Our Asia-Pac class was a lot of fun today!

Instead of the prof giving a boring lecture on the Asian region, we all had to read up on the countries and come to class armed with memorized political, economic, geographic and historical data. We formed 9 groups and competed in rounds of Jeopardy Around Asia. The prof had actually programmed Excel to play the game for us.
We had several categories
- China
- Japan
- Korea
- NIEs (Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan)
- ASEAN (Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia)
And we could pick "answers" worth anything between 100 to 500 points.

It was SO much fun! My group didn't make it to the final round and I usually knew the questions to the answers when it wasn't our group's turn to play...Typical...

The prof also recommended the following reading:
- Gordon, The Modern History of Japan
- Spence, The Search for Modern China
- Fairbank, China
- Eckert et al., Korea Old and New
- Douglas Webber's cases on Indonesia (INSEAD)
- Rodan et al., The Political Economy of South-East Asia