Transcript East Asia - Clayton County Public Schools

Tianenmen Square in Beijing,
largest public plaza in the world
Delivery
“truck”
in
Beijing
How many privately owned
automobiles are there in China?
Zero
Chairman Mao
Tiannenmen Sq.
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek with
Roosevelt and Churchill
World
War II
The “Rape of Nanking” 1937 by
the Japanese
A Japanese
soldier displays a
Chinese head
and the sword he
used to cut it off.
One soldier
beheaded 105 in
one day, a record
The Great Wall
Chairman Deng Xiaoping during
U.S. tour of 1979 and in youth
Deng salutes Lincoln, significance?
A crowded
street in
Taipei, the
capital of
Taiwan
The gate to Chiang’s tomb
The Golden Buddhas of Taiwan
Hanoi
Hue, Da Nang
Ho Chi Minh City
(Saigon)
Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Angkor
Wat, a
Buddhist
temple
built in the
1100’s in
Cambodia
A relief sculpture at
the west entrance
Cambodian boy
Finalists
from the
Miss
Cambodia
pageant
1998
Pol Pot,
Cambodian
communist,
murderer of
3 million
Amputees are a
common sight
in Cambodia
today, millions
of landmines
are still waiting
to explode
when touched
Skulls from Pol Pot’s killing fields
Most of
the
missing
are
presumed
dead.
Vietnamese girls on the way to
school, the traditional white suits
are called . . .
Ao
dais
Tomb in Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Thich Quang Duc’s suicide 1963
A Vietnamese
woman
harvests rice.
Girls take a
pedicab in
Saigon.
Bangkok, the capital
The “Big
Buddha” of
Thailand (100
feet tall)
Floating grocery
stores in Bangkok
Pagoda
Mt. Fuji
Cigarette vending machines
Japanese bullet trains take
commuters to work.
Japanese punks with mohawk
haircuts
South Korea’s
flag
North Korea’s
flag
Seoul, South Korea, 1988
Olympics held here, modern city
Flo-Jo
Canada’s Ben Johnson ran the
fastest 100 meters ever (9.79)
Dried fish for
sale in a Seoul
fish market.
Korean Yin and Yang symbols
Balinese
farmer,
on ox,
playing
flute,
under
umbrella
Rangoon, the capital
Pork on a stick and
fish for sale
Thingyan,
Burmese water
festival
Burmese girls
pour water on
each other
during Thingyan
celebration.
Burmese monks (Theraveda
Buddhism) What possessions
are they allowed to have?
Ulaan Baatar, the capital
Downtown Ulaan Baatar
A three-year old Mongol boy on
horseback, nomadic herders
Mongol family in front of their yurt
Mongol girls
in brightly
colored
dresses
The Sultan
of Brunei,
one of the
richest men
in the world
Sultan, born 1946, became 29th
Sultan of Brunei in 1967
The mosque in Bandan Seri
Begawan, the capital city
Oil-rich Bandar Seri Begawan
Mindanao
Luzon
Luzon, the big
island in the north
Mindanao, the big
island in the south
A cockfight in
Cebu,
Philippines
Steel claws
attached to
feet for
maximum kill