BOOK review The Struggle for Modern Tibet
Project description
I will send instruction later
Paper2
on
The Struggle for Modern Tibet
Topic
:
This paper should address one of the two questions below:
(
please
read
the short essay on critical reading (the last page of your syllabus
)
first,
and
pay attention to the narrator, Tashi Tsering
’
s identity and his perspective on the
topic
.
)
1,
How did Tashi
’
s
view of Tibetan society differ
from that of
the Tibetan exile community
in India? How did this difference affect the approaches ad
vocated by T
ashi and Tibetan
exile community to solve the main problems faced by Tibetans?
2,
What factors influenced Tashi
’
s opinion of the CCP government and its pol
icies in Tibet
from his childhoo
d to
the end of the boo
k? (pay attention to different
social and political
contexts during
different periods.)
Format
:
1,
3
–
4
page
s
, double
–
spaced, time new Roman, 12
–
point
2, provid
ing footnote for your citation.
I
f
the same work appears the second time
following
the previous one,
no need to repeat the name of the author and book title,
the
see the
example
bel
ow
:
Historian Gail
Hershatter
famously claims
“
all socialism is local,
”
1
i
n her study of
rural Chinese women
…
Hershatter also demonstrates that
“
memory is a social
process.
”
2
(
I
nformation
in the foot
note contains the author
’
s name
, the book title, and page number)
3, hard copy, due in class on
July
14
Writing
:
1, This
paper should provide a description of the book
and analyze your own thoughts
on
the topic. It should provide
concrete evidence &
examples
(in the each paragraph
except for
the 1
st
one
and
the
conclusion
)
from
the
Tashi
book
to support your points
. Do NOT
just
mak
e
random &
general
stat
e
ment
.
2, You could
use
other sources
, but
this paper should still focus on the book.
No
more
than
1/5 of the entire paper
for outside sources
.
1
Hershatter,
The Gender of Memory
,
p.
13.
2
Ibid., p. 39.
3
,
Make a
clear argument
in the first paragraph
(short
,
concise)
.
Begin y
our
major
discussion from the 2
nd
paragraph.
4
,
W
rite a topic sentence
(stat
ing what you will address in this
paragraph)
to begin each
paragraph
.
Each passage focuses on one topic
which
is stated in the topic sentence.
5
, M
ake a conclusion in the last paragraph
.