Ten Thousand Things with Shin Yu Pai A podcast about modern-day artifacts of Asian American life, hosted by award-winning poet and museologist Shin Yu Pai.

Ten Thousand Things with Shin Yu Pai

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A podcast about modern-day artifacts of Asian American life, hosted by award-winning poet and museologist Shin Yu Pai.

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Voice

This is a story about the way we make a statement.

Voice

Bike

Anti-Asian hate crimes spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic. And then the Atlanta spa shooting scarred a community already suffering.

Bike

Book

Shawn Wong discovered the first Japanese American novel, No-No Boy, at a used bookstore for 50 cents, after being told by his English professors that Asian American literature didn't exist.

Book

Jizo Bodhisattva

During the mizu kuyo ritual for pregnancy loss, a small Jizo Bodhisattva statue enshrines ceremonial remains of a lost child. Following Shin Yu's miscarriage in 2012, she had a mizu kuyo ceremony to process her grief.

Jizo Bodhisattva

Steelhead

Dylan Tomine has a passion for steelhead trout. Or an obsession. Or an addiction.

Steelhead

Time Capsule

On the eve of selling her family's house, Donna Miscolta's daughter had a special request: Go to the stairwell and pull back the loose board on the bottom step.

Time Capsule

Resume

Eason Yang was on an ambitious career trajectory, helping tech companies like Uber change the world. Until he got cancer.

Resume

Name

A name is an object that defines who we are. But what if our name is wrong?

Name