Fernostwärts   /     FOW026– Interview with Kaiser Kuo (EN)

Zusammenfassung

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	Katharin Tai			Katharin Tai @ FOW026 - Interview with Kaiser Kuo (EN)
	Kaiser Kuo

Shownotes

Image Credit: “Pushing the bicycle”, taken in May 1984, CC BY-NC 2.0 by kattebelletje/flickr

Kaiser’s background and his first experiences in China (00:00)

• Kaiser Kuo
• Sinica Podcast
• Jeremy Goldkorn, Kaiser’s podcast partner
• Tang Dynasty, Kaiser’s former, quite successful, rock band
• Chun Qiu, his current band (on hiatus)
• Wuxia literature
• German article: “Heavy Metal: Zu laut für China“
• Musical recommendation: Suffocated

Foreign identity and work in China (22:55)

• “ABC”: American-born Chinese. Ethnically Chinese people who grew up in America
• Baidu.com, search engine and more
• Youku.com, video site
• Sinica with Christina Larson on Tu Youyu
• Weibo.com, micro-blogging site
• Weixin/WeChat, messenger app and more
• Tieba boards on Baidu (“very much like Reddit”)
• Kaiser’s Quora profile

US-China relations and overseas Chinese in the US (41:20)

• Sinica with Holly Chang on being Chinese American
• “The model minority is losing patience” – on Asian Americans and complaints over being discriminated in US academia
• (not talked about, but related: Asian Americans and #BlackLivesMatter)
• “Chinese Students in America: 300,000 and Counting“
• “The Long March from China to the Ivies“
• privileged kids as stereotype of Chinese students in the US (cf. e.g. TV show Ultra Rich Asian Girls of Vancouver)

Raising children in Beijing (55:15)

• Link on foreign expensive schools in Beijing

Recommendation (1:00:55)

• SupChina, a new China-focused site and app
• (this is also where Kaiser’s podcast Sinica is being published now)