W5H Book Club

W5H Book Club

David Hsu & Luki Danukarjanto

Episodes 32
Avg. Duration 46m
Activity Moderate
Since Jan 2022
Latest Episode Nov 2025

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Every 2 Months
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

Each month, Luki Danukarjanto and David Hsu do a deep dive discussion on a book they have read centred around the topic of that season. Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukidanu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmhsu/ Check out Dave’s Substack for more! https://davidmhsu.substack.com/

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Recent Episodes

Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

Nov 18, 2025 46m

This month, Apollo on Call and W5H Book Club are uploading together. Dave and Luki read Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler. The book focuses on the quirks and challenges in the…

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick

Oct 21, 2025 35m

For this month’s W5H Book Club episode, we read Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick. The focus is on the children that were trafficked from China to the United States as a result of the…

China's Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahon

Sep 23, 2025 33m

In this episode, Luki and I discuss the unbelievable growth of China on the world stage. So unbelievable, in fact, that some experts don’t believe it!

S3E8 AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

Jun 16, 2025 53m

This month, Luki and I sit down to talk about AI, and the AI arms race between China and the USA, which is entirely foretold in Kai-Fu Lee's 2018 book about AI!

S3E7 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: W5H is back!

Apr 14, 2025 2m Trailer

Hey everyone, we are back with a special announcement.!We are bringing the W5H Book Club approach to the world of Medical Humanities! Through medhum.org. Dave has started a new podcast called Apollo…

S3E4 Louisa Lim - The People's Republic of Amnesia

Apr 07, 2025 44m

W5H discusses Louisa Lim's 2014 book on the events of Tiananmen Square 1989.

S3E5 The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan

Oct 16, 2024 47m

This month, Luki and Dave convene to talk about China through the lens of understanding the conflict between the U.S. and China over Taiwan.

S3E4 Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Sep 24, 2024 52m

This month, we sit down to discuss Wild Swans by Jung Chang, an epic look at three generations of women in a Chinese family that spans the history of modern China from the turn of the century through…

S3E1 The Party by. Richard McGregor

Sep 11, 2024 46m

This month, Luki and Dave break down Richard McGregor's The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers. We try to understand if the book really manages to lift the veil off one of the most…

S3E2 Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang

Jun 25, 2024 46m

For our second book on China, the W5H team convenes to discuss Leslie T. Chang's book on the migrant worker phenomenon in China, circa early 2000s, when millions of young people, mostly women, left…

S3E1 China Witness by Xinran

May 28, 2024 44m

What's the deal with China? Luki and Dave reconvene for a new season of W5H as they attempt to understand China and its place in the modern world. China Witness is an oral history of modern China.…

S2E6 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Feb 06, 2024 39m

W5H wraps up their season on classic literature by reading a classic, and now mostly banned, novel about justice in the 1930s American deep south.

S2E9 The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoy

Jan 09, 2024 42m

In the season's penultimate episode, W5H breaks down one of Leo Tolstoy's shorter works, The Death of Ivan Illych and ponders the meaning of death, as well as life.

S2E8 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jan 02, 2024 46m

W5H reads their first novel by a woman, the original rom-com novel. Is it possible for two 21st century Asian guys to appreciate Jane Austen? Well, at least we tried...

S2E7 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dec 27, 2023 42m

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's famous novel is considered by many to be the defining work of Latin American literature. Beautiful, magical, and just plain weird, join us as we take a look at this 20th…

S2E6 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

Dec 18, 2023 43m

W5H takes a look at the British colonial experience in India through the lens of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. The novel looks at pre-partition India and the tinder box of different ethnicities…

S2E5 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Dec 10, 2023 40m

The W5H team dives back into the 21st century as they discuss Ernest Hemingway's post WW1 classic, the Sun Also Rises.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Nov 29, 2023 44m

Luki and Dave convene to discuss the classic, original anti-establishment, minimalist, naturalist, environmentalist manifesto. Henry David Thoreau spent a few years living out in the wilderness at…

The Iliad by Homer

Nov 23, 2023 39m

W5H reviews one of the landmark works of western literature, the original gangster of all epic action movies, the Iliad by Homer. Was it a dud, or is it really deserving of the title of one of the…

S2E1 King Lear - by William Shakespeare

Sep 29, 2023 33m

This week, Luki and Dave dig into the recesses of their high school curriculum and plow through a classic they've never read before. Should they have just left well enough alone? Stay tuned.

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