http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efBQKHOfW60
This is an educational video clip on Mao Zedong's Communist plans and the Great Leap Forward. Its origin (a limitation) is unnamed other than that it was posted on Youtube by some user, which does not give it much credibility. However, I know some of the facts in it to be true, and it is presented in a manner typical of historical videos (including the voice/words of the narrator and the footage shown), so I am sure it was not produced by some random student or something.
It connects to what we're studying in class since it talks about the Great Leap Forward and events leading up to it, some of Mao's goals, all the private furnaces in China to produce steel, the killing of the sparrows, and the failure of the Great Leap. It enhances our learning by providing audio and visual imagery so I can see how things would have worked and gain a better understanding of the Chinese people's experience in this period. A limitation besides the non-clarity of the origin of this source is that it is only a 5 minute summary of the events, so one cannot learn great detail about it or see a specific example of a Chinese family who owned a mill, etc.
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