COMPARATIVE ESSAY ON MODERNITY IN CHINA & JAPAN

the sources only from the article I provide NO OUTSIDE resource！ please choose TWO readings from China (or Taiwan) and TWO readings from Japan from the document i provide You must cite each reading at least once in the paper. Either direct quotation or paraphrasing is fine. Your response should focus on a specific theme, historical moment or cultural process with regard to modernity in China and Japan. Modernity is seen as a historical category generally marked by characteristics such as decline of premodern beliefs, rejection of tradition, technological advance, and moving from feudalism toward industrialization, urbanization, popular culture, and the development of a nation state, anti-colonialism, representative democracy, public education, individualism, freedom and formal equality. Be sure to have a coherent and well-conceived structure (introduction, thesis statement, body, conclusion), where you back your main points up with examples from the readings and lectures. We recommend that you find a concrete question, problem, contradiction or conflict, which you address in your paper.