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Annotated Bibliography (P denotes primary sources)
Armstrong, Thomas. Multiple
Intelligences in the Classroom. Alexandria, VA:
Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1994.
Descriptions
of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and suggestions for
implementing the theory into classroom teaching. Includes helpful charts for organization of curriculum and
lists of activities.
Chang, Jung. Wild
Swans: Three Daughters of China. New York: Anchor Books, 1991.
Contrasting
the lives of three generations of women in a Chinese family, including a
powerful account of the impact of the Cultural Revolution in Sichuan
Province. Traces most of twentieth
century history. ISBN#
0-385-42547-3 (P)
Chen, Kathy. "A
Teenager's Journey Mirrors Inner Migration That's Changing China."
The
Wall Street Journal. 29 October
1996. Reprinted in Megacities in the Asia/Pacific Region. SPICE (Stanford Institute for International
Studies).
This
article traces the bus ride of a young girl from rural Sichuan Province to
Changan in Guangdong Province. She
leaves behind her family to work in Mattel Inc.'s Barbie doll factory. She is seeking money and the excitement
of city life. Her trip and the
factory work are much harder than she expected, but she plans on serving out
her three-year contract.
China, Regional
Studies Series. Paramus, NJ: Globe Book Company, 1993.
General introductory textbook for Chinese history. Includes timelines, maps, case studies, and review questions in every chapter. Outdated, but a classroom resource for lesser-skilled students.
History Alive!
Engaging All Learners in the Diverse Classroom. Teachers' Curriculum
Institute.
1999.
Teacher's
resource book that introduces a more interactive and authentic pedagogy to
social studies teaching. Includes
the theoretical background, eight teaching strategies, and several examples
tied to example curriculum. The
illustrated timeline, eulogy, and notebook set-up are adapted from this
resource. TCI offers content
specific curricular materials and professional development programs. Go to www.teachtci.com
for more information.
Kristof, Nicholas and
Sheryl Wudunn. China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising
Power.
NY: Times Books, 1994.
Critically
acclaimed account of problems in contemporary China by two New York Times
reporters who worked in Beijing for three years. Amazing interviews and reflections. Chapter 4 reviews Mao Zedong and
twentieth century history and Tiananmen Square. Chapter 8 deals specifically with the rights of women and
the one-child-per-family campaign.
Chapter 9 deals with dissidents. ISBN # 0-679-76393-7 (P)
The Marriage Law of
the People's Republic of China.
Reprinted in The Search for
Modern
China: A Documentary Collection. Ed. Pei-Kai Cheng and Michael Lestz
with
Jonathan D Spence. NY: W W Norton, 1999.
360-366.
Anthology
of historical documents spanning four hundred years of Chinese history. Matches the chapters in Spence's The
Search for Modern China. Includes introductory narratives to
each document. Marriage Law
reprinted with seven chapters including marriage contracts, rights and duties
of husbands and wives, relations between parents and children, and divorce. ISBN # 0-393-97372-7 (P)
"Quality Not Quantity." Newsweek. 28 November 1994. Reprinted in China Today.
Newsweek
Education Program. 1996.
This
article describes the one-child policy and some eugenics laws instituted by the
Chinese government to control population growth, especially among the disabled.
Sizer, Nancy F. China:
Tradition and Change. NY: Longman, 1991.
Written
to be a high school textbook for Asian Studies courses. Includes essays of historical narrative
in each chapter followed by two or more historical documents that illustrate or
expand upon the ideas developed in the essays. Chapter 1 (Confucius and the Chinese Family) includes a
collection of Confucian Analects (P) and a selection from Pearl Buck's The
Good Earth, The Birth of a Son. Chapter 12 (The Chinese Family Today)
includes two selections from Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter's book Personal
Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s (P). ISBN # 0-8013-0430-X
Tyler, Patrick E. "Nature
and Economic Boom Devouring China's Farmland." The New
York
Times. 27 March 1994. Reprinted in China Today.
Newsweek Education Program. 1996.
Article
details the harmful effects of natural forces and economic development on
China's agricultural sector.
Includes quotes from China's People's Daily, government officials, and university academics.
Wehrfritz, George.
"Nightmare Cities." Newsweek. 26 December 1994/2 January 1995.
Reprinted
in China Today. Newsweek Education Program. 1996.
Article
details the causes and effects of China's internal migration of millions
searching for work in the cities.
Includes quotes from economists and residents of Beijing.
China Now. Produced by Susan Larson of China
Television Ventures with WLRN Public
Television,
Miami. 1995. 56 minutes. A public television documentary that
profiles Chinese citizens who are in the midst of the transition from communism
to socialism with Chinese characteristics. Three good excerpts illustrate a former Communist Party
official turned farmer pursuing capitalist practices under the responsibility system,
migrant construction workers working to send money back home to their families,
and a middle class couple trying to raise their daughter in the materialistic
crush of Shanghai.
Small Happiness. Produced and directed by Carma Hinton
and Richard Gordon, in
association
with Longbow Group, 1984. 58
minutes. A poignant and sometimes
painful account of the lives of rural women in modern China. Small Happiness is the traditional response accorded to the birth
of a daughter, as opposed to the great happiness of a son. The young women, although still far
from equity with male counterparts, are shown to be a good deal better off than
their mothers and grandmothers.
Set in a village in north China.
ISBN # 1-878232-00-2
To Live. Directed
by Zhang Yimou. Produced by Era
International LTD./Shanghai Film
Studios. 1994.
132 minutes. Chinese with English
subtitles. One family's struggle
through four decades of momentous change
-- through China's civil war, Mao's Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural
Revolution.
"The Goddess of Democracy
in Tiananmen Square, Peking 1989 during student-led
protests
against the Chinese government." Public Anthropology, Anthropology Journal
Archive Project. Google search. 2002. www.publicanthropology.org/Images/GODDES.jpg
"Tiananmen Square, June 1989." AP Photographer Jeff Widener. Home Page of
Delman
Lee.
Google search. 2004.www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/~delman/tank_colour.jpg
Yin Yu Tang, A Chinese
House. Peabody Essex Museum 2002-2003. http://www.pem.org/yinyutang/(P).
This site is a highly interactive exploration of the Yin Yu Tang house rebuilt on the premises of the Peabody Essex Museum. Students can explore nearly every room of the house, its construction, and the Chinese family that owned and lived in it for hundreds of years. Received rave reviews from students ninth through twelfth grade.
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