The length of the essay should be around 10 pages, double spaced. You can select any topic regarding a Chinese writer, Chinese novel, Chinese school, Chinese cultural policy, etc. To give example, the following are some possible topics (should be only related to Chinese literature, not other countries’):
1. The relationship between politics and writing style in a particular work.
2. A theme in a particular work or a group of work.
3. The treatment of gender in a poetic corpus or in narrative prose.
4. Landscape/nature in novel.
5. Change of literature productive condition and new forms.
6. A close reading of a work or selected works.
7. A prosodic or linguistic analysis of a novel, novella, or a story.
8. New media and new writing style.
Those topics are only for your reference. You can choose to write any topic that is academically valuable. You can refer to other sources but please follow academic formats and avoid plagiarism.
Citation needed.
