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Please read these contracts to get a sense of the kinds of transactions people engaged in during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Which of the contracts do you find particularly interesting? What concerns are evident in the documents? What did people worry about?

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Please read this guide that was prepared to help a lineage preserve its resources and improve its standing in society. What do these strategies reveal about values and priorities?

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Some may find this presentation that I used in teaching world history of use. It looks at Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China.

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A quick note - it's entirely possible, of course, for good ideas to have multiple places of origin. I'm not prepared to argue that the Romans borrowed from Han Fei and other Legalists. In what is now India, Ashoka, at about the same time that our debate was set, was ordering that his edicts / laws be posted widely. Here's a useful reference from the Constitutional Rights Foundation: http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-14-4-b-the-edicts-of-asoka

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There's a coffee shop in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center, in the new Annenberg Hall (ANN, we meet in the old building, AsC) and beside Leavey Library.

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There's a coffee shop in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center, in the new Annenberg Hall (ANN, we meet in the old building, AsC) and beside Leavey Library.

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Hi Folks,
Had a great meeting with our NCTA partners in Chicago last week. In addition to the nctasia.org website, please check out the eagle website at the Iniversity of Pittsburgh and the Asia for educators website at Columbia University.

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Hi Folks,
Had a great meeting with our NCTA partners in Chicago last week. In addition to the nctasia.org website, please check out the eagle website at the Iniversity of Pittsburgh and the Asia for educators website at Columbia University.

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Hi Folks,
This is the second part of the presentation I showed yesterday. I want to draw your attention to slide 23 (Asian heritage population in the US and especially in California), slide 28 (China's share in 2005 of key commodities, all these numbers are higher today, especially oil, China's now the top importer), and slide 31 (the relative share of various countries in global GDP prior to 1900, note that China and India had 58% in 1750, more than the 33% the US and China have today). I look forward to your comments and questions.

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Hi Folks,
Usually, we distribute the presentations at the end of the seminar. I wanted to give you this one, however, as it may be useful to you and because we weren't able to cover the entire presentation. Please feel free to raise questions about it and what we discussed.

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Great suggestion, Tara!
Here's a link to the Faces of America page on Kristi Yamaguchi: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/profiles/kristi-yamaguchi/3/

And for Yo-yo Ma: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/profiles/yo-yo-ma/7/

Bill Moyers: Becoming American: The Chinese Experience http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/index.html

And more PBS (donate!) - Children of the Camps, stories of Japanese internment: http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/

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Love the tinted lenses from the Bakersfield crew. Love, also, how Dennis made it his profile picture. How about posting photos of you wearing the shades with your students?

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Great work, Dennis, tracking down the Sun Yatsen/Lincoln stamp!

Can anyone else find US/Sun Yatsen memorabilia?

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John Burns, a British citizen and then a correspondent for a Canadian newspaper, wrote about Nixon's trip to China.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/recalling-nixon-in-china-40-years-later/

Winston Lord wrote about the Nixon handshake:
http://adst.org/2013/02/nixon-goes-to-china/

In the big category of making something out of nothing: Obama's handshake and "bow" to Hu Jintao:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/04/another-obama-bow-flap/1#.VH5ra8krfCs

The Economist on Xi and Obama shaking hands:
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21632452-weeks-summit-beijing-helped-great-power-rivalry-still-threatens-pacific-bridge
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Below is an excerpt from a message from Jon Wilson of the Association for Asian Studies. EAA is a terrific publication that offers essential articles and teaching suggestions on topics across Asia and across the centuries. I've never received an issue that didn't give me or cause me to come up with three ideas to use with my own students. Take advantage of the magazine's open access to to search among the hundreds of articles, reviews, and lesson plans EAA's published over the years. And please consider subscribing. There are many features in the print magazine that aren't readily reproduced on the web (and there are web only add-ons, such as extensive bibliographies). The basic subscription is $30/year.
smiling,
clay
A quick example of what you can find in EAA are two essays about how Mao Zedong was treated in US high school history textbooks:
Tim Cheek
https://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/EAA-Archives/10/2/615.pdf
Philip Williams
https://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/EAA-Archives/10/2/616.pdf

Plus a review of the film Mao: The Real Man
https://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/EAA-Archives/3/1/136.pdf

And an essay on the many collections of Mao-related posters available on the web:
https://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/EAA-Archives/9/1/554.pdf

These are great additions to our recent one day workshop which included discussion of biographies of Mao. [/font]
(BTW - we'll likely repeat the teaching East Asian history through biographies workshop next year. Get on our mailing list to make sure you hear about it. Write to [email protected].

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