Program Start Date: Feb 26 2019
Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve This book club was open to current K-12 in-service and pre-service teachers. The registration fee of $10 included a copy of the book, a light dinner, 4 clock hours, and resources. Sponsored by the East Asia Resource Center, University of Washington
Program Start Date: Nov 15 2018
Description China . . . the word itself conjures up visions of the highest mountains in the world, one-fifth of the world’s population, Mao Zedong and his political and cultural revolutions, Deng Xiaoping and his “second revolution” to modernize China and the outcome (a booming economy and the growing division between the have and have-nots), and China’s
Program Start Date: Jan 23 2019
An NCTA seminar for middle and high school teachers offered in Everett, WA. The Silk Road was not one road but a great network of trade routes, which linked China to Europe and all the lands in between. Products were traded, but ideas and beliefs, techniques and works of art were also transmitted, which shaped
Program Start Date: Jan 28 2019
Tokugawa Japan (also known as the Edo era) lasted from 1600 to 1868. This unprecedented time of peace and relative prosperity for Japan were the seeds for what Japan became by the end of the nineteenth century—a powerful colonial power and Asia’s first industrial state. During Tokugawa’s almost three-hundred-year period, Japan’s urban and rural populations
Program Start Date: Sep 29 2018
“Write about Asia” was offered by the East Asia Resource Center in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas Saturday University Lecture Series. Each Saturday (with the exception on November 24), there was a lecture followed by a writing workshop which was facilitated by Mary Barber Roberts. This
Program Start Date: Jan 22 2018
The two decades from 1956 to 1976 included unprecedented joys and sorrows for China; many of these experiences were rooted in the policies and personality of one man, Mao Zedong. This seminar carefully examined the primary and secondary sources related to China from the later half of the 1950’s until Mao’s death in 1976. It included the Cultural Revolution, President Nixon’s visit to China and many other fascinating topics. All of these stories were part of an epic narrative that unfolded in these seminar lectures.
Program Start Date: Feb 5 2018
Update: 2018 Freeman Book Award Winner! The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball was awarded the 2018 Freeman Book Award. This annual award, sponsored by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Committee on Teaching about Asia (CTA) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), and Asia for Educators (AFE) at Columbia University, recognizes quality books for children
Program Start Date: Jan 31 2018
An NCTA seminar for middle and high school teachers was offered in both Seattle and Tacoma. The Silk Road was not one road but a great network of trade routes, which linked China to Europe and all the lands in between. Products were traded, but ideas and beliefs, techniques and works of art were also
Program Start Date: Oct 7 2017
Waterscapes: Imagery and Environment in Asia”. Participants dipped “into a variety of waterscapes -past and present- as speakers explored complex meanings, cultural traditions, and contemporary environmental issues.
Program Start Date: Jan 19 2017
Since Mao’s death and Deng Xiaoping’s nationwide experiment with “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” Chinese society has gone through dramatic changes. How can we wrap our heads around these ongoing changes, and then convey the pace, scale and implications to our students? How can we explore global themes such as nationalism, migration, urbanization, economic development, civil society, and sustainability, using China as an example?