PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution a...
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- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 29:00
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While Buddhism as a religion was founded in India, only 0.7% of Indians describe themselves as Buddhist.
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- Added: Nov 07, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:42
In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:30
Jia Zhangke is mainland China’s most cutting-edge director, challenging that country’s official story of economic triumph with poetic and elliptica...
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 03:32
It was the 1960s – and throughout the United States, opposition to the War in Vietnam was growing. The Draft forced young men to make a choice abo...
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- Added: Jun 23, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...
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- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
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Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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It turns out that a community best known for winning spelling bees also has some radical skeletons in its closet.
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- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 04:30
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Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy takes us deep into the revolutionary-filled jungles of India, as she reads excerpts from her new book ‘Walking...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 09:25
