This story is about how traditional Chinese music travels across time, distance, and migration, carried by the people who choose to keep it alive. Through the stories of two musicians and producer Rosina Lin's own journey as a listener, it explores memory, identity, and what it means to belong. Original scoring by Rosina Lin.

Produced with support from the Braden Storytelling Grant and the Stanford Storytelling Project.

Interviews

Yifan — Pipa player and software engineer based in Seattle

George — Dizi player and music producer based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Music Acknowledgments

Music and sound elements from Apple Loops and Freesound.org;

Original scoring by Rosina Lin

Why do Cambodian American stories disappear—both from family albums and from school curricula? In this documentary, producer Rani Chor follows one community’s effort to reclaim its history, asking what happens to identity, power, and belonging when a people’s past is left untaught. In California’s first model curriculum for Cambodian Americans, we find these lost stories.

Produced with support from the Braden Storytelling Grant and the Stanford Storytelling Project.

Interviewees:

• Ratha Kim, owner of Rajana Threads
• Bandaul Chansy, Kindergarten Teacher, Long Beach Unified
• Youk Chhang, Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam)
• Marika Manos, Project Lead, History/Social Science Manager of OCDE
• Joshua Brown, Project Manager, Model Curriculum, OCDE
• Matthew O’Donnell, Program Specialist on Cambodian American Studies Model Curriculum, OCDE

Music Credits:

Cambodian Rock and Roll -- Yol Aularong + Tuk - Sou Slarp Kroam Kombut Srey (Rather Die Under the Woman's Sword)

Cambodian American Studies Curriculum: https://camodelcurricula.ucdavis.edu/cambodian-american-studies

This episode follows livermush from producer Ana Gray's family farm to a North Carolina factory, told through family memory, labor, and survival. What begins as a search for a childhood food becomes a story about inheritance, care, and quiet resistance.

Produced with support from the Braden Storytelling Grant and the Stanford Storytelling Project.

Music:

• Free Music Archies
  • Eirik finbak, Dear Whiskey
• Youtube Studio Audio Library
  • Chris Haugen, Soul Food
  • Alge, make the visible invisible
• freesound.org

Credits:

• Phyllis Hunter Bracket and Louise Rulfed and the Hunter Livermush family
• Macy Jones
• Martha Jones, my Aunt Mothe
• The SSP team, with a special Shout out to Dawn J Fraser