The Little Red Podcast

By: Graeme Smith and Louisa Lim
  • Summary

  • 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/
    2024 Graeme Smith and Louisa Lim
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Episodes
  • The Centre of the Vortex: Survivors' Notes from Hong Kong Writers
    Nov 8 2024

    Writers from Hong Kong face a Kafkaesque decision in the years since draconian security legislation was imposed on the city: to stay and be subject to intense censorship, or to write freely from exile. In this episode, Louisa speaks to two award-winning authors who have chosen different paths. Lau Yeewa is still living in Hong Kong; her book Tongueless, translated by Jennifer Feeley, won the 2024 Pen Translates award. Gigi Leung Lee-chi is now based in Taiwan, and her book The Melancholy of Trees has just won Taiwan's Golden Tripod award.

    Image: c/- Wikimedia Commons, Empty Bookshelves, 2014

    Transcripts available at https://www.thechinastory.org/lrp/

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    41 mins
  • Special Criminal Zones: China’s Pig Butchers Pivot to the West
    Oct 2 2024

    In our third episode on pig butchering scams, we explore the origins of the Chinese criminal syndicates that enslave people from at least 66 different countries. We examine the institutions supporting this appalling business, from the Thai military to cryptocurrencies, Burmese border guard forces to special economic zones. And the marks for these scam syndicates are not just Chinese lonely hearts—Western countries are now more profitable to scam than China. To ask what can be done to counter this trade, Graeme is joined by Jason Tower, director of the Burma Program at the United States Institute of Peace, and Greg Raymond from the ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

    Image: c/- Stefan Czimmek/DW, KK Park on the Myanmar-Thai border

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    48 mins
  • Cognitive hazing: The Disinformation War on Taiwan?
    Aug 31 2024

    Taiwan is ground zero for cognitive warfare, with the island subject to more disinformation than any other democracy. The targets are political candidates, media outlets, even boy bands. The threat is so serious that Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice recently set up a Cognitive Warfare Research Center. To explore this war for Taiwanese minds, Louisa and Graeme are joined by independent writer Min Chao and journalist Brian Hioe from New Bloom Magazine.

    Image: Taiwan News Formosa TV, YouTube, 20 January 2024.

    Transcripts available at: https://www.thechinastory.org/lrp/

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    44 mins

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