Yuan Ren's guest appearances

Yuan Ren

MISS_KITTY

Trinity College

NüVoices

Tom Sleigh

Anne Parmenter

Michael Munger

David Baker

Phil Collins

Kimiko Hahn

Leslie Jamison

Valeria Luiselli

Xin Wang

Sloane Crosley

Josiah Ober

James MacMillan

Judith Weir

Natasha Kassam

Vijay Prashad

OwlTail

Journalism is a tough industry to break into, but expanding your multimedia and broadcast skills is a great way to enhance your versatility and job prospects. For Chinese journalist Yuan Ren, who has worked as a Time Out magazine editor and a columnist for U.K. newspapers The Telegraph and The Prospect, transitioning into broadcast media helped her fire up her creativity and experiment with creative storytelling. In this episode, she shares her best tips and tricks for making the switch from print to digital journalism with NüVoices chair Joanna Chiu. The two also discuss what it is like to build a career in Western mainstream media as younger women of Chinese descent. Yuan is a fully bilingual journalist who has written about science, technology, Chinese culture, and current affairs. Originally from Beijing, she began as the Around Town editor at Time Out Beijing. Yuan was a regular contributor to The Telegraph's Wonder Woman column on Chinese women and gender, and a monthly columnist for Prospect magazine. She is now based in London and works as a producer and reporter for Bloomberg TV and the technology show Click at BBC World — see Yuan's post on Twitter for a video of the latter. She also loves to make video blogs about traditional Chinese food and restaurants. Follow Yuan for the latest in Chinese culture and food via YouTube and Instagram.Recommendations: Yuan: Get enough sleep and put your phone in a different room before bed. I like to track my sleep on my Garmin sports watch, which I have for running. Headspace, Calm, and Insight Timer are all great apps for sleep and meditation (have it on your iPad, not phone), but many centers like the London Buddhist Centre offer live, guided meditations online. Staying active is so important, and I'm part of a running club — it's cheap and sociable, and you'll improve so fast you'll wish you joined earlier. There are lots of virtual races for runners, cyclists, and swimmers during lockdown, which you do solo but post results online. Strava is the social network for athletes worldwide.   I'm catching up on Chinese TV dramas at the moment. Check out Douban (豆瓣) for ratings on documentaries, movies, TV, and books. When I miss Chinese TV, I get on Beiijng TV's website and watch live there. I also listen to Beijing Transport News radio via TuneIn when I go to bed! Joanna: Have no shame about indulging in guilty pleasures like Netflix reality TV dating shows, and solo YouTube karaoke sing-alongs is a great way to boost your mood while in isolation. Join different journalist groups on social media to reach a supportive community. Poynter has collected a list of such groups, and don't forget to join the NüVoices Network on Facebook and follow our Twitter account @NuVoices.Like 

Journalism is a tough industry to break into, but expanding your multimedia and broadcast skills is a great way to enhance your versatility and job prospects. For Chinese journalist Yuan Ren, who has worked as a Time Out magazine editor and a columnist for U.K. newspapers The Telegraph and The Prospect, transitioning into broadcast media helped her fire up her creativity and <a href="https://twitter.com/girlinbeijing/status/1263233830456102918?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">experiment</a> with creative storytelling. In this episode, she shares her best tips and tricks for making the switch from print to digital journalism with NüVoices chair Joanna Chiu. The two also discuss what it is like to build a career in Western mainstream media as younger women of Chinese descent. Yuan is a fully bilingual journalist who has written about science, technology, Chinese culture, and current affairs. Originally from Beijing, she began as the Around Town editor at Time Out Beijing. Yuan was a regular contributor to The Telegraph's Wonder Woman column on Chinese women and gender, and a monthly columnist for Prospect magazine. She is now based in London and works as a producer and reporter for Bloomberg TV and the technology show Click at BBC World — see <a href="https://twitter.com/girlinbeijing/status/1220750981660540929?s=20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yuan's post on Twitter</a> for a video of the latter. She also loves to make <a href="https://supchina.com/2018/10/11/beijing-ren-the-old-beijing-charms-of-huguosi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video blogs</a> about traditional Chinese food and restaurants. Follow Yuan for the latest in Chinese culture and food via <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/yulaaana/videos?view_as=subscriber" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/yulaaana/videos?view_as=subscriber" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.Recommendations: Yuan: Get enough sleep and put your phone in a different room before bed. I like to track my sleep on my Garmin sports watch, which I have for running. Headspace, Calm, and Insight Timer are all great apps for sleep and meditation (have it on your iPad, not phone), but many centers like the <a href="https://www.lbc.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">London Buddhist Centre</a> offer live, guided meditations online. Staying active is so important, and I'm part of a running club — it's cheap and sociable, and you'll improve so fast you'll wish you joined earlier. There are lots of virtual races for runners, cyclists, and swimmers during lockdown, which you do solo but post results online. <a href="https://www.strava.com/dashboard" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Strava </a>is the social network for athletes worldwide.   I'm catching up on Chinese TV dramas at the moment. Check out <a href="https://movie.douban.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Douban (豆瓣</a>) for ratings on documentaries, movies, TV, and books. When I miss Chinese TV, I get on <a href="https://www.btime.com/btv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beiijng TV</a>'s website and watch live there. I also listen to Beijing Transport News radio via TuneIn when I go to bed! Joanna: Have no shame about indulging in guilty pleasures like Netflix reality TV dating shows, and solo YouTube karaoke sing-alongs is a great way to boost your mood while in isolation. Join different journalist groups on social media to reach a supportive community. Poynter has <a href="https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/a-list-of-every-hidden-journalism-related-social-media-group-i-could-find/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">collected a list of such groups</a>, and don't forget to join the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/214309679373603/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NüVoices Network</a> on Facebook and follow our <a href="https://twitter.com/NuVoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter account @NuVoices</a>.Like

Seeking creativity through multimedia journalism with Yuan Ren

To access the slides from this lecture - http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/yuan-ren-soft-welfare-vs-hard-welfare-of-migrant-shanghaiDr. Yuan Ren is Professor of Demography and Urban Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. He is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown University. Dr. Ren spoke at Trinity College as part of the Center for Urban and Global Studies Global Vantage Point Series. His talk, "Soft Welfare vs. Hard Welfare: Factors in Migrants' Subjective Well-Being in Urban China and Social Policy Implications" examines the understudied and less understood dimension of rural migrant satisfaction and perception in China's cities.

To access the slides from this lecture - <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/yuan-ren-soft-welfare-vs-hard-welfare-of-migrant-shanghai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/yuan-ren-soft-welfare-vs-hard-welfare-of-migrant-shanghai</a> Dr. Yuan Ren is Professor of Demography and Urban Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. He is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown University. Dr. Ren spoke at Trinity College as part of the Center for Urban and Global Studies Global Vantage Point Series. His talk, "Soft Welfare vs. Hard Welfare: Factors in Migrants' Subjective Well-Being in Urban China and Social Policy Implications" examines the understudied and less understood dimension of rural migrant satisfaction and perception in China's cities.

Yuan Ren: Welfare in Migrant Shanghai

The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival(中秋节zhōng qiū jiē), which falls on Sept 8 this year. In the Chinese lunar calendar, August is in the middle of autumn and the 15th day is in the middle of the month. This explains why the 15th of August is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The day is also known as the moon festival, for on that day, the moon is at its fullest and brightest. It is an important festival for family members to get together, so it is also called the Reunion Festival. In this episode, let’s learn a very traditional Chinese song但愿人长久(dàn yuàn rén zhǎng jiǔ), which was paraphrased as Never Part With Your Beloved Ones. It is one of the most fitting songs to play around this time.

Sing Along a Chinese Song: Dan Yuan Ren Chang Jiu 但愿人长久