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AnonymousI found this article entitled Bound Feet by Jeanine Holman at http://www.josephrupp.com/history.html
It talks about how although it is no longer done to young girls, the practice of footbinding is still alive in China. It explains this practice and who did it, why and how often. It also allows these older women who are now older than sixty years old now to express their feelings about having bound feet. Some feel proud of them, while others feel resentment and anger. This custom reminds me of the one in some tribes that forces its members to pierce their tongues, mouths and/or other body parts. These rituals are their interpretation of beauty and only after completing it do they feel a part of them. Failure to do these rituals could marginalize you from the group and no feel "pretty". To what extent can peer pressure and social pressure be harmful?
AnonymousI am not sure if it has been posted already but Veoh.com is a great resource for History Channel, BBC and Discovery channel type documentaries. I have also found Chinese, Korean and Japanese movies and Television shows. There is a great selection of anime and manga as well. The best part is that many of these items are available for free downloads. I have located many foreign films and hard to find video clips there; such as the original “duck and cover” instructional films of the cold war era. Just register (it’s free) and down load their player, which I have used on numerous occasion. It does not slow your system or contain “spyware”.
AnonymousWebsite Review
http://www.channelone.com/news/specials/china/
Channel One News – China
I found this website to be valuable for various levels of students, and for various ages.
It provides video news clips on many topics (President Obama’s recent visit to China, Products Made in China, Quarantine for Swine Flu…)
It also has sections on Geography, Culture, History, Sport
And a wide variety of up-to-date topics.
The site is easy to navigate, kid-friendly as to language level, and engaging.
AnonymousWhile not necessarily an East Asian focused website, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, http://www.lacma.org website has great resources for teachers and students who are interested in or researching Chinese, Korean and Japanese Art. Once the site is reached, one clicks on 'art" and then "collections." Once the browser is on collections, an overview of all the different collections will be shown, and then one can scroll down, for example to "Japanese Art," and click on "Browse the Japanese Art Collection," and then browse by artist, type of artwork, subject, prints organized by period, and specific pieces of art. There are other links to the LACMA bookstore and "Learn more about the Japanese Art Collections at LACMA." The website provides a wealth of information and is easy to navigate for students. This website is highly recommended for those teacher and students interested in learning about the collections at LACMA.
AnonymousThe website that I think has the most potential for me to use in my classroom, after looking at a few, is one that Professor Pitelka mentioned in his lecture and showed some images from. It's Visualizing Cultures, a site created by MIT.
The URL is visualizingcultures.mit.edu
I love the idea behind it and hope they expand on what they have already. So often in teaching European and World literature I feel that the students have a hard time because they do not have any context, they lack the history, the personal encounters, the images, and this kind of website with such rich visuals seems like a gold mine.
Some of my students read Hiroshima for outside reading when I assign a non-fiction book and they have to do presentations on their books. I thought the pictures and story of the bombing of Hiroshima that is told from the perspective of a young boy on this site was very moving and effective and would be a great resource to use in a presentation.
And since I am thinking of planning my lesson around the idea of perspective, I think I could also use the images that were shown to us, the different renditions of the arrival of Commodore Perry and his gun ships and the opening of Japan as portrayed by a German artist and as seen by local artists.
AnonymousThe frontrunner of website resources for me is definitely the MIT Visualizing Culture site
at http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html
Our Oxy Prof introduced us to this site. While working within the English Language Arts framework, I find the site highly desirable and inviting to my sophomore English students. It is easy to navigate, and while making a decision regarding what country to focus on for their memoir/children's book project, it is easy to get an overall feeling of what each countries history is all about in a highly appealing visual context.
I will use the site to introduce a little history to my students and then expect them to go back and look at it on their own. Not unlike Prof. Pitelka.
clay dubeThe library at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee has created a wonderful resource for those interested in photographs and maps from Tibet. The photographs date from the first four decades of the twentieth century. The collection is searchable and you can also browse by location or topic (e.g., automobiles, art, and so on). There was amazingly detailed information about the images I checked. Copying the images is tricky, but you could use them in a presentation simply by linking to the specific pages. You can zoom in to focus on particular parts of an image.
AnonymousCame across this site that can be useful in the classroom, especially for current events, global studies and economics.
It is a cornucopia of Chinese related news (politics, mainland, Hong Kong/Taiwan, world), pop culture, world events, and business.
A terrific photo section features China, science, entertainment, etc. For example-from the recent premier of Jhang Yimou's "A woman, a gun, and a noodle soup" and the Berlin film festival, and from the Chinese antarctic expedition.
Bottom of the home page features a language learning section with many links.
Give it try: SINA English[Edit by="cbessolo on Feb 20, 12:34:31 PM"][/Edit]
AnonymousBeing curious what the French academic community perspectives are on east-asia and china related issues, I recommend this website:
French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC)
http://www.cefc.com.hk/rubrique.php?id=73
It has functions similar to the USC US-China Institute.
Of particular interest to me is the menu of research topics, especially featuring cinema and literature,
ie. "Fiction and Democracy in 20th century China" This abstract gave me a different perspective of the May 4th movement that I can use when presenting this topic in World History classes.
AnonymousIn the January/February 2010 edition of Social Education were some websites on ethnic minorities in China. Because of last years minority uprisings in China, I thought this would be a great topic to find out more about. The website I liked was BBC's: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8143107.stm called "Xinjian Violence:Views from China".
The website stated the different viewpoints of Chinese from a variety of cities and minority groups throughout China, weighing in on what happened in July '09 in Xianjiang. One person said that he wanted to post in blogs but knew the Chinese gov't would remove his posts within minutes. Others said they were shocked at the violence, while still others said they understood why it happened. One person even showed his extreme prejudice when he said many Uighurs are criminals and have participated in criminal acts. There were links to other news stories, like how some Uighurs fled to Cambodia, but 20 were returned recently to China and have since disappeared. It's quite an interesting site.
I could use this website during the last unit I teach, which is the CA Social Studies Standard 10.10.1-10.10.3, about nation-building and understanding challenges faced in other parts of the world having to do with individual freedom and democracy. I think a group of my students in each class could research this site as part of other research and teach it to their classmates as part of a group teaching project I do at the end of each year. I believe my students will be really surprised that minority groups in other places are so prejudiced against, and how the Chinese government seems very quick to rush judgment and give people the death sentence, and how people can still "disappear" in China today. They could even print out several of the attached articles and maybe have the students read them in groups and make out corresponding critical thinking questions.
If a teacher does something with current events, this would be a great website. I like BBC and recommend it to my students when we do current events.
AnonymousWhat an awesome site! I want to share it with my staff and the parent organization at my own school.
AnonymousI was surprised to find such a wide variety of websites out there on China, especially in helping American schools use, teach, and learn more about China. I decided the best way to go would be to start basic, so I choose http://WWW.CHINADAILY.COM.CN/ not only for its wealth of info but also for its role as a gateway to countless other sites. This website is particularly easy to use for students and is visually appealing. It has individual links for topics ranging from business to debates. I will use this website in classes (US History, World History, Government, and Economics) to get a non-American perspective on stories and issues of the day. China Daily is not shy about expressing its opinion very clearly, so this is a good chance for students to experience and understand how things we hear about from American media, may be viewed very differently by others, sometimes to the point of being the opposite entirely.
AnonymousThanks for the tip to Channel One, it has a lot of very interesting stuff for students. My students are going to enjoy the news clips on topics such as China's "forced demolition" (aka imminent domain to us here) and the issue of the US expecting/demanding/hoping for, depending on which clip on which day, China's help in dealing with Iran nuclear issues. I think they will also enjoy the Beijing Metro section Nightlife, a little different, but the same mostly for young people all over the world.
AnonymousWell after much search and fustration, because several of the websites I found were related to East Asian Consortium for Teaching About Asia/Freeman Foundation, but I found a couple of websites that I found useful for me and my students. I like the http://www.japan-101.com as a general website to find out about general japanese culture, history, etc present and past. Its ver simple and for each category it provides a list of subtopics that you can click on for an explanation. Virtually everything you would want to know (that's why its Japan 101) is there, including information for travelers to the country (shopping, etc).
I also found the http://www.lessonplanet.com website to be great for finding lesson plans period. After 10 days you do have to pay to download lessons, but you can enjoy 10 days of getting everything you can imagine. Related to East Asia are numerous lessons broken down by grade level and subject. I found a lesson (including a powerpoint) on east asian geography that I would love to use as an introduction to the region, especially right before teaching about World War 2, since there is lots of information about island hopping that my students need to know.
AnonymousOne of the more compelling visual images of my lifetime thus far has been what my friends and I referred to as “tankman.” This is, of course the image of the lone man facing down the tank in the heart of Tiananmen Square.
It has been twenty years since Tankman and his brothers and sisters in peace faced down the government in the name of fair play and fairness doctrines in the workplace. A most informative and excellent website dedicated to not only honoring these brave souls but chronicling the ongoing efforts of those dedicated to free speech and fair play is as follows:
The site is hosted and produced by the Long Bow Group. The Long Bow Group is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, founded in 1982 to produce and disseminate educational media.
The Long Bow Group has made over thirteen documentary films, which have won more than 28 awards, including the George Peabody Broadcasting Award, and an Academy Award nomination. Our films have been broadcast on PBS, the Arts & Entertainment and Discovery cable channels in the U.S, on the BBC and Channel Four in the U.K. and have been translated into seven languages for broadcast in Europe, Africa, and Asia. We have also worked on television programs with National Geographic, the Canadian Film Board, 60 Minutes, ABC's Nightline, NOVA, Frontline (PBS), and The American Experience.
Of course many of us in the West have viewed the events of June 4, 1989 through the lens of Democracy and the citizens of China desire for democracy. This is simplistic, as is much reflection of historical events, but this website offers its visitors an in-depth and varying perspectives on this historic event.