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Thanks for the heads up!

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I'll be sharing this with other educators in our Teaching about East Asia Facebook group. 

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Hi Sarah, thanks for posting. The subject line should be "Heian period." Henan is a province in China. 

 

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Films/videos:

• Above the Drowning Sea (about Jews in China): http://abovethedrowningsea.com/
• USCI panelist discussion about the film: https://china.usc.edu/video-panelists-discuss-film-above-drowning-sea
• John Oliver’s segment on Uyghurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17oCQakzIl8
• China is Surveilling and Threatening Uighurs in the U.S.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtYyAP67k60
• Xmas Without China: http://www.xmaswithoutchina.com/
• The documentary grew out of this student project: Elephant in a Pink Tutu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWHnnltp6EM
• Flying Tigers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers_(film)
• Waiting for Uighurstan: http://seanrroberts.squarespace.com/waiting-for-uyghurstan-documentary
• USCI panelist discussion on Xinjiang: https://china.usc.edu/whats-stake-xinjiang
• Inside China's 'thought transformation' camps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c
• China: Undercover: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/china-undercover/
• China’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World: https://youtu.be/v7AYyUqrMuQ

Podcasts:

• New York Times’ podcast, The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/podcasts/uighurs-coverage-daily-podcast.html
• A segment on the This American Life podcast with a personal story: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/701/black-box/act-one-7

Articles/resources:

• China welcomed in Arab world, respected for internal affairs: Saudi Ambassador: https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1195823.shtml
• Why the U.S. Can’t Get Israel to Break Up With China: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/16/us-israel-china-deals/
• Italy joins China's New Silk Road project: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47679760
• Italy and China in plan for new Silk Road-style trade network: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/23/italy-china-new-silk-road-belt-and-road-g7
• Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/chinese-government-social-credit-score-privacy-invasion
• US Dept. of Treasury: Treasury Sanctions Chinese Entity and Officials Pursuant to Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1055
• Xinjiang Authorities Sending Uyghurs to Work in China’s Factories, Despite Coronavirus Risks: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/work-02272020160853.html
• USCI newsletter on why Xinjiang matters: https://china.usc.edu/hope-and-fear
• China facial-recognition case puts Big Brother on trial: https://hongkongfp.com/2020/01/12/china-facial-recognition-case-puts-big-brother-trial/
• Amnesty International on Rebiya Kadeer: https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/urgent-action-update-uyghur-activists-30-relatives-still-detained-china-ua-251-17/
• Chinese media’s take on the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeEFuGnbV-s
• Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rebiya-Kadeer
• Biography of Owen Lattimore: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935369.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935369-e-26?print=pdf
• 'Virtually entire' fashion industry complicit in Uighur forced labour, say rights groups: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/23/virtually-entire-fashion-industry-complicit-in-uighur-forced-labour-say-rights-groups-china
• China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53650246

Books:

• Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland (got Dru and others blacklisted): https://books.google.com/books/about/Xinjiang.html?id=GXj4a3gss8wC
• Review of Pivot Of Asia: https://china.usc.edu/lattimore-pivot-asia-sinkiang-and-inner-asian-frontiers-china-and-russia-1950
• China's Far West: Four Decades Of Change: https://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Far-West-Decades-Change/dp/0813317738

Lesson plan:

• Shane Markowitz’s lesson plan on China's social credit system: https://speciety.wixsite.com/speciety/post/geography-lesson-plan-china-s-social-credit-system

Websites:

• Art of Life in Chinese Central: https://livingotherwise.com/

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Articles:

• How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

Website:

• Stanford History Education Group: https://sheg.stanford.edu

Teaching resources for Journey to the West:

• Buddhism in the classic Chinese novel: http://www.exeas.org/resources/buddhism-journey-to-west.html
• Monkey: A Journey to the West (good for high school) : https://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Journey-West-David-Kherdian/dp/1590302583
• Monkey King 3: Journey to the West (comics version): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8994208712/ref=x_gr_w_bb_sout?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_sout-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=8994208712&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2

Books:

• The Ghost Festival in Medieval China: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Festival-Medieval-China/dp/0691026777
• The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara: An Introduction with Selected Translations (Classics of Indian Buddhism): https://www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Literature-Ancient-Gandhara-Introduction/dp/1614291683
• Yasodhara: A Novel About the Buddha's Wife: https://www.amazon.com/Yasodhara-Novel-about-Buddhas-Wife/dp/9387693716
• Breakfast with Buddha: https://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Buddha-Roland-Merullo/dp/1565126165

Films:

• The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-boy-who-plays-on-the-buddhas-of-bamiyan
• Little Buddha: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107426/

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Jennifer's article on fortune telling in South Korea is below.

The role-playing worksheets will be available later this summer. 

Reacting to the Past project: https://reacting.barnard.edu/

Charles Jenkins obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/obituaries/charles-jenkins-north-korea-defector.html

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https://www.38north.org/
Informed analysis of events in and around North Korea

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Shusenjo - The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

https://www.shusenjo.com/

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The Girl with Seven Names : Escape from North Korea
https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Seven-Names-Korean-Defectors-ebook/dp/B00JD3ZL9U

Her Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/hyeonseo_lee_my_escape_from_north_korea

 

North Korea: Another Country

https://www.amazon.com/North-Korea-Another-Bruce-Cumings/dp/156584940X 

 

Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite
https://www.amazon.com/Without-You-There-No-Undercover/dp/0307720667

 

The Bacchus Lady
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bacchus_Lady

 

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Envy-Ordinary-Lives-North/dp/0385523912

 

 

 

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Thank you Tom for sharing this opportunity!

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ASIA and the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh present Hot Nights/Cold War, an exploration of the Cold War through film.

Songs from the North Korea (North Korea, Soon-Mi Yoo, 2014)
Wednesday, July 22nd. Discussion: 4:00 pm (Eastern Time) - Film Screening: 6:00 pm (Eastern Time)

The film series is open and free to the public. Curriculum component available for participating educators. Act 48 hours available to PA educators.

To Register, please click here: https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DGLOVPRSS_2eYGuJyWTtXw

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My name is Catherine and I oversee the professional development program at the USC U.S.-China Institute. We have a great line-up for this seminar, so I'm excited for it to start and to meet all of you!

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I'm working on finding fresh copies of these readings, but these are what we have at the moment. Thanks for coming up with ways to make it work! 

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Professor Yamashita's PPTs are below. 

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Professor Miyake's PowerPoint presentation is below.

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