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Sunday, July 27, 2025 Climate Special 20: Steady States (II)

Today, we continue our series on Sino-US climate cooperation with the second half of our story covering the importance of subnational cooperation betw...

Friday, July 25, 2025 Climate Special 19: Steady States (I)

Continuing our series on combating climate change, today we’ll present the first half of our story on how climate cooperation between China and the US...

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Eyes Wide Shut: A Statue’s Missing Gaze

Today, we’ll talk about how a discovery at a humble flea-market led to the remarkable homecoming of a stolen Buddha’s eye and the high-tech quest to r...

Sunday, July 20, 2025 Climate Special 18: Greener Blueprints

As we continue our series on climate change, today we talk about how that after more than a decade of Sino-US collaboration, a trend called “nearly ze...

Friday, July 18, 2025 Climate Special 17: Plugging the Leaks

As we continue our series on China-US climate cooperation, today we discuss how China is concentrating its efforts to reduce methane emissions, a powe...

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 Yungang’s Five Caves: The Intersection of Faith, Power, and Survival

Today, we’ll talk about how five monumental Buddha statues modeled after Northern Wei emperors were created to protect Buddhism during times of persec...

Sunday, July 13, 2025 Climate Special 16: Emission to Earth

Today, we continue our series on China-US climate cooperation and look at how the world’s two largest emitters are including carbon capture and storag...

Friday, July 11, 2025 Climate Special 15: Care of the Wild

Today, we’ll continue our series on Sino-US climate cooperation and introduce how that partnership has entered a new chapter as China embraces one of ...

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 The Pagoda of Fogong Temple: A Timeless Sentinel of Chinese Architecture

Today, we’ll talk about the Pagoda of Fogong Temple, a towering masterpiece of ancient Chinese architecture, where whispers of history, craftsmanship,...

Friday, July 4, 2025 Climate Special 14: Clean Competition (II)

Today, we continue our series on climate cooperation and hear more from climate economist Zou Ji. In this installment, he shares a hopeful outlook on ...

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 Marquis Yi of Zeng’s Fridge: How Ancient Chinese Made Life Cool

Today, we’ll talk about an ancient artifact that served as Marquis Yi of Zeng’s “refrigerator.” Yes, you heard me right. It was a bronze cooling devic...

Friday, June 27, 2025 Climate Special 13: Clean Competition (I)

As we continue our series on climate cooperation, we hear from climate economist Zou Ji. Today we’ll share with you his insights on how China and the ...

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on 7/18/2024

Thanks for bringing the ancient story of the famous poet. Love such kinds of lyrical poets' life history and tales. It's Short, sweet, and to the point while being an entertaining and informative less...

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on 6/3/2024

She was an Incredible lady. I’ve learned enough about the China’s first female general. This is the only episode that made my mind to listen to more than three times. Undoubtedly Listen-friendly conte...

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