Visualizing Cultures (website)

The curriculum on the website for the Canton Trade unit won the 2011 Franklin R. Buchanan prize from the Association for Asian Studies for "best curricular materials concerning Asia.

"[1] The New York Times described the site as "a kind of virtual museum in its own right, an addictive and visually stunning one not just for scholars but for anyone with even a casual interest in Japan and China and their economic and cultural interplay over the last 300 years."

The post sparked a campus-based protest led by Chinese students, who argued that the purpose of the project was not sufficiently clear to contextualize the negative messages of the historical images on the site.

[citation needed] H-Asia, an international history and online discussion forum of scholars and teachers in the Humanities & Social Sciences, published exchanges and debate upon how it should be handled.

[10] In 2015, Winnie Wong and Jing Wang edited a special issue on the debate seen in the larger critical context, reflects upon the events from multiple perspectives.