China and Europe, 1500-2000 and Beyond: What is "Modern"?
AFE
China & Europe
  • Intro(current)
  • "Modern"?
    Redefining the Modern World Decoupling "Modern" from "European" Appreciating Asian Dynamics
  • Industrial Revolution
    Common Dynamics Industrial Evolution, not Revolution? Rethinking Regions Explaining the Industrial Revolution in Europe
  • New Units of Analysis
    • China & Europe: The New Units of Analysis China & Europe: 1500-1800
      • Was China More Productive Than Europe?, Part 1
      • Was China More Productive Than Europe?, Part 2
      • China: An "Early Modern" Society, Part 1
      • China: An "Early Modern" Society, Part 2
      • China: An "Early Modern" Society, Part 3
      • The Silver Trade, Part 1
      • The Silver Trade, Part 2
      • Population Growth: Myth of the Big Chinese Family
    • China & Europe: 1780-1937
      • The Revolution Explained
      • What Happened?
      • Differential Growth
  • Modern China
    The Precedent for Modern Politics The Rural Industry Tradition in China
  • Conclusion
  • For Teachers
    Teachers Guide Lesson Plans Classroom Resources Timeline of Chinese Inventions [PDF] China's Gifts to the West [PDF] Chinese Ideas in the West [PDF] Emperors and Reign Periods [PDF] Bibliography
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FOR TEACHERS

⚬ Teachers Guide

Introduction

What do We Mean by "Modern"?

Rethinking the Industrial Revolution

China and Europe: the New Units of Analysis

China and Europe: 1500-1800

China and Europe: 1780-1937

China Achieves a Modern State

Conclusion: Issues for the 21st Century

Lesson Plan (PDF)

⚬ Lesson Plans

Rethinking the rise of the West: The Great Divergence Debate

Rethinking the rise of the West: Global Commodities

Introduction

Rationale

Focus Questions

Grades and Time Required

Goals

Instructional Objectives

Resources

Class Activities: Comparing and Contrasting Points of View

Bibliography

Lesson Plan (PDF)

Standards of Modernity — China and Europe

Parallels in England and the Yangzi Basin of China in the 1800s

⚬ Classroom Resources

⚬ Timeline of Chinese Inventions [PDF]

⚬ China's Gifts to the West [PDF]

⚬ Chinese Ideas in the West [PDF]

⚬ Emperors and Reign Periods [PDF]

⚬ Bibliography of related reading

For Teachers: Lessons

Rethinking the rise of the West: Global Commodities

Konstantin Georgidis, Canterbury School, Ft. Myers, Florida

INTRODUCTION

Focus Questions

  1. What economic, technological, demographic and ecological forces created the first truly global network of trade in the 16th century?
  2. How can historians reconstruct the past by tracing the exchange of particular commodities (such as silver)?

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