China

=Life of a Teenager= [|Article] on student stress and college entrance exams. //New York Times// [|article] on Hip Hop artists in China. = =

=The Environment= [|Blog entry] form //Tehran Times// on the current state of recycling in China. [|Article] on China's economic growth and energy consumption. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/16/chinese-economic-boom

= = =Intellectual Piracy= PBS Newshour [|segment] on China's intellectual property problem. Excerpt from //Postcards from Tomorrow Square// about China's factories and culture of piracy. =Pop Culture-Connect to History=

(Read and view Group A or B - one chapter and one PBS segment)
Author's experience being sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution PBS Newshour [|segment] on the new Chinese middle class consumer.
 * Group A**

on Chairman Mao as a leader. PBS Newshour [|segment] on Mao's influence on China today.
 * Group B**

=Internet Censorship in China= Excerpt on ineffectiveness China's Great Firewall. [|New York Times article] on China's pulling back on Internet censorship for personal computers.

=Shanghai Yesterday and Today= Read in Google Books pp. 38-49 of Chapter 2 "Shanghai" in [|//Dragon Rising//] by Jasper Becker. = = =Photos and Videos on Flickr= []

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