reaction/discussion - thurs am (dube)

[Anonymous]

Excellent discussion of the fenjia concept and its impact on Chinese development. I now have a context within which to understand not only the family planning rules, but also the major differences between China and the West in relation to the development of the land.

[clay dube]

Again, not a presentation we looked at in detail, just a few of the 160 slides. Please feel free to comment upon or raise questions.

[clay dube]

slides 26-50 beginning with Mao and Zhu De

[clay dube]

slides 51-76

[clay dube]

slides 76-100

[clay dube]

family planning posters, etc. slides 101-25

[clay dube]

slides 126-150, starting at an elementary school i visited in 1991, spent six months in Wuqiao

[clay dube]

last chunk, slides 151-106, begins with the age of romance, basically 1972-1989

[Anonymous]

I never knew about the Rule of 72. This would be useful to know and work out for math equations and word problems, but it could also be used for interdisciplinary connections to Social Studies and Language Arts. For Social Studies, we could teach the ramifications of this type of population growth (or in Japan’s case, the lack thereof). In English, we could teach nonfiction documents about why sex selective abortion and neglect happen in Asian countries and the moral implications of these acts.

[clay dube]

This presentation focuses on current lines of conflict and cooperation between the US and China. You'll see the China market share of American products. You'll see attempts to use China's rise/achievements to mobilize Americans to invest more. You'll see the ongoing battles over cybersecurity. These files have been compressed (unfortunately) so that I could upload them via the forum.

Please don't hesitate to comment or to raise questions about these slides.

[clay dube]

This section focuses on economic issues in China, including labor unrest. It also notes the March/April takeover of Taiwan's legislature by students. slides 31-60

[Anonymous]

This upcoming school year, we have to focus on writing a lot more for common core (which is fine) but I was trying to think of ideas for them to write about each day. And I think a lot of the quotes we have been given throughout this week would be a great way to have them write critically in their own words what they think each saying means. For example, today we learned Mao said "every stomach comes with two hands". I think it would be interesting to see how students explain this saying, and then defend their reasoning. Then after the writing time is over, I can provide them with brief facts about who said it, why he said it, and whether or not perhaps it was the right way of thinking. The entire idea of population "control" would be relevant to talk about in class also due to the recent immigration issues we are seeing. They brought the refugees down to El Centro where my school is, and I'm not even sure the kids know that it happened. I really want to start discussing current events in the classroom and tying it back to history, and using the quotes like above would definietly help tie it up all together in a neat little package.

The idea of the different countries with no population control/policies having less children versus the countries with population control policies is amazing to me. Obviously having children is an important part of keeping a country going, but you have to somehow have the right amount of children to grow up to care for the old while having their own right amount of children. It seems so complicated and impossible to control. I think we saw that with China when they had their Family Planning Policy. Yes, they enforced it and were somewhat successful, but there are a lot of people who went against the policy or moved away to not have to deal with it. I honestly think if our US government said "Okay guys, you are only allowed to have 2 children maximum", we would have public outrage, riots, and so many people defying the system no matter the cost. I think about people I know who have 3, 4, and even up to 6 children, and how they would be upset that someone would try to stop them from having as many kids as they wanted. Although I also think that might stop a lot of the welfare abuse but that is a completely different topic. I'm not sure how well I can talk to my kids about the policy in that they would stick with the concept of it being only a one child policy and that is what they are going to remember. Honestly, I remember my high school teachers discussing it 12-13 years ago and saying basically that they could only have one child, many baby girls were thrown into the ocean as unwanted, and something about obviously boys being most wanted. I remember the boys in my class felt all special and the girls were outraged. But obviously we got the shortened textbook version of the story and not the full story. I know we didn't even get the full story from Professor Dube, but I learned quite a bit more today on the subject than I knew existed (like I have everyday this week), and am thankful for that!

[clay dube]

this third section of the red lines presentation looks at zones of conflict, including the 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations and China in American political campaigns

[clay dube]

the fourth and final part of this presentation includes recent debates, polls on Chinese/American views of the other -- slides 91-128

[clay dube]

For those interested in how Chinese and Americans view each other, please do watch some of the videos from our November "Tinted Lenses" conference. They are short and some are excellent. Mine includes two examples of US 2012 political ads which mention China and ends with two videos showing something of the attractiveness of one American's music in China.

http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=3209

The Youtube versions of these videos can be viewed in high definition.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZoSvm2n7tkdtsphh41bh2BL87iIsqwyQ

My presentation is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka2pmt_ueUA&index=2&list=PLZoSvm2n7tkdtsphh41bh2BL87iIsqwyQ

Many of you might like to see these videos of China in American films and television programs. It features my friend and colleague Stan Rosen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEJaUCwSaQ&index=22&list=PLZoSvm2n7tkdtsphh41bh2BL87iIsqwyQ

[Author]

Posts