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• Imagined nation and imagined womanhood in the Shaw Brothers' musicals 

  Chiang, I-In (2016-12-02)

  My dissertation looks at Shaw Brothers’ historical epics and huangmei musicals that dominated the Chinese film market in the 1960s. Shaw Brothers’ historical epics and huangmei musicals often center on female characters. ...

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• Rituals of the enchanted world: Noh theater and religion in medieval Japan 

  Jelesijevic, Dunja (2016-08-11)

  This study explores of the religious underpinnings of medieval Noh theater and its operating as a form of ritual. As a multifaceted performance art and genre of literature, Noh is understood as having rich and diverse ...

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• Shaking dance in the stormy valley: tendai discourse on kami-buddha relations in fourteenth century mount hiei 

  Park, Yeon Joo (2016-09-21)

  This dissertation explores medieval Japanese discourse on the amalgamation of kami and buddhas, particularly as represented in Keiran shūyōshū, a fourteenth century encyclopedic Japanese Tendai text, which presents the ...

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• The effect of instruction on the acquisition of Japanese discourse marker ndesu 

  Kim, Jung Sun (2016-11-29)

  The present study investigated the effects of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of the Japanese discourse marker ndesu by second language (L2) learners enrolled in third- and fourth-year Japanese courses ...

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• A territory of their own: poetic identity and the construction of literary communities in twelfth-century China 

  E, Li (2016-07-12)

  This dissertation examines the conception and practice of poetry in twelfth-century China. It argues that the poets, facing an identity crisis caused by social, political, and institutional changes of the time, engaged in ...

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