Stuck in the Middle Kingdom with You

By AdamSMKY

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This podcast tells the story of a year of an English teacher in China, working in an international school in Changshu, Jiangsu. It‘s also full of history and culture. We‘ll go back to the imperial days, the revolutionary days, the days of triumph and the days of humiliation. Mostly though, it‘s modern China that I‘ll focus on, as it is the most relevant to understanding China now. China is super fascinating, and it‘s also probably the most important country in the world to understand right now, so this is my contribution to that. It‘s not a chronological history; instead, it kind of matches up to the things that were occuring in my roller-coaster of a year living in Changshu. I‘ve changed the names of the people I that I met when I was in China, except Jess of course. You‘ll meet Jess later. She‘s awesome. Blog: SMKYpodcast.blogspot.com

Episode Date
#51 | Last Episode
Oct 25, 2023
In Conversation with Lisa, another of the Cradle of Elites’ English Teachers
Oct 07, 2023
#50 | Farewell Drinks
Sep 24, 2023
#49 | A Daring Escape – The Rise and Fall (and Crash and Burn) of Lin Biao
Sep 09, 2023
#48 | Contract Killer
Aug 27, 2023
#47 | Something in the Water – Jinxi Water Town and Tibet
Aug 13, 2023
#47 | Down The Rabbit Hole
Jul 23, 2023
#46 | Newbies
Jul 10, 2023
#45 | The Sino-Soviet Split pt. 3 – Rapprochement with America
Jun 25, 2023
#44 | The Sino-Soviet Split pt.2 – Peaceful Co-Existence?
Jun 11, 2023
#43 | The Sino-Soviet Split pt. 1
May 28, 2023
#42 | Red Tourists – Neo-Maoism, Lei Feng, Suzhou’s Gardens
May 14, 2023
#41 | “Better to hear two Suzhou people argue than listen to one regular person talking”
Apr 30, 2023
In Conversation | Making sense of touching fish, lying flat, letting it rot and sang culture
Apr 19, 2023
#40 | This is My Town – Office politics, hukou, sang culture, neijuan...white collar work in China
Apr 02, 2023
#39 | Lily’s Town
Mar 19, 2023
#38 | The Yangtze Never Runs backwards; Man Recaptures Not His Youth - More Opium Wars and the Century of Humiliation
Mar 05, 2023
#37 | Choppy Waters – Zheng He, Tea, Opium, and the beating of war drums
Feb 19, 2023
#36 | The New Guy
Feb 05, 2023
#35 | ”The Headdress is no worse than the Eyebrows” – Liu Rushi, Wu Zetian, Cixi, female leaders and little emperors
Jan 22, 2023
#34 | ”Shame the Poor, not the Harlot” | Valentines Days, Ding Ling, Sex Work, and the baifumei look
Jan 08, 2023
#33 | From Revolutions to Resolutions
Jan 01, 2023
Maoism Beyond China pt.2 | The Counterculture, New Left, Black Panthers, Weather Underground, Paris ’68
Dec 08, 2022
Maoism Beyond China pt.1 | Maoist Workers Institute, Shining Path, Pol Pot
Nov 24, 2022
#32 | The Rising Sun – Zhou Enlai, Sun Weishi, and Jiang Qing
Nov 10, 2022
”Either You’re a Wolf or You’re a Sheep.” | In Conversation with ESL teacher Tom
Oct 30, 2022
#31 | 吃人不吐骨头 ...Without Spitting Out the Bones
Oct 13, 2022
#30 | 吃人不吐骨头 Eat a Man...
Sep 30, 2022
#29 | Shut Up and Colour
Sep 15, 2022
#28 | 久病成良医 Long Time Ill Become Doctor
Sep 02, 2022
#27 | Christmas in Changshu
Aug 18, 2022
#26 | Sunset in Nanjing - The Rape of Nanjing/Nanjing Massacre, Meiji Restoration, Sino-Japanese Wars, Xi-an Incident
Aug 03, 2022
#25 | One Loved Money, One Loved Power, and One Loved China
Jul 20, 2022
#24 | Sunrise in Nanjing – Hongwu Emperor, Taiping Rebellion, Sun Yatsen, and Chinese republicanism
Jul 07, 2022
#23 | December – Shivers, fads, Social Credit Scores, and baijiu
Jun 23, 2022
#22 | The Silkworms Will Weave Until They Die
Jun 10, 2022
#21 | Bamboo Blues
Jun 03, 2022
#20 | Dear Diary
May 27, 2022
#19 | Temple Tantrums – Religion and Spirituality in China: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Falun Gong, Mao Zedong
May 20, 2022
“It’s Not About the Truth!” | Xinjiang, Peng Shuai, and more China-West misunderstandings
May 12, 2022
”This society, it works!” A Shanghainese view on how we misunderstand China
May 05, 2022
#18 | ...And Quick Mouths
Apr 27, 2022
#17 | Those With Straight Hearts...
Apr 20, 2022
Stuck in the Middle Kingdom with Covid: A chat with a locked-down Shanghainese
Apr 11, 2022
In Conversation: Brian Hioe on Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement & China-Taiwan situation
Apr 06, 2022
#16 | Will of the People – Wuxi, Chinese Democracy, VPNs, Taiwan
Mar 30, 2022
Tech Support Interlude
Mar 20, 2022
Ukraine Episode
Mar 05, 2022
#15 | The Grass Bends when the Wind Blows on it – Confucianism in China, a Conversation
Feb 24, 2022
#14 | Plunging Vertically, Lightly Clinking
Feb 17, 2022
#13 | Open Class
Feb 09, 2022
#12 | Random Impulse – The Bund, Sun Yatsen, Shanghai Massacre 1927
Feb 02, 2022
#11 | Getting Away – Shanghai, Colonialism, the French Concession and JG Ballard
Jan 26, 2022
#10 | The Kettle Boils
Jan 19, 2022
#9 | Easy Meat
Jan 12, 2022
In Conversation: A Taiwanese view on life in China’s Shadow
Jan 05, 2022
#8 | Dwelling in the Yushan Mountain
Dec 29, 2021
#7 | Attention! A Day in the Life at the Cradle of Elites
Dec 21, 2021
#6 | Shajiabang – Peng Dehuai and Wu Han, the Start of the Cultural Revolution
Dec 13, 2021
#5 | The Nine Lives of Deng Xiaoping – with Liu Shaoqi, Xi Jinping, and China‘s State Capitalism
Dec 05, 2021
#4 | Settling In
Nov 28, 2021
#3 | Pumped and Deflated – e-bikes, atom bombs, propaganda, Mao Zedong and the Great Leap Forward
Nov 22, 2021
#2 | ”You Don‘t Want a Grenade Blowin‘ up Beside Yer Face”
Nov 14, 2021
#1 | It‘s Not the Worst Punishment...
Nov 07, 2021
On the Word ”Laowai”
Nov 01, 2021
Intro | Stuck in the Middle Kingdom with You
Oct 28, 2021