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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.
True Crime Chinese Style
It all started when a Chinese woman in her early 40s approached Giles Hall on Bournemouth Pier to buy a hot air balloon in the summer of 2000. The events that followed saw the murder of a British business man, Neil Haywood, in a hotel in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, and a messy scramble for power in the upper echelons of the Chinese communist party.
Carrie Gracie, former China editor at the BBC, narrates the story behind the rise and fall of one of China's most charismatic politicians, Bo Xilai, in this six part series. It's a "true story of death, sex and elite politics in China."
Gripping true crime style story aside, this podcast series is interspersed with fascinating insights into the workings of politics at the top of the Chinese Communist Party. It's a world that is normally well concealed behind the gates of Zhongnanhai—the communist party head quarters—but one that was temporarily thrust into the public during the Bo Xilai scandal.
