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AnonymousIf you are using the eighth grade Holt literature book, Laurence Yep's story "Ribbons" is excellent in bringing up many aspects of both ancient and contemporary China. It leads into a natural Internet research assignment. The old custom of foot binding contributes to both the story's characterization and symbolism. To the Chinese grandmother, her granddaughter's ballet ribbons represent the horrible bandages used to bind feet. My class was very curious about this practice and a good factual Website is sfmuseum.org/chin/foot. [Edit by="schumacher on May 6, 2:31:34 PM"][/Edit]
AnonymousAs mentioned in the previous posting, Laurence Yep' s story "Ribbons" touches upon many aspects of both ancient and contemporary China. My class was particularly interested in the preference for male children. A clear, concise Website that explains this phenomena is worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/355120.aspx[Edit by="schumacher on May 6, 2:30:51 PM"][/Edit]
clay dubeHi Folks,
Please put the names of your films or websites in your subject lines. This allows readers to quickly see what you're going to be discussing. Also -- please remember that film and website reviews belong in the Asia in My Classroom forum, not the seminar forum. This is so a wider array of teachers can benefit from your assessments.
Thanks.
AnonymousI cannot get on to the larger forum.
http://www.mrdonns.org this a great site, in my U.S. History class we go on to the site and look over the maps and my students use to maps to complete map activities, all students can use them as a way to learn about the world including but not limited to China.
I use this site for my geography lessons weekly!
Anonymoushttp://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/03/12/china18244.htm
I found a wonderful website called Human Right Watch. You can choose different language on this website. As a Chinese teacher, I can choose the article from Chinese version. If you teach Spanish, you can choose Spanish. This website includes all kinds of human rights issues. The article I found was China: Beijing’s Migrant Construction Workers Abused. Human Rights reported that some employers hold construction workers wages up to a year. Some employers even refuse to pay at all until the work is done. China government guarantees that the workers will have fair wages, a safe and healthy work environment, and reasonable work hours.
Anonymoushttp://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/atlas/china/china.html
I found a wonderful website. Students can find a lot of things about China from this website. Teacher can use this website in the class to talk many things about China. When I use “Explore China”, there is a map of China. I can click any place on the map. It will come up more detail about the things you want to find out. I also click “Watch Exclusive Video.” You are able to choose different topics to watch video online. You also can use “meet people.” Then you can learn about the people who you want to know. You can play puzzles, games, and etc. I feel it is an excellent website.
AnonymousThe Discovery Channel is always an amazing resource for kids and adults, too. I browsed this website and feel that it is good for such a range of age groups. The elementary kids can go on the interactive map and present different topics of interest since the explanations are short and easy to understand. They could also share ideas from the "Meet the People" section. The gymnast who has been groomed for the Olympics since age 2 would be an interesting conversation in any classroom - ethics classes all the way down to third grade. I liked the email forums to the rest of the world as well. High school students could get involved in these forums, maybe with a few ideas from their teacher on appropriate topics. Someone has already started a human rights post which could be taken a long way with these kids if a teacher is willing to support it. There are not that many topics yet, surprisingly, so maybe the high school teachers out there could get it going.
AnonymousI know we are supposed to post websites on the Asia in My Classroom Forum, but I was reading a thread where people were discussing how to be more aware of what products were being made in factories with bad labor practices. Now I can't remember where I found it. Hopefully, the people I'm hoping to respond to will find this...? I recently read an article at the nytimes.com about using illegal child labor. There was a link to the website http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/.
If you haven't already found this site, you might want to check it out. There was also a photo of what looked like a cafeteria area. The photo is titled "Workers" and I don't know if they were underage, but it speaks volumes about the working conditions and hours these people must put in.
I've tried to attach the picture, but I don't know if it worked. Either way, it's on the website.
Unfortunately, when trying to visit some of the other links on the page, I didn't get much current information. Although the original page had listings that were current, many of the articles in the links were dated 2007 or earlier. I didn't do an exhaustive check all of the links, so maybe others would have better luck.
Oops! After checking out the links in the above website, I actually found a better one that has more current articles about labor in China. This site is " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.china-labour.org For anyone who read the chapter in the "China's Transformations" book where they mentioned the horrible situations faced by mine workers, there is an in depth research report published in March of 2008 titled, "Bone and Blood: The Price of Coal in China." It's 55 pages long, so it's very in-depth. The site has many more research reports and many more topics and links related to worker situations in China. This site might be a good resource for high school teachers to use. Also, if you are concerned about human rights issues, this would be a good site to check out. [Edit by="lrathman on May 9, 10:13:08 PM"][/Edit]
AnonymousI found this website very interesting and informative for news about China's earthquake. It includes news from China--not yet reported in the US about the quake.
AnonymousThanks for all the web site reviews, very useful stuff.
AnonymousI like an organization called One World. It is especially good for students because it provides overviews of countries, in a simple, easy-to-read format. However, I find that it goes into the real issues instead of talking about things like style of dress and holidays...topics that usually are found on websites frequented by kids. For example, the China page talks about the millennium development goals, how many Chinese are living in poverty, and how the Chinese govenment's reporting of it poverty is based on its own definition of poverty, which is barely one quarter of the UN's figure of $ per day purchasing power. The website is located at http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/china
AnonymousI am always intrigued by Chinese environmental law so I looked up the Chines Environmental Law Initiative. I found great information on the EPA website. It discussed that the goals of the initiative include sharing EPA's legal experience and expertise to help improve China's environmental law, sharing information useful to U.S. entities with business or other stakes in how China addresses environmental issues and fostering an ongoing dialogue on environmental law issues with China. The website also talks about New developments in Chinese environmental law. I think it is a good idea to first go over the established laws with students when discussing China's take on environmental issues. The website is http://www.epa.gov/ogc/china
AnonymousThis website discusses how climate change in China is generally consistent with that of global climate change. This website goes into a lot of detail, but there is a clear table of contents that allows you to navigate the website easily. Some interesting parts, in my opinion, were the current GHG Emissions in China, the impact of climate change on China, and the challenges facing China in dealing with climate change. The website is http://www.ccchina.gov.cn/WebSite/CCChina
AnonymousThere is an embassy website that goes into current events. For example, today it has a lot of up-to-date information on the earthquake in Deyang city in the Sichuan Province. It says that Politburo stresses that when performing earthquake relief, workers should save the living first. Also, there have been many donations already to the quake-hit area (877 min yuan). There are also spokesperson remarks. I find this website (http://www.china-embassy.org/eng) helpful for newsbreaking information.
AnonymousThe China Environment Forum generates dialog between US and Chinese scholars, policymakers, businesses and organizations. Everything on the website has to do with environmental and energy challenges in China. The current initiative is that, with support from the US Agency for International Development, CEF is working with Western Kentucky University on a new China Environmental Health Project. There are research briefs on the human health impacts of polluted air, water, land and the policies and activism driving these and food safety. The website is http://www.wilsoncenter.org.