1. YOUR TASK: The job of each group will be to convince the rest of the class that your group is
best qualified to lead the Chinese nation.
A. The first task that each group will take up will be to understand the situation in China, East
Asia and the world at the time specified for the competition: January 1941.
B. The second task you will take up is the policies and political strategies of your group.
C. The final task will be a debate formatputting forward your position and convincing others to follow you. Your audience will include your classmateswho will represent the Chinese people.
Your paper covers A and B and our in-class debate covers C.
2. PAPER (A and B)
A. 1941 SITUATION. As noted above, your first task will be to determine the situation in China,
East Asia, and the world in January 1941.
You should be clear about the state of the war with Japan and the wider World War; you should
understand the position of your own group (the economic and material resources it controls, its
military and political structure, its allies or potential allies) and have a general idea of the
position of your rivals.
B. B. POLITICAL POSITION AND STRATEGY.
Your second task will be to determine what your political position was, and what strategy you
were pursuing. These will inform your debate presentations.
How are you going to compete with, ally with, attract support from, undermine, or destroy your
competitors? The suggested readings should be examined with an eye to answering these
questions. Your group will need to see that each member contributes to this process by reading
and reporting on appropriate material.
I need everyone to write at least one paragraph on the 1941 Situation in China, one paragraph on the
1941 Situation in East Asia and the world, at least one paragraph on the strategies (including ideologies)
you are pursuing, and one paragraph on the resources (including the economic and material resources
your group controls, its military and political structure, its allies or potential allies.)