Assignment: Historical Enquiry

Topic: Chinese Women under the Communist Regime (1949-Now) Research Steps:

1. Read historical narrative in order to have a basic framework of the modern Chinese history.

2. Find original sources: narratives, images, charters..., and analyze them critically by examining their origins and biases in specific contexts of their productions.

3. This assignment must meet the requirements of University creative writing, which should include all skills you learned from the class: how to write an introduction, to form a thesis, to write for changes over a time period or comparison and contract, to use various skills for illustration, to conclude, and to include a reference sheet....

4. Place the issue of Chinese women's liberation in the framework of the communist revolution, and find out what the Chinese Communist Party did and did not do, succeeded and failed.

5. Make an evaluation over the status of Chinese women today, both the progresses and problems.

6. Offer your own views over the controversy: why the government actions helped liberating women, but they alone are insufficient, and what women must do collectively to carry on the liberation mission.

7. Make sure your final version will demonstrate different crafts you have learned from the class.