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Nuala Lam is a bilingual freelance journalist with a focus on civil society, justice, and identity in China. She speaks, reads and writes Mandarin Chinese and forms her analysis of contemporary China through both English and Chinese language media. She has worked for NGOs and news media in Beijing and Shanghai and has also spent extended periods in the Chinese countryside, seeing the country's diversity and uneven development first-hand.
Her postgraduate research at the London School of Economics focussed on English-language coverage of China, investigating the translation of journalistic ethics between differing political contexts. She also holds a first class degree in Chinese and History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Podcast: Listen In To Beijing's Underground Sound
As someone interested in how contemporary China is seen in the West I am always looking out for ways to humanise the place. Hard news is important but it’s almost always negative and without the context of the lives of normal people — laobaixing or literally ‘old one hundred surnames’ in Mandarin — foreign reporting can create a somewhat distorted picture.
In this episode of Late Junction for BBC Radio 3 Nick Luscombe weaves together tracks from Beijing’s underground music scene with interviews and soundscapes from the city. Residents sing traditional children’s’ songs in a bid to stop them fading from memory, the elderly mix with trendy young people in the cities low-rise Hutong communities and producers give their tips for the new artists coming out of the capital’s underground scene.
