Pick A Program... #1 - First Contacts #2 - Frontier Asians #3 - Raising Cane #4 - Exclusion & Resistance #5 - Brides & Children #6 - The Post '65 Generation #7 - Refuge From War #8 - New Waves, New Storms Music Features

Wars create poverty conditions and a surplus of dispossessed women and children.  Many women married American service men.  Many children were adopted and sent to the U.S. Crossing East explores the little told accounts of military brides and Asian American adoptees.

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	Military Brides: Many Japanese women, working to support their families after the devastation of WWII, fell in love with American soldiers stationed there.  During the Korean War and later during the Vietnam War, the same thing happened, and young men and women endured ridicule, bureaucracy and discrimination to stay together.	Produced by Dmae Roberts and Sara Caswell Kolbet with Contributor Miae Kim
	The Story of Ok Cha Yang: Ok Cha Yang arrived with her husband in 1972 and has lived in America ever since without returning to Korea.  She lost touch with her family.  Ok Cha Yang and her daughter Rainjita traveled to Korea to find her long-lost brothers and sisters.	Produced by Rainjita Yang-Geesler
	I Am: Children of mixed race families have often had to define their ethnicity and found it hard to split up what is so clearly a single person into a multiple identity. From the '60s to today, ways of defining oneself have changed dramatically.	Produced by Rainjita Yang-Geesler
	Unanswerable Questions: After the Korean war, some Korean children began to be adopted by American non-Asian parents. These adoptions began an ongoing discussion about the way to raise a child from a different culture, and many of the first Korean adoptees felt shut off from who they might have become.	Produced by Sara Caswell Kolbet and Miae Kim
	Baby Pictures: During the Vietnam War, thousands of children were flown out of South Vietnam in 'Operation Babylift.' Now adults, these adoptees are finding out more about themselves in each other and in Vietnam.	Produced by Sara Caswell Kolbet with Contributor Miae Kim
	Where I'm From: Learning from the experiences of older Korean and Vietnamese adoptees, international adoptive parents, especially those adopting from China, actively seek to include more of the culture of the child’s birth country as part of family life.	Produced by Dmae Roberts and Miae Kim