Developing a Thesis for a Research Paper on Contemporary Chinese Issues

Suggested Topics for the Research Paper

The thesis focuses your ideas and information for the research paper. Create a working thesis for the research paper by specifying and ordering your categories of information.

 

Below is a list of topics for you to develop your thesis from:

• Contemporary Chinese Politics
• The Sleeping Giant: Becoming the World’s Largest Economy
• Tibet and the Chinese Government
• Environmental Issues In China
• Mao’s Little Red Book
• The Communist Experiment: The People’s Republic of China
• The People’s Republic of China and the Former Soviet Union: Parallels and Deviations of Marxism
• Censorship and Social Currency China
• One Child Policy: Population Control and Modern China
• Human Rights and China
• Made in China: A Production Phenomenon
• The South China Sea: An Exploration
• Cross Cultural Competency: Business Interactions in China
• 6-4:The Tiananmen Square Incident
• The 2008 Olympics: China Welcomes the World
• China in Africa 
• The Chinese Exclusion Act: The Migration of Chinese Workers and Western Response
• The Boxer Rebellion
• The Silk Road and Chinese Culture
• China and the Opium Wars
• Modern Chinese Art
• Confucius and Chinese Philosophical Impact on the Modern World
• China and Space Exploration
• China: A Geographic Analysis
• Sino-Vietnamese War 1979
• Three Gorges Dam: The World’s Largest Hydro Electric Power Source
• Buddhism and Modern Chinese Culture
• Falun Gong: Modern Chinese Spiritualism
• Traditional Gender Role Structures in the Chinese Family
• The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
• Legacy of Mao’s Policies
• Thucydides Trap

Note: the above are suggested topics only. In researching these topics, sources provide information that informs your thesis, the thesis ideas should be your own, particular to your personal way of thinking about and analyzing a topic. Your thesis should answer a question about the topic. 

Your thesis needs to be an analytical or argumentative one as opposed to a factual or descriptive one.