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 ...

This dissertation, “South Korean Golden-Age Comedy Film: Industry, Genre, and Popular Culture (1953 -1970),” examines the socio-cultural and political aspects of comedy films made in South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s, the ...

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 ...

This dissertation investigates the ways in which the literature of the zhiqing generation has contributed an important alternative voice in post-Mao China’s modernity discourse. Zhiqing refers to the millions of urban ...

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 ...

This dissertation explores the work of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong (1762-1836), one of the most influential premodern Korean scholars, as that of an exile. I especially question how Tasan’s long years of exile and the anti-Western ...

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 ...

ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the shifting subjectivities of contemporary South Korean professors, the most prominent, symbolic group of South Korean intellectuals, focusing on the experiences of “geese-dad” professors ...