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fifth part - i'm compressing the images to make it possible to include more slides in each file, this one has 30

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fourth segment, apologies for the multiple pieces

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third segment in the presentation

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second segment in the presentation

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We lacked the time to discuss this, but some may wish to scan this. Please feel free to comment or to raise questions. Pt 1.

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Fenjia came into being about 2500 years ago. A ruler wanted to make sure that rich folks didn't accumulate wealth over generations to challenge his state. So he ordered that you have to divide the property whenever you have two married couples in the same generation. This would keep the rich from getting too strong. Fail to divide: double taxation. So to avoid taxes, rich divided and others emulated the rich and a norm was born.

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Chen - fenjia helps to explain why marriage in China was early and nearly universal. It was early because families wanted to divide up property. It was nearly universal because all but those with no land whatsoever could marry and have a family. Early marriage led to larger families. Fenjia therefore helps explain the relatively large population, the intense cultivation.

After 1949, it was the great improvement in pre/post natal care that greatly increased the population and led to longer life expectancy at birth. Cutting infant mortality by 2/3 to 3/4 was a great achievement mainly through promotion of sanitation and provision of better informed midwives.

If the population growth rate is 1% a population doubles in 72 years. If 2% it doubles in 36 years. 3% it doubles in 24 years. (rule of 72, works for investment, etc.) So, a modest gain in the base growth rate, through compounding gives you 1 billion plus.

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Hi Folks,
For discussions that might be useful to the broader audience of teachers and not just those of us in the seminar, please post to the Film Festival forum. These are great suggestions and I hope others might check them out as well. I see that Cynthia and Sarah have already started putting up reviews.

http://uschinaforum.usc.edu/forum68-film-festival.aspx

By the way, our web magazine Asia Pacific Arts is a great place to learn about films and music from Asia: http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu

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Excellent primary source:
The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi,
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/fukuzawa_yukichi.pdf

http://books.google.com/books?id=sGUis3b0D5AC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Two films I'm fond of that are easily available in Koreatown, on Amazon, iTunes, and Netflix (via dvd, not streaming).

JSA A what happened/whodunit set in the joint security area shared by North Korea and South Korea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehkL9K9fg5s

Coming Home
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Home_%282002_film%29

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Thanks, Tere! Where do you teach?

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The World Bank and a Chinese government research center just released a big report on the state of China's transition from a primarily rural to a primarily urban country. It's too big (20 mb) to attach, but is available as a free download. The report is rich in data and charts. Below is a chart from p. 5.

Download the report - if you're interested, at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18865

A video introduction is available at: http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/publication/urban-china-toward-efficient-inclusive-sustainable-urbanization

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Please take a look at migration trends for South Korea and Japan at these OECD pages:

http://www.oecd.org/els/mig/imo2013.htm

http://www.oecd.org/els/mig/keystat.htm

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Please read this statement from the American Association of University Professors (June 2014):

http://www.aaup.org/report/partnerships-foreign-governments-case-confucius-institutes (a printable pdf version is attached)

Please read this earlier defense of Confucius Institutes by history professor Ed McCord:

http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/confucius-institutes-hardly-a-threat-to-academic-freedoms/

Please read these ahead of our Tuesday morning session.

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The attached reading is a curriculum guide for teaching about early Chinese philosophy. One of the topics we will discuss is the presence of Chinese and other East Asian influences in the U.S. You may find it useful to skim this guide for some basic background on Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, and Legalism. Are there similarities to American ideas or approaches?

Also -- the Chinese government's promotion of Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms in the U.S. has become a hot button issue. It would be useful for all to know a bit more about the program's namesake and his teachings.

Please scan this ahead of Tuesday morning's discussion. Be sure to read the short intros to each school of thought.

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