90th birthday earlier this month with an announcement that his successor as Tibetan Buddhism’s most senior religious figure would…
S5E193 China, Iran and the Middle East — After Trump's Airstrikes
The shockwaves from Donald Trump’s airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear programme continue to reverberate. China condemned the attack as violating the UN Charter and warned that it risked destabilising…
S5E192 Left-Behind Men and Rebellious Women — Dating, Relationships and the Gender Imbalance in China
China's one child policy may have ended a decade ago — but its consequences are still being felt — not least in the continuing gender imbalance in the country's population: for several decades, the…
S5E191 Is China Winning the Tech War? A conversation with James Kynge
The sudden emergence of DeepSeek’s AI chatbot earlier this year reminded the world of just how fast Chinese technology is developing. But it’s also highlighted continuing tensions over China’s…
S5E190 China US tariff talks — Is a deal possible?
After the drama of Donald Trump’s Liberation Day and the 145 percent tariffs he imposed on China, and Beijing’s retaliation with 125 percent tariffs, the two countries have agreed a 90 day pause…
S5E189 Rebooting China's Economy — Lessons from the 2008 Crisis
In the face of Donald Trump's tariffs, will China's plans to boost its domestic consumer economy succeed — or could the government in Beijing be tempted to introduce massive stimulus measures, as it…
S5E188 Taiwan's Controversial Budget Cuts — The KMT goes DOGE?
Taiwan is facing a range of challenges — from Donald Trump's threat of 32% tariffs on its crucial exports to the US, to massive Chinese military exercises off its coastline aimed at intimidating the…
S5E187 Planning China's Future — Boosting Consumption, Enterprise and Defence
At this month’s legislative session China announced policies to maintain GDP growth at 5%, boost consumption and the private sector and promote AI and high tech industry, from quantum computing to…
S5E186 Writing Shanghai, Writing China — A Tribute to Lynn Pan
In this episode we look at the life and work of Lynn Pan, one of the most imaginative of writers in English about modern China and particularly Shanghai, who died last year, and was commemorated at a…
S5E185 China's Economic Challenges — Consumption Slump and Soaring Local Government Debt
With the US imposing new tariffs on Chinese exports, the state of the country’s domestic economy has become all the more crucial. Despite healthy export growth in recent years, at home consumer…
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