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Hi Everyone,

Below is the rooming list for Beijing, Zhengzhou, and Luoyang:

4 Ash, Dana
4 Driscoll, LaRue
5 Farr, Sharon
5 Garcia-Mitchell, Ana
6 Gasparik, Nicole
6 Shepherd, Julia
7 Lee, Alice
7 Ruelas, Claudia
8 Lerch, Marisa
8 Rivera, Portia
9 Lockwood, Courtney
9 Sprague, Tracy
10 Moody, M. Kyle
10 Perez, Steve
11 Ockerman, Darlene
11 Zarou, Linda

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Each teacher completing all seminar requirements is eligible to select, with her or his librarian, up to $300 in materials focused on East Asia. These can be films, curriculum units, books, cd-roms, maps, or other resources. I've attached the library materials request procedure. Please send these requests in as soon as you've met all seminar requirements.

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Each teacher completing all seminar requirements is eligible to select, with her or his librarian, up to $300 in materials focused on East Asia. These can be films, curriculum units, books, cd-roms, maps, or other resources. I've attached the library materials request procedure.

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Each teacher completing all seminar requirements is eligible to select, with her or his librarian, up to $300 in materials focused on East Asia. These can be films, curriculum units, books, cd-roms, maps, or other resources. I've attached the library materials request procedure.

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Several members of this group need to make up for missed sessions. In completing make-up assignments, please understand that the intention of the assignment is to immerse you in an East Asian topic and to ask that you think creatively about how you teach about it or how you could use a particular resource with students.

There are three make-up options:
1. attend and participate in the missed session at another seminar site, note that there are variations in the topics and speakers at these different sites, no seminar is identical to another
(Hard now that the term is over, but sessions will be held at UCLA July 31-August 8.)

Contribute a 200-250 post on the session to the seminar discussion forum. I recommend focusing on the documents for the session and discussing how they could be adapted for class use.

2. attend an East Asia-focused lecture at UCLA or another facility
Learn about these presentations via the Asia in SoCal website:
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/events.asp?

Contribute a 200-250 post on the presentation to the Asia in My Classroom discussion forum. Summarize the content of the presentation and discuss how you might incorporate the ideas into your own lessons.

3. visit an East Asia-focused museum exhibition
Learn about these presentations via the Asia in SoCal website:
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/events.asp?

Contribute a 200-250 post on the exhibition to the Asia in My Classroom discussion forum. Summarize the content of the exhibition and discuss how you might incorporate the ideas into your own lessons.

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Several members of this group need to make up for missed sessions. In completing make-up assignments, please understand that the intention of the assignment is to immerse you in an East Asian topic and to ask that you think creatively about how you teach about it or how you could use a particular resource with students.

There are three make-up options:
1. attend and participate in the missed session at another seminar site, note that there are variations in the topics and speakers at these different sites, no seminar is identical to another
(Hard now that the term is over, but sessions will be held at UCLA July 31-August 8.)

Contribute a 200-250 post on the session to the seminar discussion forum. I recommend focusing on the documents for the session and discussing how they could be adapted for class use.

2. attend an East Asia-focused lecture at UCLA or another facility
Learn about these presentations via the Asia in SoCal website:
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/events.asp?

Contribute a 200-250 post on the presentation to the Asia in My Classroom discussion forum. Summarize the content of the presentation and discuss how you might incorporate the ideas into your own lessons.

3. visit an East Asia-focused museum exhibition
Learn about these presentations via the Asia in SoCal website:
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/events.asp?

Contribute a 200-250 post on the exhibition to the Asia in My Classroom discussion forum. Summarize the content of the exhibition and discuss how you might incorporate the ideas into your own lessons.

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Hi Folks,
I think school-branded items are quite popular. Many booster clubs can provide these free of charge. Promise to bring back a picture of C/J holding your school cap or shirt or bumper sticker or....

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Hi Sharon,

We'll arrive in Beijing at 8:05 pm on June 27. We lose a day going and gain a day returning.

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Many have been impressed by Chinese acrobatic performances. Once one could only see these in China, but now there are countless traveling groups performing throughout the US. Teachers and students may be interested in the training such performers go through. New York Times reporter Howard French and photographer Chang W. Lee visited a training center and produced an online slide show. Please take a look and comment on it.

NY Times slide show

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I've attached a short article on the latest public morality campaign in Shanghai. This Financial Times article reports on the effort to curb (pun intended) to curb jaywalking.

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This is a great topic and one that will ensnare students. Tsukiji, Tokyo's famed fish market, is examined in a terrific book about the place of fish and this market in Japanese history and culture:

Theodore C. Bestor, _Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World_
California Studies in Food and Culture, 11, A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
Published July 2004 by UC Press. It's currently on sale for $15. Go to
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/sale/pages/8737.html

It's a 400+ page book. Chapter 3 is available for download -- click on the icon below.

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Walter and others may be interested in this report on manga:

http://www.asia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=10674

Leslie Evans begins his report, "Lynn Miyake, speaking at UCLA, analyzed the manga, or pop cartoon, versions of the famous eleventh-century Japanese novel The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari). The juxtaposition -- and collision -- of the high-brow classical novel (whose author, Murasaki Shikibu, was a lady in the imperial court) and the definitely low-brow comic-book versions, in Professor Miyake's analysis became a way to appreciate not just how deeply this ancient novel has penetrated Japanese culture, but more fundamentally how paradigmatic elements of traditional Japanese culture are perpetuated and, in the process, refashioned."

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Hi Walter and others,

Please put your comments on articles, websites, or films in the Asia in My Classroom forum.

Thanks.

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Curious as to what sort of intelligence informed American leaders about China during the 1960s and 1970s? The CIA has declassified a number of documents and made them available through its Freedom of Information Act website. Many concern military capacity, but others analyze the importance of the Cultural Revolution and some speculate on leadership changes.

Take a look: http://www.foia.cia.gov/nic_china_collection.asp

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The Australian published an article on rocket rain failing in Beijing. The area is in the midst of a terrible drought and technicians brought rain with cloud seeding. Because of all the construction, however, it appears that most rain there evaporates before it has a chance to seep into the compacted earth.

China and Thailand are the biggest manufacturers of rain.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19313652-2703,00.html

Using rain to stop sandstorms is part of China's new agenda:

"The Government remains determined that despite the increasing frequency of
sandstorms - with 300,000 tonnes of sand dumped in one morning last month
- the 2008 Games will be the "Green Olympics". August, when the Olympics
are scheduled, is also an especially unusual time for sandstorms in the
capital. Beijing's Olympic planners are aiming for 292 "blue sky" days a
year by 2008."[Edit by="Clay Dube on Jun 2, 7:40:41 PM"][/Edit]

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