Hot Words in China

society, culture · EN-GB

Every language has words that can't quite be translated. But in China, those words don't just resist translation — they carry entire worlds inside them. Hot Words in China is a podcast that takes one Chinese internet buzzword per episode and unpacks what's really hiding underneath. The humour, the history, the quiet frustration, the collective spirit of a generation living through rapid, relentless change. Hosted by eShyen, a Chinese native who grew up from village to city, studied in the UK, and worked for five years navigating cross-cultural business between the two countries. She didn't study these words from the outside. She lived inside them. One word. One episode. A whole world behind it.