Videos
This is an educational channel designated for learners and educators, from the 1990 Institute's Voices, Visibility and Vision video program. The playlist contains original short videos of 3-15 minutes focused on factual and researched information to highlight different aspects of Modern China and US - China Relations. Each asset is accompanied by a reference page with curated external sources of information and lesson guide.
An exploration of China, her people, her past and her present. Four- 60 minute episodes that is a cop-prodcution of KQED and Granada Television, cover perspectives ranging from those of the powerful to the powerless, the scholars and the uneducated, and the supporters and detractors of today's China. It does not shy away from China's many contradictions, with scenes from some of the most breathtaking places on the planet as well as the most polluted. With a section for Educators with Lesson Plans.
Websites
China Institute is the oldest bicultural, non-profit organization in America to focus exclusively on China. The Institute is chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York as a school of continuing education, and its School of Chinese Studies, founded in 1933, is the oldest educational center of its kind in the United States.
Non profit pofessional association open to all persons interested in Asia and the study of Asia.
An initiative of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels.
An online magazine published by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, dedicated to promoting an informed, nuanced, and vibrant public conversation about China, in the U.S. and around the world.
The mission of the 21st Century China Center is to produce and disseminate impactful evidence-based research about China, and to enhance U.S.-China mutual understanding by advancing scholarly collaboration, convening policy discussions, and actively communicating with policymakers and the general public in both countries.
The 21st Century China Center is committed to preserving academic freedom and scholarly independence in all its activities. The center makes independent decisions on all aspects of its programs, and protects the intellectual integrity and nonpartisan nature of its research, publications and policy projects.
Committee of 100 members are Chinese American pioneers in their respective fields across the arts, sciences, technology, business and finance. The Committee of 100’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of:
Promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community;
Advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China.
Connect China by Reuters
This website tracks and visualizes the people, institutions and relationships that form China's elite power structure. Launched in February 2013, the app provides deep insight into China’s new generation of leaders and features the best of Reuters’ coverage in data, text, photos and video.
From 2016 to 2023, it published an extraordinary range of China-focused articles, podcasts, interviews, and videos.
The USC U.S.-China Institute informs public discussion of the evolving and multi-dimensional U.S.-China relationship through policy-relevant research, graduate and undergraduate training, and professional development programs for teachers, journalists, and officials. It produces compelling public events, widely-viewed documentary films, and the popular magazine US-China Today. USCI was established in 2006 as a university initiative. Its creation was first announced in Beijing during a Board of Trustees trip to China. In the fall of 2011, USCI became part of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, whose programs include those on public diplomacy, new Chinese media, economics reporting and health journalism.
USCET promotes US-China relations by strengthening mutual understanding through conferences, exchanges, and seminars. We focus on partnering with Chinese higher education institutions that carry out research in American Studies and teach China’s next generation about the U.S. By helping develop a better understanding of America, our programs lay the groundwork for more trusting and informed relations in the 21st century.
National Committee on U.S. China Relations
NCUSCR non-profit educational organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States between citizens of both countries. Its U.S.-China Essentials a must ave resource for all those who like to understand U.S. - China relationship and information.
From 2018-2020, the Brookings Global China project produced one of the largest open source diagnostic assessments of China’s actions in every major geographic and functional domain. Brookings is now launching Phase 2 of the Global China Project which builds upon the research and analysis of the first phase, and shifts toward prescription, focusing on advancing recommendations on how the United States should respond to China’s actions that implicate key American interests and values.
China by Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
The China Power Project by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) seeks to provide an in-depth understanding of the evolving nature of Chinese power relative to other nations.
A platform published by the Carter Center, featuring articles and interviews on topics related to US-China relations.
Podcasts
Has several channels of podcasts from economics, geopolitics to women's issues and tech start ups.
This series features brief discussions with leading China experts on a range of issues in the U.S.-China relationship, including domestic politics, foreign policy, economics, security, culture, the environment, and areas of global concern. For more interviews, videos, and links to events, visit our website: www.ncuscr.org.
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.
Inside China by the South China Morning Post takes a deep-dive into a specific topic, mixing independent reporting and exclusive interviews to bring insights into China.
Books
History of the Two-Centuries-Old Relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the Present Day. From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap for Chinese tea, and the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns---rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment---were set in motion hundreds of years earlier. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important relationship between any two countries in the world.
Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked - Amazon
China and America are world powers without serious rivals. They eye each other warily across the Pacific; they communicate poorly; there seems little natural empathy. A massive geopolitical contest has begun.
America prizes freedom; China values freedom from chaos.America values strategic decisiveness; China values patience.America is becoming society of lasting inequality; China a meritocracy.America has abandoned multilateralism; China welcomes it.
Kishore Mahbubani, a diplomat and scholar with unrivalled access to policymakers in Beijing and Washington, has written the definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship, a clear-eyed assessment of the risk of any confrontation, and a bracingly honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses, and superpower eccentricities, of the US and China.
China has held a special place in the American imagination from colonial times, when Jamestown settlers pursued a passage to the Pacific and Asia. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans plied a profitable trade in Chinese wares, sought Chinese laborers to build the West, and prized China’s art and decor. China was revered for its ancient culture but also drew Christian missionaries intent on saving souls in a heathen land. Its vast markets beckoned expansionists, even as its migrants were seen as a “yellow peril” that prompted the earliest immigration restrictions. A staunch ally during World War II, China was a dangerous adversary in the Cold War that followed. In the post-Mao era, Americans again embraced China as a land of inexhaustible opportunity, playing a central role in its economic rise.
Through portraits of entrepreneurs, missionaries, academics, artists, diplomats, and activists, Chang demonstrates how ideas about China have long been embedded in America’s conception of itself and its own fate. Fateful Ties provides valuable perspective on this complex international and intercultural relationship as America navigates an uncertain new era.
Teachers Resource Websites
The Choices Program creates engaging educational resources and makes innovative scholarship accessible to diverse classrooms. Choices curriculum empowers students to understand the relationship between history and current issues while developing the analytical skills to become thoughtful global citizens. (Paid lesson plans).
East Asia National Resource Center by Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. A resource guide for educators, researchers, and students interested in learning about China. It also has the East Asia Hotspots Podcast, which analyzed and explored contemporary politics, policy, and society in East Asia
This award winning news source provide resources, strategises and ideas for teaching for both teachers and students, using Times content- articles, essays, images, videos, graphics and podcasts - as teaching tools across subject areas.
SPICE lesson plans and teaching resources leverage the best Stanford scholarship to promote student inquiry, empathy, critical thinking skills, and multiple perspectives, and to foster global understanding. Our top-rated teaching materials bring the world alive in your classroom. Lesson plans for Middle and High School Students. (Paid lesson plans).
The USC U.S.-China Institute informs public discussion of the evolving and multidimensional U.S.-China relationship through policy-relevant research, graduate and undergraduate training, and professional development programs for teachers, journalists, and officials.
Book Awards and Book List for Children and Young Adults
Freeman Book Award, honoring East and Sourtheast Asian Titles for Children and Young Adults, The National Consortum for Teaching about China
In 1998, Columbia University, the Five College Center for East Asian Studies, Indiana University, the University of Colorado and the University of Washington joined forces to create The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA). Its goal, which remains today, “to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about East Asia in elementary and secondary schools nationwide.”
Asia Society established the Bernard Schwartz Book Award in 2009. The Bernard Schwartz Book Award was an international award recognizing nonfiction books that provide outstanding contributions to the understanding of contemporary Asia and/or U.S.-Asia relations. The award was designed to advance public awareness of the changes taking place in Asia and the implications for the wider world, and to raise the profile of authors making a meaningful contribution to this dialogue.
a new online publication of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations and The Wire China. The China Books Review is a digital magazine that publishes insightful, intelligent commentary on all things China books-related. We are a literary review for all general readers interested in China and the Sinophone world, covering politics, history, society, culture and fiction.
English Language News Media on China
Caixin Global is part of China's most influential financial media group, Caixin Media. The Caixin newsroom is recognized as a producer of independent, investigative journalism in China, and an indispensable source of information for investors, business leaders, policy-makers, and academics.
The most quoted English Language News source about China. is an authoritative provider of information, analysis, comments and entertainment to global readers with a special focus on China.
上海日报, Pinyin: Shànghǎi Rìbào. Launched on October 1, 1999, Shanghai Daily is the first full-color English daily newspaper in the Chinese mainland and an indispensable source of information for English-language readers who want to explore and understand Shanghai and China. Its comprehensive business and Shanghai news is frequently reprinted and cited by overseas media.
Since its launch, Shanghai Daily has achieved several “firsts” contributing to China’s international communications: the first English daily newspaper on the Chinese mainland with a Sunday edition; the first Asian newspaper on Kindle; and the first newspaper ever to win the Asian Media Website Award conferred by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
this is a Sinaporean daily Enlighs-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust. It is the most-widely circulated newspaper in the country and has a Signiant regional audience. They currently have 16 bureaus and special correspondents in major cities worldwide, this is a good source to provide another perspective on China and Asia from a regional source publication.
SCMP, with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.
An online publication that produced informed and insightful content on contemporary China. Published by Shanghai United Media Group.
The Taipei Times is the only printed daily English-language newspaper in Taiwan. The Taipei Times covers the entire spectrum of life in Taiwan, from politics and business to travel, arts and culture and the people and issues that shape our world.