I. The Cultural Revolution

Film: The Blue Kite

Red Scarf Girl, Ji-Li Jiang

Spider Eaters, Rae Yang

Colors of the Mountain, Da Chen

China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution, Da Chen

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie – Film: The Road Home

II. 1980’s China: Post-Mao

Film: The Blue Kite

Sounds of the River, Da Chen

Red Azalea, Anchee Min

III. 20^th Century China

Film: To Live

Wild Swans, Jung Chang

Diary of a Madman, Lu Xun

IV. Women in Japan

Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden – Film: Raise the Red Lantern

V. The Meiji Era

Film: The Last Samurai

Kokoro, Natsume Soseki

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, Yukichi Fukuzawa

VI. Japanese Occupation of Korea

Lost Names, Richard Kim– Film: Tae Guk Gi

VII. Korean War

The Bridge at No Gun Ri, Hanley, Choe, and Mendoza – Film: Tae Guk Gi

VIII. WWII Japan

Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang– Film: Red Sorghum

Hiroshima, John Hersey – Film: Rhapsody in August

Plague Upon Humanity, Daniel Barenblatt – Film: Red Sorghum

The Girl With the White Flag, Tomiko Higa – Film: (1) Grave of the Fireflies and (2) Spirited Away

Harp of Burma, Michio Takeyama – Film: Empire of the Sun

IX. Tibet

My Land and My People, The Dalai Lama – Film: Seven Years in Tibet

X. Baseball in Japan

Film: Mr. Baseball

The Samurai Way, Robert Whiting

The Chryanthemum and the Bat, Robert Whiting

You’ve Gotta Have Wa, Robert Whiting

XI. Tokugawa Japan

Film: The Last Samurai

Shogun, James Clavell

XII. Contemporary Japan

Film: Spirited Away

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor, Norma Field

Japan Unbound, John Nathan

XIII. General China

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan – Film: Raise the Red Lantern

China Wakes, Nicholas Kristoff and Cheryll WuDunn – Film: Farewell My Concubine

Tai-Pan, James Clavell – Film: The Last Samurai

XIV. Education

Film: PreSchool in 3 Cultures + Field Experience Preschool in 3 Cultures, Tobin, Wu, and, Davidson

Japanese Lessons, Gail Benjamin

XV. Buddhism

Film: Seven Years in Tibet

Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse