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About Anthony Kao
Anthony Kao is a writer focused on international affairs (especially East Asian geopolitics), media studies, and cultural criticism. He founded/edits Cinema Escapist, a publication that explores the sociopolitical context behind international film and television. He's also written for The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Diplomat, Eater, ChinaFile, etc.Anthony Kao is the founder of Cinema Escapistand a writer who focuses on the intersection of international affairs and cultural criticism.
NBN Episodes hosted by Anthony:
August 26, 2025
Breakneck
Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab, and previously a fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Before…
June 19, 2025
Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival
Chris Horton is a freelance journalist who has been based in Taiwan since 2015, before many Western publications had any dedicated presence on the isl…
February 23, 2025
Revolutionary Taiwan
Popular English-language discourse about Taiwan often contains tropes like how “Taiwan is the real China” or how Taiwan “split with China in 1949”. Ca…
January 23, 2025
Taipei at Daybreak
Brian Hioe is a Taipei-based writer, editor, translator, activist, and DJ who is best known for his journalism regarding Taiwan’s social and political…
July 6, 2024
World on the Brink
In his book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century (PublicAffairs, 2024), Dmitri Alperovitch (with Garrett M.…
March 19, 2024
Taiwan Lives
As Taiwan gains prominence on international headlines, often framed in terms of conflict with China, it’s easy to neglect the island nation’s human st…
March 3, 2024
Anime's Knowledge Cultures
With comics franchises getting turned into multi-billion dollar revenue opportunities and consumer technology companies dominating daily headlines — t…
September 27, 2023
Celluloid Democracy
Before South Korea became the democracy and media powerhouse that it is today, it underwent several decades of authoritarian rule during the Cold War …
July 20, 2023
Truly Human
Similar to countries like the US and Canada, Taiwan also has indigenous peoples who've existed before the arrival of colonizers, and continue to grapp…
June 28, 2023
Between Somaliland and Puntland
On February 6, 2023, fighting erupted around Las Anod, a city in the eastern parts of the de facto independent state of Somaliland. This still-ongoing…
March 3, 2023
Narratives of Civic Duty
Especially within the last decade, the word "nationalism" often evokes images of bombastic demagogues and democratic backsliding. But does nationalism…
February 18, 2023
Hollywood in China
With her book Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World's Largest Movie Market (New Press, 2022), media scholar Ying Zhu explores the 100+ ye…
February 10, 2023
Muppets in Moscow
It’s the early 1990s, and the USSR is no more. An intrepid young American TV producer has been given a seemingly foolhardy task: bringing the beloved …