Topic: Based on your reading of Ge Hong’s Baopuzi, how do you account for the interest and belief in the possibility of attaining longevity/immortality during the period of disunion?
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Topic: Based on your reading of Ge Hong’s Baopuzi, how do you account for the interest and belief in the possibility of attaining longevity/immortality during the period of disunion?
**Period of disunion = period of disunion in ancient china
Instruction: Please write a 1300-1500 word interpretive essay on one of the following topic. Your essay should represent original thinking and be based on close reading and analysis of primary text materials assigned.
Criteria:
1.Your essay must respond directly to the questions posed in your chosen paper topic.
2. Your essay should be based on a close and critical reading of the relevant source material. No outside research is expected or allowed.
3. Your essay is expected to articulate an argument that seeks to persuade your reader of something significant and worth arguing. Essays that merely summarize the assertions in the texts do not satisfy the minimum requirements of this assignment.
No outside research allowed – this is a close interpretive essay of the given text.
