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Center for East Asian Studies: Recent submissions
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The Friendlies Will Get You
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-06-28)Broadcast Transcript: China has the world's largest population, the tallest mountain, the longest wall and now... the most Olympic Mascots. Five. That's two more than Sydney had in 2000. They call these mascots the Olympic ... -
First Emperor Opera
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-06-21)Broadcast Transcript: Qin shi huang di was the first emperor of China back in the 3rd Century BC. Qin for the dynasty. Shi for first. Huang for emperor and di for emperor. The First Emperor unified China, standardized the ... -
China vs. Scotland
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-06-14)Broadcast Transcript: Guess what? The Chinese are now claiming golf as their invention. Of course, they didn't call it golf; they called it chuiwan, which means "hit ball" and is much harder to say. The Scots are not ... -
You Are Never Alone In China
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-05-10)Broadcast Transcript: Here in China, you are never alone. Young couples holding hands and strolling. Citizens practicing tai chi in the park. Elderly women ballroom dancing with one another on the river front balustrade. ... -
Full of Cynical Children
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-06-07)Broadcast Transcript: Goodbye Hello Kitty. Here in South Korea, kid merchandise is evolving from cutesy to snarky. Products with messages such as "Good job" are being replaced by products with messages such as "Mind your ... -
Potty Training Gone Terribly Wrong
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-05-31)Broadcast Transcript: Historians discussing the causes of Japanese imperialism usually mention things like resource scarcity or the pathologies of modernization. In 1942, however, Western explanations of Japan's international ... -
Kung Fu Idol
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-05-24)Broadcast Transcript: First there was Pop Idol. Then there was American Idol. Soon there will be Kung Fu Idol. Well, technically this is not the title of the show but it might as well be. The show's goal is to find the ... -
Hammocks for Rigid Hearts
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-05-17)Broadcast Transcript: If there is such a thing as a Japanese national hangup, it might be rigidity. Well, Hammock 2000 aims to help the Japanese relax both physically and, they hope, psychically. Hammock 2000 makes, hi-tech ... -
Slowbot
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-05-03)Broadcast Transcript: Here in Asia, Japanese running robots are so last season! If you're in the market for a cutting-edge, network-upgradeable motorized pal--and who isn't?--South Korea is where you want to shop. Robotis ... -
Face Fixing Cameras
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-06-22)Broadcast Transcript: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder--or on the screen of a digital camera. We are our own worst critics, so few people are satisfied with the way they appear in photographs. A Japanese company recently ... -
Gateball: The Shuffleboard of Japan
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-04-26)Broadcast Transcript: When it comes to Japanese sports, most people think sumo or karate, not . . . gateball. What is gateball anyway? Well, it's a game not unlike croquet invented to address the lack of healthy recreation ... -
Kanji TV
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-04-19)Broadcast Transcript: Let the French have their Academie Francaise, in Japan they're harnessing the power of television for language quality control. The shows are called kokugo (or national language) and they were designed ... -
Fighting Old Folks
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-04-12)Broadcast Transcript: What could be dearer to a grandmother's heart than her grandchild's smile? Well, for several septuagenarian South Korean grandmas, smashing wooden tiles with their heads comes close. These grandmas ... -
Spell "Cool" K-O-R-E-A
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-04-05)Broadcast Transcript: Here in Beijing's Xidan shopping center, the hot shop is Korea City and the hot ticket items include hip-hop clothing, movies, music, cosmetics and other products that bespeak Korean chic, and Chinese ... -
Great Wall Starbucks
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-03-29)Broadcast Transcript: For roughly 2,000 years, the Great Wall--or chang cheng in Chinese -- has snaked more than 4,000 miles through China's topography doing its duty: deterring invasions from the North. It has been somewhat ... -
Feeling Flush for the Olympics
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-03-22)Broadcast Transcript: The whole dream job concept is relative. Just ask Yu Bao Ping or Lou Ya and her husband Ou Zhi Sheng. They are part New China's new toilet attendant vanguard. Yu Bao Ping was happy to trade the ... -
Kimchi Wars
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-03-15)Broadcast Transcript: Long ago, in a country far, far away (Korea) a pickled vegetable dish was born and it was called kimchi and its fans became legion. So legion, in fact, that 90% of kimchi production ended up being ... -
Company Song Comeback
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-03-08)Broadcast Transcript: Back in the days of Japan's high-growth economy, salarymen across the country raised their voices in song: company song, that is. The equivalent of the university fight song, the Japanese company song ... -
Whitewashed History
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-03-01)Broadcast Transcript: Japan has often been criticized for trying to whitewash its history of conquest and colonialism. First there were those school textbooks that skim over Japanese war crimes, then there were the prime ... -
Black Market Shakespeare
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-02-22)Broadcast Transcript: Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il have long cornered the Dark Lord market here in North Korea, but it looks as if they're going to have to share the limelight with Voldemort himself. Harry Potter books, ...
