Chinese Comedy with Jesse Appell
HomeChina Books Podcast › Episode

Chinese Comedy with Jesse Appell

46:18 Mar 3, 2026
About this episode
The bilingual comedian talks us through the traditional “xiangsheng” form of Chinese comic repartee, and explains whether Beijing can take a joke.The China Books Podcast is a companion of China Books Review, a project of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and The Wire China. For any queries or comments, please write to info@chinabooksreview.com.
Select an episode
0:00 0:00