The Task
Find a map of China on the Internet and
draw a freehand map of China. Then locate each of the
cities/towns/provinces/lakes/etc. on the list below in China and mark
thesesites on your freehand
map. Locating some of these sites will be challenging since the list
identifies the places as they
were spelled during the 1940's and earlier, during the time some of The Joy
Luck Club's characters
lived in China. The more recent spellings of the names are similar to the
original spellings, but
"p's" and "b's" are sometimes reversed, as are
"k's"and "g's," and "ch's" and "sh's"
and "zh's," etc.
On the following list of places to locate and mark on your freehand-drawn maps,
the first two towns'
newer names are in parentheses.
1. Kweilin
(Guilin)
14. Tientsin
2. Chungking
(Chongking)
15. Fukien
3.
Shanghai
16. Shantung
4.
Canton
17. Changsha
5. Burma (neighboring
country)
18. Toishan
6. Nanking
19. Tsinan
7.
Hangzhou
20. Shenzhen
8.
Ningbo
21. Haiphong
9. the Fen
River
22. Kwangsi Province
10.
Wushi
23. Wuchang
11. Shansi Province
24. Tai Lake
12. Peking
(Beijing)
25. Kunming
13. Hong Kong
Keep your maps and use them as reference
for the geographical names you will find in the novel as
you read. Many places where the characters lived and visited are listed.
Use the following web sites to help you:
1. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/china.html#country.html
2. http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/asi_chn/cnt/china_mg.html
(Map of China that shows
cities and rivers)
How You Will Be Graded:
Your freehand map of China must:
Taken from <http://lessons.ctaponline.org/~bbrennei/student/studentjoyluckclub).html#activity 1>