Asia and the World

[Anonymous]

That's nice. Here in CA, if the bank makes a mistake and accidentally pays you too much money out of its ATM, it will just get back its money out of your account when it realizes it's mistake. No free money here.

[Anonymous]

After reading your post about using primary source pictures to teach how china and world one coincide, I have came up with an idea that might work as a lesson in my Early U.S. History class. It will be a 3 day project using pictures of discrimination within china due to the current class system that exists between city and rural dwellers. I will compare the current changes to China's system to the change in America starting with Jim Crow Laws and ending with today. Is there any good resources out there, all i have is my lecture notes from class.
Any help would be appreciated.

[Anonymous]

I like what you plan to do, but I see a problem in your lesson plan. Jim Crow laws were against black americans (and other racial groups). There are ethnic minorities in China, but comparing rural and urban Chinese is not racial discrimination but rather social-economic discrimination.

[Anonymous]

I went to a wonderful symposium on the Taiwan elections at the Davidson Center. It is refreshing that democaracy or a republican form of government is working somewhere in the world. Their turnout was about 70% to 75%. That percentage could only be a dream here. Tens of thounsands of Taiwanese from overseas returned to vote. Of course, there are a few glitches but overall it was good to hear , especially for a such young government flying the flag of democracy.

There was some good advice for those politicians who desire to win an election,whether Taiwanese or other,such as KMT Party member MA. Listen up Obama and Clinton. First, learn the language in this case, Taiwanese. Ma knew Madarin but of course that would not endear him to his native country. Second, conduct overnight stays in dormitories in regions away from home. Third,criticize your perceived enemy, in this case the People's Republic. Fourth , promote Taiwan as an international player. Fifth, view Taiwan --a priori-- as a sovereign nation. Sixth, emphasize there will be no unification with the mainland. Lastly, endear yourself to the United States as a military ally and partner.

I was surprised that the KMT has been viewed with a rightward tilt. I tend to agree with the speakers that it has a Lennist influence . Ma appears to be an internationalist although the new President will not domestically publicize it. The challenge now is to reform a very parochial party with cobwebs in its party house.[Edit by="jcsmyth on Mar 26, 9:52:02 PM"][/Edit]

[Anonymous]

It was an excellent forum and I hope the power points are available online. I would like to use them in my discussion of the election in my International Relations Class next week. I particularly enjoy the student presentations. A first class seminar and well worth the trip from Orange County.

[clay dube]

I visited this exhibition at the Getty Research Center in Feb. 2008 and was amazed. It's over now, but the website offers several examples that could be readily used by teachers to show different ideas.

One image, for example, is a battle scene from the successful Manchu Qing dynasty effort to extend the empire into the West. It was part of a commissioned series where the Qianlong emperor's preference for Western-style engravings was executed by Western artists. The website allows the viewer to zoom in and pan across the painting to see remarkable details. In fact, you're able to get closer and see more clearly than those who visited the actual exhibition!

The exhibition was entitled "China On Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century."

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/china_paper/

The first image in the web collection is a title page of a book which has four of the Jesuits who worked hardest to reach China and Japan during this period: Francis Xavier, Ignatius de Loyola, Adam Schall von Bell, and Matteo Ricci.

[Anonymous]

This isn't really about using "Asia and the World" in the classroom. It's more of an observation and a reflection. I am much more aware of everything Asian these days. I just got home from work and on NPR they were doing a piece on soldiers going to Iraq and as I turned the radio on out came "...... who was born in Shanghai is a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. Not very intersting in an of itself but on the way to work this morning the last thing I heard on the radio was a reference to Asia. It was KUSC, the classical station. They were highlighting Chinese musicians. In the inroduction they gave a synopsis of classical music in China. They tossed out some statistic (which are always dicey with me, after all it was Mark Twain who said the three worst untruths were "lies....damn lies...and statistics". I tend to agree with him but they are always fun to hear.) Anyway one of the stats was that there are more people currently studying to play classical piano in China than there are people who attend classical music concerts in the U.S. I don't know exactly what it means but it sounds cool. Another statistic was that China makes most of the world's musical instruments. They then went on to mention several prominent Chinese classical musicians and then music performed by some of them.

GG

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