H3B-p4_Images_of_Others

Paper #4: Image of the “Other”

How did Europeans view China, India, and the Ottoman Empire? How did those societies in turn view Europe and Europeans? Were there positive aspects of these views, and did these views change over the course of the eighteenth century?

Kokan Shiba, A Meeting of Japan, China, and the West, n.d., prob.late 18^th century

Use your textbook, the image linked below, and the following readings to write an essay analyzing the impressions that these societies had of each other, and the effects those images had on world history.

Abu Taleb Khan, A Muslim Indian's Reactions to the West

Emperor Qianlong, Mandate to King George III

Lord McCartney's “Observation of the State of China,” 1792

Baron de Montesquieu, Excerpt from The Spirit of the Laws

(Image with commentary) Kokan Shiba, A Meeting of Japan, China, and the West

Voltaire, “Dialogue between a Brahmin and a Jesuit” http://www.unz.org/Pub/MorleyJohn-1901v02B-00070?View=PDFPages

Typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides (this is usually the default for most word processing programs), approximately 800-1000 words. Note: before sending the assignment, you must rename the file in the following format: LastnameFirstname-papernumber. Example: JacksonChristopher-paper1. If the file is not properly named, it will not be accepted. Please do not “borrow” material from the web without providing proper citations and enclosing direct quotations in quotation marks. Otherwise, it will be considered plagiarism, and the penalties will be severe.

You must cite your sources, and list them at the end of your paper as a List of References.

Typed, double-spaced, with citations and a list of references (formatted according to MLA style), approximately 700-900 words, to be submitted to the Turnitin website.

For assistance with MLA formatting, consult the Purdue Owl website.

Briefly, references and citations to the primary sources should adhere to the following guidelines:

According to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.), section 5.6.2.c. ("A Work on the Web Cited with Print Publication Data,") you would include the print publication data, and then in addition to that information, you would record, in the place of the concluding word Print, the following information in order:

1.Title of the database or Web site (italicized).

2.Medium of publication consulted (Web)

3.Date of access (day, month, and year).

So the citation would be (Buddha, point 4).

The reference would be

Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. “Sermon at Benares.” Documents in World History. Ed. Peter N. Stearns, Stephen S. Gosch, and Erwin P. Grieshaber. New York: Longman, 2000. Chris Jackson's History. Web. 18 April 2013.

The above reference, like all your references in the list of works cited, would be double-spaced, with a hanging indent.