2020 Teachers Workshop – Technology and Humanity
Technology – smart phones – is now giving the average Chinese, rural or urban, the ability for self-expression.
Culture
Can China Remake the Internet in Its Own Image
China’s social media platforms and how the government controls them
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.
The Costs of Breakneck Growth and Development in China
History of discrimination against the Chinese and anti-China sentiments in the U.S.
China: The Past Is Always the Present
Introduction to China’s geography, the nature differences between the north and south, China’s history of controlling nature, the dominate Han culture, culture artifacts, the standardization of language, and Confuius influence on China’s current value system.