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Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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