19 Apr 2023
School
Department
Course
Professor
Jennifer Jung-Kim
IAS 33 (Winter 2023) Midterm exam 1
Please download this Word document, write your answers on the document, and upload a Word file or PDF to the
Assignments section of Bruin Learn. Note: Pages does not work well with Bruin Learn, but Google Docs should work,
especially if you upload a PDF.
The midterm is due in the Assignments section of Bruin Learn by 11:59 pm on Sunday, January 29. You have
more than a week to complete the assignment, but please keep track of your progress throughout the week. If you
need a 24-hour extension, please email the professor before the deadline.
If you have any questions, please ask Dr. Jung-Kim in class, student hours, or by email to [email protected].
I. Factual questions (you can look online for the answers so your answers must be free of typos)
Just in case there are any changes before the exam is due, please go by data as of Saturday, January 21, 2023.
What is the current capital of each country? Who is the political leader of each country? Please give full names, their
key title(s), and their political party affiliation. (20 points total)
Current
capital
Political leader
Title
Political party affiliation
Democratic
People’s
Republic of
Korea
Pyongyang
Kim Tok-hun
Premier of
North Korea,
was the Chief
of the
Parliamentary
budget
committee
Full member on the Presidium of
the Politburo of the Workers'
Party of Korea
Japan
Tokyo
Fumio
Kishida
Prime Minister
of Japan,
Minister of
Foreign
Affairs
(2012-2017),
Minister of
Defense
(2017)
President of the Liberal
Democratic Party
A member of the House of
Representatives
People’s
Republic of China
Beijing
Xi Jinping
Chairman of
the Central
Military
Commission,
Paramount
leader of
China (2012),
President of
the People's
General secretary of the
Chinese Communist Party
Republic of
China
Republic of
Korea
Seoul
Yoon Suk
Yeol
President of
South Korea
(2022),
Prosecutor
general of
South Korea
(2019-2021)
People Power Party
Republic of China
Taipei
(Taiwan)
Tsai Ing-wen
President of
the Republic
of China, First
female
president of
Taiwan,
Served as
chair of the
DPP
(2008-2012,
2014-2018,
and
2020-2022)
Democratic Progressive Party
II. Knowledge and analysis questions (20 points each)
Please answer four of the five questions in full sentences, 250-word minimum (about one double-spaced page) per
answer. Instead of just “winging” your answers, please give serious thought to each answer and incorporate relevant
readings. Your answers should be specific enough to demonstrate your understanding and analysis of the key issues.
If you answer all five questions, we will grade the first four, not the best four. On other hand, if you fewer than four,
you will receive a 0 on any missing answers.
You may use notes, books, other readings, or the Internet to answer these questions. But do not cut and paste
segments from the readings or the Internet. Please be sure to cite any borrowed information so as to give credit to
the original source. You don’t need footnotes, but you can just give an in-text citation such as (Lee, 23).
We will compare your answers against ChatGPT answers, so please write your own answers. You can discuss the
questions in a study group, but each answer must be original and we will check TurnItIn reports.
1. How did Japan pursue its own empire-building process, especially in the context of Fukuzawa Yukichi’s
De-Asianization essay of 1885 and Arita Hachihirō’s 1940 piece on the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere? Provide your own analysis of these two proponents of Japanese Pan-Asianism and how Japan’s
position developed over those years, discussing quotes from the two pieces.
2. Referring to the Dikötter and Moeran readings rather than lecture slides, what are some ways in which urban
life changed in early 20th-century China and Japan? Also give your informed analysis of the major domestic
and international political, economic, and social factors that facilitated these changes.
Document Summary
Please download this word document, write your answers on the document, and upload a word file or pdf to the. Note: pages does not work well with bruin learn, but google docs should work, especially if you upload a pdf. The midterm is due in the assignments section of bruin learn by 11:59 pm on sunday, january 29. You have more than a week to complete the assignment, but please keep track of your progress throughout the week. If you need a 24-hour extension, please email the professor before the deadline. If you have any questions, please ask dr. jung-kim in class, student hours, or by email to jungkim@ucla. edu: factual questions (you can look online for the answers so your answers must be free of typos) Just in case there are any changes before the exam is due, please go by data as of saturday, january 21, 2023.
