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UGS 302: Chinese Politics & Society in Film / Lu

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Encyclopedias / background information

Your course readings are only a piece of achieving an understanding of your topic. Broad overviews, like the ones you might find on Wikipedia, help in the following ways:

  • Fill in gaps in your understanding about events, eras, people
  • Provide important avenues of discovery within a topic for identifying controversies and questions
  • Assist in building a stronger search strategy through keyword discovery and areas of expertise to consult

Why use these and not Wikipedia?

Don't frame it as either/or. Think of these resources as more comprehensive and expert entries to build off of what you may have learned in Wikipedia. They are places for digging deeper.

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