China’s Encounter with the West

A History Institute for Teachers

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Saturday and Sunday, March 1–2, 2008

Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Sponsored by

The Wachman Center at the Foreign Policy Research Institute

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program

China’s rapid economic development — made possible in part by institutions and policies it implemented based on its two-century encounter with the West — has led to its emergence as a great power. The PRC’s interaction with the West — and the U.S. especially — has become and will remain a central concern of international relations. FPRI’s Wachman Center is therefore pleased to cooperate with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program in sponsoring a weekend-long History Institute for Teachers that will provide teachers cutting-edge scholarship on the origins and current state of China’s encounter with the West.

Conference Report

Topics and Speakers

China’s Earliest Encounters with the West
Andrew Wilson, US Naval War College
Read China’s Early Encounters with the West: A History in Reverse, FPRI FootNotes, 4/2008
Video/audio
Political Ideas in China’s Encounter with the West
Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin
Video/audio
Economic Influence in China’s Relations with the West
Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
Video/audio
Economic Influence in China’s Relations with the West, FPRI FootNotes, 8/2008
Teaching About China and the West
Lucien Ellington, Director of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program; Editor, Education about Asia; and Senior Fellow, FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund
Paul Dickler and James Sanzare, Senior Fellows, FPRI’s Wachman Fund
Video/audio
China and the West in Historical Perspective
Warren I. Cohen, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Video/audio
Read China and the West in Historical Perspective, FPRI FootNotes, Warren I. Cohen, 4/2008
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China’s Relations with the West
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Georgetown University
Video/audio
Read Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China’s Relations with the West, FPRI FootNotes, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, 5/2008
China’s Legal Learning from the West
Jacques Delisle, Director, FPRI Asia Program, and Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Video/audio
Read China’s Legal Encounter with the West, FPRI FootNotes, 6/2008
The 2008 Olympics and China’s Encounter with the West
A Roundtable Discussion
Video/audio

Classroom Lessons

MacArthur, Ping Pong and Diplomatic Ambiguity: Avoiding a Sino-U.S. War, Craig Perrier (86K Microsoft Word document)
It Could Still Happen: The United States, China and the Possibility of War Over Taiwan, Rusty Eder (71K Microsoft Word document)
China’s Foreign Policy Today, Paul Dickler (52K Microsoft Word document)
The Opium War and Its Impact on Chinese-American Relations, Lynne Wilbanks (52K Microsoft Word document)

FPRI’s History Institutes are made possible by generous support from the Annenberg Foundation. Additional funding for specific programs has been contributed by W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, John M. Templeton, Jr., the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

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