Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)--a luminary of the Confucian tradition who dominated Chinese intellectual life for centuries. Homing in on a primary concern of our own time, Gardner focuses on Chu Hsi's passionate interest in education and its importance to individual development. For hundreds of years, every literate person in China was familiar with Chu Hsi's teachings. They informed the curricula of private academies and public schools and became the basis of...
Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (113...
Reacting to the Past is a series of historical role-playing games that explore important ideas by re-creating the contexts that shaped them. Students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.
An award-winning active-learning pedagogy, Reacting to the Past improves speaking, writing, and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts and history, and builds learning communities. Reacting can be used across the curriculum, from the first-year general education class to "capstone"...
Reacting to the Past is a series of historical role-playing games that explore important ideas by re-creating the contexts that shaped th...
China's economy has grown remarkably quickly in recent decades and is now the second largest in the world-but prosperity has come at great environmental cost. Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) examines the nature of the country's pollution crisis, the Chinese people's response to it, and the efforts by the state to tackle it.
China's economy has grown remarkably quickly in recent decades and is now the second largest in the world-but prosperity has come at great environment...
