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 the United State'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
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.

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, 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.

Primary Documents

Treaty of Amity and Commerce

Open Door Note

Three Joint-Communiques

Hu and Obama Speeches, 2009

Web Links

Columbia University’s Asia for Educators

Council on Foreign Relations Timeline: U.S. Relations with China

PBS China from the Inside

The New York Times’ China Page

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.