
Mary Kay Magistad
China Books podcast
Mary Kay Magistad is deputy director of Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations. An award-winning journalist, Mary Kay lived and reported in East Asia for more than two decades, including in China for NPR (1995-99) and PRI/BBC’s The World (2003-13), and in Southeast Asia for NPR, The Washington Post, and others (1988-95). She has created two critically acclaimed podcasts,
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Mary Kay Magistad is deputy director of Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations. An award-winning journalist, Mary Kay lived and reported in East Asia for more than two decades, including in China for NPR (1995-99) and PRI/BBC’s The World (2003-13), and in Southeast Asia for NPR, The Washington Post, and others (1988-95). She has created two critically acclaimed podcasts, On China’s New Silk Road (2020) and Whose Century Is It? (2015-18), as well as Asia Society’s COAL+ICE podcast (2022), offering global conversations on climate change. She is host and producer of the China Books podcast.