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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Legal System Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wide Angle video provides an overview of the expansion of the legal system in China as market forces lead to new circumstances requiring legal solutions.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Trust in the Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Citizen complaints demonstrate that China's legal system has not yet fully gained the people's trust in this Wide Angle video.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Chinese Foreign Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
Documents on China's foreign relations, focusing on its relationship with the Soviet Union and the United States.
Activity
Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Communism, Capitalism, and Democracy in China

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity in which students study the elements of communism, capitalism and democracy for a critical analysis of China's former and current economic/political system. Individual, small group, and class participation.
Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Stanford History Education Group: China's Cultural Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan inspiring students to consider what it was like during the Cultural Revolution prompted by Mao Tse-Tung in the 1960's through primary source documents.
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University of Maryland

The People's Republic of China

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers information about the People's Republic of China, which was established in 1949, after the victory of the Chinese Communist Party.