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		<title>&#8220;Farewell, My Concubine&#8221; and &#8220;Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China&#8221;: Using Film and Literature to Understand the Cultural Revolution</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter 22: Cultural Revolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hands down, Farewell, My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige after the novel by Lilian Lee, is a brilliant film.  The story of the intense relationship between two Peking Opera singers destined from childhood to play the roles of the Hegamon King and his consort, Yuji, and the manipulative courtesan who comes between them, the film [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=studentsmodernchina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9760992&amp;post=66&amp;subd=studentsmodernchina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Edgar and Helen Foster Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter 16: Communist Survival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 23: Reopening the Doors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It took two years of studying Chinese history before finding out about these two very interesting writers.  Edgar and Helen Foster Snow, while originally part of the elite living in Shanghai during the civil war between the Guomindang and the Chinese Communist Party.  While in Shanghai, the two witnessed the suffering of the common Chinese [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=studentsmodernchina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9760992&amp;post=64&amp;subd=studentsmodernchina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Note to Educators</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably by now, you&#8217;ve noticed that much of the material on this site, while grounded in the realities of Chinese history, is challenging and requires a high level of student maturity.  While I understand that this may be frightening and disconcerting to some educators (it certainly has been nerve-wracking for me), I must impress upon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=studentsmodernchina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9760992&amp;post=59&amp;subd=studentsmodernchina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suggested Reading: &#8220;A Doll&#8217;s House&#8221; by Henrik Ibsen and &#8220;Raise the Red Lantern&#8221; by Su Tong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter 13: "A Road is Made"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Doll&#8217;s House by Henrik Ibsen is already regarded as one of the best pieces of literature in the European canon, but many students may not know that it had a profound impact on the lives of women during the early Republican Movement in China, particularly during the 1930&#8242;s.  The story of Nora, a suppressed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=studentsmodernchina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9760992&amp;post=53&amp;subd=studentsmodernchina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Activity: Mao Zedong&#8217;s Report Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter 20: Planning the New Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 21: Deepening the Revolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hundred Flowers Campaign]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting and, quite frankly, fun assignments I did when I was studying Chinese history in school was writing a report card for Mao Zedong after completing work on his rule in China.  Although the exercise was initial very simple in order to accommodate for time, it can be expanded into a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=studentsmodernchina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9760992&amp;post=28&amp;subd=studentsmodernchina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forbidden City Virtual World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter 12: The New Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 1: The Late Ming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computer Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I discovered a very interesting and fun application produced by IBM in conjunction with the Palace Museum in Beijing.  By the Palace Museum, I mean the Forbidden City.  Called Beyond Space and Time, the Virtual Forbidden City is a fully detailed, fully populated, fully functioning virtual world.  It is complete with avatars for users [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=studentsmodernchina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9760992&amp;post=25&amp;subd=studentsmodernchina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literature of the Ming and Qing Dynasties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter 1: The Late Ming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 5: Chinese Society and the Reign of Qianlong]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reading Lists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Chinese literature can be an exciting and intellectually stimulating pursuit.  During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the Chinese novel and play truly came into their own, upper class writers often used their literary skills to parody, satirize, and criticize Chinese social, familial, and political structures.  In addition, many Chinese writers also explored such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=studentsmodernchina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9760992&amp;post=21&amp;subd=studentsmodernchina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Early Ming Dynasty: Sources of Modern China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan D. Spence begins his book with a discussion of the Late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty in the fifteen hundreds.  Ironically, this was also the time period in which Europe began developing the idea of the modern nation-state, the paradigm for political order until today (some scholars argue we are entering a postmodern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=studentsmodernchina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9760992&amp;post=19&amp;subd=studentsmodernchina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>60th Anniversary of the People&#8217;s Republic of China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chapter 19: the Birth of the People&#039;s Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapter 26: Testing the Limits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mao Zedong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mingzhu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Communist Party, stood on the top of the Gate of Heavenly Peace (known in Chinese as &#8220;Tiananmen&#8221;) and announced the founding of the People&#8217;s Republic of China.  In China, this day is still remembered just as other countries remember their own founding.  In China, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=studentsmodernchina.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9760992&amp;post=16&amp;subd=studentsmodernchina&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to The Student&#8217;s Guide to Modern China</title>
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