Any topic (writer’s choice)

Your paper should be based on your own analysis of the primary source readings.
Give the paper a title, centered, underlined, and place it just above the first paragraph.

The 1911 revolution radically ended the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the last empire of China, and led to, as many intellectuals hoped, a new and modernized country. Lu Xun (Lu Hsun), as a critical thinker who lived during this period, observed and experienced the political, social, and cultural transformations. As you saw from his stories, Lu Xun felt himself to be part of a new culture/society but founds himself living in a culture/society that was old. In this paper, use Lu Xuns stories (The New Years Sacrifice, My Old Home, and Regret for the Past), to discuss the impact of the 1911 revolution on Chinese society. You need to identify at least three contradictions/changes/problems that the revolution brought to China.  These contradictions/changes/problems might be relevant to the issues such as urban-rural differences, gender and family relations, Chinas traditional ideology, class differences, the gap between ideal and reality, and etc. You need to locate three or more scenes from Lu Xuns stories and use them as evidence to support your points. You should plan to summarize the scenes and quote directly from the stories, using footnotes to cite your evidence.

Footnote your quotations and your use of information or ideas derived from any other writer. Your first citation to a source should provide the author’s full name; the full title of his or her work; and (for published books and articles) the place and date of publication; and the specific page or pages. In subsequent citations of that source you need use only the author’s last name, a brief version of his title, and the page number.
NOTE: please locate your footnote number at the end of a sentence, not in the middle.