Overview
Prompt: Comparing the three depictions of China assigned for this week (Sun, Chiang, and Mao), which do you find the most plausible and least plausible as an accurate description of reality and as a solution for China’s problems?
Reading:
- Read: Spence, “A Road is Made,” p.279-300 access link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/138z5JDOecQ7RLhMhd...
- Read: “The Dogmeat General” in Ebrey, Chinese Civilizations (1993) (attached)
- Sun Yatsen, “The Three People’s Principles,” in De Bary, et al., eds. Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol 2. 2nd Ed. (Columbia University Press, 1999) (attached)
- Read: Spence, “The Fractured Alliance” and “The Guomindang in Power,” p.301-355. same link as above
- Read: Three Accounts of the New Life Movement,” in Chen et al., The Search for Modern China: A Sourcebook 3rd ed. (2013) (attached)
- Read: MAO Zedong, “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan.” (1927) in Timothy Cheek, ed., Mao Zedong and China’s Revolutions: A Brief History with Documents” (2002) (attached)
Cite from the text you're examining - be specific, page numbers and quotes
you don't have to quote all readings
it's okay to use first person. (eg. I think, I argue etc.)
respond directly to the prompt
Please pay attention to: argument, engagement, originality, structure, mechanics
do not use any outside materials
500 words