Asian Nation

[Anonymous]

The website at St. Andrews university in Scotland is a website that is very limited regarding Chinese studies. Their website explains that they want to develop their program in light of the emerging influence of China as a superpower. They ask for donations and point to other departments that touch on China. It seems as if they have studies on Asia which are too broad. http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/600/campaign/keepingahead/towardsthesunrise/

[Anonymous]

I don't know if anyone would use this: http://history.state.gov/ But there is an office of the historian in the US State Department.

[Anonymous]

I found a website that I thought was pretty easy to use and very helpful.

http://www.asianetwork.org/resources/resources-for-teaching/

This website was helpful, for one, the front page list multiple links teachers can use to gather information about East Asia. For example, teachers can find a link to the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, as well as links about early China and Japan's history. The website also offers a visual library and links that focus primarily on literature (this was interesting to me). Up at the top of the website, teachers can find conference information and a forum that is made up of teachers who are teaching about Asia as well.

I could use this website for my own classes. For instances, the site gives a link (Asia for Educators) in which educators can choose elementary level resources or literature across the curriculum. Here, under literature across the curriculum, one can find a list of books that are labeled by the type of literature it is. Whether it is a biography or a modernist piece. Another thing that I felt was extremely useful is actual lesson plans that I can use (especially after CSTs). These lesson are already spelled out for the teacher. All the components for the lesson have been linked and teachers can expose their students to East Asia in interesting ways that one may not have thought of on his/her own. If you have some time, check the website out, its a good one.
edited by tmorris on 7/31/2012

[Anonymous]

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html I am a horrible finder of sites internet -- so I decided to go to the MIT Visualizing Cultures web site. It is so rich in picctures and fascinating . There are printable articles and the pictures can be displayed at the bottom of the page or individually. The pictures have captions that differ from the article narrative - so they can add more insight. The site woudl be difficult to send students to as a resource -- unless you specifically type in the specific web slide show / article address you want them to access---- The "table of contents" as I found them or didn't find them were simply pictures that you clicked on for the name of the subject. I did not find a search tab for the site -- but then again, I am not always as web savvy as my students. It is a great site to roam and explore .. but maybe more difficult to access specific information. I will have to explore more to figure this out. The pictures and article about Empress Cixi was great, discussing which issues gave rise to her pictorial campaign. This would be a great site to get pitures for a powerpoint for a class lecture -- I recognized some from our lecture on Japan as well as some of pictures used for our Chinese history lectures.

[Anonymous]

The MIT website seems very cool. Just looking at the first page I could tell that this site is packed with useful information.

[clay dube]

Sabro,
Thanks for highlighting the office of the historian. It offers an incredible array of primary source materials. I drew upon it a lot in compiling these two collections:

Getting to Beijing: Henry Kissinger's Secret 1971 Trip

Getting to Know You -- The US and China Shake the World

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

//www.asian-nation.org/sitemap.shtmlI tripped upon a website entitled Asian Nation: Asian-American history, Demographics and Issues. The website is easy to navigate because of its layout and the font is easy to read. As far as the content, there are a variety of topics that the site touches on as well as a link to read blogs and a commentary section. Topics range from religion, spirituality, faith, ethnic identity and assimilation, the more applicable subjects for a classroom, to sex and the Asian man, articles that may not be suitable for the classroom, depending on the approach. Clicking on the site map enables you readily find articles and pictures that fall under a particular category. I am using an article written about Asian racism in the United States because it is one of the issues that the novel Farewell to Manzanar, the book I am basing my curriculum unit, touches on.
edited by kleroy on 8/2/2012

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