Stuck in the Middle Kingdom with You

  Huaihai Road, Shanghai, with the protected London plane trees Parents advertise their single children in People's Square park. JG Ballard's childhood home in Shanghai The more quaint colonial houses of the French Concession Longtang lane in Shanghai - the beating heart of the city, and the one-time "frontier posts for class struggle" Old meets new - plush Xintiandi, consumer heaven down the road from the CCP's founding HQ "China Dream, My Dream" - the gentle, omnipresent, propaganda of city life Square dancing in Shanghai – charming for some, a nuisance for others

  The best spot in town. Became Brooklyn Bar in... 2015, I think, but still owned by the same fella.

  Hi there! Today, a little more detail about ESL teaching. Ever thought about doing it? I explore the pros n cons. For more see the survival guide below which I made as a recruiting agent.

Summer is a journalist in Taipei. We discuss journalism and press freedom in Taiwan, emotional connections with China, lessons from Hong Kong, chances of war, traveling between Taiwan and China, competition between democratic and Chinese systems, voting in Taiwan   A Taiwanese island off Jinmen, with China's Xiamen in the distance

Welcome to Stuck in the Middle Kingdom with You, the podcast about teaching English and learning about China. We go back 700 years in this one, to meet Changshu's most well-known painter, Huang Gongwan. A bus stop in Suzhou The first section, called "The Remaining Mountain", now in Hangzhou The rest, now in Taipei - too big to fit on a webpage! Changshu's Little Great Wall heading up Yushan Mountain

On today's podcast, a day in the life of an international school. And the symbols of modern China – flag and anthem – and Mao's tricky Hundred Flowers Campaign. Tian Han, the man who wrote the words for the national anthem Nie Er, the man who wrote the national anthem's music   "Let a hundred flowers bloom in a blaze of color" - 1961

Hi thanks for listening to Stuck in the Middle Kingdom with You, the show about teaching in China and Chinese history. Last time, we touched on the Cultural Revolution in relation to one of its victims, Deng Xiaoping, who would later claw his way back into power and remake China. This time, I found myself in the village of Shajiabang, which was the setting of one of the Cultural Revolution's model operas. So that means, we're going back to the 60s, for peak crazy, China-style. See some Shajiabang opera  here on YouTube !  Peng and Mao – a little tension in the air perhaps? Song Binbin pinning a Red Guard armband on Chairman Mao in 1966. Song had led the group of Red Guards who killed Bian Zhongyun, a female educator in Beijing. Bian was the first victim of the Red Guards. Doing the "loyalty dance" during the Cultural Revolution. Mao looks on approvingly from his portrait "To the villages we go, to the borders we go, to places in the fatherland where we are neede...