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• The effects of character predictability on eye-movement control in reading Mandarin Chinese texts 

  Li, You (2021-07-12)

  All the major reading theories, which are primarily based on studies of alphabetic scripts, hypothesize that “word” is the basic unit of processing, but there is no consensus on whether this assumption is also true in ...

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• Charitable women from mercantile literati families: women and public culture in late Qing China 

  Peng, Shiyue (2021-07-21)

  My thesis investigates women’s charitable activities in the late Qing period. Founding and operating private organizations or cooperating with the Qing government, the mercantile literati played a major role in public ...

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• Kimono threads: unraveling ontologies, epistemologies, and ethics 

  Rodriguez, Natalya D. (2021-07-19)

  What is kimono? How do we know what we know about kimono, and whose voices matter? Who should (or should not) wear kimono? Repeated protests, social media engagement, and boycotts have underscored the exigent nature of ...

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• Longstanding natives and dispersed minorities: Sino-Muslims, public culture, and identification in Late Imperial China, 1600-1912 

  Zhang, Shaodan (2021-07-14)

  This study examines the process in which acculturated and dispersed Sino-Muslims in late imperial China came to develop a sense of collectivity through participating in a public culture they shared with other Chinese people ...

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• Investigating oral performance on controlled versus spontaneous speaking tasks: Implications for second language pedagogy and assessment 

  Lei, Yuyun (2021-07-09)

  Assessment tasks of second language (L2) proficiency can be loosely classified into controlled and spontaneous tasks. While spontaneous tasks are widely accepted as authentic proficiency instruments, they can be time-consuming ...

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