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Here are some documents for this session:

The Qianlong Emperor to King George, 1793
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=1083

Commission Lin Zexu to Queen Victoria, 1839
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=402

Treaty of Nanjing, 1842
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=403

Treaty of Shimonoseki, 1895
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=404

John Hay, Open Door Note, 1899
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=406

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Here are some documents for this session:

The Qianlong Emperor to King George, 1793
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=1083

Commission Lin Zexu to Queen Victoria, 1839
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=402

Treaty of Nanjing, 1842
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=403

Treaty of Shimonoseki, 1895
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=404

John Hay, Open Door Note, 1899
http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=406

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Hi Toni,
Interesting comments about relocation - we relocate people to make way for projects (e.g., Chavez Ravine for Dodger Stadium, breaking up neighborhoods with I-10). But as with most things in China, the numbers are huge. The process is often ugly as well.

You might be interested in examples of resistance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smh8HpRLTxo .

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Hi Toni,
Interesting comments about relocation - we relocate people to make way for projects (e.g., Chavez Ravine for Dodger Stadium, breaking up neighborhoods with I-10). But as with most things in China, the numbers are huge. The process is often ugly as well.

You might be interested in examples of resistance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smh8HpRLTxo .

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Here's the Frances Wood volume that relaunched the Marco Polo debate:
http://www.westviewpress.com/book.php?isbn=9780813389998

Here's a review of the book:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world_history/v010/10.1schmidt.html

Another reviewer, T.H. Barrett begins his review:
If half a millennium of European expansion was inspired in no small part by a hoax, then surely we ought to know? But testing the veracity of Marco Polo today is not so easily done. The last British researcher into Marco Polo’s travels died in 1957, and the last historian of China who knew any Mongol left for America in the Eighties, at about the same time that the last British scholar who had learned Mongol as well as Chinese – the originally intended co-author of this book – decided that there were no career prospects for anyone with such skills and converted himself (very successfully) into a historian of Chinese art. That left two or three good historians who dealt with Marco Polo’s epoch in Asia, but largely from Middle Eastern sources, plus a handful of historians of China like myself who knew something of the issues, but generally avoided considering them unless compelled to do so. And with good reason: more than twenty-five years may have passed, but I distinctly remember how Frances Wood and I were warned that anyone contemplating working on the Mongol period in Chinese history would be issued with a bottle of aspirin, in view of the immense difficulties involved in studying an empire which employed in its administration not only classical Chinese (which we found hard enough) but also Mongol, Persian and Uighur Turkish. (subscription required, London Review of Books)

Here's a 2011 news article that picks up the discussion:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8691111/Explorer-Marco-Polo-never-actually-went-to-China.html

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Here's the Frances Wood volume that relaunched the Marco Polo debate:
http://www.westviewpress.com/book.php?isbn=9780813389998

Here's a review of the book:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world_history/v010/10.1schmidt.html

Another reviewer, T.H. Barrett begins his review:
If half a millennium of European expansion was inspired in no small part by a hoax, then surely we ought to know? But testing the veracity of Marco Polo today is not so easily done. The last British researcher into Marco Polo’s travels died in 1957, and the last historian of China who knew any Mongol left for America in the Eighties, at about the same time that the last British scholar who had learned Mongol as well as Chinese – the originally intended co-author of this book – decided that there were no career prospects for anyone with such skills and converted himself (very successfully) into a historian of Chinese art. That left two or three good historians who dealt with Marco Polo’s epoch in Asia, but largely from Middle Eastern sources, plus a handful of historians of China like myself who knew something of the issues, but generally avoided considering them unless compelled to do so. And with good reason: more than twenty-five years may have passed, but I distinctly remember how Frances Wood and I were warned that anyone contemplating working on the Mongol period in Chinese history would be issued with a bottle of aspirin, in view of the immense difficulties involved in studying an empire which employed in its administration not only classical Chinese (which we found hard enough) but also Mongol, Persian and Uighur Turkish. (subscription required, London Review of Books)

Here's a 2011 news article that picks up the discussion:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8691111/Explorer-Marco-Polo-never-actually-went-to-China.html

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Hi Temika,

Here are edited versions of Mao's Talks on Art and Literature (part of a rectification/standardization campaign):
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_08.htm

Mao was following earlier Marxists in arguing that all art is the product of a class and reflects the biases of that class. This Stanford website offers a variety of socialist realist art from the Soviet Union, China, and elsewhere:
http://www.stanford.edu/~gfreidin/gallery/propart/propart.htm

A collection of Marx and Engels's observations on art/literature:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/art/index.htm

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Hi Temika,

Here are edited versions of Mao's Talks on Art and Literature (part of a rectification/standardization campaign):
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-3/mswv3_08.htm

Mao was following earlier Marxists in arguing that all art is the product of a class and reflects the biases of that class. This Stanford website offers a variety of socialist realist art from the Soviet Union, China, and elsewhere:
http://www.stanford.edu/~gfreidin/gallery/propart/propart.htm

A collection of Marx and Engels's observations on art/literature:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/art/index.htm

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Hi Tracy,
The British empire was certainly more far-flung, though in terms of land area and the share of the world's population, the Mongol empire (of which China was part) was far greater.

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Hi Tracy,
The British empire was certainly more far-flung, though in terms of land area and the share of the world's population, the Mongol empire (of which China was part) was far greater.

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Hi Tracy,
You're, of course, correct that this wasn't a formal debate. That's quite impossible in a half hour and four sides. If you've got more time, it's entirely possible to have groups prepare affirmative presentations and negative ones and to allow for more back and forth. It also gets one a bit off-script, so that you can really demonstrate knowledge of the doctrine. The format we used allowed for more participation and quicker coverage of more topics. It would be nice, if time permitted, to have the various groups prepare a radio ad and a poster or two.

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Hi Tracy,
You're, of course, correct that this wasn't a formal debate. That's quite impossible in a half hour and four sides. If you've got more time, it's entirely possible to have groups prepare affirmative presentations and negative ones and to allow for more back and forth. It also gets one a bit off-script, so that you can really demonstrate knowledge of the doctrine. The format we used allowed for more participation and quicker coverage of more topics. It would be nice, if time permitted, to have the various groups prepare a radio ad and a poster or two.

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Hi Folks,
Appreciate the feedback on breakfast and apologize that we can't offer a full slate of choices for breakfast and lunch.

I wish we had the capacity to do so, but cannot. There are restaurants (though only a few serve breakfast, one is McKay's which is adjacent to the hotel, there is also a Denny's at the Jefferson/McClintock intersection) which can meet individual needs more fully. I realize that this is less convenient, but apologize for our limited abilities in this area. For lunch and dinner, there are far more choices. You may also consider the Superior Supermarket that is in University Village.

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Hi Folks,
Appreciate the feedback on breakfast and apologize that we can't offer a full slate of choices for breakfast and lunch.

I wish we had the capacity to do so, but cannot. There are restaurants (though only a few serve breakfast, one is McKay's which is adjacent to the hotel, there is also a Denny's at the Jefferson/McClintock intersection) which can meet individual needs more fully. I realize that this is less convenient, but apologize for our limited abilities in this area. For lunch and dinner, there are far more choices. You may also consider the Superior Supermarket that is in University Village.

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Hi Antonio,

China's Foreign Languages Press publishes many works for children in English, Spanish, and other languages. These can be purchased via the web from a number of companies.

Cheng and Tsui http://www.cheng-tsui.com/

China Books http://www.chinabooks.com/

China Sprout http://www.chinasprout.com/

There are also graphic novels available from these and other publishers (AsiaPac http://www.asiapacbooks.com/ ).

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