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The Pipa (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Wu Man lives in San Diego, but works in venues around the world. And she is doing it on an instrument that had once been in decline. When she enter...

Bought by WVTF, KBYI, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 6
The YangQin (4.5 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Xiao Xiannian (Xiao is the last name) is a conservatory-trained virtuoso of the YangQin-a Chinese hammered dulcimer. Once a soloist with a prestigi...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 6
The YangQin (10 minute version)
From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom
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Xiao Xiannian (Xiao is the last name) is a conservatory-trained virtuoso of the YangQin-a Chinese hammered dulcimer. Once a soloist with a prestigi...

Bought by KBYI, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, and KOWS


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 10:07
  • Purchases: 5
RESISTANCE AT TULE LAKE -- Konrad Aderer Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Konrad Aderer, San Francisco, CA 3/11/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Konrad Aderer talks propaganda, dangerous precedents, and recording what may be the last living memories.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 26, 2017
  • Length: 25:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Douglas Coleman Show w_ Colin Flaherty
From: Douglas Coleman
Series: The Douglas Coleman Show
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Interview with Author Colin Flaherty

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 59:34
ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL -- Steve James Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Steve James, San Francisco, CA 3/13/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Steve James talks gambles, subtlety, and having the right imprimatur.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 15:00
Sharing Patchwork: The Quilts of Southwest China
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A bedcover made by sisters Wei Guoer and Wei Guofeng of Guangxi Province. (Courtesy of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures)
The exhibition, The Quilts of Southwest China, was organized by a bi-national consortium of Chinese and American museums, including the Mathers Mus...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
Manipuri Polo
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Manipur’s court records talk about a game back in the 1st century AD and what’s different about polo in Manipur is that this not just a game for po...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
EP 8 When Vermont's "Precision Valley" Changed The World
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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The tools, techniques, and the methods which make mass production possible were pioneered at the Robbins & Lawrence Armory in Windsor, Vermont. But...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
The Asian-American Juggling Act
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Taiwanese American Hairol Ma struggles with finding her place in upstate New York., Credit: Anjani Iman
Westernized Asian-Americans across the United States struggle with finding their place in a seemingly divided country between white people and fore...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
Mr. Duterte takes the Philippines to China: Goodbye America?
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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The Philippines is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia. Its bases and ports are key building blocks in the United States attempt to encircle China...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
Eating fish from Great Lakes is risky, immigrants learn
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Fish caught in the Niagara River August 2016, Credit: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Fish caught in the Niagara River August 2016
An environmental group in Western New York is trying to help area refugees and others learn about the danger of eating contaminated fish from the G...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WSKG, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 6
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
Burmese Crops Sprout in North Carolina
From: Emma Miller
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Some refugees in Chapel Hill are finding a way to reconnect with their native farming tradition.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:02
The Little Company That Could: How A New Orleans Immigrant Created A Global Dried Shrimp Business
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Man with a rake and drying shrimp, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
This episode of TriPod tells the story of one man’s family business, part of the Chinese immigrant community, that helped build New Orleans.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 1
Darling Darjeeling
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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There’s tea... and there’s Darjeeling tea.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
(Episode #01) Write Right: Differences in Chinese and American Writing Systems
From: Odegaard Writing and Research Center
Series: Character Development
Caption: Odegaard Writing and Research Center, Credit: OWRC
This episode provides a glimpse into the pedagogic and cultural differences between Chinese and American writing education systems that fuel differ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:27
Competitive South Bay real estate market pits international Chinese buyers against locals
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Lin-Lin Tsou-Otani, a real estate agent at DeLeon Realty., Credit: Liz Mak
Many wealthy Chinese people have found a safe investment for their money actually lies in the U.S. – specifically, in American real estate. Accordi...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 06:35
Korean Born Author Maija Rhee Devine
From: New Letters on the Air
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As part of Park University's Ethnic Voices Poetry Series at the Kansas City Public Library, Maija (May-jah) Rhee (ree) Devine recounts how her extr...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
Invisible Problems Among Asian-Americans
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Stereotypes about Asian-Americans abound - their kids get perfect scores on standardized testing and head off to Ivy League colleges to become doct...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:36
Walk like a Radical: A tour through a century of progressive South Asians in the Bay Area
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A recreation of protests by South Asian Berkeley students against emergency in India., Credit: Berkeley South Asian Radical Walking Tour
In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 08:08
Two Chinese Schools
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How China looks to students in two Chinese Schools near Seattle, WA.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
Episode 40: We Know A Subconscious Habit Of Yours (Code Switching)
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Monthly Podcast
Caption: RadioActive reporters Antonia Dorn and Kadian Vanloo
There’s no such thing as a normal you. Do you talk to your boss the same way you talk to your dog? Probably not. This is called code switching.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 14:57
Unraveling The Family Folklore Passed Through Generations
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: (From left) Maria's father, mother, grandmother, and grandfather at their home in Manila - the same home where they once encountered a supernatural creature. Maria learned about many traditional Filipino beliefs from her grandmother, Conchita Carpio., Credit: Courtesy of the Caoagdan family
In the Philippines superstitions and the existence of supernatural creatures are firmly believed. RadioActive Youth Media reporter Maria Delmar Cao...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:44

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