solved 1.Among many stories from pre-modern China that we have read

1.Among many stories from pre-modern China that we have read in this class, torture is almost always presented as an integral part of crime investigation on the part of the authorities. There is only one story in which torture is explicitly criticized for its being used to get coerced confessions from the accused and where it eventually leads to the innocent being wrongly executed while the actual perpetrator is allowed to get away. However, even in this story, the author sometimes seems to have also accepted torture as an acceptable means of interrogation. Please go back to read these stories where torture is mentioned (especially that story where torture is also criticized at the same time) to describe the reasoning for and/or against torture and, especially, the possible reasons for the “contradictory” attitude toward torture in that particular story 400word.2.In the anthology, both “Han Wu-niang Sells Her Charms at the New Brideg Market” and “A Henpecked Judge Who Loses a Governorship” are grouped in the section titled “The Femme Fatale.” However, there are many subtle details in both suggesting that the male protagonists themselves have made serious mistakes due to factors that are not directly associated with the influence of “fatal women. Please explore how these details contribute to the subversion of the apparent message of these two stories, namely, women are the source of disasters. 400 word.3.1. Both “New Year’s Sacrifice” and “When I Was in Hsia Village” are told by a first-person narrator. Both are about what witnessed and heard about by a narrator, who is a well-educated intellectual visiting a village in countryside. Discuss the differences between the two narrators’ relationships with the respective main female characters in these two stories in terms of “distance” and “understanding”. What are the possible roles played by the gender of each narrator?2. Both “Hands” and “The Family Outsider” are told from the perspective of a child. Discuss how the apparent age differences between these two “child narrators” impact the ways these two stories are being told. (max 500 words)4.Spring Silkworms” is about how Chinese peasants struggled during a historical period when China’s door was forced open and China’s domestic economy was shaped by the “imported.” 1. describe how the “foreign” was shaping the lives of these peasants in their daily life. 2. Why for these peasants “raising silkworms” was almost a “religious rite” and why has the author implicitly expressed admiration for such “sacredness” that is often associated with nature during a time when China was being invaded by foreign technology? (max 400 words)