tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64143012140650226342012-01-19T12:00:17.564-08:00Ideas and resources on China, Japan, and Korea.CW Hayfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12126565074769322360noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6414301214065022634.post-27866772852525294242012-01-18T22:16:00.000-08:002012-01-19T11:21:56.668-08:00

I've published some thoughts on the differences between Western dragons and Chinese long, which is often simply translated as "dragon." Here's the link:  Dragons in the News: Is a Long a Dragon? See for yourself and leave me a comment there.

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This is a list of websites with background and teaching material. Please add new ones in your comments: Well organized group of links; lessons and worksheets; other links http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/chinesenewyear.php Teacher vision: extensive links to Chinese culture sites and activities http://www.teachervision.fen.com/chinese-new-year/china/6603.html Extensive and well

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Names and Dates In English and Chinese: I recently discovered Beijing Time Machine, run by Jared Hall. His recent piece Time over Place: Naming Historical Events in Chinese (ironically, it is not dated), is a striking and useful observation: In English, we generally recall important turning points in terms of where they unfolded. Simple place names conjure up entire historical epochs. “Pearl

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I've posted Year of the Hare... um.. Rabbit? at Frog In a Well. I've included links to reliable and colorful sites. One of my favorites is to postage stamps around the world showing the Chinese New Year Rabbit. But I still haven't seen an explanation  of the raging controversy, "rabbit" vs. "hare"

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Chinese characters are known in Chinese as Hanzi -- "Han" as in Han dynasty, "zi" means "written character. And in Japanese "Hanzi" is pronounced "Kanji." You can find links to websites which I have come across on my Delicious listing: Chayford Chinese.characters. Unfortunately the links appear in the order in which I added them, so it's hard to tell which are useful for you. As is often the

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Kelly McKee of Lake Forest High, who participated in the NCTA seminar in 2004 and has been active ever since, has selected useful links which covered President Hu's visit and showed how US-China relations have evolved. Thanks Kelly! Nicholas Kristoff, “Rise of the Chinese Cheneys,” NY Times (January 20, 2010). A rundown on the "security dilemma," that is, the danger of distrust in China feeding

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February third is the Lunar New Year, celebrated in East Asia as the New Year or Spring Festival. The Reuters article "Chinese Ready for Upheaval, Sex in Year of the Rabbit" is a lively explanation that each year in the Chinese system has its own character. Since the Year of the Rabbit is full of motion and excess, the article predicts lots of sex scandals. Since both Brad Pitt and Angelina

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Friends -- We are now recruiting for another National Consortium for Teaching About Asia Seminar. We will meet Wednesdays 6:00-9:00 January 12 to March 23, with March 30 as a backup in case of weather cancellation. The East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University, Bloomington, organizes this seminar on behalf of the National Consortium on Teaching about Asia (NCTA), a national initiative

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The edgy blog, All Look Same: The Difference is in the Eye of the Beholder, runs commentary on cultural and current issues.One of its intriguing features is The Exam Room, a test for the ability to tell if something is Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. There are pictures from New York street scenes, traditional architecture, travel photos, food, and some others, asking you to say which is which.Try

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All around Asia it is "Chinese" New Year -- well, lunar new year. By the workings of the lunar calendar, 2010 has a double whammy: Chinese New Year on Saturday the 13th, then Valentine's Day on Sunday!The US-China Institute of the University of Southern California puts out Talking Points, which pulls together background informati0n on breaking news, as well as information on art shows, talks,

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"Beware of China, for when the dragon wakes she will shake the world." Napoleon? That's what we're told, but actually there's no evidence that he ever said it. But over the last decade a lot of "China Rising" talk has been going around, getting more intense in the last couple of years. History News Network has a collection of recent posts gathered from the internet, "HNN Hot Topics: China

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Japan: Black Ships, The Meiji Nation, and ImperialismDoubleclick the image to go to a set of slides showing Western influence in Japan from the 1850s to the 1920s.Many more images are available at the MIT site, Visualizing Cultures (click to go to the site).This is a full strength public education project covering a wide range of topics in modern Japanese history. "Black Ships and Samurai," for

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I've posted pieces on China Beat, Living with Wikipedia: It's Here to Stay, with Pt II, How to Improve Wikipedia, supplemented by Living with Wikipedia (China Beat) on Frog in a Well, which has further links and thoughts.If you have ideas on the (ab)use of Wikipedia in the classroom, please add your comments at Frog or China Beat.

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In the right hand column of this page is "News Stories," which links to stories I have chosen for current interest.Below that is a link to my Del.icio.us site, which has many more items -- but you have to work a bit to locate them. Look for the "tags," click the one you want, then you will get a list of the items I have marked.

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The new blog "China Beat" offers a range of opinion pieces on news, history, culture, and anything else that comes to their minds. The contributors are Los Angeles area scholars and graduate students.The April 25 post is very useful "Five Sites for Lesson Plans and Teaching Materials" It lists and briefly describes the major national sites.

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The June issue of National Geographic is a rich presentation of China -- pictures, feature stories... the whole nine yards.National Geographic website has these features, plus a bunch of links to earlier articles, maps, puzzles, the whole ninety yards.

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The hot item in the headlines these days is the debate over Tibet, with demonstrations in Lhasa, Nepal, and Congress. The box to the right of this posting, "News Articles," has links to recent articles.The box below has links and tags to the Del.icio.us social sharing website. You can 1) click the links in the box to go to an article or 2) go to the Del.icio.us site by clicking "My Del.icio.us."

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Stephan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Posters page is a major resource for any topic in post 1949 history of the People's Republic. Landsberger has arranged the posters by topic and supplied extensive explanations of the people, policies, and places involved.For instance, "Population Policy" has colorful posters promoting sexual awareness (one of the few sources of knowledge on this topic for

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Yang Liu , a Beijing artist trained in Germany, comments on the differences between Chinese and German culture. The German characteristic is in blue, on the left, the Chinese in red, on the right.To view the show slide by slide, click the icon between the left and right arrows.Ms. Yang's Website is here: http://www.yangliudesign.com/You can also go to the album to see or download individual

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The scroll painting known as Qingming Shanghe tu is a vividly detailed record of life in a Song Dynasty city and suburbs. Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145) gets credit for the original, but the Qing emperors in the 18th century commissioned teams of painters who reflected in their versions the Manchu peaceable kingdom.The title is problematic and has been translated as "City of Cathay," but Wikipedia in

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This is a page from Vol 2 of Osamu Tezuka's Buddha (New York: Vertical, 2003) a six volume graphic life of Gautama Buddha. They are available in paperback for less than $10 apiece.

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East Asian History is a well selected group of links to major internet resources on China, Japan, and Korea put up by the Program in Social Studies and Global Education, The Ohio State University in 2003.Although it does not seem to have been modified since then, the site is useful because there are not too many sources, not too few -- just right. The most useful sites are marked with "Favorite.

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China Digital Times Describes itself as "collaborative news website covering China’s social and political transition and its emerging role in the world. We aim to aggregate the most up-to-the-minute news and analysis about China from around the Web, while providing independent reporting, translations from Chinese cyberspace, and perspectives from across the geographical, political and social

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Minneapolis Institute of Arts website Arts of Asia is extensive but not overwhelming in presenting Chinese history with an emphasis on art and culture. The art works are explained and background given, though there is probably more pottery than most students would want.There are excellent sections of History and Maps for China, Japan, and Korea showing historical development.The section on

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Although intended for beginning English readers (pre-school), this series of online reader uses flash technology to incorporate basic animation with story telling. It's a great beginning to learning about Chinese stories and fables.http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/chinese-fables/load.htm?f

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A brave new blog: The China Beat, which in its own words "examines media coverage of China, providing context and criticism from China scholars and writers." The first couple of posts show what they're up to: "Five Good Short Books on China," "After the Avalanche," (on the Taiwan elections), and "Anniversaries: The Rise and Fall of Wang Mang" (a controversial figure who usurped the throne 2,000

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Several bloggers wrote about Zhou on January 8. Jottings from the Granite Studio has a superb piece, This Date in History with excellent illustrations. My own piece, Zhou Enlai and the Chinese Omelette (posted on Frog in a Well) adds some more stories and observations.

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Slide show of photos from China today:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/chinadigitaltimes/interesting/show/

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I wrote an op-ed piece on the recent flap over Chinese toys which is posted at AsiaMedia :: Don't toy with China (click for the article).

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Is baseball in Japan just "baseball" or is it a unique insight into national character, "samurai baseball"? There is an important debate over this issue between Robert Whiting, a long time student of Japanese baseball and, among others, William Kelly, an anthropologist who studies baseball in Japan. My piece on Frog in a Well goes into these issues: "Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home?"It

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Hoover Institution - Policy Review - China's Stubborn Anti-Democracy

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There is a new page on our group site with a draft list of resources for teaching on Korea: History and Society; Novels; Poetry. There are also pages on Richard Kim' Lost Name and Korean films.Click on the "visit this group" link in the upper left hand corner of this blog under "Google Groups."

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Maureen Fan's article in the Washington Post (February 18) is a good rundown on the new rich in China. Fan explains the background from the 1950's to the present, especially Deng Xioaping's encouragement of the policy "let some people get rich first."One interesting twist is the anxiety many of the new rich feel. They feel guilty over their "original sin," that is, the dodges they used to make

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Based on a presumed Song Dynasty original by Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145), this scroll painting depicts life in the Song dynasty capital, near present day Kaifeng. The scroll is roughly a foot high. The scroll has become a popular symbol of the sophistication of urban life in traditional China, demonstrating China's high level of development, attested to by Marco Polo slightly later. We see in

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I have a piece on pigs in Chinese history on the blog "Frog in a Well." It also has a few words on the Year of the pig.Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog

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Hi All!This looks like it will be a very useful blog! I will try to post interesting links and such as I encounter them. For now, here are some that I compiled for the CPS Chinese teachers this year:Chicago Public Schools:www.cps.k12.il.usCPS Office of Language and Cultural Education:www.olce.orgCPS Chinese Cultural Heritage Guide Download (multiple pdf files):http://www.olce.org/pages/home/

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http://www.alllooksame.comA fun look at Korean, Japanese and Chinese culture.Click on ENTER and take tests in these categories:--The people, architecture, landmarks, decorations, food....They seem to all look the same, but look a bit deeper -- in fact, they're not.A bit stereotyped, but take it loosely, it's quite fun.

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This is a great site about how we make architecture, and it makes us.The anatomy of a chinese house, all forms explained through function. My young children loved it. Great for k-12.http://www.pem.org/yinyutang/index.html

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