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ULEC “China Today: Art, Economy and Politics”

Fall 2019

Final Paper Topics

Your End-of-Term Writing Assignment is an opportunity to provide a more extended commentary than what was written through your 1^st and 2^nd paper. You may choose to develop ideas based on your 1^st response paper OR 2^nd response paper. For your final paper, you will write a 6-page essay (double-spaced, Times New Roman font 12) and address the following questions:

In your view, what are the key preconditions of China’s rise as the second largest economy in the world? Would they be rapid urbanization? post-Mao market reforms? or the so-called “China Dream” under the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s leadership? Please give one example as to the most intriguing aspect(s) behind China’s success story as well as the most urgent lesson(s) that China should learn from its own post-Mao experience in the future.

If you choose to use your 1^st response paper as a template, please focus on the issues of social classes and find the link between social classes and the questions mentioned above. If you choose to use your 2^nd response paper as a template, please then focus on the themes of contemporary Chinese art and find the link between contemporary Chinese artists’ works and the questions mentioned above.