The Level 2 Music Student’s Companion By Andrew Stopps Version 2. Copyright 2014 “There are so many people out there who will tell you “You can’t.” What you have…

Slide 1Mao Zedong and the Origins of Communism in China: Lots o’ fun stuff like wars and massacres Slide 2 Kuomintang Originally formed by Sun Yat-sen (also called Sun…

Slide 1 The Historical Roots of the Taiwan Issue Week 2 Slide 2 Week 2: Teaching Outline Taiwan’s Complex History Taiwan’s Return to China (1945) Impact of the Korean…

Slide 1 Introduction to Postwar Taiwan Fiction Unit 9: The Arrival of Modernism Lecturer: Richard Rong-bin Chen, PhD of Comparative Literature. Unless noted, the course materials…

Slide 1 CHINA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION CHINESE REVOLUTION –1911 to 1949 Triggered by disastrous encounters with the West –Opium wars –Failure of Boxer Rebellion Manchu…

Slide 1 INTERWAR YEARS CHAPTER 15 Slide 2 CHINA IN 1911 CHINA’S NATIONALIST MOVEMENT MOVED THEM FROM A MONARCHY AN OLIGARCHY(rule by a small committee) 1917 CHINA DECLARED…

Slide 1 THE COLD WAR READINGS: SPODEK, PP. 725-803 Slide 2 WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR?  Undeclared War between Two Superpowers United States  Democracy  Capitalism Soviet…

Slide 1  Trinidad Carnival Part 2 Slide 2 Bellwork: Define Terms  Harmony: A musical voice that is closely tied to the melody, but remains a secondary part  Tonic:…

Slide 1 Ludwig van Beethoven and the Ninth Symphony Slide 2 Background Born in Bonn, Germany Baptized on Dec. 17 1770 Grandfather was Kapellmeister at court Father sang in…

Slide 1 The People’s Republic of China Slide 2 Chinese Info/Demos Slightly smaller than the United States, very homogenous (92% Han)—but minorities like Tibetans and…