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First-person slices of Chinese society, with series on the Berlin Wall and the Stasi made as research-driven audio documentary

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Latest2026-10-22
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故事FM 0923

After the ten-thousand-worker factory vanished, he had 20 years of migrant workers' daily life on camera

Others photographed the era's anomalies; he insisted on photographing its ordinary days — meals, punch-ins, English classes. When the ten-thousand-worker factory really did disappear, only a very few people had kept this archive.

9 Points 3 Quotes ManufacturingDocumentary photography
1:04:48
故事FM 0917

Philippine Immigration Detention: If You Don't Pay, Your Deportation Never Moves

A Chinese surfer held for 41 days in the Philippines saw not a prison but a business with prices posted on everything: beds, boxed meals, phones, lawyer fees. Every item had to be bought. Those who didn't pay were held for years, even over a decade.

8 Points 3 Quotes PhilippinesImmigration Bureau
41:16
故事FM 0910

A disabled theatre troupe makes the able-bodied the discriminated minority — and it isn't asking for your sympathy

Yaoyao flips the whole social order: after a nuclear war most people are augmented, and the few unmodified able-bodied are the ones born in sin, the ones who have to fight for their rights. This isn't a lament — it's a power fantasy written for disabled people.

8 Points 7 Quotes DisabilityTheatre