Pictured around 1925, http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mao-nt-rushmore

This cultural meaning differs in some ways to the oversized heads grouped at Mt.Rushmore and to neighboring Plains Indian leader, Crazy Horse.

View the world with these 40 surprising maps‏

Visual context for worldview in 40 maps: These visual treats will prompt lots of thinking and talking. Share with others keen on understanding the world and its people.

http://asheepnomore.net/2013/12/29/40-maps-will-help-make-sense-world/

China's Folk Memory Project

story reported November 2012 on Sunday, npr.org (cf. http://thisibelieve.org & www.storycorps.org )

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/11/164801546/recording-the-untold-stories-of-chinas-great-famine

online resources 2012 from PrimarySource.org

Primary Source has developed a series of resources on global education. For example, on ancient China, there is a new resource guide at
http://resources.primarysource.org/content.php?pid=78258&sid=579412 while the modern China guide is at  http://resources.primarysource.org/content.php?pid=51675&sid=385196

The main resource page lets you search for books, films and curriculum units etc.at  http://resources.primarysource.org/index.php

Additionally, Primary Source offers a one-hour webinar on Chinese Art Activities for Elementary Humanities on November 5, 2012 (free of charge). Register at http://www.primarysource.org/chineseartwebinar are listed at http://www.primarysource.org/onlinecourses

scenes from far west Xinjiang, China - xuar

The China photos (mostly around Urumqi, but also some from the silk road town of Turpan; also from up north: Altay prefecture)

are online at http://bit.ly/altay2012xuar

The photos by theme/topic are also at http://www.slideshare.net/anthroview/presentations

These include shots of Chinese language signboard and announcements.

These also include pictures of Uyghur language, since this part of China is their homeland.

old China photos

Searching for Photos of China's Past
An historian's project to locate and disseminate photographs from late 19th- and early 20th-century China is yielding uncommonly seen results, and they're freely available to the public for study. > Watch this BBC slideshow of carefully preserved images rarely seen in China; access the entire Historical Photographs of China library; and spend some time with the innovative and interactive Visualising China site.

conversion from Chinese characters to several E.Asian readings

http://www.cojak.org/ gives the Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese, both onyomi and kunyumi, for nearly all characters according to today's electronic list for Korean Studies

China view (in 10 words)

translation & eBook, China in Ten Words. The "try sample" pages give a good sense of this personal account 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SOQ0QW?ref%5F=

East Asia in the Middle School (lesson plans)

Teaching East Asian in the Middle School Web site at http://www.iu.edu/~easc/outreach/educators/teams/index.shtml .
These lesson plans were originally published in 1996-98, but most of them still have relevance today.

collection of images, mainly 1930s

Postcard Collection. The collection is part of our open-access digital archive called Lafayette College East Asia Image Collections. The Lin
Collection consists of 370 Japanese postcards, mostly depicting scenes from 1930s Japan and Taiwan, but with some images of from Korea and
China. http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia

The Yangtze valley and beyond [1900 pub.]

The Yangtze valley and beyond; an account of journeys in China, chiefly in the province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo territory, by Mrs. J.F. Bishop (Isabella L. Bird, Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904) New York, G.P. Putnam's; London, J. Murray, 1900 [c1899]
(Full text) on GoogleBooks

RESOURCE e-Asia Digital Library

"e-Asia [est. 2001 - ed.] is a library of downloadable full text
(currently over 4000 items -- primarily books -- are available.) Focus
is on China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea (South and North). While most
items are in Western languages, there are many items in Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean. e-Asia also offers audio, video, and special
collections.

The e-Asia project is funded by the University of Oregon Library
through the generosity of Nissho Iwai.

While the e-Asia project is based largely on resources held at the University of Oregon Library, its purpose is neither to duplicate nor displace printed traditonal materials. Rather, by providing searchable full text, the digitalization efforts
of e-Asia represent a new tool aimed at facilitating the information-gathering process.

content from TIME magazine

http://china.blogs.time.com/ and photo essays and "postcards from..." (searchbox for CN)

books mentioned on talk-show, Diane Rheme

family [against the rich; for poor; communist agenda]

two memoires by same author =
first colors on the mountain
the sounds of the river

chinese lessons

three gorges

Cost/Benefit Analysis: Three Gorges Dam Within the next seven years, life along the Yangtze River in China will change. Millions of people will be displaced. Ancient artifacts will disappear and the environment will be altered forever. At the same time, however the Chinese will increase their capacity to produce electrical power in the area, and they will gain new ability to control damaging floods. Also, some say air quality will be improved with the increased use of electrical power. Is this new project an appropriate one for the Chinese to undertake? What are the costs and benefits of this new dam and who is affected by the decision made?  To view the Lesson Plan, visit

www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM347

 

cn blog & 2009 study tour

=-=-= Several professors, students, and others have teamed up to produce The China Beat blog at http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com

=-=-= The Chinese American Cultural Bridge Center, an Illinois-based nonprofit organization, has developed a tour especially designed for educators. This tour is designed to provide educators with the opportunity to meet, and exchange ideas about education and culture with Chinese educators, as well as experience the geography, history, culture, economics, government and technology of China firsthand. In addition, each educator will be provided with background information and instructional materials, to assist in bringing China alive in the classroom.
     On this unforgettable 15-day journey, educators will travel to Beijing, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Shaolin Temple, Xian, and Shanghai. They will explore the tomb of China's first Emperor who unified China, with its amazing army of life-size, terra-cotta soldiers; walk along the Great Wall; marvel at Beijing's Forbidden City; speculate at Luoyang's Longmen Grottos; and experience the Ancient Song Dynasty life in Kaifeng. The journey will conclude in the vibrant Shanghai.
     ...15-day =$3,800 price includes International airfare from your location, 4 star hotels, all meals, transportation, guide, and sightseeing...June 16 – June 30, 2009.

extracts from China Road [2007 Rob Gifford]

On raw corruption, pp. 230-4.
Extended introduction to Chinese language features and functions, pp. 236-9.

Other margin notes, http://big1file.googlepages.com/nb-chinaroad

Selected bibliography
Pearl Buck [1931]. The Good Earth.

John Pomfret. 2006. Chinese Lessons: Five classmates and the story of the new China.

Wei-ming Tu, ed. 1991. The Living Tree: The changing meaning of being Chinese today.

John Flowers' detailed website one Sichuan village's life, http://xiakou.unc.edu
Moral Landscape in a Sichuan Mountain Village - a digital ethnography of place

1937 - A Japanese Attack Before Pearl Harbor

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17110447&sc=emaf

radio story includes 1930s recording of Nanjing invasion 13 December 1937.
[aired 13 Dec 2007, NPR.org "Morning Edition"]

Rose-Colored Glasses on China?

With millions of students who want an American-style education (or an American diploma), China is a very attractive market for American colleges and universities that want to offer full degree programs abroad. Some institutions have been there for a long time — Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University this year marked the 20th anniversary of their joint degrees in international relations. New programs keep being announced. The State University of New York at Stony Brook announced a program this year. Kaplan Inc., the for-profit higher education company, announced a major expansion of its China campuses just last week.

That's the issue raised by a controversial report released in Britain Thursday that questions the rush by academics to China. Much of the thinking by academics in Britain about the changes in China and how they affect the international higher education market has been "alarmingly woolly," says the report, "British Universities in China: The Reality Beyond the Rhetoric." The report's introduction notes that "reportedly one UK vice chancellor or pro vice chancellor a week has been landing in Beijing or Shanghai to explore future partnership opportunities. Yet there is no overarching strategy about what UK higher education should be trying to achieve." Authors of the report — by the think tank Agora — said that the comments applied equally well to the American institutions whose presidents and provosts are flocking to China in droves as well...

full story, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/12/07/china

blog ..confessions of a language fanatic

http://www.unhappymedium.com/ [Elizabeth Little] Special affection for Chinese examples.