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From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

Go to the heart of Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, where an immigrant family and thousands of volunteers turned 20 acres into a Japanese gard...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KVSC

Coming From India

From: David Cohen

This documentary takes us into the East Indian community in New Jersey, which ranks third in Asian-Indian population after California and New York....

Passage to the Middle Kingdom - Chinese Musical Traditions

From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom

For hundreds of years, China has held sway over the western imagination. With exquisite silks, architecture, poetry, calligraphy, paintings,music a...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, KFCF FM, WVBI-LP, WCPN and more

The Suona (4.5 minute version)

From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom

Yazhi Guo grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution when conservatories were closed and traditional Chinese music and musical instruments were all...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and KOWS

The Suona (10 minute version)

From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom

Yazhi Guo grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution when conservatories were closed and traditional Chinese music and musical instruments were all...

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

The Dizi (4.5 minute version)

From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom

As a child, Jennifer Alexa Zhang spent around eight hours a day practicing the piano. As a teen, she added the Chinese bamboo flute to her regimen ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and KOWS

The Dizi (10 minute version)

From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom

As a child, Jennifer Alexa Zhang spent around eight hours a day practicing the piano. As a teen, she added the Chinese bamboo flute to her regimen ...

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

The Pipa (4.5 minute version)

From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom

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 WXXI Rochester, KHSU, Hawaii Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and KOWS

The YangQin (4.5 minute version)

From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom

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

The YangQin (10 minute version)

From: MoraQuest
Series: Passage to the Middle Kingdom

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

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

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

Qiu Jin

From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women

At nearly thirty years of age, she heard the call to leave her family behind and take her adventurous spirit on the road to Japan, where she joined...

Japanese-American granddaughter questions internment

From: MPR News Stations
Series: MPR News' Youth Series

Caption: Mara Kumagai Fink (right) interviewing her great aunt Matsue at Manzanar, the camp she was brought to in northern California.

Mara Kumagai Fink explores her family's experiences in the internment camps during WWII. Mara spent the summer interviewing family members and revi...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WRST-FM Oshkosh, WGXC, Vocalo.org, KUNM and more