CHNS1601

UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY CHINA

Essay (40%)

Write an argumentative essay of 2,000 words in English on one of the following questions. Please make sure that you read the section ‘essay’ in the unit outline, the marking criteria and essay guidelines before you write and submit your essay.

1. China’s encounter with Western powers

2. Economic reform.

3. Environment protection

4. Gender inequality (in the countryside, in education, in government, at the workplace, or at home)

5. Housing

6. Hukou (household registration)

7. Political reform.

8. Population control

9. Rural reform. in the 1980s

10. Social stratification

11. Urbanization

12. Village elections