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Postcards from Asia radio spots: Recent submissions
Now showing items 61-80 of 312
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Jin Xing
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2012-02-08)Broadcast Transcript: Like many countries, the issue of gender is complicated here in China. Women weren't supposed to rule but many of them did. Eunuchs were powerful because they were impotent. Great men were often ... -
Shanghai Music
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2012-02-01)Broadcast Transcript: According to Chinese legend, music was first made back in 1122 BCE by one Ling Lun on bamboo pipes that were tuned to the songs of birds. Shun, one of the three Sage Kings of Antiquity, is said to ... -
Cult of Personality
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2012-01-25)Broadcast Transcript: No country does the cult of personality quite as well as North Korea. It started with Kim Il Sung who is still revered as the Dear Leader and Eternal President and whose image can be seen everywhere. ... -
Hong Zhang
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2012-01-18)Broadcast Transcript: Long ago in China, in much of Asia, in fact, art was not a commodity but a pure expression of the heart. Largely done by the literati, male scholars, it took the form of poetry, calligraphy, brush ... -
Dragon Year
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2012-01-11)Broadcast Transcript: Can you believe it? It's New Year again. It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the advent of the year of the Rabbit and now, here it is, the year of the Dragon. January 22nd is New Year's ... -
Wasabi Alarm
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-11-23)Broadcast Transcript: Stop the presses! Wasabi has escaped the condiment ghetto. Thanks to a team of Japanese researchers, wasabi is not just a sinus-ripping horseradish paste that goes with sushi anymore. Now, it's also ... -
Death Runthrough
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-11-16)Broadcast Transcript: At a certain age, we all begin to feel our mortality. Here in South Korea, they're doing something about it. Test runs for death. Well, they're not really practicing dying. They're practicing with ... -
Robot Round Up
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-11-09)Broadcast Transcript: This is a Postcard about robots. In Japan. Now there's a surprise. But suspend your disbelief for a moment, if you will. Let's talk about Evolta first. Evolta is a battery-powered triathlete headed ... -
AnDa Union
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-11-02)Broadcast Transcript: Mongolian nomads have lived very close to nature for centuries. Their shamanistic religion reveres the natural world. Not surprising, then, that traditional throat singing, or khoomei , reflects this ... -
Ultimate Frisbee
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-09-26)Broadcast Transcript: Okay. So you live in a totalitarian hereditary Communist dictatorship whose cult leader is threatening the world with nuclear destruction. Does that mean that you can't enjoy a friendly game of Ultimate ... -
Chinese Acrobats
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-10-19)Broadcast Transcript: Acrobatics are an important part of the Beijing Opera or Beijing jingju. The Monkey King's hijinks are impressively acrobatic: flips and aerials and high leaps as he roundly defeats the gods of heaven ... -
Living National Treasures
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-09-28)Broadcast Transcript: Loud are the lamentations over the loss of national cultural identity in the growing homogeny of global world culture. Well, many countries are doing something about it and Japan is one of them. Not ... -
Yinyutang House
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-08-21)Broadcast Transcript: A simple façade under a curled roof of ceramic tile hides a central courtyard with an open roof that lets the sunlight in. Koi shimmer and dart in the water of two stone rain pools. Carved wooden ... -
eMZ
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-09-14)Broadcast Transcript: Most North Korean civilians have no access to the internet or anything wifi but the government does. In fact, Kim Jong Il trains an army of top notch hackers who have been blamed for developing software ... -
Shanzhai Culture
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-09-07)Broadcast Transcript: A recent blog post about a fake Apple store in Kunming, China has everyone in an uproar. It went viral, and all the major news agencies have jumped on it as if the existence of counterfeit enterprises ... -
Skilled Veterans Corps
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Broadcast Transcript: Many stories have been written about the graying of Japan's population accompanied by much kvetching over the cost to the younger gen of maintaining the old. Well, here's a story that should put the ... -
Kiss Apple
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-08-24)Broadcast Transcript: Spicy kimchee and garlicky fish. Standard fare in Korea. Good for the health, sure, but for the breath? Not so much. So in an attempt to promote healthy eating along with kissably fresh breath, Korean ... -
Glow Dog Glow
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-08-17)Broadcast Transcript: South Korean researchers, ever striving to be top in science, have cloned a glow-in-the-dark dog. The little beagle was engineered by inserting genes from species--like jellyfish--that produce fluorescent ... -
Spelling Counts
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-07-20)Broadcast Transcript: From the "sweetheart, get me rewrite" file comes this: A free trade agreement drawn up by South Korea to put into place with the European Union had to be withdrawn and resubmitted three times because ... -
Cashless SK
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2011-07-13)Broadcast Transcript: Wither cash? And while we're asking, wither wallets? If the South Koreans have their way, the answer will be the way of the dinosaur. South Korea is aiming to become a cashless, walletless society by ...
