After reading the article on this website, pass out the pictures to small groups of students. Have students create a brochure for Beijing to describe the popular spots the girls from the country may see upon arrival. If you don't have students from another country in your class, have the students imagine they were sent to live in a village of China and answer the questions from this perspective. The team visits Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Give them pieces of paper with information concerning their country and their goals.
Students attempt to accomplish their goals and foil their opponents.
Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kaishek and the Kuomintang, and Mao Zedong and the Communists. Create questions that build on the information in this article on the webpage to compare with the film. Have students draft a letter from the point of view of the Emperor to other leaders of the world in the early 1900's making sure the tone of superiority is there. Give students a copy of a map of China and the Pacific Rim and in small groups have them detail out with paper troops the movements between 1911 and 1950 to check for understanding of the article. The team visits Mao Zedong's villa in Wuhan and his mausoleum in Beijing.