2023: Highlights of a year in podcasts

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Another bumper year of podcasts. Here is a selection of a dozen highlights from short stories and pop-classics in translation to biography, history, society and the arts. Click on the speaker to hear the podcast … or download (and subscribe!) from your favorite podcast app.

 

  • Steve Kemper, author of Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
  • Mai Nardone, author of Welcome Me to the Kingdom
  • James M Zimmerman, author of The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
  • Philip Snow, author of China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
  • Robert Hillenbrand, author of The Great Mongol Shahnama
  • Vaudine England, author of Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
  • Authors from the Boss Fight Books series on classic video games, from Super Mario Bros 3 to Majora’s Mask
  • Jeffrey Angles, translator of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again by Shigeru Kayama
  • John Zubrzycki, author of Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States
  • Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
  • Hugo Wong, author of America’s Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream
  • Elise Hu, author of Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital