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• Exchanging faces: Dubbing foreign films in China, 1949-1994 

  Du, Weijia (2018-03-05)

  My dissertation examines dubbed foreign films, which were the Chinese people’s “window to the outside world” during the Cold War era. Between 1949 and 1994, when Hollywood’s path to China was blocked by Cold War politics, ...

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• Should we pass on “passing women”?: The stakes of (trans)gender ontologies for South Korean namjangyeoja television dramas 

  Strong, Shelby (2018-04-26)

  Scholarship has gendered the protagonists of namjangyeoja dramas, South Korean live-action television dramas that focus on the lives of female-assigned people who pass as men, as “women”. I argue that we must push back ...

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• No time and no place in Japan’s queer popular culture 

  Pahre, Julian Gabriel (2017-07-21)

  With interest in genres like BL (Boys’ Love) and the presence of LGBT characters in popular series continuing to soar to new heights in Japan and abroad, the question of the presence, or lack thereof, of queer narratives ...

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• The effects of working memory and directionality on sentence build-up drill performance 

  Li, You (2017-04-19)

  This study investigated the role of working memory (WM) and input direction in the use of sentence build-up drills (SBD). Thirty Chinese L2 speakers participated in the experiment, which consisted of a SBD test, a R-span ...

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• Negotiating the border in Song China: foreign policy, border management, and border-crossings, 1005-1122 

  Yang, Yi (2017-04-28)

  This thesis discusses the issue of foreign policy, border management, and border-crossing incidents during Song-Liao peacetime (1005-1122). It focuses on one of the earliest borderlines drawn between two great powers of ...

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