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• Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan 

  Barske, Valerie Holshouser (2009)

  This dissertation examines embodied histories in the production of Okinawa at the intersection of colonialism, gender, and the body in modern Japan. By combining archival research with ethnographic methods, I problematize ...

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• Speech and Nature: An Introduction to the Study of Traditional Chinese Scholarship 

  Andreacchio, Marco Antonio (2008)

  An authentic introduction to the scholarship of traditional China must proceed through an uprooting of the ideological obstacles or peculiarly modern biases ordinarily preventing us from understanding writers of the ...

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• The inherited epidemic: a history of tuberculosis in occupied Japan 

  Albrecht, Bailey (2014-09-16)

  Scholarship on Japan’s Occupation Period (1945-1952) has focused on the ways in which Japan was transformed from an imperial power to a democratic nation. While such work provides valuable information about how the Supreme ...

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• Ambivalent globalizers, vicarious cosmopolitans: South Korean "geese-dad" academics 

  Lee-Chung, Sangsook (2014-09-16)

  ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the shifting subjectivities of contemporary South Korean professors, the most prominent, symbolic group of South Korean intellectuals, focusing on the experiences of “geese-dad” professors ...

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• Healthy realism: paradoxical aesthetics, ideology, and nation- building in Taiwan cinema 1964- 1982 

  Chiang, Mei- Hsuan (2014-01-16)

  This dissertation focuses on Healthy Realist Film Movement (jiankang xieshi dianying) and its influence on Taiwan cinema from 1964 to the rise of New Taiwan Cinema in 1982. Healthy Realism was first introduced to Taiwan ...

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