Moore / Wendelken Teaching the Silk Road

A Guide for College Teachers
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3104-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Asian Studies Development

Advocating a global as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective in the college classroom, discusses why and how to teach about China's Silk Road.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Jacqueline M.

Wendelken, Rebecca Woodward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction
Morris Rossabi

I. Disciplinary Approaches to the Silk Road

1. Weaving with Silk: Using the Silk Roads to Organize World History Surveys before 1500
Masako N. Racel

2. How to Use the Silk Roads in the European History Survey Course
Marybeth Carlson

3. The Silk Road and Chinese Identity, Past and Present
Robert W. Foster

4. Silk Road Studies in the Political Science Classroom
Rick Parrish

5. Teaching the Silk Road in Comparative Politics
Gang Guo

6. Art and the Silk Road
Joan O’Mara

II. Thematic Approaches to the Silk Road

7. Incorporating Nomads into the Curriculum, One Steppe at a Time
Ronald K. Frank

8. Philosophical Refl ections on National Identity
Tongdong Bai

III. Practicalities

9. Silk Roads, Service Learning, and Mythmaking
Hirsh Diamant

10. Taking Students along China’s Silk Road
Marcia J. Frost

11. Mapping the Silk Road
Rebecca Woodward Wendelken

12. Using Primary Sources to Teach the Silk Road
Jacqueline M. Moore

IV. A Personal Perspective

13. Flashes at the End of the Sky—My Personal Khotan on the Silk Road
Zhang He

About the Authors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jacqueline M. Moore is Professor of History at Austin College. She is the author of several books, including Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865–1900. Rebecca Woodward Wendelken is Associate Professor of History at Methodist University.