A complete resource filled with background Information, primary sources, hands-on activities, art projects, maps, reproducibles, and much more, this comprehensive curriculum unit, written by teachers from the acclaimed Bank Street School for Children, is packed with activities that cover Chinese history, geography, philosophy, language, religion, and art. Projects include Designing a Dynasty Chart, Exploring China by Sampan Boat, and Painting Scroll Landscapes. Grades 4-8.
What Is China? offers an insider’s account that addresses sensitive problems of Chinese identity and shows how modern scholarship about China—whether conducted in China, East Asia, or the West—has attempted to make sense of the ...
This book is an urgent and timely call to action that should be read by economists, policymakers, the business community, and general readers alike.
Following William's death in 1894, the Walters' collection of the arts of Asia would expand in new directions, ... see William R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters: The Reticent Collectors (Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1999).
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The second scholar , Huang Zongxi , a Zhejiang native whose father had been killed in 1626 on the orders of the eunuch Wei Zhongxian , was a passionate partisan of the Donglin and other reformers . Huang Zongxi fought for years ...
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This book will be hated by the commissars, because it is a triumph of analysis and good sense." PAUL THEROUX "I sure wish I'd read this book before heading to China or Chinatown, for that matter.
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