December 16 - Dube - East Asia Since 1900

[Anonymous]

Thanks Clayton-The pictures and real propanganda ads were definitely taken in regard to some of the stereotype casting that I use to break down in my classes. I realloy got a good grasp of the Depression and How economics do really matter, WWII effected all countries and a better understanding of the coldwar in particaular Korea and Vietnam. It helped explore all of the East Asian Connections,
M. Herrera

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LAND REFORM=VERY CRUCIAL

M. Herrera

thank you for attaching lesson plan ideas

[Anonymous]

Going back through my notes I see I placed a 🙁 emoticon because of the finality of this last lecture.

As with every session, there was so much to cover, we could not cover it all, get everyone's insight and still have time to chat. I didn't even notice the time.

Thanks, Clay, for a great seminar and wonderful wrap-up to a busy year.

This information will come into play later in the year when our kids move into the modern era.

Kyle

[Anonymous]

It is amazing how so much information and history can be discussed in only 3 hours. However, I feel that our last class of East Asia Since 1900 was a perfect ending. "We must bear the unbearable" is such a powerful quote that transcends time. Learning about USA involvement in Asia and all the good and bad we have done has opened my eyes and ears. I have so many questions, but am excited about what I have learned and what I will continue to learn about the world in which I am a part of.

[Anonymous]

thanks clay for all the info on our last class. My head was swimming (in a good way) from all the information we got in those three hours. Your slides were great and the readings that went with this section I really liked.

Thanks Clay and see you on the 27th

[Anonymous]

Like I told you guys, the East Asia studies have made me more keenly aware of what's happening in that part of the world. I just heard in one of the world t.v. news channels about the International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival held yearly in Harbin China since 1963.Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. The average temperature in winter is -16 degrees due to cold winds from Siberia. Generally it starts at January 5th every year.

Visitors are allowed to travel to the city earlier so as to avoid the harsh weather conditions. Artists around the world participate in the largest snow and ice sculpture festival where they make all kinds of sculptues including some of buddha. Sculptures are made with latest laser cutting and also with hands. The festival officially begins today, January 5, 2009, when 800,000 tourists are expected to visit the freezing city in northern China. Wow, I'm getting really exposed to a totally new world- and I'm loving it!

[Anonymous]

Just want to comment on a documentary I watched on 'Link t.v.' tonight entitled "Friends of Kim" - Solidarity march in N. Korea." It was a very informative narration by journalists who had been allowed to visit N. Korea in 2007 and their unpleasant experiences with their hosts, who on discovering that they were taking videos about certain aspects of life in N. Korea and asking nationals probing questions, decided to confiscate material collected by the journalists. The documentary was an hour long and gave a depiction of actualities in N. Korea such as food shortages, censorship of speech et. - remember we learned that N. Korea is heavily influenced and "governed" by soviet standards because of communist influences during their visit. Anyway, the journalists were even locked up in jail for a while and only released after they signed confessions that their accounts had been nothing but lies. Their tapes were not returned back to them. I guess the one documentary film that I watched must have been smuggled by one of the reporters miraculously. Sounds very much like some African countries where dictators never want to expose to the rest of the world what goes on in the country if they are corrupt leaders...

[Anonymous]

I have so much to say in this section entitled "East Asia since 1900" since I consider myself as being in the category. So, my husband, knowing how much I struggle with my weight, odered some Chinese tea after subscribing to a program that had several testimonials of great success among those who used it. Since he know that I have a very hard time sticking to a consistent work-out program, he felt that this tea regime would be an ideal one for me. All I had to do was drink the tea twice a day and of couse exercise as much as I could. I sceptically embarked on the program, not being as consistent as I should have been at the onset, but after two months, I am seeing some kind of form slowly coming back to my waistline and he attests to me "feeling" different. It also isn't such a struggle to walk distances like it used to be before and all I have been doing is drinking the tea twice a day. I think the darn thing is working! It is called the Wu-Yi Source, authentic chinese Wu-Yi tea and is harvested and prepared using the old world orthodox method. I don't seem to have had any side effects and other then what my husband pays for it evry two months, it seesm affordable. This is just for anyone struggling with any similar issues and has tried every other fad. The Chinese tea seems to be working and when I reach my ideal weight, I will give a report of the actual results.

[Anonymous]

Last year my sister, brother and his girlfriend went on a road trip that included what they thought would be an hour at Manzanar. They stayed to whole day and said it was a fascinating place that we should all see. (Alas, my spring break had already occurred, so I was teaching while they were playing.)

[Anonymous]

Clay this was a great ending to this seminar, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. I really enjoyed looking at the propaganda slides. You are an excellent teacher and help us learn well. thank you.

[Anonymous]

What left the biggest impression on me after this session was the awful political ads! I have always been proud of California's rich and diverse history, which I thought was characterized by tolerance. But then Clay showed us the ads from James D. Phelan's 1907 election campaign. WOW! How ironic that the highly intolerant ads came from San Francisco! It just goes to show how time changes and how intolerant people can actually be. By the way, was the town of Phelan named after him or is it just a coincidence?

[Anonymous]

I was also impressed with the large impact WWII had on Asia's development. Before the session I knew that this was true, but I was not aware of the scope of the impact. It really does seem that if it had not been for WWII, East Asia would be a completely different place. Maybe more so than any other region in the world.

As an added note, I think Clay mentioned that he'd like to compile a collection of American political propaganda used in Iraq. I decided to search google to try and find some examples and I stumbled across this article on the Christian Science Monitor website posted in 2005 saying that the US was spending over $300 million on paying Iraqi newspapers and journalists to publish reports on the war efforts (http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/dailyUpdate.html ). I thought that was an interesting stat, and it made me wonder how that compares to the amount of dollars (even taking inflation into consideration) spent during and following WWII.

[Anonymous]

This last lecture was enjoyable, however sad that our classes had ended. It was a lot of information but I managed to get most of it down. Throughout the class we have seen the origins of these countries and now it was all summed up rather quickly! I really enjoyed the slides of a year in China. Prof Dube does a great job in demonstrating how relevant East Asia is, in particular China. I was particularly struck by the snow in this past year that completely stop transportation. China has had a lot of major events happen this year, luckily we were able to explore them in this class. It's been great

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