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This week on the show: Crushed hopes - How young Pakistani brides are ending up in the clutches of sex trafficking rings in China, the activist...
- Added: Jul 04, 2019
- Length: 30:00
A lawyer-turned-poet and twice a finalist for the National Book Award, Monica Youn reveals why she felt the need to leave the legal field for creat...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
In 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown only 1 in 10 people were women, and most of them were forced into prostitution, trafficked by criminal to...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 9
Chinese-American Lisa See’s 11th novel, “The Island of Sea Women,” centers on the female friendship and family secrets of the haenyeo. For centurie...
- Added: Mar 15, 2019
- Length: 09:44
Pediatrician and public health advocate Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha, author of “What The Eyes Don’t See. A Story Of Crisis, Resistance, And Hope In An Am...
- Added: Aug 25, 2018
- Length: 09:55
Lek Chailert, Ashley Bell, and John Michael McCarthy talk choices, chirping, and how an elephant can be like a Prius.
- Added: Aug 01, 2018
- Length: 28:48
Robin Lung talks wake-up calls, color-blind casting, and the power of film.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 21:09
Atsuko Hirayanagi talks culture, conforming, and the mixed blessing of a sugar coating.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 16:27
Dr. Sonia Patel practices psychiatry in Honolulu and is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novel, “Rani Patel in Full Effect”.
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 40:31
Listen to Popinjay’s CEO Saba Gul, who started out from MIT in a career in engineering and is now making a global social impact through connecting ...
- Added: May 27, 2017
- Length: 39:00
Composer Mari Kimura on growing up in an experimental solar house, taking care of a terrified audience, and improvising as a way to find one’s self.
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 30:20
This series is about individuals in China. Episode one is about Single ladies and the pressures put on them by society.
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 19:46
What did want to be when she grew up? A plastic surgeon! No, a science teacher! No, I know—an artist. No, wait—company CEO! Susie Lee CEO of Siren...
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 42:43
Lenora Lee talks transcending timelines, embracing improvisation, and dancing in a cramped space.
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 12:31
Nanfu Wang talks paranoia, creative radicalism, and dreaming big.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 27:03
Otto Bell talks legacies, options, and bucking traditions.
- Added: Nov 18, 2016
- Length: 14:13
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
Married for 25 years, Tabinda and Tariq were recent immigrants when they first met, and even without a common language, their love blossomed.
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 02:23
China correspondent Gady Epstein in conversation with author and New America Fellow Mei Fong and journalist Barbara on China’s one child policy.
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Feb 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Radio Curious visits with Felicia Lowe the producer of “Chinese Couplets” a documentary about Lowe's quest to learn about her ancestral history by ...
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Human trafficking is estimated to be in the millions--yet only a fraction of it is reported. And taxpayers spend $60,000 per person, per year on in...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 4
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam.
This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious discusses the erosion of gender equality in China with Leta Hong Fincher, the author of “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Ine...
- Added: Aug 11, 2014
- Length: 58:02
It’s 1938 in San Francisco. War is brewing around the world, but America's entry into World War II is still several years away. Meanwhile in this ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 1
