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Chihuly : Niijima float project

Filmed on location on a small rocky island 10 hours by ferry out of Tokyo Bay, Chihuly invents "burn paintings" by swirling molten glass onto paper. He creates 1,000 fishing floats and stunning sculpture, and visits the last Japanese glass float…

Chinatown in Chicago

A visitor's guide to Chicago Chinatown's history and architecture.

Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955

Details the activity of the Catholic Maryknoll organizations in China from 1918-1955.

Pan de Sal Saves the Day: A Filipino Children's Story

Pan de Sal is a shy, plain little girl, embarrassed for living in a poor thatched-roof hut and for eating simple foods. She envies Croissant, Muffin and Doughnut, her richer and prettier classmates. One day, the school bus they are riding in has a…

Sugar Changed the World

Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity…

The runaway rice cake

After chasing the special rice cake, Nian Gao, that their mother has made to celebrate the Chinese New Year, three poor brothers share it with an elderly woman and have their generosity richly rewarded.