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NCTAsia

@NCTAsia_

Professional Development about East Asia for K-12 Educators

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Joined February 2014
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Our producer @onlywon @larissalam are going to be featured speakers at #NCSS2023 Dec 1! Who else will be there? #sschat #teachertwitter #edchat
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📣 #ICYMI: Baldwin Chiu is coming to #NCSS2023! Whether you know him from his award-winning work in film production or from his hip-hop career as @OnlyWon, you will not want to miss his insights in #Nashville. ➡️ hubs.li/Q023jXTl0 #teachertwitter #hiphop @fareastdeepso
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Wow! "Dragonfly Eyes" (by Cao Wenxuan, tr. me, @candlewick) receives 2022 Freeman Of Note Award for Young Adult/Middle School Literature. Congratulations to @MichelleRReader, @YCompestine and @MatulaChristina!! The 2022 Freeman Book Award Winners: nctasia.org/awards/year/2022…
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Zhixiang, 53, is the abbot of Bao’en Temple in Shanghai’s Fengxian District. He’s also responsible for over 9,000 stray cats and dogs. The monk says he’s faced criticism for neglecting his religious duties. But he believes that saving lives is a better way to practice Buddhism.

One Monk, a 500-Year Old Temple, and 9,000 Cats and Dogs

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The Japanese maple trees have been considered a symbol of grace personified for hundreds of years and is associated with peace. The maple trees can also represent balance and are called "kito" in the Japanese language, which means "calm," or "at peace." #SymbolismSunday
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Lee Ki Sik, the commissioner of the Military Manpower Administration, told lawmakers on Friday that it’s “desirable” for BTS members to fulfill their military duties to ensure fairness in the country’s military service. @NBCNews @AP nbcnews.com/news/world/k-pop…
K-pop stars BTS face possible military conscription in South Korea

K-pop stars BTS face possible military conscription in South Korea

Lee Ki Sik, commissioner of the Military Manpower Administration, told lawmakers that it’s “desirable” for BTS members to fulfill their military duties to ensure fairness.

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Pick up a newspaper these days and you may think Beijing is about to invade Taiwan sometime between next Tuesday and, say, 2024. But @JohnCulver689 has spent a lifetime watching the PLA and if war is Beijing's plan, he says, then these would be the signs: carnegieendowment.org/2022/0…
How We Would Know When China Is Preparing to Invade Taiwan

How We Would Know When China Is Preparing to Invade Taiwan

If war is Beijing’s plan, there would be reliable indications that it is coming.

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1/"China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who is expected to gain an unprecedented third term next month as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, believes that “the East is rising and the West is declining” and that “time and momentum are on our side." washingtonpost.com/books/202…
Review | At stake in the U.S.-China rivalry: The shape of the global political order

Review | At stake in the U.S.-China rivalry: The shape of the global political order

Three books explore the endurance of China's Communist Party, its standoff with the United States and its designs for the future.

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Until Xi Jinping's banner term is shortened at the upcoming 20th National Congress, this will be a serious problem for shorter bridges.
Matthew Walsh (@matthewwalsh91) profile pictureMatthew Walsh@matthewwalsh912 Oct 2022
Slogan season in Beijing, and this one in Dongzhimen just rolls off the tongue: “Spare no effort in composing a new chapter of comprehensively building a socialist modern Beijing under the guidance of Xi Jinping thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era.”
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Such great on-the-ground reporting by @vwang3: “For many Chinese, the past few years of the pandemic have stirred the spectrum of emotions from anger to frustration to grief. But the first word many people reach for is helplessness.” nytimes.com/2022/10/01/world…
In China, Living Not ‘With Covid,’ but With ‘Zero Covid’ (Published 2022)

In China, Living Not ‘With Covid,’ but With ‘Zero Covid’ (Published 2022)

The country’s strict coronavirus restrictions dictate the patterns of daily life, like waiting in line for frequent Covid tests and stocking up on extra groceries in case of lockdown.

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What is the global opinion on China? Its image took a "precipitously more negative" turn after Xi Jinping took office in 2013, with Beijing taking blame for the COVID-19 pandemic, its human rights record, military posture, economic policies bit.ly/3y8wpvn @RadioFreeAsia
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Six essential books to help understand how the current crisis in the region known as #Xinjiang emerged. These overlooked, multidisciplinary works, published before the current crisis, range from history to anthropology to political science. #Uyghurs #Centralasia #China #Islam
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Do you spot the little grasshopper? 🌱#SundaySymbolism As a Chinese symbol, the grasshopper offers attributes of longevity, happiness, good health, good luck, wisdom, abundance, fertility and virtue.
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On @SinicaPodcast, @kaiserkuo chats with Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the PRC embassy in Washington, D.C., on topics including Xinjiang, Taiwan, and COVID zero: thechinaproject.com/2022/09/…

Sinica talks to the Chinese embassy in Washington D.C. – The China Project

Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the PRC embassy in Washington, D.C., discusses the pressing questions often asked about China right now — including Russia's war on Ukraine and how (if...

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I don't know what the bag originally contained, but this is a great example of a re-purposed document from Dunhuang.
International Dunhuang Programme (@idp_uk) profile pictureInternational Dunhuang Programme@idp_uk22 Sep 2022
Our Preservation Assistant has been re-housing booklets and concertinas. Among the items getting a new home is this stitched paper bag. The text continues underneath the plain section stitched on top. What could it have contained? 👝 Or.8210/S.5770 bit.ly/3DJ8fLm
A photo of a stitched paper looking like a bag.

ALT A photo of a stitched paper looking like a bag.

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Join us on October 6 (1pm Eastern Time) for the webinar talk, "“Dunhuang at the Crossroads: The Manuscript Evidence” delivered by Dr. Imre Galambos (University of Cambridge), co-hosted by Rice University and the Dunhuang Foundation! Pre-register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Today is the #Autumn Equinox! 🍁, day and night are of equal length, each occupying 12 hours. This 18th century red lacquer saucer dish decorated in gold painting, showing a beautiful land and riverscape centring around four figures enjoying an autumnal day.
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Join us online Thurs 9/29 live from @Dodgers Stadium as we use #baseball to explore Japanese American history & #USJapan relations. Attendees will receive free #lessonplans for #highschool & #communitycollege #teachers.⁠ stanford.io/3Sq3XfX ⁠ #k12 @NCTAsia_ @usc_uschina
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China’s armed forces “have a very large navy, and if they want to bully and put ships around Taiwan, they very much can do that,” Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of the @US7thFleet, said in a @WSJ interview on.wsj.com/3BT1DsB by @NiharikaSM
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The Admonitions scroll @britishmuseum will go on display again soon! #chinesepainting britishmuseum.org/exhibition…
Admonitions of the instructress to the court ladies

Admonitions of the instructress to the court ladies

A masterpiece of early Chinese figure painting, from the fifth to seventh century AD, displayed annually at the British Museum.

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📻 join us for an episode of #CapitalCable on September 22 at 9:30 a.m. EDT, live from NYC! @koreasociety president & CEO Thomas Byrne joins @mwlippert, @VictorDCha, @SueMiTerry for a discussion on #UNGA, biologics and South Korean investment and trade. csis.org/events/capital-cabl…
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