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Postcards from Asia radio spots: Recent submissions
Now showing items 281-300 of 312
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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
