Supplemental Resources

China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response

China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response focuses attention on our country's evolving relationship with the emerging East Asian giant. Students explore the history of Western relations with China and consider the global impact of China's economic growth, societal transformation, and increasing international involvement.

Online Resources from the Choices Program

Graphic Organizers
You can use these graphic organizers to help students better understand the readings in China on the World Stage: Weighing the US Response.

Graphs
These graphs are to be used with the day 2 activities in the unit China on the World Stage: Weighing the US Response.

Xu Wenli and the China Democracy Party
An activity incorporating videos in which Xu describes his time in prison and the democracy movement in China. It also includes suggestions and questions that teachers may adapt for use in their classrooms.

Looking at the Tank Man: The 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen
On June 4, 1989—twenty years ago this week—government troops killed hundreds and injured thousands more in a crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. In this free one-day lesson, students analyze an image from June 5, 1989 from multiple perspectives and consider the effect that censorship can have on the understanding of an event.

Web Links

BBC China Information Page

China Online News and Information

Foreign Policy in Focus Resources on China

PBS China Timelines

Books

Cohen, Warren I. America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990). 241 pages.

Fairbank, John King and Goldman, Merle. China: A New History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998). 616 pages.

Foot, Rosemary. The Practice of Power: U.S. Relations with China Since 1949 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). 291 pages.

Mann, James H. About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China, from Nixon to Clinton (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999). 352 pages.

Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001) 747 pages.

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.