Thesis requirements - Chinese Culture

1. Thesis Requirements

2. • Genre: exposition
• Words: not less than 2000
• Content: comment on certain aspect of
Chinese culture
• or to make a comparative study of
certain culture phenomenon between
China and your own country
• Your thesis should be based on research
and evidence, or your own experience,
together with your own opinions on it.

3. format
• Overall Appearance: The thesis must
be clear and legible, free of errors,
and attractive in appearance. All pages
must be printed on one side of the
paper only.

4. Organization
• Title Page
• Acknowledgment (optional)
• Abstract, key words
• Table of Contents
• Preface (optional)
• Main Text
• Appendices (optional)
• Bibliography
• Index (optional)

5. • Follow these instructions carefully and,
should further questions arise, consult
Cindy (appleemily@163.com).
• Time of submission:
• afternoon of week 18 Dec.23
• Monitor of each class is supposed to
collect essay of the whole class

6. • Margins:
• Left and right margins: 3.2cm
• Top and bottom margins: 3.8cm
• All text footnotes must be inside these
boundaries. The header and footer are set to
be 3.0 cm from the edges.
• Line spacing: For the sake of readability, it is
recommended that the text of the
dissertation be double-spaced (except for
footnotes, long quoted passages, and lists of
tables and figures, which are single-spaced).
If desired, authors may choose to single space
their dissertations.

7. • Font: For readability, use Arial (12pt),
Georgia (11pt), or Times New Roman (12
pt). For footnotes, citations, figures, and
tables, a font of 8 pt or larger may be
used. Italics may be used for quotations,
words in a foreign language, occasional
emphasis, or book titles. Headings may
be larger.
• Use of Bold, Underlining and Paragraph
Indentation: Spare use of these
formatting features is permitted, in
order to enhance the readability of the
thesis.

8. • Page numbers: Every page has a number,
except for the Title Page.
• For the preliminary pages acknowledgements
(optional), abstract, table of contents, and
preface (optional) –use small Roman numerals (i,
ii, iii, iv, v, ...). Page numbers may be placed at
the bottom of the page.
• For the main text, use Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3,
4, 5 ...) starting with 1 on the first page of the
main text. Page numbers may be placed at the
bottom of the page. Do not print page numbers,
footnotes, or anything else in the margins.
Pages in the main text must be consecutively
numbered, letter suffixes (such as 10a, 10b) are
not allowed.

9. • Title Page: The Title Page must
contain the TITLE of the thesis (in
upper case); the author's full legal
name, hometown and country, year and
major, your academic number and name
of the course (Chinese Culture)
• the logo of the school should be
contained.

10. • Abstract: The Abstract is a summary
of the thesis that should not exceed
200 words. All words count towards the
total. The abstract, which is typically a
single paragraph, consists of four parts:
the statement of the problem; the
procedure and methods used to
investigate the problem; the results of
the investigation; and the conclusions.
The abstract contains the part of key
words which should be placed below the
main body of the abstract.

11. • The reference list is in alphabetical order
by author, and multiple works by the same
author are in chronological order. In the
bibliography, there are no quotation marks,
no underlines, and no italics. Only the first
word of an article title is capitalized. Book
and journal titles take normal initial
capitals.