In terms of economic issues, the World Bank produces a number of statistics on the economic development of China: http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/section4.pdf Important sections to a presentation on the Chinese Economy and the World would be the sections on "Current Account Balances" (net imports/exports), and GDP growth rates.
I think it also might be cool to include a small section on China's military actions in modern historical international military conflicts. For example, the following link provides an introduction to China's involvement in World War 2: http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/china.htm In many cases this might tie into some of the topics that Gareth mentioned.
In my research for my individual project, I have also come across another interesting subject that we may want to add into our project, at least a little--Chinese Business Etiquette. I've found a number of different sources, on different aspects of the topic. I think if we were just going to talk about it a little, maybe we should go over what are defined as the eight "pillars" of chinese business culture. They are well discussed in the following article from Harvard Business School: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3714.html.
Anyway, I look forward to our presentation on Wednesday.
Reflection on Presentation: Overall, I think the presentation was a definite success. One of our major strengths was the variety which we incorporated into our presentation--by varying the specific aspects of "China and the World" which we discussed, I think we successfully maintained the class's attention. Michael's introduction successfully used graphs and other graphics to keep the class engaged, and Gareth's discussion of foreign policy was very thorough. Donna's presentation brought in variety by talking about the environment, and I think the class enjoyed the video and other graphics in my section. While there are always areas for improvement (I could have ended a little earlier, for example), I think that our presentation was a great success overall.
For general information about China from a foreign point of view, we can draw information from the CIA Factbook on China:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html
In terms of economic issues, the World Bank produces a number of statistics on the economic development of China:
http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/section4.pdf
Important sections to a presentation on the Chinese Economy and the World would be the sections on "Current Account Balances" (net imports/exports), and GDP growth rates.
I think it also might be cool to include a small section on China's military actions in modern historical international military conflicts. For example, the following link provides an introduction to China's involvement in World War 2:
http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/china.htm
In many cases this might tie into some of the topics that Gareth mentioned.
In my research for my individual project, I have also come across another interesting subject that we may want to add into our project, at least a little--Chinese Business Etiquette. I've found a number of different sources, on different aspects of the topic. I think if we were just going to talk about it a little, maybe we should go over what are defined as the eight "pillars" of chinese business culture. They are well discussed in the following article from Harvard Business School:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3714.html.
Anyway, I look forward to our presentation on Wednesday.
The first is a Coca-Cola commercial which aired in China. It features Liu Xiang, a popular Chinese Olympic track star:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=berhkqC2cY8&feature=related
The second is an introduction to some basic elements of Chinese Business Etiquette:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XHioryoMes
Overall, I think the presentation was a definite success. One of our major strengths was the variety which we incorporated into our presentation--by varying the specific aspects of "China and the World" which we discussed, I think we successfully maintained the class's attention. Michael's introduction successfully used graphs and other graphics to keep the class engaged, and Gareth's discussion of foreign policy was very thorough. Donna's presentation brought in variety by talking about the environment, and I think the class enjoyed the video and other graphics in my section. While there are always areas for improvement (I could have ended a little earlier, for example), I think that our presentation was a great success overall.