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

Summary

Key Terms / Vocabulary

Study Questions

Discussion Questions

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

Standards of Modernity — China and Europe

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

⚬ Classroom Resources

⚬ China's Contributions to the West [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: Teachers' Guide

China and Europe: 1780-1937

Key Terms/Vocabulary

Industrious Revolution
leisure time
consumption
fossil fuels
coal
steam engines
New World
core/periphery
Asian trade boom