Round Table China
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Round Table China
Round Table is a premier English radio/podcast show, straight from Beijing. Hear what's buzzing on the Internet and the main streets, see the latest lifestyle trends, and feel the pulse of life in China, Round Table is your golden ticket. With dynamic cultural exchanges between hosts from diverse ba...
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The Soapbox: Anxiety bags
Gen Z in the United States has taken up a new self-care hobby. For those who suffer from anxiety, people are packing small comfort bags to help them g...
How technology is empowering China's flood control system
Flood season is hitting harder than ever. This year, China isn't just waiting for disasters to happen. It's seeing them coming. Faster warnings. Smart...
Hotpot just got a rulebook
Hotpot. A dish with dozens of regional forms across China alone. It has gotten so big that entire industries have grown up around the stove. Now we're...
The real Xizang
To some, Xizang is considered sacred, remote, untouched by modernity. A postcard frozen in time. But 75 years ago, peaceful liberation set in motion a...
Are we ready to watch humans again?
Zero celebrities. Zero big budget. Zero marketing push. And somehow, a tiny short drama named 'Enemy' exploded across Chinese social media in days. Wh...
Chinese motorcycles: from factory to podium
Motorcycles in China were once just cheap, utilitarian transport. But today? They represent freedom, adventure, and identity. So what changed? Champio...
The Why: 103-grade gasoline?
Something new appeared at a major motorsport event in the Taklamakan Desert recently. It's a type of gasoline most drivers have never seen before: 103...
Russia-China trade: beyond the headlines
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Beijing for a state visit. Trade and education lead the headlines, but what is actually happening on the ground...
Delivery's old problem meets its solution
You order food and it crosses the city with no problem. Then it hits the building entrance and just stops. That's the old problem. But a new handoff s...
Beijing says yes to bikes on trains
On weekends in Beijing, a few subway lines are trying something new: letting cyclists bring their bikes onboard. You ride to the station, take the tra...
China's "most pampered child"
May 18 is International Museum Day, and this year's theme is "Museums Uniting a Divided World." It reminds us that across time and place, we share uni...
Can growth go green?
For decades, industrialization meant a trade-off: growth versus environmental damage. Today, China is exploring a different path—where development and...
Encore: Fast food's new AI is listening to you
A major fast food chain is putting artificial intelligence in its employees' ears. Burger King is testing AI-powered headsets that do more than take o...
Encore: China's next phase of E-commerce
Governments around the world are all trying to answer a key question: How can digital commerce support the real economy — without replacing it? Well,...
Encore: From classrooms to kickoffs
Another "super league" is sweeping China's schools: the Class Super League. Sports contests are getting kids off screens and outdoors — but can a foot...
Encore: Inside China's AI boom: an American expert's view
Are China and the United States shaping the same AI future, or diverging down different paths? Having worked in both ecosystems, Alex Lamb shares his...
Round Table presents: "Art Makes Us Better"- A Cross Pacific Musical Collaboration
We invited young musicians from China and the US to perform "Art Makes Us Better" together. As their melodies met, they shared stories and found a com...
Encore: Why does a loving boyfriend take ugly photos?
Have you heard of "boyfriend photography"? We spend so much time teaching our partners about angles and lighting that we actually start to believe we'...
Encore: Singing across borders
What do you do when words aren't enough, yet you still long to connect? For a group of students from Yale University, the answer was simple: sing. Thi...
Silicon heartbreak: AI love crisis
Two ways to lose a virtual companion without saying goodbye. One, a software update rewrites their personality. Or the company goes bankrupt and pulls...
When public life goes live
You didn't press record, but there you are, in someone's livestream, their vlog or their viral clip. No permission asked. No warning given. So when do...
Is your unpaid internship worth it?
Internships were once a golden ticket, but now they are a financial burden. Students work for free while paying rent in expensive cities, where experi...
How fishing reels in China's young generation
What do an office worker, ten thousand livestream viewers, and a smart fishing rod have in common? They are all part of fishing's unexpected comeback...
Encore: Tradition's tricky digital rebirth
Forget dusty storefronts. China's oldest brands are now crashing livestreams and racking up billions of views, making the "old-timers" cool again. But...
Encore: Beijing's plan to save the Great Wall
The Great Wall has survived centuries of wind and war. Now it also faces a new kind of challenge, not from nature, but from the millions who come to l...
Listening-to-advice marketing
Have you ever left a comment about a product online, thinking, "They'll probably never see this"? Well, turns out, sometimes they do and sometimes the...
Navigating China's new college majors
If you were heading to college today, what would you study? Computer science? Finance? Engineering? Now imagine having to choose between things like a...
Why does a loving boyfriend take ugly photos?
Have you heard of "boyfriend photography"? We spend so much time teaching our partners about angles and lighting that we actually start to believe we'...
May Day holiday travel snapshot
Every year, the May Day holiday gives us a little snapshot — how people travel, how they have fun, and how they spend in vacation mode. In 2026, the d...
Your past or your privacy?
You've just nailed an interview, and the offer is almost in your inbox. Then HR asks to call your former boss, your colleagues, maybe even your gradua...
Generation Global: Navigating a Changing World, Ep. 5
What do you do when you don't speak the same language but still want to connect? For a group of students from Yale University, the answer was simple:...
The Soapbox: Village fashion show
Fashion shows are easy to picture. The runways of Paris and Milan. The world's most beautiful people in the world's most beautiful clothing. Well, vil...
Generation Global: Navigating a Changing World, Ep. 4
May 4th marks Youth Day in China, and to mark the occasion, Round Table's Yushun sat down with Alex Lamb, an AI professor at Tsinghua University. Thei...
Radio Drama: Bathing
What happens when a 24-year-old tech worker walks away from her desk job... and into a room where strangers ask her to wash them? On the International...
How AI is rewriting the rules of work
Have you imagined your career in five years? This International Workers' Day, we examine human value in the age of automation. Who loses ground and wh...
Imperfect is the new perfect
What if perfection is boring? A Chinese reality show is putting that question to the test live on air. No retouches. No second takes. Just glorious, a...
May Day travel isn't what it used to be
The May Day holiday is nearly upon us, but the booking trends and flight maps tell a different story this year. It's not just where people are going,...
The midweek work break
For decades, rest followed a simple rhythm: work hard all week, recover on the weekend. But that old pattern no longer fits how people actually live a...
Zero tariffs, big opportunities
At a time when many parts of the world are raising trade barriers, one major economy is moving in the opposite direction. China's decision to remove t...
Can staying apart keep you together?
One partner here, the other there. Different cities for some. Separate homes in the same crowded metro for others. And strangely, they all say the dis...