China Essay Outline
Submit a 2 page outline of a paper you could write in response to one of the three essay prompts listed below. You are not writing a paper, you are writing down your outline for a paper. You may draw on sources from any of the attached for this assignment.
Essay Prompts for the Paper Outlines: (follow the prompt for that theme)
It has been an argument of this class that colonialism or imperialism has been a constant and crucial theme of modern East Asian history, even after the period of formal colonialism ended in 1945. Write a short essay analyzing how colonialism has been understood by specific authors in at least three sources from across the twentieth century. How do they identify the features of colonialism or imperialism? How do they assess its impact on their lives or the lives of their compatriots and neighbors? What measures do they advocate (if any) in response?