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Pandemic Perspectives: Global Implications
MANUFACTURED TENSIONS: Professor Berry talks about how the pandemic has been intertwined with trade and international competition, which partly goes back to 2016 during the Trump administration's trade war with China which continued to...
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Exploring the World of Alligators: Facts and Differences from Crocodiles
Learn all about the amazing alligators in this fun and informative video! Discover where they can be found, their unique features like lovely scales and powerful jaws, and interesting facts such as their strong bite but weak jaw opening.
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The Asian Culture
Miss Palomine tells the student about the Asian culture. She introduces some of the most well known Asian languages. Miss Palomine then gives an overview of Asian food, dress, and Asian technologies and medicines that are used in the...
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What Are The 7 Wonders of The World? | KLT Geography
Let's learn about the 7 wonders of the world!
The Guardian
How killer robots are changing modern warfare
Uncrewed combat aerial vehicles, or attack drones, have become a common feature of the modern battlefield. Russia has deployed them to terrorise civilians in Ukraine and disable essential infrastructure, and Ukraine has also relied...
The Guardian
Daisy Chain
When the remote town of St Just, Cornwall, was locked down in March 2020, the small community worried that its economy wouldn't survive. But one town councillor, Daisy Gibbs, rallied an army of volunteers to form 'the Daisy chain', an...
PBS
Unique Money Traditions from Around the World!
Take a tour around the world with us to see the variety of money customs from different cultures!
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 74 - Things Inside Words (Levels 3-5)
Material covered:Accident,Adding ally to words,Technology ,Descend,Stomach,Millennium,Disastrous (+ Susie's Stories) ,Alcohol (+ Susie's Stories)
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The Hubris of Publishers
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) describes how many publishers demand original works be changed to fit American sensibilities.
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The Benefits of Hardship
Historian Michael Berry (UCLA) discusses how he experienced more culture shock on returning to the USA from China than in going to China.
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Life in the 5th Generation
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) describes the extraordinary cultural landscape for the 5th Generation of Chinese filmmakers.
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Population Effects
Karl Gerth, Professor of History and Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies at UC San Diego, discusses the impact of China’s burgeoning population on its history.
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Setting a Better Example
Historian and Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) urges Westerners to set a better example to help China grapple with its difficult environmental issues.
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Running Across the River
Historian and Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) describes the staggering speed of societal change that China is currently undergoing.
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Necessary Evils?
Historian and Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) discusses how many of the problems currently besetting modern China were anticipated by Mao.
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Measuring Democracy
UCSD Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth describes how the standard view that “America is democratic and China isn’t”, while hardly entirely incorrect, doesn’t really bear up under careful scrutiny.
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Leading By Example
UCSD Prof. of Chinese Studies Karl Gerth describes how the West should set a better example in a number of key public policy areas in its dealings with China, and how a close examination of China can help us improve as well.
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Democracy Examined
Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) examines the subtleties involved in what it means to be a democracy.
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Endless Possibilities
Historian and Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) discusses how he will never run out of interesting questions to explore involving both China and the rest of the world.
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Creating a Car Culture
Karl Gerth, Professor of History and Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies at UC San Diego, relates the policy decisions behind the the rapid rise of the automobile in China.
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Chinese Social Inequality
UCSD Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth ruminates on whether the Chinese have the same amount of tolerance for social inequality as Americans have and relates that many young Chinese feel that they don’t have access to good jobs even...
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American vs. Chinese Governance
Political theorist John Dunn (Cambridge) compares aspects of Chinese and American policies, both historical and modern.
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Walking in Another's Shoes
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes the importance of looking at matters from others points of view, even if we strongly disagree with the eventual outcome.
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Contemporary Chinese Literature
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) gives us some recommendations for stimulating contemporary Chinese literature.