China Special

China Special

Forum on China, Answer/discuss the questions below in pairs or trios.

1. How much do you really know about China? Elicit as many pieces of information on China as possible.

2. What’s the difference between The People’s Republic of China & China?

3. What role does China play in today’s world order? What are the implications of the early 2009 Chinese investments abroad (including companies such as Australian Rio Tinto and Brazilian Petrobras)?

4. Look at the picture beside China's flag above. What considerations can you make from it about China?

5. What do you know about the socialist transformation under Mao Zedong (1949–1976)?

6. How do you like talking (or reading) about China?

7. Would you like to visit China? Would you like to live in China?

8. Would you like to learn Chinese/Mandarin? Why (not)?

9. […] Make up a question of your own about China.

Use the references below as a starting point to do research on China. Please, go to other web pages and sources for further information. If you are to do research on one of the topics, please visit the other pages as well: issues are integrated.

[1] History of the People's Republic of China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China

[2] History of China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China

[3] Economy and more

http://www.chinaorbit.com/china-economy/overview-of-the-chinese-economy.html

http://www.chinaorbit.com/ [ ! ]

http://melbourne2.mofcom.gov.cn/index.shtml

http://www.china-un.ch/eng/ljzg/zgwjzc/default.htm

http://www.ggdc.net/Maddison/

[4] Culture of the People's Republic of China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China