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HIST105: Introduction to East Asian Civilization s, Fall 201 7 Instructor: Dr. Yulian Wu, Email: [email protected] TA: Sarah Paulsen, [email protected] Short Paper # 2 Due 11 /21 (Tue sday ) Please bring a copy of your paper to the lecture. In the meantime, you also need to submit an electr onic copy through SafeAssign on Blackboard before 11:20am on 11 /21 . Please w rite a well -organized essay (minimum 4 pages, maxim um 5 pages) , based on one of the following questions. Your paper should be based on your own analysis of the primary source readings assigned in this course . PAPERS WITHOUT PROPER SOURCE CITATIONS WILL BE RETURNED UNGRADED. PLAGIARIZED PAPERS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY BE REFERRED TO STUDENT JUDICIAL AFFAIRS. If you have questions about how to cite sources, please see below , and ask me or your TA . 1. Ihara Saikaku’s short stories, which were included in This Scheming World , vividly describe the lives of townspeople in seventeenth century (1600s) Japan, demonstrating a process of monetization and commercialization of Tokugawa society. Based on Saikaku’s stories, please answer the following question: did the society that Saikaku depicted follow the notion of ideal society that Confucian scholars portrayed? Some possible issues that you can discuss in the paper could be morality and virtue, social hierarchy, gender relations, and etc. You must draw evidence from the novel (the pri mary source) to support your argument. 2. Pa Chin’s novel Family provides a detailed narrative for readers to understand some of the controversies about tradition and modernity in twentieth century China after 1911 revolution . Based on this novel, please an swer the following question: w as the younger generation dissatisfied with the older generation because the older generation did not live up to Confucian values, or because the younger generation rejected Confucian values? Some possible perspectives that you can take to discuss the characters’ perspect ives on Confucian values could be gender relations, filial piety, hieratical social structure, and etc. You must draw evidence from the novel (the primary source) to support your argument. Format: double space, Times New R oman, 12 Font Examples for references: Example 1 (if you answer the first question ) In the short story titled Golden Dreams , as Ihara Saikaku describe s, the agent stated that “It can ’t be helped, for money runs the world. ”1 [Please see the footnote inserted at the end of this page ] 1 Ihara Saikaku, This Scheming World , 79. Example 2 (if you answer the second question ) In the novel Family , as Pa Chin describes , Ming -feng felt that “there was a wall eternally between them. ”2 [Please see the footnote inserted at the end of this page ] Example s of the complete citation in your reference list (list at the end of your paper): Ihara Saikaku. This Scheming World . Tuttle Publishing, 2005. Pa Chin. Family. Waveland Pr Inc, 1972. NOTE: if you have questions about how to insert footnotes in a Word file, please ask me or your TA. 2 Pa Chin, Family , 217.