Write a roughly three pages double spaced essay for Medium by James Millward 

Write a roughly three pages double spaced essay for Medium by James Millward that you were assigned argues that there are certain flaws in many standard accounts of the Chinese history, particularly of the last five hundreds years or so. Write about how his criticism can be applied to the textbooks (The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China), the lengthy Pacific Century video (“The Two Coasts of China”) you have watched, and at least one other video or one of the audio interviews we have used in class. Try to be as specific as you can be and feel free to say that one of the texts you are discussing avoids falling into the trap Millward describes when dealing with some events or processes but fails to avoid them in other cases. You do not have to deal with the whole period that the class has covered so far. You could, for example, focus most of your attention on different approaches to a single decade (that of the first Opium War, for example, or that of the early part of the Qing era). This is not a research paper, so there is no need to look for other materials.