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Center for East Asian Studies: Recent submissions
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Capitalist Lingo
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-09-05)Broadcast Transcript: Ask your average North Korean-on-the-street what they need and we'd wager that few--if any--would say "Gee, I could sure use a new dictionary of capitalist economic terminology." Still the government ... -
Lovely Urinal
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-08-22)Broadcast Transcript: Tourists from all over Japan are flocking to Kōshū? in rural Yamanashi Prefecture to visit the historic Tanaka Bank. The structure, built at the turn of the 20th century, has been lovingly restored ... -
Wine for Korea
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-08-15)Broadcast Transcript: South Korea may be on the cutting edge of technoculture, but when it comes to oenoculture, it doesn't know its shiraz from its merlot. Most Koreans prefer to meet their alcohol RDA by knocking back ... -
Mount Everest Highway
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-08-08)Broadcast Transcript: If China has a national sport, well, it's got to be Extreme Engineering. The Great Wall. The Grand Canal. The Three Gorges Dam. The railroad at the top of the world. And now the Mt. Everest Highway, ... -
Hot Dog Champ Defeated
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-07-25)Broadcast Transcript: Arthritic jaw? Recent wisdom tooth extraction? The universe saying "It is time"? Whatever. All we know is that Japan's six year domination of Nathan's Famous July 4th Hot Dog Eating contest at Coney ... -
Ecology or Economy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-07-18)Broadcast Transcript: File this under "Statistics to the Rescue". Economy or ecology? Ecology or economy? Tough choice. Especially for China which is barreling recklessly ahead in its quest to become top consumer nation. ... -
Flaming Toilets
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-07-11)Broadcast Transcript: After you've spent, say, two weeks in China, the thing you appreciate most about Japan is the bathrooms. From heated seats to auto-flush to automatic deodorizers to a warm air bottom-drying system ... -
Train Diplomacy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-06-04)Broadcast Transcript: You got your A Train. You got your Chattanooga Choo Choo. You got your Hogwarts Express. And now you got your Reunification Railroad. For the first time in 56 years, trains crossed the border between ... -
Green Woodpecker Project
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-06-27)Broadcast Transcript: Visitors to China experience culture shock when they see people hawkin' and spittin' everywhere from main streets to Buddhist temples. You see, spitting is considered good for the health. Well, it may ... -
Living the Highwire Life
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-06-20)Broadcast Transcript: South Korea has added another dimension to its reputation as the most wired country in the world. Instead of referring to hi-tech communication, however, this refers to hi-wire competition. The world's ... -
Tora-San Never Gets the Girl
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-05-13)Broadcast Transcript: What's the longest running film series in world history? Charlie Chan--no. James Bond--no. It's not even Godzilla. Try the Tora-san films, which totaled a whopping 48 features between 1969 and 1996. ... -
Engrish Attacked
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-06-06)Broadcast Transcript: The way things are going here in Beijing, you won't be able to order "Sexually Immature Chicken" at your favorite restaurant very much longer. Sexually Immature Chicken is the kind of mangled English ... -
Sumo Cheating
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-05-30)Broadcast Transcript: A typical sumo bout lasts, oh, about 10 seconds. That's roughly how long it takes one mountain of a man to push another one out of the designated circle. And so you have to ask yourself how is there ... -
China is the New Baseball
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-05-23)Broadcast Transcript: Baseball is called bang qiu here in China. And, if a recent exploration trip taken by New York Yankee bigwigs is any indication, it looks as if China might be the next major outsource for major league ... -
Robotic Ground Rules
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-05-16)Broadcast Transcript: In his short story Runaround, Isaac Asimov created his Laws of Robotics: Rule 1: a robot may not injure a human. Rule 2: A robot must obey orders from a human unless they conflict with Rule 1, and ... -
Internet Rehab
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-05-09)Broadcast Transcript: This Postcard is a public service message to America's teen internet fans: be grateful you live here and not in China. A recent survey revealed that 14 percent of Chinese teens are considered in danger ... -
Daughter Application
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-05-02)Broadcast Transcript: The NCAA may have its Final Four, but here in Wuhan there is the Final Five. In an ironic twist on the one-child, son-preferred policy, a retired professional couple has taken out a newspaper ad seeking ... -
Bat Mitzvah Surprise
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-04-25)Broadcast Transcript: This Postcard is brought to you from New York City where Fu Qian has just had her bat mitzvah at a synagogue on the city's Upper West Side. Of course, now she's called Cecelia Nealon-Shapiro, having ... -
Imperial Scrutiny
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-04-18)Broadcast Transcript: Here in Tokyo, the members of the Imperial Household Agency are in an uproar over the publication of a new book about Princess Masako. It seems the book paints an unflattering picture of life in the ... -
Pig Poop Power
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-04-11)Broadcast Transcript: What could be more fitting in the Year of the Pig than to turn to the pig for power? And that's what is happening here in South Korea. In an effort to develop environmentally friendly, renewable energy ...
