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StoryCorps: Suzi and Donna Wong
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Suzi and Donna Wong at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta on March 15, 2022., Credit: Hillery Rink for StoryCorps.
Sisters Suzi and Donna Wong remember growing up in the back of their parents’ laundry business in Hollywood, CA.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Eighth Avenue
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is constantly changing. This episode takes a look at the changes on just one street in one neighborhood: Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park, whi...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 27:02
Top of Mind - Vietnam Stories, Artificial Intelligence Friend
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 and 2 - “The Mountains Sing”: Trauma, Resilience and the Legacy of War in Vietnam, Topic 3 - An App That’s Designed to Be Your BFF

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 52:07
  • Purchases: 3
Whose Monkey Chant Is It Anyway?
From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That
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The electrifying Ramayana Monkey Chant, performed for thousands of visitors to Bali each year, was created by a guy named...Walter?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 17:05
StoryCorps: Evan Yabu and Shig Yabu
From: StoryCorps
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Shig Yabu tells his grandson Evan about an unlikely friend he made as a Japanese American internee during World War II.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 2
LIVING IN AN AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMP
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
Chinese Ensembles (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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About 2,500 years ago, the body of a Chinese nobleman was placed in a tomb with items he cherished most: furnishings, bronze vessels, weapons and s...

Bought by KBYI


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Gary Koivu and Kim Koivu
From: StoryCorps
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Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
The Guzheng (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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It's among the most popular instruments in China. Over most of its 2,500-year-history, the guzheng has been a mainstay in everything from opera to ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, Hawaii Public Radio, KBYI, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Guzheng (4.5 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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It's among the most popular instruments in China. Over most of its 2,500-year-history, the guzheng has been a mainstay in everything from opera to ...

Bought by Raven Radio and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
Percussion Music (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Have you ever heard of a wooden fish, a flowerpot drum or a nipple gong? They are part of a raucous, colorful-and wildly popular-feature in Chinese...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, Hawaii Public Radio, KBYI, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 4
Percussion Music (4.5 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Have you ever heard of a wooden fish, a flowerpot drum or a nipple gong? They are part of a raucous, colorful-and wildly popular-feature in Chinese...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Aiko Ebihara and Roy Ebihara
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Seventy-five years ago this month President Roosevelt signed an executive order ordering all Japanese Americans into internment camps, including th...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
Dancing the Shrimp Dry: How Chinese Immigrants Drove Louisiana Seafood (Gravy Ep. 45)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Man with rake and drying shrimp. , Credit: Photo courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Imagine this: deep in the Louisiana wetlands, a wooden platform the size of three football fields, covered in shrimp, drying in the sun… which are ...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 25:44
  • Purchases: 1
DON'T THINK I'VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA'S LOST ROCK & ROLL -- John Pirozzi Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: John Pirozzi, San Francisco, CA 4/15/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
John Pirozzi talks baby steps, insatiable thirst, and the miracle of vinyl.

  • Added: May 07, 2015
  • Length: 25:37
StoryCorps: Shengqiao Chen and Zehao Zhou
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Shengqiao Chen (L) and Zehao Zhou (R)
Shengqiao Chen (L) tells his friend Zehao Zhou (R) about being smuggled to the U.S. aboard the Golden Venture in 1993.

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 3
The Meskhetians
From: Julia Barton
Caption: Faramus Ibrahimov., Credit: Joshua Sarantitis
Many refugees in the United States have complicated stories to tell. The plight of the Meskhetian Turks spans six decades and four countries. Now s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Chinatown Friendship Gate
From: Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia
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The icon of Philadelphia Chinatown gets a makeover

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Spy Princess: Noor Inayat Khan
From: Kamla Bhatt
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Intriguing story of an India-American woman spy from World War-II

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 04, 2008
  • Length: 18:36
  • Purchases: 1
An Hour with Don Ho (58:59 or 59:59)
From: Public Radio WorldWide - PRWW.org
Series: Asian-American Heritage Special
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This one-hour interview & music with Don Ho in Hawaii is the last he granted before giving his farewell Aloha in April 2007! Your licensing of thi...

Bought by WLNZ


  • Added: May 02, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mapping the Himalayas
From: Kamla Bhatt
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Ever wondered how the Himalayas got mapped? What is the connection between Rudyard Kipling's Kim and the the group that mapped the Himalayas?

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 26:28
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a... Fugo Balloon?
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Up, up and away with Japan's littlest-known WWII weapon

  • Added: Sep 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:41
Crossing East: Shasta Taiko
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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A 1st Person profile of Russel Baba and Jeannie Aiko Mercer of Shasta Taiko

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Jon Jang Music Feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of Composer and Pianist Jon Jang

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
Testing the Alarms
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Post 9/11 fear divides communities.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1