Articles tagged with 'china' — 4 found
Adventures in an undergrad history thesis, or, four months with Young John Allen
The fall semester has ended, and with it, the largest writing project of my life (so far). The function of a senior seminar in history is to prove that you’ve acquired the skills to read and analyze scholarly work, do research in primary and secondary sources, and develop your own historical argument– one that contributes [...]
December 11th, 2009My bread-and-butter
Having finished the first half of the semester, I have finished writing one of the two main research papers that have been assigned to me this spring. The first was the easier one, and also the less interesting of the two. The second is the one I turn to now, to focus my attention and [...]
March 8th, 2009A search for words
I haven’t written anything on this Web site in months. It has not been intentional neglect; rather, I have been lacking the inspiration to write. Not even the inspiration– I have a laundry list of things that inspire me every day in my life. And it’s not even that I haven’t been writing; I’ve already [...]
March 2nd, 2009Our “Flat” World: Revelations for an American in China
In The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, journalist Thomas Friedman theorizes that through a series of significant events and developments, the world has become—hence the title—flat. This means the playing field in everything from the availability of information to the producing of software, furniture, and foods had been leveled in [...]
July 19th, 2007