Podcasts by Chinatown 2.0

Ep. 24: Comedian Olivia Xing discusses her Party School special, ESL comics and how to handle bombing on stage from 2023-03-24T04:52

Olivia Xing is an actress, standup comedian, artist and student based in LA, and she recently did a one-hour comedy special called Party School where she told jokes about China, the US, politics...

Ep. 23: (Mandarin) Weibo co-founder Indigo on China's startup scene, NFTs, life in Japan/Vancouver from 2022-12-13T18:05:01

Indigo was co-founder of Sina Weibo, or China’s Twitter. After Weibo, he started doing angel investments and incubating new projects. One of his main investments included the largest off-line ar...

Ep. 22: Comic Peng Dang tells American jokes like a native, learned English from listening to rock from 2022-11-23T22:12:20

Peng Dang is a standup comedian based in Texas. Peng moved to the US from China in his twenties, speaks absolutely impeccable English, an...

Ep. 21: Bilingual comedian Amy Yu sees stand-up as life-changing, discusses role of AI in art from 2022-11-20T19:05:16

Amy Yu is a bilingual standup comedian based in Canada.

We talked ...

Ep. 20: Magician Dan Chan Performed for Elon Musk, Plans to Build Magic Mansion in the Bay Area from 2022-11-15T21:16:14

Dan Chan is a magician that has performed at corporate events at fortune 100 companies and lavish parties hosted by celebrities. He recently got to perform for Elon Musk at the PayPal 20-year re...

Ep. 19: Career coach Alec Sorensen helps dreamers of biz ideas take action via habit-building from 2022-03-31T20:00

Alec Sorensen is a career coach who helps people take action on life-changing business ideas they've been putting off.

Alec is also a follower of the Mormon church, a Japan-living America...

Ep. 18: Entrepreneur Karol Guan discusses creativity at art school and in her beauty AI startup from 2022-03-31T19:33:02

(Episode in Mandarin)

Karol Guan is an entrepreneur. This interview was recorded in Nov 2020. At the time she was co-founder of HelloAva.co, a startup that recommends skin care products b...

Ep. 17: Operations mgr Erin Cuellar moved between five states in 13 years for manufacturing career from 2021-10-01T19:00

Erin Cuellar is Director of Operations at STERIS, a manufacturer of medical devices. At the time of the interview, she was senior operations manager at the same company.

We talked about wh...

Ep. 16: Kunming-native American cowboy Bruce Wang speaks English with perfect Southern accent from 2021-09-30T19:19:12

Bruce Wang is a Chinese cowboy. Not an ethnically Chinese person that was born in Texas, but someone born and bred in Yunnan, China.

We talked about why he decided to become a cowboy, why ...

Ep. 15: Restaurateur, Food & Beverage businessman Chris Tay hustled nonstop for three decades from 2021-07-30T20:48:58

Chris Tay is a successful serial entrepreneur who made his riches in restaurant supply chain solutions and consumer packaged goods businesses in Asia, mostly mainland China.

He has been hu...

Ep. 14: ?? Crypto CEO Stephen Tse on community-development, culture-building, nongreedy parenting from 2021-07-16T04:43:34

Stephen Tse is the founder and CEO of a Blockchain project named Harmony. At the time of recording, Harmony ranks top 100 in terms of market capitalization for all Cryptos.

Stephen and I ...

Ep. 13: Government data scientist John Stevenson overcame homelessness and plans to run for governor from 2021-05-02T20:32:22

John Stevenson overcame homelessness, earned a PoliSci PhD, runs data science contracts for the US government, and plans to run for Governor of Maryland.

He discusses poor childhood as a B...

Ep. 12: Conservative mayor candidate Ellen Zhou wants to end 50-year Democrat rule in San Francisco from 2020-11-01T23:25:56

Ellen Zhou (???) is a two-time candidate for San Francisco mayor. She ran as a conservative in a city where the mayor had been a Democrat for the last half a century.

Despite her “non-main...

Ep. 11: Howard Schultz communications manager Lin Yang started hometown newspaper to fight misinformation that harms local election from 2020-10-26T17:43:36

Grassroot political organizer Lin Yang helped Starbucks founder Howard Schultz explore running for POTUS and participated in campaigns for President Obama.

With experience writing articles...

Ep. 10: (Mandarin) Entrepreneur Wei Luo quit coding to build vertically-integrated home renovation business from 2020-10-15T20:54:53

Wei Luo quit his software engineering job to become a contractor in 2006. After 14 years, he had a business consisting of 50+ employees and multiple business lines, including home renovation, inter...

Ep. 9: (Mandarin) Stuyvesant ex-Principal Jie Zhang taught American prisoners, fixed U.S. schools, returns to China to lead two international schools from 2020-10-08T18:59:07

Jie Zhang was the first China-born principal at the prestigious
Stuyvesant High School in New York City. She talks teaching math to American prisoners, dealing with forces to democratize enrol...

Ep. 8: (Mandarin) "Chinese son-in-law" ???? Morgan Jones talks being Black in China/US from 2020-09-23T22:18:16

Morgan Jones is a Black American that spent six years in China as a radio host, movie production assistant and EMBA English teacher. He is a self-described Tiger Dad (“??”).

This episode w...

Ep. 7: China historian Anne Chao grew up on four continents, archives oral history of Chinese Americans from 2020-09-16T19:18:53

Professor Anne Chao is a Chinese modern historian that lectures at Rice University. She is also manager of the Houston Asian American Archive.

In this interview, we covered her multi-conti...

Ep. 6: China Tech Podcaster Rui Ma talks TikTok ban, Sino-US decoupling, female expat life in China from 2020-09-08T19:46:17

Rui Ma is an investment banker turned VC turned podcast host. Her show covers current tech trends in China, with a focus on power players such as Bytedance and Alibaba.

We discussed Byteda...

Ep. 5: (Mandarin) Children's Chinese Magazine Publisher Jing Cheng believes the power of print media from 2020-08-31T11:30

Jing Cheng is the co-founder and CEO of the largest North American Children's Chinese magazine, Pipa Magazine. She shares her inspirations for starting the publication, the challenges of running th...

Ep. 4: History Professor Sixiang Wang reconciles his Sino-US identity from studying Korean history from 2020-08-07T09:00

Sixiang Wang is an assistant professor in Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA, specializing in Korea’s premodern history. Sixiang shared how studying Korean history somehow helped him reconcile a ...

Ep. 3: Software Architect Nuo Yan on avoiding shortcuts in life and the appeals of living in Japan from 2020-08-06T09:00

Nuo Yan is a Tokyo-based software architect. He was previously based in Seattle and San Francisco, and was founding engineer at multiple tech startups, one of which was acquired by Pinterest. Nuo d...

Ep. 1: (Mandarin) PR entrepreneur Jingzhu Yang helps Chinese business-people meet US presidents from 2020-07-31T22:38:41

Jingzhu Yang started her PR company AmeriChina to bring Chinese companies to high-end and exclusive American events, such as Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and charity dinners with ex US presidents...

Ep. 2: Quant Trader Robbie Yan talks algo investing, governance systems and China startup scene from 2020-07-31T22:29:15

Robbie Yan is cofounder of a quantitatively driven hedge fund based in China. We talked about the nature of quantitative investing, governmental efficiency in China and associated tradeoffs, argume...