In this assignment, you are to write a short response paper of at least two (max 3) full paragraphs (with topic sentences, evidence, and analysis) analyzing one or more of Joseph Esherick’s ten theses in light of the first-hand account of the CCP leadership that you read in Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China. Does the account in Red Star help prove any of Esherick’s theses? Does Esherick offer any analysis that delegitimates the account offered by Snow? You are free to take this in any direction you choose, but your argument must be based on evidence from the sources.
In 1995, Joseph Esherick wrote his article “Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution” in response to what he saw as an oversimplified debate about…