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"China's urbanization is a marvel. The population of its cities has quintupled over the past 40 years, reaching 813m. By 2030 roughly one in five of the world’s city-dwellers will be Chinese. But this mushrooming is not without its flaws. Restraining pell-mell urbanization may sound like a good thing, but it worries the government’s economists, since bigger cities are associated with higher productivity and faster economic growth. Hence a new plan to remake the country’s map.
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Kent College History's curator insight,
August 5, 2017 5:11 AM
'Mao Zedong made great political capital out of the Red Army’s epic trek to escape the clutches of their enemies in China 80 years ago. But, as Edward Stourton explains, the communist leader’s version of the march did not always reflect reality.'
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If you could go back in time to the 1980s, you would find a city that is drastically different than today’s Shanghai. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
Kelsey McIntosh's curator insight,
May 3, 2018 10:12 PM
Shanghai os growing at an incredibly rapid rate. As more and more people begin to inhabit the city, the neighboring towns have morphed into one large city. However, the city's amazing population increase has taken a toll on its ecosystem. With the rapid growth, Shanghai's temperature has increased dramatically. Similarly, the wild and plant life has declined in the region as well.
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Colleen Blankenship's curator insight,
January 4, 2017 3:41 PM
With a new president on our horizon, how will this affect our relationship with China?
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In 1966, the youth movement known as the Red Guards was mobilised in China. Saul Yeung was one of them. Via Kent College History
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November 2, 2016 4:42 PM
'Saul Yeung was a member of the Red Guards. He spoke to Witness about his memories of that time and the guilt he still carries.'
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A $46bn economic corridor through disputed territories in Kashmir is causing most concern
brielle blais's curator insight,
April 1, 2018 2:41 PM
Adding infrastructure to improve trade with other countries is a strong step taken by China. This new silk road showcases how important trade is to geopolitics. Other countries are watching as this unfolds, learning and wondering what will come of it, as China continues to make economic power moves for not only it's own country but the global economy as well.
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A MERE 18 years after the death of Mao Zedong, it was possible for a notable Sinologist to give his book on Chinese reforms the title of “Burying Mao”. And who was to quibble? Via Kent College History
Kent College History's curator insight,
September 13, 2016 2:55 AM
A short piece from the Economist on Mao's legacy. 'A mere 18 years after the death of Mao Zedong, it was possible for a notable Sinologist to give his book on Chinese reforms the title of “Burying Mao”. And who was to quibble?'
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July 16, 2016 11:03 AM
'In this insight, Rana Mitter attempts to re-examine as many aspects as possible of China’s experience of the highly destructive, eight-year war with Japan. Mitter discusses the major leaders (Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and Wang Jingwei) and about the ordinary people who became caught up in terrible times.'
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What really brought down China’s birthrate was its education and empowerment of women, not the one-child policy. Via Joanne Wegener
Skuuppilehdet's insight:
Time and again we are reminded that to move a country out of poverty, governments need to invest in the health and education of their citizens, especially women (who have been the forgotten gender), and allow women of all ages to be empowered with choice.
Joanne Wegener's curator insight,
April 2, 2016 8:01 AM
Time and again we are reminded that to move a country out of poverty, governments need to invest in the health and education of their citizens, especially women (who have been the forgotten gender), and allow women of all ages to be empowered with choice.
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"When officials forced an informal school run by monks near here to stop offering language classes for laypeople, Tashi Wangchuk looked for a place where his two teenage nieces could continue studying Tibetan. To his surprise, he could not find one, even though nearly everyone living in this market town on the Tibetan plateau here is Tibetan. Officials had also ordered other monasteries and a private school in the area not to teach the language to laypeople. And public schools had dropped true bilingual education in Chinese and Tibetan, teaching Tibetan only in a single class, like a foreign language, if they taught it at all."
Jerry Li's curator insight,
March 20, 2016 9:23 AM
Yes, Tibatan will be very upset. I think we should preserve every culture, not only chinese culture. Tibetan is their mother tongue. As every culture has its own special characteristic. "And public schools had dropped true bilingual education in Chinese and Tibetan" this quote shows Tibetan cannot learn both language. The officials cannot forced them to learn chinese, and should give Tibetan a bilingual education just like Singapore. This will result that Tibatan's children do not know their mother tongue and lost that culture gradually. Although this can assimilate Tibetan to become Chinese in future but I think the offcials can give TIbetan some choices to choose. 
othni lindor's curator insight,
October 20, 2018 3:50 AM
This article talks about Tibetan culture fading in China. The language has been removed from schools and are only taught as a foreign language if they are even taught at all. China has reduced and restricted the teaching of languages spoken by other ethnic groups in many regions more recently. In 2012, officials created a new teaching curriculum that removed Tibetan as a language. Schools were forced to use Chinese as the main language.
Kelvis Hernandez's curator insight,
December 14, 2018 3:43 PM
The people of Tibet are watching their culture fade away and have no power to stop it. The Chinese officials that run the province have been restricting the teaching of the language and culture in Tibet and other western provinces of China. This is part of a massive plan to force the assimilation of the Tibetan and Uyger peoples to East China's Han Chinese norms. While some welcome the change thinking it will bring their children into the competitive economy, others have begun protesting the suppression. China has begun demonizing western forces and the Dalai Lama for tricking the protestors into defying the law and government. As even monasteries are begin banned from teaching courses it will be a long battle for Tibetans who are fighting for their cultural freedom.
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"A Chinese military newspaper gives graphic details of a raid in Xinjiang province against suspected militants." http://wp.me/p2Ij6x-60y ; Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
Matthew Richmond's curator insight,
December 2, 2015 12:11 PM
As a student who someday wants to teach social studies at the high school level, this article brought to light one of the hardest concepts to teach. There are always two sides to every story. While the victors get to write history, the victims are often silenced over time. One man's violent rebellion is another man's treasonous operations. Honestly, the Chinese have done an excellent job of keeping this out of the western media. The only real struggle we ever hear about in China that of Tibet and Taiwan. 
Kevin Nguyen's curator insight,
December 7, 2015 12:37 PM
This is really disturbing to know that China is attacking their ethnic minority who is just protesting for what they believing in. To make things worst, the Chinese government controls the media and they basically can say whatever they want. For example, referring to these ethnic minority as foreign terrorist. That changes the perspective on how people view and perceive the situation happening in Xinjiang. 
tyrone perry's curator insight,
April 24, 2018 5:13 PM
The Chinese government is on an all out mission to eradicate terrorizism from the Uighur and anyone else for that matter. Thou news reports are controlled by China its tough to get accurate reports. But their use of force shows they are not playing. Uighurs are suspected Turkish militant Muslims that have been forced out over the years. China has said they have been terrorizing and attacking the people of Xinjiang.
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"The country is perhaps more aware of its own history than any other major society on earth. That remembering is certainly partial - events like Mao's Cultural Revolution are still very difficult to discuss within China itself. But it is striking how many echoes of the past can be found in its present." Via Lindley Amarantos
Kami Romeike's curator insight,
July 4, 2018 3:20 AM
This is a very interesting article...one can make too much of a country's history as a casual factors, and yet make too little of historical patterns at your own peril. "To understand China's approach today to trade, foreign policy or censorship, consider its history." This article considers a few of China's current policies that may seem peculiar today but that make much more sense with a longer and deeper history. Some of the topics considered include:
Tags: China, East Asia, historical. 
Olivia Campanella's curator insight,
December 14, 2018 10:02 PM
In this interesting article you can learn a lot about the Chinese history. The country is more aware of its own history than any other. major society on earth. some of the ways include:
Trade Trouble with Neighbors Information flow Freedom of Religion and Technology
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October 23, 2017 3:26 PM
'Toward the end of his life, dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, Mao Zedong claimed two achievements: leading the Communist revolution to victory and starting the Cultural Revolution. By pinpointing these episodes, he had underlined the lifelong contradiction in his attitudes toward revolution and state power. Mao molded Communism to fit his two personas. To use Chinese parlance, he was both a tiger and a monkey king.'
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Twentieth Century history is one of the most controversial subjects in the Japanese school curriculum, reports Mariko Oi. Via Kent College History
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May 9, 2017 2:53 AM
Mariko Oi writes, 'Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history. I myself only got a full picture when I left Japan and went to school in Australia.'
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March 2, 2017 4:56 AM
'Third-Front" (san xian) construction was a strategic policy in the modern history of China. In the early 1960s, in the face of a complicated international situation, to preserve the nation’s strength Chairman Mao Zedong decided to relocate many heavy industries and military factories to the southwestern and northwestern hinterland areas. This extensive industrial move was historically known as the “Third-Front Construction".'
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January 12, 2017 2:53 AM
'More than 70 years after its conclusion, China's bitter and lengthy "War Against Japanese Aggression" just got six years longer. At the beginning of the upcoming Spring semester, the "Eight-year Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" will become the "14-year Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" in textbooks across the country, according to the Ministry of Education.'
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For hundreds of years, on the eighth month of the lunar calendar, people have gathered along the shores of China’s Qiantang River at the head of Hangzhou Bay to witness the waves of its famous bore tide. Higher-than-normal high tides push into the harbor, funneling into the river, causing a broad wave that can reach up to 30 feet high. If the waves surge over the banks, spectators can be swept up, pushed along walkways or down embankments. Below, I’ve gathered images from the past few years of the Qiantang bore tides.
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"What has lead to this marriage squeeze? First, millions women have gone 'missing'. A generation ago, a preference for sons and the greater availability of prenatal screening meant first Chinese couples, then Indian ones, started aborting female fetuses and only giving birth to boys. At its extreme, in parts of Asia, more than 120 boys were being born for every 100 girls. Now, the generation with distorted sex ratios at birth is reaching marriageable age. The result is that single men far outnumber women."
Tags: gender, China, India, culture, population. Via Scarpaci Human Geography
Taylor Doonan's curator insight,
May 3, 2018 11:58 AM
This video talks about the marriage crisis India and China will be facing over the next few decades. The one child rule that was enforced in the region caused many couples to selectively abort their daughters so they could have sons instead, doing this caused a major population gap between men and women. Now as this group of the population where men so drastically outnumber women come of age the countries face a marriage crisis. With men so drastically outnumbering women and marriage being such an important part of the culture in India and China the countries could undergo severe cultural changes.
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July 17, 2016 3:01 AM
'Believing that current Communist leaders were taking the party, and China itself, in the wrong direction, Mao called on the nation’s youth to purge the “impure” elements of Chinese society and revive the revolutionary spirit that had led to victory in the civil war 20 decades earlier and the formation of the People’s Republic of China.'
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A new archaeological dig in China has uncovered evidence of just how long humans have been farming domesticated rice: around 9,000 years, according to an international team of researchers. In a press release from University of Toronto Mississauga, Professor Gary Crawford, who was involved in the research, says that while rice might be one of … Via rita roberts
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http://4greenworlds.org Mao's.Great.Famine.HDTV.x264.720p. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Via Clairelouise, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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The BBC's Celia Hatton finds out why one restaurant in Shanghai is serving up American-style Chinese food Via Allison Anthony
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May 2, 2018 9:17 AM
This article shows how cultures can bleed into other countries, blend together, and in this case eventually find its way back to the country in which it came. Chinese food is a lot different than the westernized Chinese food that came to be in America after the first Chinese immigrants. People of China are experiencing the American twist on their food, even if it is almost completely different in some cases. It is cool to think about the fact that the owners of the restaurant have to import American ingredients to China to make authentic American Chinese food.
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'China's Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao was one of the most staggeringly brutal events in recent human history. Tom and Dominic are joined by historian Rana Mitter, who specialises in the history of Republican China.'