# Seven gourds, one grandpa, and the price of going viral

An episode of [Round Table China](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/793040690), 14 Sep 2026, 24 min.

Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/radio-res.cgtn.com/ueditor/audio/2609/1089378973723.mp3

It begins in a quiet corner of Shaoxing, on a balcony full of gourds, with an old man happy to wave at whoever shows up. It starts as the kind of story that makes you smile. Then the crowds get bigger, the cameras get closer, and the smile gets harder to hold. When does showing up to admire someone's life turn into taking it away from them? / Why do we never like our pictures (18:02)? On the show: Steve, Yushun & Guo Yan

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