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Center for East Asian Studies: Recent submissions
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Chinggis Khaan
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-07-28)Broadcast Transcript: So is it Genghis Khaan or Jengis Khaan? Neither, actually. Here in Mongolia, they say Chinggis Khaan when they're talking about the man who founded an empire that extended into parts of China, Central ... -
Medicinal Herbman
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-07-21)Broadcast Transcript: Japanese gardens are admired for their understated elegance, their meditation/movement fusion, their precise placement of essential elements such as water and stone. In this last way at least, Medicinal ... -
It's So Funny
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-06-23)Broadcast Transcript: North Korea has the fourth largest standing army in the world but it's not laughing. Not even at a comedy show that's written just to raise troop morale The show's called It's So Funny but, really, ... -
Bunny Cafe
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-06-16)Broadcast Transcript: No pets clauses: tragedy or a business opportunity? Here in Tokyo, there's a no pets clause in almost every apartment lease. And pet deprivation has opened up a viable and lucrative market niche. It ... -
Senior Cheerleaders
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-06-09)Broadcast Transcript: Japan's Bubble Economy is so last century. These days the atmosphere is what you might call gloomy what with a growing budget deficit, a graying population and a grave job market. So what can a concerned ... -
Emperor Shizong
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-06-02)Broadcast Transcript: Here is a story from the Ming, a dynasty which lasted from 1368 until 1644. The Emperor Shizong was on the throne. One day, while reciting some sacred texts, the emperor picked up a hammer to strike ... -
Mongolian Language
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-05-26)Broadcast Transcript: Mongolian, which is taught at KU, is an Altaic language meaning it's agglutinating meaning it uses suffixes to express ideas that in other languages would be accomplished using separate words. In this ... -
Let's Sleep at Your Place
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-05-19)Broadcast Transcript: Sure, Mongolia still has its yurts, its nomads, its fermented yak's milk but it also has a reality TV show: танайд хоноё which means Let's Sleep at Your Place. The host is Tengis, a friendly and ... -
School for Singles
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-05-12)Broadcast Transcript: You've heard of Generation X? Well, meet Generation S. S for single. Here in Japan, there is a big market niche of single twenty- and thirty-somethings. A market niche into which the Infini School of ... -
White Day
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-05-05)Broadcast Transcript: The Japanese culture is one of obligation and protocol. For example: Valentine's Day. No undisciplined, bi-gender gift exchange here. Oh no. February 14th is sex specific: only women give gifts. And ... -
Hangul
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-04-28)Broadcast Transcript: Once upon a time, the Koreans wrote using Classical Chinese characters that they called hanja. Then, in 1443, King Sejong commissioned someone to invent a phonetic alphabet they could call their own. ... -
Naked Sushi
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-04-21)Broadcast Transcript: Sushi's global presence is indisputable. Did we hear you say "Shooko o dase" which is "Prove it" in Japanese? Okay. March 8th was International Women's Day, a holiday created in 1911 to celebrate the ... -
Great Wall Chocolate
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-04-14)Broadcast Transcript: From fortification to fatification: A chocolate replica of the Great Wall was recently made here in China. It was created for the World Chocolate Wonderland whose sole purpose is to get the Chinese ... -
Great Wall Historic
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-04-07)Broadcast Transcript: Nothing says "Do Not Disturb" more effectively than a 3,000-mile fortification of brick and mortar. The Great Wall of China, or chang cheng, was begun over 1,000 years ago by Qin Shi Huang Di, the ... -
Videogame Marriage
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-03-10)Broadcast Transcript: And the prize for the most extreme nerd culture in the world goes to... Japan where a college student known only as SAL9000, his game-playing alias, has married Nene Anegasaki, a video game character ... -
Nightingale Floor
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-03-03)Broadcast Transcript: A thousand years before electronics, the Japanese already had home security systems. Well, palace security systems like the one at Nijo Castle in Kyoto that was designed to keep the Tokugawa Shogun ... -
Kimjongilia
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-02-24)Broadcast Transcript: Don't leave Pyongyang without a visit to the Central Botanical Gardens to see two flowering plants that are so DPRK: kimilsungia and kimjongilia. Kimilsungia--or the flower of Kim Il Sung--is a type ... -
NK Vacancy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-02-17)Broadcast Transcript: My fellow Americans... start packing. North Korea has eased travel restrictions for US tourists. Instead of only being allowed to visit during the Mass Games from August to October, US tourists are ... -
Tiny Tiger
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-02-10)Broadcast Transcript: The Chinese New Year is just around the corner. There are 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. This year is the Year of ... -
Year of the Tiger
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-02-03)Broadcast Transcript: Xin nian kuai le! That's happy New Year in Chinese. It's a Tiger year. The Chinese zodiac runs on a 12 year cycle and each year is governed by an animal: rat, ox , tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ...
