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(2008)Through careful reading of Shiga's Landscape, this dissertation demonstrates the complex processes of creating a tradition of topographic writings. On the one hand, Shiga's text embodies scientific discourses to explain ...
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(2015-04-21)Unlike phonographic writing systems such as that of English, Chinese has a logographic writing system, in which each grapheme encodes both sound and meaning (Sun, 2006). Thus, Chinese provides a unique perspective for the ...
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(2015-07-21)This thesis discusses the issues of public culture, identities, and law of Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire (1644-1911). It goes beyond current scholarship which focuses on official and elite narratives of Chinese Muslims, ...
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(2020-05-14)This thesis investigates the production of space during the cholera epidemic of 1877 in Japan. Called “choleric spaces” in this thesis, they are separated into two co-constituting types: material and discursive. The material ...
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(2017-04-25)The 1874 and 1898 Siming gongsuo riots were two violent conflicts that occurred between a local commercial guild and the French authority in the French concession in Shanghai. Arguably, these two incidents were the greatest ...
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(2010-05-14)This dissertation investigated whether adult second language (L2) learners of Chinese go through stages when learning to read Chinese characters. A study conducted with preschoolers to 6th graders in China (Chen, 2004) had ...
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(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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(2014-01-16)This study is intended to explore the reasons for the great impact of Gu Tang Shigui in the seventeenth century China through examining this poetry anthology from the perspective of pingdian style commentary. I argue that ...
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Healthy realism: paradoxical aesthetics, ideology, and nation- building in Taiwan cinema 1964- 1982 (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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(2012-06-27)The Liezi is regarded the third of the Daoist classics following the Laozi and the Zhuangzi. Dating from the pre-Han period (ca. 4-5 century B.C.) to the Six Dynasties (229-589 A.D.), the Liezi constitutes a rich collection ...
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(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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(2011-05-25)This dissertation analyzes how women and gender shaped Japanese imperial culture at home by examining fashion and cosmetics in the 1930s and 1940s. In contrast to conventional narratives of Japanese imperial history that ...
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(2017-02-13)The Institute of International Education’s 2012 survey shows that Korean international students in the USA add up to 72, 295 students, including 21,260 graduate students (Institute of International Education, 2013). A ...
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(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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(2004)Interestingly, precisely because of this unsettled nature of the violence---which thus defies any singular narrative that satisfactorily explains the incident empirically---the massacre of Koreans sheds light on the ...
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(2016-07-15)This dissertation explores the transnational and colonial encounters of Sephardic Jews and Chinese in treaty-port Shanghai by examining 1) the Jewish networks of capital, goods, and market; 2) Jewish elites and their ...
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(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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(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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(2015-04-30)This thesis investigates the first major exhibition of American art in China’s reform era, The Exhibition of Important Original Works from the American Paintings Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (referred to ...
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(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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