{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 137: Orville Schell - Will The Chinese People Ever Be Free?","slug":"episode-137-orville-schell-will-the-chinese-people-ever-be-free","published_at":"2025-01-10T10:00:39+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-137-orville-schell-will-the-chinese-people-ever-be-free","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1836599","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1836599/humans/2025_01_07_20_23_34_9af37a84-1a7d-4148-87d8-0a4bd034312e.mp3","summary":"Orville Schell is an author, a journalist, a China scholar, and the director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:00) Orville's entering China in the 1970s (07:10) Was was China like in the 1970s? (10:09) The palpable fear in China in the 1970s (14:55) The details of Mao Zedong the Cultural Revolution (20:40) What preceded Communism in China? (25:32) Why was Communism appealing to Chinese revolutionaries? (30:11) China in the 1970s and how it reopened to the world (37:10) Why did China not become free after the 1980s? (41:39) 1989 and Tiananmen Square (45:28) China in the next few years (52:19) How might China become free? (55:26) Why China matters","meta_description":"Orville Schell is an author, a journalist, a China scholar, and the director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations. ------------ Book Dan t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3509,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-137-orville-schell-will-the-chinese-people-ever-be-free/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-137-orville-schell-will-the-chinese-people-ever-be-free.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}