Viewing Guides for Teachers
Many of our videos have corresponding viewing guides to help teachers navigate the content for main points, vocabulary, and other helpful points. Peruse the guides below, links to the videos themselves appear at the top of these pages.
China
Art
Keys to Understanding the Arts of China
Contemporary Asia
The Urban Origins of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Tiananmen, 1989: Prelude, Process, Legacy
History
Early China to 600 BCE Major Archeological Discoveries
The Han Empire and the Roman Empire in Comparative Perspective
The Tang Dynasty and Abbasid Empire
The Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire
The Taiping Rebellion in China 1850-1864
The Opium War 1839-1842
The Qin Dynasty and the First Chinese Emperor
From the Fall of Han to the Tang Dynasty
The Boxer Rebellion in China 1899-1901
The Silk Road: What it Wasn’t, What it Was, and What it Still Is
The Cultural Revolution in China
The Great Leap Forward and Its Failure
The Tang in Dynasty China
The Three Silk Roads: Desert, Grassland, and Maritime
Easternization not Westernization: Modernity is a Global Formation
Foot Binding: Confronting the Very Strange
Song Dynasty Module Guide
The Mongols in World History and Module Guide
China’s Ming Voyages: The Truth about the Maritime Expeditions Led by Zheng He
Xinjiang: Cornerstone of Eurasia
China’s Place in Global History: 1350-1550
Asia and the Paris Peace Conference Ending WWI
Global May 4th: China and the World in 1919
Language & Literature
Introduction to Ming Dynasty Vernacular Fiction
The Story of the Stone Dream of the Red Chamber
Languages and Scripts of East Asia
Old Novels/New Games: Early Modern Forms of Chinese Algorithmic Play in Outlaws of the Marsh
Romance of the Three Kingdoms: An Introduction
Religion & Thought
The Yijing: The Book of Changes/The Classic of Changes
Fengshui: The Ways of Wind and Water
Islam in China
Japan
Art
Keys to Understanding the Arts of Japan
History
Medieval Japan and “Comparative Feudalism”
Early Modern Tokugawa Japan
Heian Classical Japan
Religion & Thought
Shinto
Vietnam
History
The Historical Relationship between Vietnam and China (History)
