china

Covers the entire span of China's history from the Paleolithic cultures to the Tiananmen massacre of 1989.

A brief history of the Great Wall of China, begun about 2,200 years ago to keep out Mongol invaders.

The unit begins with a folktale that serves as a springboard for the cross-curricular activities.

Mulan, a young girl in ancient China, fights to save the Emperor from the Huns.

The author presents a fictionalized autobiography of her childhood in China during the 1920s.

Absent-minded poet Wan Hu is so curious about the stars that finally, after several unsuccessful attempts, he finds a way to travel among them.

A biography of Empress Dowager Cixi who ruled over China from 1861 through 1908 that discusses how she rose to power and the challenges she faced as a leader.

Discusses the wars, occupations, and uprisings that mark this period (1900-1949) in Chinese history.

In the early 1970's, at the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Jan Wong traveled from her home in Canada to become one of two westerners at Beijing University. A starry-eyed Maoist at the time, Jan Wong turned in a fellow student, Yin Luoyi, for wanting to move to the United States. Immediately Yin disappeared. Thirty-three years later, Jan Wong traveled again to Beijing to try to find Yin and ease her troubled conscience. As she traces her way from one former comrade to the next, she unearths not only the fate of the woman she betrayed but a web that mirrors the strange and dramatic journey of contemporary China.

Memoirs of a Canadian journalist who spent time in China during the Maoist regime and was transformed from a devout communist into a supporter of the dissident protests of the 1990s.