This essay extends the debate over whether “shequ jingwu” should be regarded as an imported term of “community policing”, or in nature repetition of long-term Chinese policing practice. This study uses a local community ...

This dissertation examines factors (verb bias and plausibility) that influence reanalysis processes in native and non-native processing of English and Mandarin garden-path sentences (Chapters 2 and 3) and the relationship ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the Chinese government blocked Facebook in 2008 and Twitter in 2009 in mainland China, perspicacious Chinese Internet service providers have invented alternative social media platforms. Sina Weibo is one of them. ...

I explore the process by which the Qianlong emperor, who ruled China from 1736 to 1799, and his officials attempted to consolidate the political legitimacy of the Manchu ruling house over the Han Chinese populace through ...

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 ...

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 ...

Incorporating gender as a category of historical analysis, this article will take a look at the debate on the symbolic meaning of women’s fashion in early-twentieth century China. Women’s fashion has been perceived as an ...

As an integral part of the Chinese Buddhist exegetical tradition, introductions in Qixinlun commentaries introduce their treatise by asking a set of fully established questions that are commonly asked in almost all exegetical ...