I have made a selection of the original activities that I developed as a Graduate Student Instructor for Chinese Politics at the University of Michigan available here. Please feel free to use and build on them!

Activity	Objectives
Three Principles of the People	Understand Sun Yat-sen’s political theory, especially how he conceived of democracy and the concept of a vanguard party, through close reading of a historical text.
Who Lost China?	Analyze why the Kuomintang were defeated on mainland China by summarizing differing perspectives.
Campaign-style Governance	Evaluate the effectiveness of the mode of policymaking employed by the Communist Party.
“Two Whatevers” vs “Practice”	Compare alternative paths that the CCP potentially could have taken and summarize contrasting arguments.
Interviewing Jiang Zemin	Analyze the Chinese leadership’s perspectives on their own political system and democracy.
Stronger Leader, Weaker Party?	Debate the effects of China’s recent political reforms.
Be a Governor	Evaluate how competing priorities create different incentives for policymaking in modern China.
China’s Railway Deal	Understand the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on its neighbors.