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Center for East Asian Studies: Recent submissions
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Stripper Funerals
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-11-15)Broadcast Transcript: Bad news. All of you who were counting on having your body taken to China's Jiangsu province in order to have strippers appear at your funeral had better start making other plans. Local officials are ... -
Ash Buddhas
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-11-08)Broadcast Transcript: In at least one Buddhist temple in Japan, ancestor worship is way more substantive than you might imagine. The temple is called Isshinji and it is in Osaka which is located in the western part of ... -
Nuclear Celebrations
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-11-01)Broadcast Transcript: The North Korean situation is frightening for many reasons but none, perhaps, more eerily disturbing than images of North Koreans celebrating in brightly colored costumes just days after the nation's ... -
Pop Music Battle
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-10-26)Broadcast Transcript: This installment of Postcards from Asia is brought to you by the letters J and K and the number 1 with a bullet. That's J for J pop and K for K pop, and number 1 with a bullet is where they're headed ... -
Wibro
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-09-27)Broadcast Transcript: Korea, in its quest to be the country with "cuttingest" technology edge, has recently tested wireless broadband, aka "wibro". "Wibro" gives users high-speed internet access even in vehicles moving ... -
Party Mascot Game
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-09-20)Broadcast Transcript: Move over Super Mario. Here comes Lei Feng. Who? Lei Feng, the youthful national hero of the Communist Party. Feng is the subject of China's latest video game hit. As Feng, players mend socks, live ... -
Genghis Offspring
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-09-13)Broadcast Transcript: Genghis Khan: conqueror, leader, extreme progenitor. It's said that as many as 16 million males in the geographic area once known as the Mongolian Empire carry the genetic signature of this 13th Century ... -
Train Poetry Exchange
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-09-06)Broadcast Transcript: First there were Maoist slogans. Then there were ads for cosmetic surgery. Soon there will be poems by English masters such as Wordsworth and Blake. Where? On Shanghai public transportation, that's ... -
Whale Blame
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-08-30)Broadcast Transcript: The Japanese have taken small numbers of whales from their coastal waters for centuries, but Japan only began deep-sea whaling in the 1930s, selling the whale oil to soap makers in Europe and using ... -
Shun-ti and the end of Yüan rule in China
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Must Rename Google
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-08-23)Broadcast Transcript: Here in China, foreign brand names are transliterated with marketing in mind. A transliteration that combines propitious meaning and harmonious sound is a marketer's goal. Coca Cola is a case in point. ... -
Goldland Super Mine Adventure
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-08-16)Broadcast Transcript: Gold, or huang jin in Chinese, has been cultural capital for centuries. From pagoda roofs to entrepreneurs' teeth, gold spells success. Enter GoldLand, a new and exciting theme park dedicated to the ... -
Divorce Economy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-08-09)Broadcast Transcript: Is divorce good for the economy? Some market analysts in South Korea would answer with a resounding "geu rum yo!" That's "Yes!" in Korean. Korea's rapidly rising divorce rate seems to have softened ... -
Breast Increase
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-08-02)Broadcast Transcript: As frogs are to the ecosystem, are breasts a bellwether item for the state of a market economy? Could be. According to research done by the Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology--yes, you heard ... -
Childhood in Premodern China
(Greenwood Press, 1991-03) -
Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression, 1620-1627
(University of Hawaii Press, 2002-02)From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purged from key positions ... -
Smelly Movies
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-06-26)Broadcast Transcript: If you ask some people in Japan what they think of the movie The New World, starring Colin Farrell as John Smith, they might tell you it stinks. But they won't necessarily mean that as an insult. A ... -
Lonely Ladies
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-07-19)Broadcast Transcript: Lee Yu-jin sleeps with a "guy pillow" shaped like half a man's torso with one arm inexplicably encased in the sleeve of a blue dress shirt. Hong Yun-jeong confides in Dori-Dori, a little doll that ... -
Detective Fiction
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-07-12)Broadcast Transcript: Detective fiction in the West celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. Of course, the detective genre has been around for way longer here in China. The Casebook of Judge Dee was written about 300 ... -
Space Kimchi
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-07-05)Broadcast Transcript: In space, no one can hear you scream... but did you know that in space no one can detect your smell either? The smell-taste connection means that food in space is not only weightless but tasteless, ...
