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Postcards from Asia radio spots: Recent submissions
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Earth's Three
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-11-17)Broadcast Transcript: From Mongolia, land of fermented mare's milk, comes this beguiling morsel of nomadic oral tradition. It's called yertonciin gorav or Earth's Three. Earth's three what? Well, Earth's three top things ... -
Kimchi Krisis
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-11-10)Broadcast Transcript: Bathtubs here in South Korea are, sadly, available for actual bathing this fall. No napa cabbage heads bob merrily on the water waiting to become part of this year's batch of homemade kimchi. Kimchi ... -
Single Marriage
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-11-03)Broadcast Transcript: Taiwan, like many modern countries, finds itself with a heckuva lot more single older women than ever before. Women on career tracks are less likely to get married, not wanting to interrupt their job ... -
Vowel Harmony
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-10-13)Broadcast Transcript: Many world languages contain masculine and feminine words with all that pesky adjective and article agreement that goes along with it. Some languages bypass gender altogether: English, for example, ... -
Traffic Update in China
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-10-06)Broadcast Transcript: And here's the traffic report from China: Expect major delays along the Beijing-Tibet expressway today as the world's largest and longest traffic jam continues. It's been bumper to bumper on this road ... -
Bikes in China
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-09-29)Broadcast Transcript: Not that long ago, private citizens in China could not own cars. In fact, the only cars you saw on the road were government vehicles. And you didn't see many of these. No. What you did see was bicycles. ... -
Missing Centenarians
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-09-22)Broadcast Transcript: Though their aging faces have not yet appeared on milk cartons, a number of 100 year plus citizens of Japan have gone missing. This is surprising and embarrassing for a country that prides itself on ... -
Lepers and Ludwig
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-09-15)Broadcast Transcript: This is not a postcard about South Korea. It is a postcard about compassion and connection that just happens to take place in South Korea on Sorok Island, located one kilometer off the southwest coast. ... -
Crop Art
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-09-08)Broadcast Transcript: Here in Japan, when the economy comes a cropper, the Japanese do crop art. Or at least in Inakadate, a small rural community up north, they do. Owing Tokyo a whopping 106 million bucks for a Neolithic ... -
Cow Concentrate
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-08-25)Broadcast Transcript: Our hi tech world is so smug about how it's cramming more and more stuff into smaller and smaller spaces. Well, here in Mongolia, this is nothing new. Mongolian nomads have been doing it for centuries ... -
World Cup Blues
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-08-18)Broadcast Transcript: World Cup. 1966. North Korea stuns soccer fans by becoming the first Asian team ever to advance to the quarterfinals where they go up 3-0 against Portugal before finally being defeated at the hands--or ... -
Fat Fruit Flies
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-08-11)Broadcast Transcript: Breaking news from South Korea's hi-tech frontline. With the help of drosophila, or the fruit fly, scientists here have discovered strands of genetic material that control growth in the body. They're ... -
PLA Day
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-08-04)Broadcast Transcript: August 1st is coming up, people, and you know what that means. People's Liberation Army Day here in China:, time to party for the Party and celebrate the army's formation back in 1927. This year, ... -
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 ...
