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College_girl's avatar

Will someone help me with my history homework?

Asked by College_girl (917points) February 16th, 2012

So I’m having a really tough time answering some of my questions for my history homework and was wondering if someone could help me out.

The questions I still need to answer are
1. Who is the audience
2.What sort of a social construction are they advocating here?

Here is the link to the letter on which the questions are based.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taiping.html

By the way, yes I am trying to do this by myself but I seriously cannot figure these two out.

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College_girl's avatar

Honestly I’m not sure if he is in power at this time. The teacher doesn’t explain anything about it until we have our discussion group which is the same day its due.

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augustlan's avatar

[mod says] Please do not directly answer homework questions. We are allowed to guide the asker in the right direction, but not to actually do the work.

snowberry's avatar

Start by asking all sorts of “W” questions: Who wrote it? Why did they write it? and etc. Once you know that, it will be easier to ask Who the audience is supposed to be.

All historical documents are a bridge between the past and the present. Many of them show a progression of thought in one direction or another. Take a look at where China is now, and ask how this document could be considered a bridge between the past and its present social construct.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Start by stepping back and considering the culture. I have to study your article a bit but let go of any “Western ideas” for lack of a better term and try to think of how a culture that is thousands of years old would view things.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@College_girl I have the answers, but I way underestimated the cultural differences. That’s a huge leap outside of my normal parameters just to get my head around those ideas. Wow. Let me know if you want to hear some of my thoughts. Good luck.

Aesthetic_Mess's avatar

Who are these directions being given to? That would be your audience. Are you allowed to do additional research?
Consider the period this was written in, and research the type of structure described.

College_girl's avatar

@augustlan I wasn’t looking for them to do my work I was looking for some help to be guided in the right direction.

We discussed in it class yesterday. The audience was indeed the people of China.

Also he described it as a sort of fascist society. He also liked my comment of Hun Xiuquan and the other leaders of the Taiping Rebellion aiming for a Utopian type society, but in reality because Christianity was forced onto the people it was really the opposite.

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