This week on Sinica, Jeremy Goldkorn and David Moser turn their attention to vice, in conversation with Robert Foyle Hunwick, a media consultant and editor for Beijing Cream. We talk about everything naughty that happens here, with special attention to the nightlife scene. Jumping around Southeast Asia, Robert gives a bit of dirt on the many vices of the night elsewhere in Asia.

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Recommendations:

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014)

Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade, Adam Minter (Bloomsbury Press, 2013)

Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way, Dambisa Moyo (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009)

“The Great K-Hole of China,” Robert Foyle Hunwick, Motherboard, October 9, 2013

“Deep Trouble: On The Set Of China’s Most Expensive, Possibly Worst Film,” Dale Irons, Beijing Cream, July 3, 2014

The Incarnations, Susan Barker (Doubleday, 2014)

Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World, Dambisa Moyo (Basic Books, 2012)

“Dambisa Moyo: Is China the new idol for emerging economies?” TED, November 11, 2013