URGENT! Debate paper

Dear Students,

Your first debate paper is due on 10/21@16:55pm in class.

This paper is to train you to read secondary sources critically and to think as a historian.

You are going to be reading three articles: Ho Ping-ti 1967, Rawski 1996, and Ho Ping-ti

1998.

The central question debated here is about the success of the Qing. These two authors gave their arguments and provided their evidence. Their arguments were very different.

In this Review/Debate paper, I want you to:

1) accurately summarize their arguments on the success of the Qing

2) enumerate the main evidence/ primary sources they used

3) point out the limitation of their arguments

4) offer your verdict of this debate. (Of course, you can apply all the knowledge you have accumulated up to this point to help you reach that verdict.)

In addition, 5) One term came up a lot in this debate is “Sinicization.” Please make sure to think about this term and look at how these two authors used the term.

I want you to have at least 1 paragraph to cover these 5 important points.

Best wishes,

Yours, Professor Zheng