Review of Day 1 Presentations – 2016 Teachers Workshop
A recap of what were presented on July 27, 2016 Workshop
US-China Relations
Understanding U.S. – China Commitments under the UN Paris Climate Agreement
The urgency and affects of climate change in the world, specifically in the U.S. and China,
Life as a Foreign Correspondent in China
Mary Kay Magistad’s experience as a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia and China
Hollywood and a Rising China
Chinese film and cinema through Hollywood and its growing Chinese partners
China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response
This curriculum explores the history of U.S.-China relations and prepares students to advocate different options for U.S. policy towards China in a simulation set in the U.S. Senate.
Book – Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China
Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America’s long and varied preoccupation with China.
Who Will Act First on Climate Change, the U.S. or China?
The leading role that China and the United States play in both causes and solutions to global warming and the connection between global warming and recent extreme weather events around the world.
China’s Environment, Domestic and Global Considerations
Trade off between environment sustainability and economic growth, and China’s history of “conquring” nature
Despair and Hope: China’s Energy and Environmental Challenges in its Great Social Economic Transition
Reasons for of the explosion of energy needs in China – the cost of becoming an industrialized nation
Role of United States in China’s Modernization Strategy
How U.S. played a key role in China’s modernization