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Many forum members have probably followed the reports about cyberespionage that have dominated the news the past couple weeks. Here's a pretty clear cut magazine cover:
(http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2013-02-15/at-cyber-war-how-chinese-hackers-spy-on-you)

The New York Times Learning Network has come up with lessons connected to espionage. You can see them here:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/guest-lesson-espionage-everywhere-spying-in-the-news-and-popular-culture/?nl=learning&emc=edit_ln_20130307

Have any of you taught about espionage, either in discussing the past or contemporary situation? How about code-breaking and related efforts? Current cyberespionage is as much about getting an economic competitive advantage as it is about military or other secrets. Of course, this has been an issue in the past as well. Samuel Slater, for example, brought textile-making technology from Britain to the US in the late 18th century (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/slater_hi.html).
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First, please take a moment to go through the reviews to see if others have reviewed the same movie. If so, please post your review as a reply to the earlier review. This will help to foster discussion among the group.

I assume that the film reviewed above is the Disney version. Please consider adding additional detail to your reviews. When was the film released? How long is it?Who directed the film? Is there a website for the film. Does the website have additional resources (e.g., the lesson plan mentioned in the review above).

Here are a couple of useful links on Mulan:
Disney film: http://disneydvd.disney.go.com/mulan-special-edition.html
Disney Mulan on the Wikia site: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Mulan
Here's a Time magazine article about the later live action film made in China:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1944598,00.html
And here's a CCTV report about Mulan, the musical:
http://english.cntv.cn/program/centerstage/20120708/102741.shtml
Here's a Columbia DBQ based on the "Ballad of Mulan":
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/mulan.pdf

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The Story is a great radio program, produced in North Carolina and broadcast by American Public Media. It can be heard nightly in Southern California on KPCC (89.3 fm). Among their China segments was one last night, an interview with Paul Fichter, whose company makes beer taps and other items used in bars. Fichter talked about his plant in China and why he decided to move another planned China operation to a suburb of Seattle. Students might undertake interviews of their own, asking businesspeople what drives location/hiring decisions.

The Fichter interview is the third in the program (at about 30 minutes in)
http://thestory.org/archive/2012110_The_Story_Reworking_Series_Laying_Off_Husband.mp3/view

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Hi folks,
I thought you might be interested in a short article on MediaTek, one of those unknown but highly influential giant tech firms that we saw when we visited the tech park outside of Taipei.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timferguson/2013/01/09/more-americans-learn-about-taiwans-amazing-mediatek/

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If any of you do go to see the performance, I hope you'll provide reviews. Shen Yun has received praise by many as a visual extravaganza.

It's also part of the Falungong's effort to offer a non-PRC approved vision of traditional Chinese culture. Falungong is a spiritual and wellness group that was banned in 1999 by the Chinese government. Labeled a cult, some Falungong members have been imprisoned. My friend and former colleague, James Tong, has written a book on the suppression of the Falungong. In 2010 he also testified before a congressional committee about the group and the PRC government's hostility towards it. You can read his testimony here:
http://www.cecc.gov/pages/roundtables/2010/20100618/tongTestimony.pdf?PHPSESSID=bff4fd23e78d22da56135a2789f74eef

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If any of you do go to see the performance, I hope you'll provide reviews. Shen Yun has received praise by many as a visual extravaganza.

It's also part of the Falungong's effort to offer a non-PRC approved vision of traditional Chinese culture. Falungong is a spiritual and wellness group that was banned in 1999 by the Chinese government. Labeled a cult, some Falungong members have been imprisoned. My friend and former colleague, James Tong, has written a book on the suppression of the Falungong. In 2010 he also testified before a congressional committee about the group and the PRC government's hostility towards it. You can read his testimony here:
http://www.cecc.gov/pages/roundtables/2010/20100618/tongTestimony.pdf?PHPSESSID=bff4fd23e78d22da56135a2789f74eef

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Below is a pdf version of the presentation I made on Friday, Nov. 23. Population shifts are closely intertwined with economic development and can have a political impact as well. Please feel free to use the presentation with your own students. Do not otherwise share it or post it online.

I'd love to hear how you discuss population change with your own students. Do you discuss how family decisions taken in the aggregate can drive big shifts?

What are the implications of China's great shortage of women? In Japan and Taiwan, women are being brought in as brides for farmers. They come from China, from Vietnam, and from elsewhere.
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There are many films about the cultural revolution. One of the best is Morning Sun from Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon. The website includes many wonderful resources.
http://www.morningsun.org/

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Here's the SPICE unit on the Cultural Revolution:
http://spice.stanford.edu/publications/chinas_cultural_revolution/

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This SPICE unit is terrific and includes profiles of migrants and others:
http://spice.stanford.edu/catalog/china_in_transition_economic_development_migration_and_education/

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Among the resources available at our website are the human rights reports the US and China issue about each other. Students might profit from comparing the arguments made and evidence offered.

See these reports and more in the documents section of our resources page:
http://www.china.usc.edu/Resources21.aspx

Here is the latest US report on human rights in China:
http://www.china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=2802

Here is the latest PRC report on human rights in the US:
http://www.china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=2423

Here is China's human rights plan:
http://www.china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=2858

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Hi Folks,

Part two of the presentation on periodizing Chinese history is below. This section begins with the establishment of the Qin dynasty. Please feel free to use the pdf with your own students. Do not share it with colleagues or post it online. Thank you.

Please do take a moment to share your ideas on how to effectively introduce the Qin and Han dynasties to your students? What works or is likely to work with them?

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The pdf file below is a teaching guide that I wrote a long time ago for the National Center for History in the Schools. You may use the guide, but please do not distribute it to others.

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Hi Folks,
Ying Jia distributed this set of readings earlier, but I thought it might be handy to have here in the thread about philosophy.
edited by Clay Dube on 10/15/2012

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Hi Folks,
Ying Jia distributed this set of readings earlier, but I thought it might be handy to have here in the thread about philosophy.
edited by Clay Dube on 10/15/2012

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