POPCAST #2 - JOURNALIST LING LIU
For Poplicks' second "Pop"cast, I interview a friend and colleague, Ling Woo Liu, currently a reporter stationed in Hong Kong, working for TIME Asia. I met Ling a few years back when we were both at UC Berkeley - I was finishing up my PhD around the same time Ling was completing her masters in the Journalism School. She had already worked in China - doing a stint at the Beijing-based CCTV back at the beginning of the decade (she was also an erstwhile co-host of the Asian American news/culture show, "Stir TV," on the AZN network). During her time at the J-School, Ling also directed and produced the short, Officer Tsukamoto, a documentary about the death of a Japanese American policeman in the 1970s. (It's airing next weekend at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas).
Surprisingly, there aren't as many Asian American reporters working in China as you'd think, putting Ling in rarefied company. She's recently joined the ranks of TIME Asia's China bloggers (you need to post more though!), adding her own take on some of the cultural changes that have been taking place there over the last ten years.
In our conversation, we talk about her interest in working in Asia, her impressions of China's tumultuous social and cultural shifts, the symbolic importance of the 2008 Olympics and why Beijing cabbies are more likely to think she's from Korea than California.
By the way, if anyone out there can help explain the steps Junichi and I need to take to put our podcasts on iTunes, I'd really appreciate a walkthrough. I consider myself fairly computer literate but when it comes to scripts and servers, I'm strictly in terra incognito.
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