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Center for East Asian Studies: Recent submissions
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Plague From China
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-02-09)Broadcast Transcript: Those of you who have been paying attention to Postcards these past three years are already aware that China takes credit for many of the world's firsts, including pasta, gunpowder and golf. Well, ... -
Talking Vending Machines
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-02-02)Broadcast Transcript: From the nightingale floor that sang to warn the shogun of intruders to the bowlingual dog bark translation device, the Japanese have always liked clever -- and talking -- gadgets. So this latest ... -
Taiwanese Trash Trucks
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-01-26)Broadcast Transcript: Here in Taiwan, culture plays a cruel joke on American children. What's that down the street? A slow-moving truck? playing a cheerful, synthesized ditty on a sunny afternoon? Yay! The kids beg for ... -
由溫縣盟書最新研究成果再談侯馬盟書的年代問題
(Society for the Study of Early China, 2013)This paper reconsiders the dating of the Houma covenant texts in light of new findings from the Wenxian covenant texts. Dating of the Houma covenants has focused on matching certain names found in the Houma covenants to ... -
Chinese Afterlife
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-12-08)Broadcast Transcript: Is the afterlife, like, the best vacation spot ever or is it just your standard bureaucracy with a rigid power structure and officials ranked according to seniority? Written evidence from the Shang ... -
Chinese Idol
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-12-01)Broadcast Transcript: Back in the sixties, China's national idol was Lei Feng, the dedicated soldier whose accidental death by electrocution at the age of 24 secured his status as an icon. For more than 40 years now, Lei ... -
Octopus Heads
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-11-24)Broadcast Transcript: How many octopus heads is too many? This is the question that is on the minds of diners, restaurateurs, fishermen and government officials here in Seoul. The question is not about how many heads an ... -
Earth's Three
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-11-17)Broadcast Transcript: From Mongolia, land of fermented mare's milk, comes this beguiling morsel of nomadic oral tradition. It's called yertonciin gorav or Earth's Three. Earth's three what? Well, Earth's three top things ... -
Kimchi Krisis
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-11-10)Broadcast Transcript: Bathtubs here in South Korea are, sadly, available for actual bathing this fall. No napa cabbage heads bob merrily on the water waiting to become part of this year's batch of homemade kimchi. Kimchi ... -
Single Marriage
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-11-03)Broadcast Transcript: Taiwan, like many modern countries, finds itself with a heckuva lot more single older women than ever before. Women on career tracks are less likely to get married, not wanting to interrupt their job ... -
Vowel Harmony
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-10-13)Broadcast Transcript: Many world languages contain masculine and feminine words with all that pesky adjective and article agreement that goes along with it. Some languages bypass gender altogether: English, for example, ... -
Traffic Update in China
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-10-06)Broadcast Transcript: And here's the traffic report from China: Expect major delays along the Beijing-Tibet expressway today as the world's largest and longest traffic jam continues. It's been bumper to bumper on this road ... -
Bikes in China
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-09-29)Broadcast Transcript: Not that long ago, private citizens in China could not own cars. In fact, the only cars you saw on the road were government vehicles. And you didn't see many of these. No. What you did see was bicycles. ... -
Missing Centenarians
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-09-22)Broadcast Transcript: Though their aging faces have not yet appeared on milk cartons, a number of 100 year plus citizens of Japan have gone missing. This is surprising and embarrassing for a country that prides itself on ... -
Lepers and Ludwig
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-09-15)Broadcast Transcript: This is not a postcard about South Korea. It is a postcard about compassion and connection that just happens to take place in South Korea on Sorok Island, located one kilometer off the southwest coast. ... -
Crop Art
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-09-08)Broadcast Transcript: Here in Japan, when the economy comes a cropper, the Japanese do crop art. Or at least in Inakadate, a small rural community up north, they do. Owing Tokyo a whopping 106 million bucks for a Neolithic ... -
Cow Concentrate
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-08-25)Broadcast Transcript: Our hi tech world is so smug about how it's cramming more and more stuff into smaller and smaller spaces. Well, here in Mongolia, this is nothing new. Mongolian nomads have been doing it for centuries ... -
World Cup Blues
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-08-18)Broadcast Transcript: World Cup. 1966. North Korea stuns soccer fans by becoming the first Asian team ever to advance to the quarterfinals where they go up 3-0 against Portugal before finally being defeated at the hands--or ... -
Fat Fruit Flies
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-08-11)Broadcast Transcript: Breaking news from South Korea's hi-tech frontline. With the help of drosophila, or the fruit fly, scientists here have discovered strands of genetic material that control growth in the body. They're ... -
PLA Day
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-08-04)Broadcast Transcript: August 1st is coming up, people, and you know what that means. People's Liberation Army Day here in China:, time to party for the Party and celebrate the army's formation back in 1927. This year, ...
