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A podcast hosted by Lucia Liu (host of Rock the Boat) and China Correspondents Caiwei Chen, Kayla He, and Jenny Tang exploring how Asian Americans and Chinese deal with modern issues like dating, identity, mental health, and much more.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 16
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Episode 15: Social movement through food with Soleil Ho
Soleil joins the pod and shares how they started writing about food as an avenue for social change. (4:39)
How Soleil has observed the conversation around appropriation evolve over the last decade. (…
Episode 14: Paying it forward through acting and comedy with Derek Mio
Derek joins the pod and shares how he got started in acting and comedy. (3:40)
How the Japanese-American community helped him break into the industry (13:47)
How Derek incorporates differences in gener…
Episode 13: Carrie Zhang and the Asian Mental Health Project
Carrie joins the pod and shares how she came to start the Asian Mental Health Project. (4:15)
What Carrie finds are the most challenging and rewarding parts of starting AMHP (8:51)
Jenny Tang shares he…
Episode 12: Shanghai COVID Lockdown with Jenny Tang and Kayla He
Kayla and Jenny introduce themselves and how the lockdown started for each of them. (0:31)
COVID in America vs China (5:37)
The evolution of the Shanghai lockdown (11:05)
The bartering system that's eme…
Episode 11: Chinese Social Media and Ukraine with Mengyu Dong
Lucia and Caiwei discuss the rise in COVID cases in Shanghai. (0:34)
Mengyu joins the conversation and gives us an introduction on the Chinese digital sentiment around the Ukraine/Russia conflict. (4:…
Episode 10: Hip Hop History and Culture in China with Wes Chen
Caiwei reintroduces herself as a China Correspondent and we give updates on the 1990 Institute and discuss the murder of Christina Lee. (0:34)
Wes joins the conversation (2:42)
Wes shares how he starte…
Episode 9: The Future of Chinese Food in America with Luke Tsai
Lucia and Sean talk Eileen Gu, Nathan Chen and Winter Olympics (0:30)
Luke joins the conversation and shares how he got into food writing (7:12)
How Chinese American food has evolved over the last 10-2…
Episode 8: Try Harder! and the Pressures of High School with Debbie Lum
Michelle Go and Lunar New Year (0:54)
Debbie joins the conversation (5:44)
Getting into Lowell High and other prestigious schools (10:11)
The dehumanization of college admissions (12:20)
Pressure from pa…
Episode 7: A New Wave of Asian Americans in Politics with Varun Nikore
Favorite Hot Pot ingredients (1:37)
Asian American Education Project’s History of Asian American Trailblazers in Politics (3:53)
Varun joins the conversation (6:32)
How Varun started his career in polit…
Episode 6: Dating and Masculinity in China with Caiwei Chen
Lucia and Siyuan share their own dating stories (3:03)
Caiwei joins the conversation (6:30)
The problem with Tinder in big cities (12:50)
Dating apps in China and who uses what (16:34)
Shanghai Marriage …
Episode 5: Gender, Community Building and Fighting for Diversity with Jin Ding
(1:18) Single's Day in China (11/11)
(2:39) Siyuan shares her experience with the Chinese Storytellers community and her journey to become a journalist
(6:33) Jin shares her own journalism journey and …
Episode 4: Andrew Yang, AAPI Political Engagement with Brian Yang
(2:53) Chinese netizens' sentiment around Meng Wanzhou
(5:57) Chinese netizen's sentiment on the racist attacks against Asians in the West
(8:19) Chinese immigrant parent's approach to politics through…
Episode 3: Shang Chi and the future for AAPI in Hollywood with Janet Yang
(01:07) Sean gives a brief history of Asian Americans in Hollywood. (From Sessue Hayakawa to Shang Chi)
(06:26) Siyuan shares China's reaction to Crazy Rich Asians.
(11:39) Siyuan shares China's sent…
Episode 2: USA + China in the Summer Olympics, Sports fandom and the athlete journey in China with Steven Zeng
(00:44) Lucia and Siyuan share their Olympics memories and thoughts on the 2021 Summer Olympics
(07:54) Steve joins the conversation
(10:50) The group discusses what the NYT got right and wrong with t…
Episode 1: Getting to know our Hosts and the 1990 Institute
(00:43) Lucia and Siyuan introduce themselves and why they want to host the podcast.
(04:18) Sean gives a brief history of the 1990 Institute and what to expect from the podcast in the future.
(06:30) …