18 lecture videos (Powerpoint slides with audio, unless otherwise noted) created for for PS188 Topics in International Relations: Chinese Foreign Policy, Tufts University, Spring 2021.

Course description: China has the world's largest military and the second largest economy. Despite its impressive size and economic vitality, however, China remains a vulnerable nation surrounded by powerful rivals. This course examines the geo-strategic challenges facing China on four fronts: at home, with its immediate neighbors, in surrounding regional systems, and in the world beyond Asia.

In this activity students will use an interactive Google Slideshow to choose different places around China to explore a mini trip to that place. Students will choose a location, and in that location they will choose an activity and food based on limited clues, allowing each choice to be a surprise and expose students to different experiences in China they might not have known about previously.

The course explores the interactions between state and market as instigators of China's urbanization, and its consequences of land, housing, transportation, energy, environment, migration, finance, urban inequality. Themes include the de-synchronization of China's urbanization, potential differences between China's past and future development, and differentiators between China's urbanization and those of other countries. This discussion-based course asks students to participate in the conversation with the course instructor and guest lecturers by drawing upon their experiences and academic or professional backgrounds.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Heavy-metal mines might be a tough environment to grow up in, but many microbes call them home, including viruses. A recent look at core samples from a lead and zinc mine in China revealed how viruses fit into this extreme ecosystem. Environmental factors like acidity appeared to play a big role in shaping viral communities. High acidity tends to make environments less hospitable, even for organisms that live in extreme places. That explains why less acidic (higher pH) core samples contained more viruses. Similarly, viral gene function varied with depth. Deeper and less environmentally extreme layers contained genes with conventional functions related to metabolism and structure, while surface layers largely contained genes of unknown function. Tests also detected genes that viruses might use to get their bacterial hosts to incorporate sulfur from mine runoff..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China. The thrust of these explorations extends beyond Asia per se, however, to address "culture" in much broader ways—cultures of modernization, war and peace, consumerism, images of "Self" and "Others," and so on.

In this activity students will practice answering who, what, when, where, why questions about themselves, their likes and dislikes, and hobbies. Students will roll a picture dice and answer a question that corresponds with the picture. Each round the questions will change and get slightly more complex.

This collection uses primary sources to explore Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

This course will present a comparative overview of world history from the 17th century to the present era. The student will examine the origins of major economic, political, social, cultural, and technological trends of the past 400 years and explore the impact of these trends on world societies. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Think critically about world history in the early modern and modern eras; Assess how global trade networks shaped the economic development of Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries; Identify the origins of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe and assess the social and political consequences of these movements for the peoples of Europe; Identify the origins of the Enlightenment in Europe and assess how Enlightenment ideas led to political and social revolutions in Europe and the Americas; Identify the origins of the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in Europe and assess how these intellectual and economic movements altered social, political, and economic life across the globe in the 18th and 19th centuries; Compare and contrast how European imperialism affected the states and peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Americas in the 19th century; Identify the origins of World War I and analyze how the war's outcome altered economic and political balances of power throughout the world; Identify the origins of totalitarian political movements across the globe in the 1920s and 1930s and assess how these movements led to World War II; Analyze how World War II reshaped power balances throughout the world and led to the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as global superpowers; Assess how decolonization movements in the 1950s and 1960s altered political, economic, and social relationships between the United States, the nations of Europe, and developing countries throughout the world; Assess how the end of the Cold War led to political and economic realignments throughout the world and encouraged the growth of new global markets and systems of trade and information exchange; Analyze and interpret primary source documents from the 17th century through the present, using historical research methods. (History 103)

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, with human activities such as logging being a major cause of this loss. One way China is addressing this problem is through so-called mountain closure, that is, by stopping all anthropogenic activity within degraded forests. But precisely how mountain closure affects ecosystem renewal isn’t well known. To answer this question, researchers have turned their attention underground, to fine roots. By following the status of these structures, they’ve shed light on how forests renew themselves over the decades after human activity is stopped. Plants use fine roots to acquire water and nutrients from soil, which gives them a crucial role in terrestrial carbon and nutrient cycling. Because soil composition is key to ecosystem productivity, changes in fine root abundance are one indicator of a forest’s health. This prompted the researchers to use fine roots to assess how forests fare after closure..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

In this activity, students will practice using 怎么 and 怎么这么 to create “how” questions to describe how to do something and to create emphasis when asking how something could be a certain way. Students will use cards to help them build sentences.