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Paper Instructions:

Compose a concept review in which you discuss the core analytical ideas and sources of data related to cultural geography appearing in our course readings.  A concept review is not a research paper with a thesis, complex analysis and conclusion. Instead, your task is to identify and briefly discuss core concepts and relevant literature in which the concepts appear. Discuss them from two perspectives:

The overarching idea - these are concept summaries with concise quotes from readings, and
The way the concept has been applied to China - these are context summaries with concise quotes from readings. 
Use at least five (5) academic articles and discuss at least eight (8) concepts.
You should devote about 150-200 words of your own writing (two or three substantive paragraphs) to each concept, and include one or two quotes in which the concept is defined and/or applied. 
The format of the document should resemble an annotated bibliography in that the text is divided into individual entries rather than a continuous paper. 
As you carefully review upcoming course material you will see that the resources you develop in this assignment will be useful in all future unit assignments and your final paper.  You will be adding entries (new concepts) throughout the course.

First draft entries will be assessed according to the following scale:

25% - Composition (clarity of writing, scholarly voice, mechanics, and APA style)

25% - Mastery of concept (understanding in terms of analytical utility)

50% - Concept application (choice of China-related example, insight through application)

See Unit-specific assignment descriptions for additional specifications and/or criteria 

Potential Concepts List

Cultural geography
Geobody
Cartography (map-making, the power of visual representations of locations, boundaries, etc.)
Place
Space
Distinguishing between space and place
Cultural geography
The “Other” (capital O)
Chineseness
Distinguishing between Chinese language terms for Chinese: hua ren, han (han zu), zhong guo ren, and
Collective memory
Public memory (monuments, commemorations, a type of collective memory)
Historical memory (textbooks, anything else that represents the past)
Nationalism (patriotism, ethno-nationalism)
National identity
Nation-state (boundaries, sovereignty, ideal, distinguish between empire and nation-state)
“Imagined community” (well-known concept related to nationalism: Benedict Anderson)
“Invented traditions”, myths (well-known concepts related to national identity)
Culture in/of cyberspace
China’s definition of “National Minority”
Transnational (transnationalism; especially contrasted with globalization)
“Orientalism” (well-known concept related to Western perceptions of the East: Edward Said
“Graduated sovereignty” (well-known concept among Asia scholars related to a weakening of national sovereignty in certain spaces, such as Special Economic Zones: Lisa Lowe)
Cultural tourism (sometimes related to Orientalism)
“Flexible citizenship” (Well-known concept related to nation-states: Aiahwa Ong)