China’s Encounter with the West
A History Institute for Teachers
Saturday and Sunday, March 1–2, 2008
Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Sponsored by
The Wachman Center at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program
China’s rapid economic development — made possible in part by institutions and policies it implemented based on its two-century encounter with the West — has led to its emergence as a great power. The PRC’s interaction with the West — and the U.S. especially — has become and will remain a central concern of international relations. FPRI’s Wachman Center is therefore pleased to cooperate with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program in sponsoring a weekend-long History Institute for Teachers that will provide teachers cutting-edge scholarship on the origins and current state of China’s encounter with the West.
Conference Report
Topics and Speakers
- China’s Earliest Encounters with the West
- Andrew Wilson, US Naval War College
- Read China’s Early Encounters with the West: A History in Reverse, FPRI FootNotes, 4/2008
- Video/audio
- Political Ideas in China’s Encounter with the West
- Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin
- Video/audio
- Economic Influence in China’s Relations with the West
- Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
- Video/audio
- Economic Influence in China’s Relations with the West, FPRI FootNotes, 8/2008
- Teaching About China and the West
- Lucien Ellington, Director of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program; Editor, Education about Asia; and Senior Fellow, FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund
- Paul Dickler and James Sanzare, Senior Fellows, FPRI’s Wachman Fund
- Video/audio
- China and the West in Historical Perspective
- Warren I. Cohen, University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Video/audio
- Read China and the West in Historical Perspective, FPRI FootNotes, Warren I. Cohen, 4/2008
- Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China’s Relations with the West
- Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Georgetown University
- Video/audio
- Read Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China’s Relations with the West, FPRI FootNotes, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, 5/2008
- China’s Legal Learning from the West
- Jacques Delisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
- Video/audio
- Read China’s Legal Encounter with the West, FPRI FootNotes, 6/2008
- The 2008 Olympics and China’s Encounter with the West
- A Roundtable Discussion
- Video/audio
Classroom Lessons
- China’s Foreign Policy Today, Paul Dickler (52K Microsoft Word document)
- It Could Still Happen: The United States, China and the Possibility of War Over Taiwan, Rusty Eder, West Nottingham Academy, Colora, Maryland (71K Microsoft Word document)
- MacArthur, Ping Pong and Diplomatic Ambiguity: Avoiding a Sino-U.S. War, Craig Perrier (86K Microsoft Word document)
- Nationalism and Identity: A Case Study of Taiwan, Ronald Eisenman, Rutland High School, Rutland, Vermont (78K Microsoft Word document)
- The Opium War and Its Impact on Chinese-American Relations, Lynne Wilbanks (52K Microsoft Word document)
- Tiananmen Square, Beijing, PRC, June 5, 1989: A View from the West, Attilia Landini Gogel, Signature School, Evansville, Indiana (52K Microsoft Word document)
- Translations Across Languages, Cultures, and Time, Alice L. Davidson, Episcopal High School, Houston, Texas
- Download lesson (54K Microsoft Word document)
- Download related handouts (166K PDF)
FPRI’s History Institutes are made possible by generous support from the Annenberg Foundation. Additional funding for specific programs has been contributed by W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, John M. Templeton, Jr., the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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