1. Instructions: 2. The due date for this paper is Oct. 14, 2021 @ 10 p.m. Pleas

1. Instructions:
2. The due date for this paper is Oct. 14, 2021 @ 10 p.m. Please submit it as an attachment.
3. The suggested length is 2-3 pages (about 600-750 words).
4. To garner an ‘A’ grade, your paper should have: (1) clear organization; (2) an original thesis that comes from your own thinking; (3) appropriate references to the readings and lectures. No need for long quotations; you can simply refer to a point made in the book by inserting (Mann, p. 123).
1. Topics (Choose ONE of the Following):
2. Although the word “body” does not appear in Ban Zhao’s “Lessons for Women,” one of its key messages is that a good daughter should nurture a body of decorum “in accordance with the rites and proper mode of conduct” that guide her ears, eyes, dress, and everyday activities (Ban Zhao, “Lessons for Women,” ch. 5, 186). Ban Zhao’s concept of the human body is one of qi and channels (Vivienne Lo, “Healing and Medicine,” 152-155), a version of the “One-Sex model” we discussed in our first segment. Training the body into one of correct decorum is how an elite daughter becomes gendered female in classical Confucian formulation.
Ban Zhao did not know of Buddhist ideas about “the polluting nature of female blood” and childbirth (Mann 90). The “Lotus Sutra” appeared in Chinese only five centuries after her times. Imagine that Ban Zhao was reborn in the 10th century and read this popular Buddhist book. How would she have rewritten chapter 5 of “Lessons for Women”?