1. TANK MAN AND MODERN CHINA ESSENTIAL SKILL: C-4 ASSESS INFORMATION AND DRAW CONCLUSIONS Take a worksheet from the front of the room

2. WHERE DO WE SEE MAO TODAY IN CHINA? IMAGES OF MAO IN CHINA IN NEW CHINESE HISTORY TEXTBOOK HOWEVER, MAO IS MENTIONED IN ONLY A FEW SENTENCES. THERE IS ONE SENTENCE ON CHINESE COMMUNISM BEFORE ECONOMIC REFORMS OF 1979 “THE NEW HISTORY IS LESS IDEOLOGICAL, AND THAT SUITS THE POLITICAL GOALS OF TODAY.”

3. TANK MAN

4. CHINA’S PROBLEMS

5. 7 out of 10 of the world’s most polluted cities are in China.

6. CAUSES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION INADEQUATE PUBLIC AWARENESS INSUFFICIENT GOVT. MANAGEMENT HIGH POPULATION DENSITY

7. Beijing europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/ east/12/10/beijing.pollution

8. WATER FACTS: CHINA LESS THAN 20% OF MUNICIPAL WASTE WATER IS TREATED NEARLY 85% OF CHINA’S CITIES ARE SHORT OF CLEAN WATER Wuhan, Hebei province: A man collects dead fish in Donghu lake, where officials say an estimated 30,000kg of fish have been killed by a combination of pollution and hot weather

9. Chinese bottle collectors navigate through a trash infested canal in Beijing on Monday June 26, 2000. Environmental concerns are being neglected as China attempts to emerge into an industrialized nation. According to statistics, all of China's major freshwater lakes are polluted. (AP Photo/Chien-min Chung)

10. Solid Waste

11. Soil erosion Deforestation Burnt trees in Yunnan, China. Ecosystem Damage Flooding

12. Desertification Making deserts out of once lush forests, dust storms can reach the western US blanketing from Canada to Arizona with a layer of dust Results of a sandstorm Su's almost-buried house is nowhere near the heart of China's rapidly encroaching deserts. It is just 160 km north of Beijing. http://www.gluckman.com/ChinaDesert.html http://www.truehealth.org/climnw04.html Ecosystem Damage

13. WHO IS TANK MAN-DOES IT MATTER?

14. IN THE CENTER OF TIANANMEN SQUARE… “For us, Mao ZeDong is the founder of our country. We deeply admire him. He lives in our hearts”

15. Test Updates Test Tomorrow –Multiple Choice, Matching, and Short Answer –Cold War, India (Gandhi and Modern), and China (Mao and Deng) –Focus on your notes AND annotations (act like notes) –Special emphasis on each leader that we discuss and their goals/styles