Chinese Civilization
This assignment involves writing 5 pages essay analyzing selections from Patricia Ebrey’s Chinese Civilization. Use the link of the book and scroll down to page 18.
On p.18-20 you will find a topical organization of the contents. There are some topical headings relating to different aspects of Chinese historical experience. ( skip filial piety, because I wrote this topic before)
- you should choose one of the primary source selections from the same topical list and analyze what it tells us about that topic, or some subset of it. (For example, a selection on the Tang legal code is under the government topic, but you can focus on examinations or official recruitment rather than the government as a whole.) Questions to be considered:
- Who wrote the selection, when was it written, and why?
- To what extent does the selection reflect particular issues relating to the age (or place) in which it was written, or broader issues spanning different periods or places?
- What impact, if any, does the passage seem to have had?
- If you wish, you can choose two or even three selections from the same topical list that seem to you to be related. If so, you need to consider the questions mentioned above for each of them and describe how the selections are related to each other and how we can learn from them collectively. It could be that the passages make similar arguments but in different ways, or that they reflect very different, even contradictory viewpoints.
In writing your essays, you should give as much supporting detail as you can from the writings that you are discussion. make sure that you cite any sources that you use. For class books that you use, quotations and specific references should be cited a parenthetical citation identifying the source and with page number.
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Every society has its own story on civilization. Civilization could be defined as the evolution of a society from a particular state to another. There are several factors that could be said to constitute civilization the change in the way of governance, societal relations and interactions among others is a good way to define civilization. China’s civilization is well pronounced and this is why it has…
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