RESEARCH ESSAY ASSIGNMENT

You  must  chose one   topic  from  the  following  list  of  questions  to  use  as  the  basis  of  your  research
assignment s that are   due at the start of  class on  November 14 , 2014   and  December 1,   201 4 .

1 .   Japan :  How was Japan able to recover from its defeat at the end of World War II and why was the USA so heavily
involved in the post- war program in Japan ?

2. Cultural and Intellectual Developments:  Identify an important person or movement within twentieth- century East
Asian culture (in art, science or literature) and show how and why that person or event affected or made contributions
to Modern East Asian history.

3. Korea:  How and why have economic and political differences between North Korea and South K orea outwei ghed
the Korean desire for reunification?

4.   China:   Why  has  China  shifted  course  so  frequently  in  its  post- 1949  quest  for  political  integration  and  economic
growth   and with what consequences for China ?

1
Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History,  7
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edition (Boston: St. Martin’s, 2012), 1.

2 Primary sources+4 secondary sources needed for the essay. Please follow the instruction carefully. https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/tps/1950_ko.htm
choose your primary source from this list or
https://www.exeas.org/links/resource-primary.html

Secondary sources:
https://japanfocus.org/-Barbara-Hogenboom/2611
“From Fiefs to Clans and Network Capitalism: Explaining China’s Emerging Economic Order.”-Max Boisot
“Economic Openness and Territorial Politics in China”-Jane Golley
“China’s Economy after Fifty Years: Retrospect and Prospect”-Thomas Rawski
“China’s Economic Reform: An experiment in Pragmatic Socialism”-Raphael Shen