The life and career of Liu Dapeng

Based on your reading of Henrietta Harrison’s The Man Awakened from Dreams: One
Man’s Life in a North Chinese Village, 1857-1942, write an essay discussing the life and
career of Liu Dapeng. Please answer the following questions: How did this gentryman, a
provincial exam degree holder, adapt to the changing world of late-nineteenth and early
twentieth-century China? What did he do in the work place and at home throughout his
lifetime? How did his career path reflect the gentry class as a whole in the transition from
imperial to republican China? What did you learn about Confucianism from this
gentryman’s life and lifetime?