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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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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...
Auto China 2026: where the future hits the road
One of the biggest auto shows in history is happening right now in Beijing, with nearly 1,500 vehicles and over 180 world premieres. But this isn't ju...
The Soapbox: the sleeping employee
On this week's edition of The Soapbox, a young woman in southern China has stirred up controversy. She posted about taking a five hour nap at her comp...
When the sea becomes the stadium
At the Sixth Asian Beach Games in Sanya, the wind and waves become part of the game, where every move looks effortlessly shaped by the sea. But how do...
Bonus Ep: Turning pages, opening stories
To close our World Book Day series, Round Table invites you into two richly different worlds: Lu Min's "Dinner for Six" and Di An's "Dear Fengmi", re...
Global demand fueling Chinese online literature growth
National Reading Week has come and gone. According to a fresh report, China's online literature scene isn't just bigger than ever; it's a genuine econ...
AI ride-hailing reinvents the way we move
AI can already book your hotel and order your food. Now it's coming for your ride. In China, platforms are turning ride-hailing into a single sentence...
The Why: AEDs in Cars
A stranger shatters a car window not to steal, but to save. He grabs an AED from the back seat and uses it to rescue a life. If a single device works...
Where history, technology, and storytelling meet
April 23 is World Book Day. Across China, a week-long celebration of reading has been taking place. And more specifically in Nanchang, the Fifth Natio...
When a child teaches grown-ups how to love
Writer Di An wrote the books that defined your teenage years. Now she's writing for the adult you've become. In this third episode of our World Book D...
Tree parenting 101
For decades, environmental action has been built on a simple idea: plant more trees. But in many places, especially cities, space is limited, and the...
Technology's promise, humanity's price
For World Reading Day, Round Table meets Chinese sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan. He introduces his new book “Ocean Break”: a green utopia island in the Ind...
How AI is redefining the teacher
AI is already inside classrooms across China, personalizing homework, grading essays, and tracking student data. None of that is new. But what about t...
Read, then roam
April 23 is World Book Day, and this week on Round Table, we're taking part in the celebration. Today we launch a special five-part series featuring a...
Beijing's robot race: fun or future?
Robots just ran a half marathon in Beijing. They weren't just moving. They were competing, stumbling, and pushing through like real racers. So is this...
It's time for looted art to come home
France just made it easier to return looted artifacts from the colonial era. Sacred objects. Royal treasures. So what does that mean for China, a coun...
Can cheaper parking fix congestion?
Several Chinese cities are rewriting their parking rules. Lower fees, shorter billing increments, free overnight and holiday parking. The goal is to f...
SBTI: The "unhinged" personality test
What started as a tongue-in-cheek tool to help a friend suddenly went viral. Enter the SBTI Test: a fast, funny, wildly shareable personality quiz tha...
Inside the 16th Beijing International Film Festival
Have you ever watched a film and immediately thought,“I want to go there"? Maybe it's a city, a street, or even just a feeling. This year's Beijing In...
Bonus Ep: Travel China through film
For the Beijing International Film Festival, Round Table presents a special series. Each episode pairs a film shortlisted for the Tiantan Award with a...
The rise of living anywhere
For many people, growing up once seemed simple: find a stable job, buy a house, and settle down. But today, that mentality is changing. More people, f...
Navigating the AI actor controversy
AI has already transformed industries from finance to medicine, logistics to law, and now it's coming for acting. Meet the next generation of stars, d...
Encore: Is your grandma a gamer?
The Soapbox: The "Admin Night" trend / We think of e-sports as a young person's game. But in China, the fastest-growing players are in their 60s and 7...
Encore: What makes a house a good house?
China built the world's largest housing market by chasing one thing: more. But the finish line has moved. The urgent new question is no longer "How ma...