Reading Responses: you will turn in a reading response paper each based on a critical assessment of ...

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Reading Responses: you will turn in a reading response paper each based on a critical assessment of the week’s assigned readings. Your responses should be typed in 12-point font and 2 double-spaced pages. your interim presentation but does not have to be so. You have three options: (1) a historiographical essay, (2) a keyword essay, or (3) a research paper that draws on primary sources. For the second option, you should choose a “keyword” in Taiwan studies and write an essay describing its importance. Your keyword may come from any of the weekly seminar themes, but this is not a requirement. In fact, this exercise works best the more specific of a concept you pick. How do you see your keyword as describing and reflecting a particular historical moment?