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Center for East Asian Studies: Recent submissions
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Gold Farming
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-02-15)Broadcast Transcript: Hard work pays off, but it doesn't have to be YOUR hard work! Especially not in the Age of Outsourcing. Small companies called "gaming factories" have sprung up all over China. In these warehouses, ... -
Sea Women
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-02-08)Broadcast Transcript: Here on tiny Mara Island just south of Korea, women are the breadwinners and men take care of the children, do the shopping and, feed the pigs. The women are pretty successful, too: typically earning ... -
Naming Nuances
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2006-02-04)Broadcast Transcript: With 8,000 years of history behind them, Chinese naming conventions are well-established. For "well-established" read "numerous." Here are just a few: surname comes first and given name, last. So, for ... -
Elected Super Girl
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-12-28)Broadcast Transcript: Li Yuchun is China's newest singing star and she has Beijing shaking in its shoes. It's not her notes that are worrying the government but her votes. See, more than 400 million people watched the final ... -
Magic Bookbag
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-12-21)Broadcast Transcript: It's a book bag! It's a GPS system! It's the Oribie Navi Land and it's two, two, two things in one. Available in Japan, the $300 device is a book bag that uses the same technology as GPS cell phone ... -
Tibet Train
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-12-14)Broadcast Transcript: They said it couldn't be done! The terrain was too barren, the mountains too lofty, the task too ambitious. But the Railroad at the Top of the World linking China with Tibet is proceeding apace. Not ... -
Renewable Mongolia
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-12-07)Broadcast Transcript: As China's economy booms, its demand for energy grows. With oil prices up and coal-fired power plants choking Chinese cities and people, the government is aggressively developing renewable energy ... -
Communist Getaway
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-11-23)Broadcast Transcript: Greetings from North Korea, Your Vacation Paradise! Huh? It's true: 1500 Western tourists, along with thousands from Asia, visit the last bastion of Communism every year. "Holidays in the Axis of ... -
Ramen Town
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-11-16)Broadcast Transcript: If you need proof that Japan is the noodle capital of the world, consider the Ramen Museum in Yokohama which is devoted obsessively to these inexpensive Chinese delicacies. Ramen is ubiquitous and ... -
Did the Mongols Matter? Territory, Power, and the Intelligentsia in China from the Northern Song to the Early Ming
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Trans-Pacific Partnership or Trampling Poor Partners? A Tentative Critical Review
(Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, 2014-04)The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be the most economically and politically significant free trade agreement (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region. Conceived in 2006 by just four small countries, it now embraces 12 that ... -
A New Forecasting Model for USD/CNY Exchange Rate
(De Gruyter, 2012-09-18)This paper models the return series of USD/CNY exchange rate by considering the conditional mean and conditional volatility simultaneously. An index type functional-coefficient model is adopted to model the conditional ... -
CEAL Statistics 2013 with Multi-year Summary and Comparison
(Council on East Asian Libraries of the Association for Asian Studies, 2014-02)Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) 2012-2013 annual statistical data summary and analysis -
Council on East Asian Libraries Statistics 2012-2013: For North American Institutions
(Council on East Asian Libraries of the Association for Asian Studies, 2014-02)Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) 2012-2013 annual statistical data. Data collected include volumes held, volumes added gross, serials, e-journals, other materials, electronic resources, ebooks, expenditures, staffing, ... -
Standing While Eating
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-10-05)Broadcast Transcript: Standing on the Ginza, Tokyo's primo shopping zone, one sees the expected: people in a hurry to shop until they drop, and the unexpected: people eating standing up at the counters of a McDonald's ... -
Ame for Every Occasion
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-11-09)Broadcast Transcript: Legend has it that the Arctic Inuit have hundreds of ways to say "snow." Linguists now tell us that this is just another urban myth. It's a fact, however, that the Japanese have hundreds of words for ... -
Nature of the DMZ
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-11-02)Broadcast Transcript: When most people hear "Korean Demilitarized Zone" they don't flash on a fish called the kumgang fat minnow, and yet this fish and other flora and fauna are thriving here in the DMZ. Why? Because this ... -
Hippu Hoppu
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-10-26)Broadcast Transcript: Yo. Do you think the US has the corner on hip-hop? Well, move over Eminem and Black Eyed Peas. Loop Junktion and Rip Slyme are coming through...at least in Japan. The movement migrated to Japan back ... -
Disney Has Feng Shui
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-10-19)Broadcast Transcript: In the world of theme parks, feng shui has not played much of a role. After all, if you can't sell it or ride it, what's the point? So why is Disney spending big money on a feng shui consultant at its ... -
South Korea: Hi-Tech Mecca
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2005-10-12)Broadcast Transcript: Greetings from South Korea, hi-tech Mecca. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, practically the entire country now has access to broadband speeds of up to 20 megabits per second. Compare that to ...
