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Ian Gabrielson

Searching for China: a Full WebQuest - 16 views

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china History interactive

shared by Ian Gabrielson on 11 Feb 15 - No Cached
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    " China is a majestic* country (note: links followed by * go to a dictionary definition) with a long and interesting history. If, like most people in the Occidental* world, you've never been to this fascinating land, you might want to take a brief tour. Go ahead and walk a few kilometers of The Great Wall or step foot into The Forbidden City or voyage to the Yellow Mountains. But beyond these tourist stops lives another, more complex, China. Currently, the people of China are experiencing great economic and social upheavals*. Such things as the situation in Tibet, Tiananmen Square massacre, and a scandal about treatment of orphans have brought some people to call for boycotts against China. Being faced with the task of understanding something as complex as a nation, you might want to give up. Sometimes in life you have that choice. But to give up trying to understand the China would mean giving up chances to benefit financially, to help people, to save some of the world's natural and artistic treasures, to protect the safety and security of millions of people, or to enlighten people's lives with greater religious insight. You see, you can't give up. So, if you're ready to begin, you might want to read a Travel Advisory before embarking* on our journey."
anonymous

China in the 20th Century - 11 views

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china History learning Resources IBDP

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    At the beginning of the 20th century, China was divided into sphere of influence with each powerful Western nation trying to exert as much control over it as possible. The Chinese resented foreigners control and expressed this at the beginning of the 20th century with the Boxer Rebellion. At the same time, the traditional government of China began to fail in the early years. The Chinese people, being resentful of foreigners and dissatisfied with inability of the present government to throw them out, initiated the Revolution of 1911, replacing the Chinese 2000 year old imperial system with the Republic of China headed by Sun Yat-sen.
Javier E

The Panda Factories - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • from the beginning, zoos saw panda cubs as a pathway to visitors, prestige and merchandise sales.On that, they have succeeded.
  • Today, China has removed more pandas from the wild than it has freed, The Times found. No cubs born in American or European zoos, or their offspring, have ever been released. The number of wild pandas remains a mystery because the Chinese government’s count is widely seen as flawed and politicized.
  • Because pandas are notoriously fickle about mating in captivity, scientists have turned to artificial breeding. That has killed at least one panda, burned the rectum of another and caused vomiting and injuries in others, records show. Some animals were partly awake for painful procedures. Pandas in China have flickered in and out of consciousness as they were anesthetized and inseminated as many as six times in five days, far more often than experts recommend.
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  • Breeding in American zoos has done little to improve genetic diversity, experts say, because China typically sends abroad animals whose genes are already well represented in the population.
  • Yet American zoos clamor for pandas, and China eagerly provides them. Zoos get attention and attendance. Chinese breeders get cash bonuses for every cub, records show. At the turn of the century, 126 pandas lived in captivity. Today there are more than 700.
  • Kati Loeffler, a veterinarian, worked at a panda breeding center in Chengdu, China, during the program’s early years. “I remember standing there with the cicadas screaming in the bamboo,” she said. “I realized, ‘Oh my God, my job here is to turn the well-being and conservation of pandas into financial gain.’”
  • Kimberly Terrell, who was director of conservation at the Memphis Zoo until 2017, said, “There was always pressure and the implication that cubs would bring money.” She noted that zoo administrators insisted on inseminating its aging female panda every year, despite concerns among zookeepers that it was unlikely to succeed. It never did.
  • “The people who actually worked day to day with these animals, who understand them best, were pretty opposed to these procedures,” she said. The zoo said its breeding efforts followed all program requirements.
  • The Times collected key documents and audiovisual materials from the Smithsonian archives and supplemented them with materials obtained through open-records requests. The trove, which spans four decades, includes medical records, scientists’ field notes and photographs and videos that offer crucial evidence of breeding procedures, side effects and the conditions in which pandas were held.
  • They show that the riskiest techniques happened in the program’s infancy, but that aggressive breeding continued at the National Zoo and at other institutions for years. A panda in Japan died during sperm collection in 2010. Chinese breeding centers, until recently, separated cubs from their mothers to make the females go back into heat.
  • This panda proliferation has prompted debates among zoo workers and scientists over whether it is ethical to subject animals to intensive breeding when they have no real prospect of being released into the wild. But those discussions have largely played out privately because researchers and zookeepers said that criticizing the program could hurt their ability to work in the field.
  • when a species is on the verge of extinction, conservationists sometimes make a last-ditch effort to save it.
  • with pandas, zoo administrators take chances again and again simply to make more cubs, while keeping the grimmest details from the public.
Ian Gabrielson

Visualising China: explore historical photos of China - 6 views

visualisingchina.net

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    Visualising China- Archive of 8000 photographs from China's history
David Hilton

The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China - Harvard College Library - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 29 Aug 09
     
    Over 1000 photos of Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s form the core of this collection, which is supplemented by several hundred books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc., in several languages.
  • David Hilton on 29 Aug 09
     
    An obscure topic, however might be useful. Especially given the recent trouble in Western China.
Mark Moran

On This Day: Nixon Leaves for China - 2 views

www.findingdulcinea.com/...-Diplomatic-Trip-to-China.html

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  • Mark Moran on 18 Feb 10
     
    On Feb. 17, 1972, President Richard Nixon embarked on a diplomatic mission to normalize relations with the People's Republic of China.
Ian Gabrielson

China - 4 views

www.besthistorysites.net/...china

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  • Ian Gabrielson on 11 Feb 15
     
    Great Resource for finding excellent sites on China
Victoria Keech

Ancient China - 9 views

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China Ancient location

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  • Victoria Keech on 13 Mar 14
     
    Good general overview of Ancient China
Cara Montrois

Chinese History - Song Dynasty 宋, Liao 遼, Jin 金, Western Xia 西夏 science, tech... - 16 views

chinaknowledge.de/...song-tech.html

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  • Cara Montrois on 19 Mar 12
     
    Dynasties of China with hot links on the right on topics including technology & inventions, economy, & arts Not a lot of images, but a wealth of information Includes information on Modern China, too
Aaron Shaw

Ming - 3 views

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  • Aaron Shaw on 18 Feb 10
     
    "The Ming dynasty began in 1368, and lasted until 1644 A.D. Its founder was a peasant, the third of only three peasants ever to become an emperor in China. He is known as Hongwu Emperor, and led the revolt against the Mongols and the Yuan Dynasty. He was constantly worried about conspiracies against himself, and despite the many moral homilies he gave, favored violence in dealing with any one suspected of plotting against him or associated with the conspirators. "
Deven Black

Soundscapes of China Interactive Map| PBS - 2 views

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  • Deven Black on 11 Feb 10
     
    An interactive map with pop-ups of sounds of China paired with photos of the setting for the sound.
Eduardo Medeiros

comunistas - A China e os dilemas do socialismo periferico - 0 views

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  • Eduardo Medeiros on 05 Oct 11
     
    Na visão de Marx, o socialismo surgiria nos países do centro do capitalismo. Com as forças produtivas mais desenvolvidas, com as classes sociais mais constituídas, a luta de classes apareceria de forma mais direta. O socialismo surgiria, dialeticamente, como a incorporação - do desenvolvimento das forças produtivas - e como sua negação - a socialização dos meios de produção, no lugar da sua propriedade privada, no capitalismo, haveria a socialização da produção e dos seus produtos, ao invés da sua apropriação privada.
Javier E

China Razed Thousands of Xinjiang Mosques in Assimilation Push, Report Says - WSJ - 0 views

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  • New research shows Chinese authorities have razed or damaged two-thirds of the mosques in China’s remote northwestern region of Xinjiang, further illuminating the scope of a forced cultural-assimilation campaign targeting millions of Uighur Muslims.
  • the Australian Strategic Policy Institute said satellite imagery showed that roughly 8,500 mosques, close to a third of the region’s total, have been demolished since 2017. Another 7,500 have sustained damage
  • Important Islamic sacred sites, including shrines, cemeteries and pilgrimage routes, were also demolished, damaged or altered, the study found.
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  • “The Chinese government’s destruction of cultural heritage aims to erase, replace and rewrite what it means to be Uyghur,”
  • China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday repeated its claims that Xinjiang has around 24,000 mosques and that the number of them per capita among Muslims in Xinjiang is higher than in many Muslim countries. It said that China fully protects the human and religious rights of all ethnic minorities and described the ASPI report as “smear and rumor.” It denied the existence of detention camps in Xinjiang.
  • ASPI estimated that around half of important Islamic sacred sites—many of which are supposed to be protected under Chinese law—have been damaged or altered since 2017.
  • The report estimated there are fewer than 15,500 mosques left intact in Xinjiang, the lowest number since the 1980s, when Uighurs had just begun rebuilding mosques destroyed during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Most of the land where mosques were razed remained vacant, it said.
  • The campaign is part of a longer-term trend to transform communities in the name of public safety. The strategy has gained pace under President Xi Jinping who has called for the “Sinicization” of religion
  • During a visit the following month, the Journal found that some facilities had indeed been closed, with former detainees sometimes sent away to work in factories. One facility had been converted into a prison after being previously described as a school.
  • Of the dozens of facilities ASPI identified as recently under construction, roughly half were higher-security facilities. The most-secure facilities had high walls, multiple layers of perimeter barriers, watchtowers and dozens of cell blocks with no apparent outside exercise yard for detainees
  • Authorities are likely singling out people who they have lost hope of re-educating and putting them into long periods of incarceration, said Mr. Leibold. It is “the only way to really explain their pretty remarkable expansion,”
  • One challenge in pressuring China’s government over its Xinjiang policies is the relative silence of Muslim-majority countries. ASPI made its work available in 10 different languages to try to raise awareness beyond the English-speaking world
David Hilton

Internet Mission Photography Archive - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 30 Aug 09
     
    A valuable collection for a sad, complex issue.
  • David Hilton on 30 Aug 09
     
    The Internet Mission Photography Archive offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean
David Hilton

National Library of China - English Version (IE5.0 1024×768) - 2 views

www.nlc.gov.cn/...treasures.htm

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shared by David Hilton on 30 Jun 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 30 Jun 09
     
    A series of links to Chinese history collections, provided by the National Library of China. There are a few dead links and the Chinglish can be amusing, but seems as though there are some useful sources in there for Chinese history.
Eric Beckman

A global view on Long Late Antiquity, 300-800 AD | Johannes Preiser-Kapeller - Academia... - 2 views

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  • Eric Beckman on 22 Oct 18
     
    Compares Frankish Kingdom with Abbasid Caliphate, Tang China, and the Byzantine Empire. Show's the Franks as the least developed state. Excellent opening anecdote about the failure of a Frankish canal.
Ian Gabrielson

Power vacuum after Mao's death | World news | The Guardian - 5 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...china.johngittings

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  • Ian Gabrielson on 20 Feb 13
     
    Guardian article from September 1976- Day after Mao Tse-tung death
Eric Beckman

February 2013: Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor | Origins: Current Events in His... - 1 views

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  • Eric Beckman on 19 Feb 17
     
    First Han Emperor, short article
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