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