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I agree with Christine about Eat Drink Man Woman. Fantastic film by Ang Lee.
Here's the opening segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-2QBYKI8LU

A remake of the film is set in Los Angeles. The trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUh3jY62xGk

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The Huntington website has several lesson plans for the Japanese garden: http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=1710

Here are lessons tied to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Chinese garden: https://www.metmuseum.org/learn/educators/lesson-plans/the-chinese-garden-court

Here's a general guide to gardens and the curriculum: http://www.csgn.org/sites/default/files/GFL_3.pdf
 

Do any of them seem useful for your own classes and students?

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Hi Folks,
Remember that you need to comment in the forum on the problem that we ended our debate with:
Your father violated a law. He knew he was breaking the law, but he did so anyway. You know he broke the law. What should you, based on the teachings of your school of thought (Confucian, Mohist, Daoist, Legalist), do?

Please tell us what you should do and why. Bonus credit if you can cite passages out of the original sources to support your argument (use that guide to Chinese philosophy).

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Hi Folks,
I'll go through this on Saturday morning. You are welcome to use it in full or in part with your students. Please do not post it to the net or otherwise share it.

Late imperial China is from 960-1911. I'll emphasize the last two dynasties, the Ming and Qing. From about 1400 until the fall of the dynasty, the capital was in Beijing.

In the afternoon, we'll visit the Huntington's Chinese and Japanese gardens. Please start thinking now about how to bring some aspect of what you learn during our morning class and our afternoon tour to your students. Here's a neat website about Asian gardens in the 1920s: https://www.smith.edu/garden/pastexhibits/asian_gardens/index.html 
Here's a blogger's list of Asian gardens in Southern California: https://ericbrightwell.com/2016/05/20/asian-gardens-of-los-angeles/

Here's an article by one of our students on the opening of the Chinese garden at the Huntington: http://www.uschina.usc.edu/article@usct?growing_to_new_proportions_chinese_gardens_in_the_u_s_11917.aspx

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Please read these selections ahead of our class. We'll meet at USC at 9 and work there until 11.

The Ming dynasty was built by a peasant turned general. Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the Mongol Yuan dynasty and established his capital in 1368 at Nanjing (a city near present-day Shanghai). The capital was later moved to Beijing. The Ming ruled until 1644 when the Manchus invaded and defeated them. The Manchus established their capital at Beijing. Their dynasty lasted until 1911.

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Thanks for a lively debate! I've attached the philosophy presentation below. Please feel free to use it with your students. Please don't post it to the net or otherwise share it.

Confucians
Kuang, Lin
Laureano, Betty
Liebana-Mena, Juan
Soltero-Torres, Sandra
Tennyson-Marsh, Karimah
 

Daoists
Abraham, Brandon
Flores, Genaro
Kwon, Yun
Ortiz, Percy
Xu, Christine

Mohists
Fortson (Kohn), Tanish
Goin, Caroline
Mercado, Jacqueline
Walker, Nicole

Legalists
Becker, Alexandra
Jamshidnejad, Donna
Tam, Jonathan
*Gonzales, Laura
*Reyes-Contreras, Liliana
*Castro, Stella

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My presentation for this session is attached. You are welcome to use it with your students. Do not post it to the internet or otherwise share it.

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My geography/demography preseentation is attached. You're welcome to use it with your students. Do not post it to the internet or otherwise share it.

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Hi Folks, I'm Clay Dube, USCI director and the lead instructor for this course. Catherine and I work together. I've been studying and teaching Chinese history for a very long time. I've taught at the secondary school level in San Diego and at colleges and universities in China and in the United States. I love traveling, photography, and reading. My last two non-work related books are Michael Connelly's The Black Box and Jason Matthews Red Sparrow (I've not quite finished it, so don't give the ending away).

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Amir - apologies - my presentations are in a separate thread. http://china.usc.edu/k12/forums/usc-fall-2017-rise-east-asia/dube-powerpoint-presentations

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Thanks to Nira and Jane for sharing some of their own family's experiences during the Cultural Revolution, including the Mao personality cult and the sending of educated youth to the countryside.

Everyone should note how Nira's mother was not able to try to attend college, simply because of her age. Many Chinese had to cope with arbitrary limits on their dreams and ambitions. This is why I consider the hukou system to be vital in understanding post-1949 China. It's influence is diminished but is still being felt. I posted some links to current developments in Beijing in the session 12 thread. Here's a sample:  https://www.ft.com/content/822e982c-1b40-11e7-bcac-6d03d067f81f     The reporter, Lucy Hornby, will be among our speakers at the April 6 Finding Solutions conference.  I hope you can attend.

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As Erin highlights, we talked about the hukou (household responsibility) system in our last session.

Since that session, the Chinese government has been acting to force migrants (that is, people without Beijing hukou) to leave. These people largley built the city, but are now being driven out. Please see the following:

photos http://shanghaiist.com/2017/11/27/beijing-evictions.php

South China Morning Post  http://shanghaiist.com/2017/11/27/beijing-evictions.php

Chinese scholars oppose the push, The Guardian  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/27/china-ruthless-campaign-evict-beijings-migrant-workers-condemned

Reuters - video when the effort began in summer  https://www.reuters.com/video/2017/08/11/migrants-fear-being-forced-out-by-beijin?videoId=372296190

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This card notes the role ordinary people played in defense. Soldiers and militias were all mobilized to defend China -- guided all the while by the little red book.

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Excellent job linking the Paris Commune and the Shanghai Commune. Shanghai was controlled by party leaders in sympathy with Mao's ultraleftism. Beijing was more conservative. 
Paris Commune: https://www.britannica.com/event/Commune-of-Paris-1871
Shanghai Commune: https://chineseposters.net/themes/shanghai-commune.php  Mao calls on youth to bombard the headquarters. 

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Flor's tying this to a popular book among teachers explaining the cultural revolution. "Little Green" or spring - the girl has a rapt audience for her lessons from Chairman Mao. 

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