Teaching China: Primary Source Publications

The Enduring Legacy of Ancient China

Primary Source Lessons for Teachers and Students

Both an illustrated teacher’s guide and a textbook, this publication offers a wealth of primary sources and lessons for teaching about ancient China. Ideal for grades 5 through 9, and readily adaptable for high school students.

Highlights include:

• 20 lessons on topics such as early Chinese mythology, Confucianism and other belief systems, family life, the arts, public works projects, and Chinese inventions
• thematically arranged lessons, which can be taught independently or in a sequence that best meets the needs of individual classrooms
• activities engaging students with primary source materials, including learning to read and write Chinese characters, practicing mapping skills, making cross-cultural connections, and writing poetry based on ancient Chinese models
• more than 200 primary sources

Middle and high school  ·  Digital edition  ·  ISBN 9780887275081

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China Since 1644

A History Through Primary Sources

Written by teachers and Primary Source’s curriculum specialists for use with students, China Since 1644 explores China’s captivating history from the seventeenth century to the present. Five units follow the chronology, from a sense of place and people through the Qing dynasty, the struggle to create a unified China, the People’s Republic, and contemporary China.

Highlights include:

• hundreds of primary source documents to foster historical interpretation, document analysis, and critical thinking skills
• rich informational texts for analysis that support the literacy component of the Common Core State Standards for ELA and Literacy in History/Social Studies
• historical background essays by China scholars
• student-focused activities
• a companion website

It serves as a companion to standard world history texts and to courses in world literature, East Asian studies, and Chinese language and culture. The emphasis on document analysis makes it especially valuable for AP and IB courses.

Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor Emeritus at Harvard, called it a timely contribution to preparing Americans for the twenty-first-century world, and credited the teachers who assembled it.

Middle and high school  ·  Second edition, updated and retitled from China in the World  ·  ISBN 9780887279966

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