ASSIGNMENT
In this part of your essay, you can be personal, critical, and creative in expressing how the course content and learning experiences influenced or altered your feelings, beliefs, assumptions, or biases about China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture, helping you understand China beyond the “single stories.”It is important to include specific examples drawn from the course content and your learning experiences to explain how your perspective was challenged and/or changed and why, and/or introspectively state your current or new feelings, opinions, or beliefs about that experience.For instance, you may choose a few common stereotypes about China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture you encountered and explain how each one, even if partially accurate, does not represent the entire story.Particularly, you may reflect upon some of the following questions:
- What is the “danger” in these single stories of China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture?
- In what ways do “single stories” impact our own identities, how we view China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture, and the choices we make related to them?
- What can we do to eliminate single stories of China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture from both our lives and the lives of future generations?Can we expect our media to change their course and supply multiple stories in this regard?
