Write an 800- to 1,200-word research essay that traces the long-term significance of one of the seminal american works
you read in this unit and how it connects to current issues. your purpose should be clearly stated and well-supported by
your research. be sure to consult and properly cite at least three reliable sources of information from a variety of
perspectives. use a balance of direct quotes and paraphrasing.

c. a group of tribes that formed a confederacy

a low four-wheeled open carriage of a kind formerly used in russia.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.