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Please reply to this message if you're in the self-strengthening group and have ideas about your key points for the discussion.
What are the big challenges China faces? What should be done?

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Thanks to these three volunteers to play a leading role. If you want to claim one of the secondary roles, please reply to this.

Li Hongzhang  -- Lesly Gonzalez
Kang Youwei -- Carlos Oyarbide
Qiu Jin -- Jasmine Wong

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The best primary sources are in the recommended documentary collections listed above (especially Sources of Chinese Tradition). Some selections can be downloaded below. Also below are encyclopedia entries about some of the characters and a couple of scholarly articles about the topics. 

Please read the primary sources and the encyclopedia entries carefully. The scholarly articles are optional. They are longer and more detailed. You may find them interesting. 

Remember - this is debate preparation. You need to be able to channel the energies and ideas of these 19th and early 20th century Chinese figures. 

 

 

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Last year, the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (which we help lead) launched the Freeman Book Awards to recognize excellence in books about East and Southeast Asia written for children and young adults. Please visit the website to learn more about the first year's winners.

2016 winners:
Children's: My Night in the Planetarium by Innosanto Nagara (Seven Stories Press)
Young Adult/Middle School: Somewhere Among by Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
  The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky)
Young Adult/High School: Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee and Susan Elizabeth McClelland (Amulet, an imprint of ABRAMS)

Have you read or used these books (or any others)? Please share your thoughts about the works and the ideas/skills they can help students develop.

 

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Please read the attached documents prior to our session on Saturday. You may wish to print them out. As always, our aim is to inform and to inspire. How might you use parts of these readings or some of the ideas they contain with your students?

The contemporary news articles are short. It's okay to just scan them, though reading them closely will yield rewards. For the primary source readings, all but one are short. Try to read them and to imagine the world they help illustrate. 

A - demography, geography readings
1. South Korea - head of the central bank calls for more babies
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/09/06/0200000000AEN20170906014700320.html
2. North Korea - part 2 in a three part series on living in North Korea
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/22/life-in-north-korea-coming-of-age
3. Japan -- marriage is getting harder and harder to make happen 
https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21706321-most-japanese-want-be-married-are-finding-it-hard-i-dont 
4. China -- not enough water and too much pollution 
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/asia/china-water-crisis/index.html

B - 19th century China readings 

1. Manchu rule and hair -- What do the new rulers demand? What is their argument for the requirement? 
2. Emperor Qianlong to King George III, 1793 http://china.usc.edu/emperor-qianlong-letter-george-iii-1793
-- What is the emperor's complaint? What does he expect the British monarch to do? 
3. The Treaty of Nanjing, 1842 http://china.usc.edu/treaty-nanjing-nanking-1842
-- What must the loser of the Opium War (1839-1842) provide the winner? What are the long term consequences of the conflict and this settlement?
4. Placards posted in Guangzhou -- What is being opposed? What actions is advocated in the placards?
5. The Taiping Land System http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/taiping_economic_pgm.pdf
-- How did the Taiping plan challenge the existing social and economic order? 
6. Ridding China of Bad Customs -- How does the anti-footbinding society propose to eliminate the custom? What are Qiu Jin's complaints about the status and treatment of women? What does she call on women to do? What does the 1907 Yunnan newspaper article propose doing about opium? And, finally, why and how does 1920 article from Women's Magazine call for the eradication of indentured girl servants? How does the author propose using the concept of "face" (reputation) to fight against holding women as indentured servants? 

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Hi Everyone, 
I'm Clay Dube and it's my privilege to work with Catherine at the USC U.S.-China Institute. I am a historian by training, working on China, Japan, and the United States. I have taught at colleges in China, Kentucky, and California. In between, though, I also taught for three years at the secondary level in San Diego. Few jobs are as difficult or as rewarding as teaching and I'm delighted that we'll get a chance to work together over the course of this seminar. 

If you need to reach me, please call the institute phone number at 213-821-4382 or write to me at [email protected]. 

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo passed away last week. Below are some questions and resources that might be useful in teaching about Liu, his decades devoted to promoting democracy in China, and how the Chinese state responded to those efforts.

Possible organizing questions:

1. What did Liu Xiaobo advocate as a cultural critic and as a political activist?
2. What did Liu Xiaobo do to make his views heard and to mobilize others to his side?
3. What laws did the Chinese state decide Liu Xiaobo had violated? How did it punish those violations?
4. At the time of his last conviction, Liu argued he was merely using every Chinese citizen’s right to free speech. What rights does the Chinese constitution promise it citizens?
5. Liu Xiaobo was detained for the last time in December 2008. He was convicted in 2009. They next year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Liu remained in jail and his essays supporting democracy are easily circulated within China today. Still, the Chinese state sought to limit discussion about his passing on social media. His incarceration and his passing, however, were widely noted outside of China. What do you think the case of Liu Xiaobo teaches?

Possible readings:

Obituaries
Clayton Dube, Liu Xiaobo, 1955-2017, July 13, 2017
Obituaries
Clayton Dube, Liu Xiaobo, 1955-2017, July 13, 2017
http://www.china.usc.edu/liu-xiaobo-1955-2017
(includes links to his writings, to the 2009 court verdict against him, to the 2010 Nobel decision and the award speeches)
Chris Buckley, “Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Dissident Who Won Nobel While Jailed, Dies at 61,” New York Times, July 13, 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/world/asia/liu-xiaobo-dead.html
Remembrance
Perry Link, “The Passion of Liu Xiaobo,” New York Review of Books, July 13, 2017.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/07/13/the-passion-of-liu-xiaobo/
Criticism
Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong, “Do supporters of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo really know what he stands for?” The Guardian, December 15, 2010.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/15/nobel-winner-liu-xiaobo-chinese-dissident
and a longer piece in Positions, (2011)19:2, 581-613.
http://positions.dukejournals.org/content/19/2/581.full.pdf+html
“Who is Liu Xiaobo?” China Daily, October 27, 2010.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-10/27/content_11465957.htm
Xinhua, “Some foreign media misunderstand Liu Xiaobo’s case: criminal law expert,” PRC Embassy in Washington, November 5, 2010.
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/gdxw/t766972.htm
Coverage of how his death was handled
Jonathan Kaiman, “Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo's death sparked an outpouring of grief online. Then came the censors,” July, 14, 2017.
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-liu-xiaobo-censors-20170714-story.html
Associated Press, “How Beijing controls the Liu Xiaobo story,” July 13, 2017.

https://yp.scmp.com/news/international/article/106769/how-beijing-controls-liu-xiaobo-story
Supplementary materials
Chinese constitution
http://china.usc.edu/constitution-peoples-republic-china-1982
Dualing human rights reports

US looking at China
http://china.usc.edu/us-department-state-2015-human-rights-china-april-13-2016
China looking at the US
http://china.usc.edu/prc-state-council-human-rights-record-united-states-2015-april-14-2016

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Thanks for sharing what comes to your students' minds when they think of China. I hope that others will do this as well.

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The new issue will reach subscribers in June. Please follow both the US-China Institute (https://www.facebook.com/uschinainstitute/) and EAA (https://www.facebook.com/EducationAboutAsia/) on Facebook and encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same.

I've attached a copy of the table of contents for the new issue and have copied it below. The EAA website offers 20 years of excellent essays on teaching about Asia as well as materials that you can use immediately. Check it out at: http://www.asian-studies.org/Publications/EAA/About You can utilize the site for free, but many will want to subscribe so that you'll be able to take advantage of the magazine's great graphics.

If you've used EAA, please take a moment here to say what article(s) you used and why you found it helpful.

Features
The Legacy of the Chinese Empires Beyond “The West and the Rest”
By Tzong-Ru Lee and Irsan Prawira Julius Jioe

Anti-Colonialism and Modern History Education in China
By Woyu Liu

Understanding Democracy, Security, and Change in Post-2015 Myanmar
By Moe Thuzar

Postcolonial Religious Conflict in Southeast Asia
By Matthew Kosuta

Taiwan’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
By Tzong-Ru Lee and Irsan Prawira Julius Jioe

Special Segment Koreans and Japanese: Honoring Colonial Lives
Out of a War’s Ashes
By Byung-ho Chung

So Long Asleep: Waking the Ghosts of a War
Reviewed by Franklin Rausch
Building Nationhood through Broadcast Media in Postcolonial India
By Coonoor Kripalani

More Than a Meal School Lunch in Japan
By Alexis Agliano Sanborn

Who Did What in a Chinese Lady’s Autobiography?
A Text and Lesson Plan on Li Qingzhao’s Ambiguous Narrative
By Sarah Schneewind

On l i n e S u p p l e m e n t s
Modeling Asia: An East China Sea Simulation
By Lauren McKee

How Free Are Postcolonial Polities? Select Nation Profiles
By EAA Staff

Columns
Editor’s Message

In Memorial: James M. Becker
By Linda Wojtan

Web Gleanings By Judith S. Ames

Asia: Experiential Learning
Guest Editor, Tommy Lamont

The Power of Food: Students and Local Women Cooking Together in Rural Japan
By Susanne Klien and Stephanie Assmann

Teaching Resources Essays

In Search of a Universal Language: Past, Present, and Future
By John F. Copper
Teaching with Kristin Stapleton’s Fact in Fiction:1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family
By Robert W. Foster

Book Review
Foundations of Chinese Civilization: The Yellow Emperor to the Han Dynasty (2697 BCE–220 CE)
Understanding China through Comics, Volume 1
Reviewed by Ward Fleissner

Book Review Essays
China’s Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change, Third Edition
Reviewed by Craig R. Laing

The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime
Reviewed by William Tsutsui

A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present, Second Edition
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Some of you may have seen this film via Netflix or Amazon Prime (it doesn't seem to be currently available on either service, but it could come back, Netflix has the dvd). PBS has clips from the film, but also some discussion with California sushi masters. One great feature is an illustration of Jiro and his heir in the shop. You can click on various things to get explanations and details. Just to check up on you - how long does Jiro have his apprentices massage the octopus they serve?

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/jiro-dreams-of-sushi/

The official movie site: http://www.magpictures.com/jirodreamsofsushi/

I like this clip from the film about the vendors Jiro relies on. The supply chain is critical:
https://www.facebook.com/jirodreamsofsushimovie/posts/1268388796505258


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additional information: http://uschinaforum.usc.edu/topic20529-focus-on-the-qin-and-han-dynasties.aspx?MessageID=32466#post32466

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Outstanding recommendations. I like Nikki's suggestion of pairing this discussion with Animal Farm (see Chinese editions: https://twitter.com/claydube/status/824333295005511680 ). There is an educational version that schools/districts may wish to purchase:

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Gate-Heavenly-Peace-Tiananmen-Square/dp/1463103743

Center for Asian American Media http://caamedia.org/films/gate-of-heavenly-peace/

The main website for the documentary is at: http://www.tsquare.tv/ It includes a lot of useful resources for teachers.

Two other films about the Tiananmen demonstrations are: part 3 "Born under the Red Flag" of the China: A Century of Revolution Series
https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/chinaacenturyofrevolution

And our film on media coverage of the demonstrations: http://china.usc.edu/assignment-china-tiananmen-square
also at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho8vAFlCeFQ&index=8&list=PLZoSvm2n7tkcHkxfcRuu0B5N0QSnBfzSd

Finally, you may find this talk about suppression of the history of Tiananmen of use: http://china.usc.edu/video-tiananmen-revisited-louisa-lim

A collection of resources: http://china.usc.edu/tags/tiananmen

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Many of you are already reading Education about Asia, but for those who aren't, this is a great opportunity to acquaint yourself with this tremendous resource. Be sure to sign up for email updates from the magazine. The links below are to articles from back issues of the magazine.

A review of one of my favorite films, To Live (book by Yu Hua, film directed by Zhang Yimou), a review of the book (which differs from the film in significant ways), an interview with author Yu Hua

A review of the SPICE unit on the Cultural Revolution (which won an award from the Association for Asian Studies); an excerpt from the unit is available here; the unit is available for purchase here.

A lesson plan about the Cultural Revolution by Deborah Pellikan

A review of a book on posters from the Cultural Revolution

A review of the Tim Cheek book, Mao Zedong and China's Revolutions

An article by Yihong Pan on "From Red Guards to Thinking Individuals: China's Youth in the Cultural Revolution"

A look at pre-collegiate US textbook treatments of Mao's rule by Philip Williams
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Stan Rosen will be speaking at the workshop about film during the Cultural Revolution and films about the Cultural Revolution.

Here are three articles about the topic:

Jin Feng, "Teaching China’s Cultural Revolution through Film: Blue Kite as a Case Study," Asian Network Exchange

May 15, 2016, Straits Times - "50 years on, Cultural Revolution still off limits in films, books in China"

Positions (academic journal) - "Disappearance of Animals in Animated Films of the Cultural Revolution"
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Geremie Barmé's Shades of Mao includes examples of Maospeak, that strange language that was rapidly adopted and then dropped in China. The examples are from novelist Wang Shuo 王朔 and are found at the highly recommended Morning Sun website: http://www.morningsun.org/red/wangshuo.html

The Morning Sun library offers many primary sources as well as analytical pieces: http://www.morningsun.org/library/index.html

Among the items there is an article from China Reconstructs, a state publication, on how "The Red Guards Battle Song" was born:
http://www.morningsun.org/smash/cr_3_1968.html

You can hear the song (and watch Mao driving through Red Guard masses at Tiananmen Square) at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyTIamfYve0

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