HIST 802 Fall of the Qing Dynasty: The Self- Strengthening Movement Paper

1. ESSAY PROPOSALWrite a proposal for your research essay of around 500 words.Identify a topic of research, and develop a question that you intend to ask about that particular topic. Include a brief outline of the historiography and wider debates within which your essay will be placed, and explain how your question will fit into these debates. Indicate what primary sources you will be using to answer your question.Include a bibliography of around 10 items.The proposal will be evaluated on:- How effectively it develops a research question- How well the question is integrated into a sense of the historiography and broader theoretical and historiographical issues.- The sources identified to develop the research essay.