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East Asian Languages and Literatures Theses and Dissertations
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Deng, Xiaoyan
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation explores a previously overlooked aspect of xiqu history - the role of female xiqu performers in fin-de-siècle China. Focusing on the transitional period between the late Qing and the early Republican era ...
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Strikwerda, Timothy
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation explores the reasons that Japanese intellectuals and writers reached back to the Jōmon period (12,500-500 BCE) to define Japanese culture in the wake of Imperial Japan’s defeat after World War II. The ...
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Tao, Sabrina Y.
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation investigates how socialist Chinese audiovisual productions (especially cinema) that incorporate folklore, regional, and traditional Chinese cultural elements after socialist reform were exported internationally ...
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Chung, Ai-Ting
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation historicizes the transnational animation industry in Japan and its former colony Taiwan, and analyzes identity transformation in animation texts in the two countries from the late 1980s to the 2010s. I ...
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Hung, Hsiao-Hsuan
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
Sensory language, the linguistic conveyance of sensory perception and experience, has attracted considerable scholarly interest in linguistics and linguistic anthropology. In particular, recent anthropological research on ...
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Wang, Xiaoyu
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
My dissertation analyzes four Okinawan literary works to explore how desire and the struggle for recognition, as formulated by Hegel, unfold within the Okinawan context. Through examining the various manifestations of the ...
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Lee, Jungah
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
The current study examines second dialect acquisition of North Korean refugees living in Seoul. A total of 14478 stops were measured from each of 22 Pyongyang North Korean standard (NK) and Seoul South Korean (SK) speakers. ...
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Xiong, Shuangting
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
Revolutionary Melodrama: Tales of Family, Kinship, and the Nation in Modern China investigates the seemingly paradoxical pairing of “revolution” and “melodrama” and the vital role the melodramatic mode played in shaping ...
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Lang, Jun
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
With the boom of networked digital communication, verbal misogyny permeates Chinese social media, reflecting and reinforcing a sexist gender order in society at large. At the same time, a new generation of Chinese women ...
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Moore, Lee
(University of Oregon, 2022-02-18)
The PRC museum is becoming a space for the construction of a national identity grounded in an ethnicized notion of Han Chineseness. This dissertation traces the origins of the museum in the Chinese-speaking world, exploring ...
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Tokuyama, Chie
(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)
The study explores the relationship between modern Japanese literature and the notion of Beauty (bi), the element that was purported to be the sole object of artistic exploration in the modern philosophy of art. In the ...
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Kim, Jinsu
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
This dissertation examines the material and corporeal configurations of the moral self in the Chinese literary tradition from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Unlike the modern Western understanding of morality as ...
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Zhu, Lin
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
This dissertation adopts the usage-based constructionist approach to investigate three sentence-final particles (SFPs) in Mandarin Chinese, bei, ne, and a, with the help of British corpus linguistics techniques. The study ...
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Shi, Hui
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
This dissertation seeks to deepen understanding of language-mediated gender socialization of Chinese children by answering three questions. In the family setting, how do parent-child interactions convey gender norms and ...
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McDowell, Kumiko
(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
This paper examines the prosperity of nōsatsu culture between the 1900s to 1920s. Nōsatsu are paper placards created through wood block printing techniques used for pasting or exchanging, which date back to the 18th century. ...
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Lee, Keunyoung
(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
The current dissertation aims to further our understanding of the impoliteness phenomenon in language by investigating how impoliteness is connected to the construction of identity and the exercise of power in on-going ...
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Chou, Yu Chih (Clay)
(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
My dissertation examines the modern ideological concept of children and individualism in Republican Chinese literature. It draws upon eugenics discourse, ideological essays and fictional stories to examine the emergence ...
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Kim, Hyun Ji
(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
This dissertation work aims to explore multimodal strategies of politeness in Korean and Japanese by investigating 7 hours of spoken and visual data produced by Korean and Japanese speakers. The analysis particularly deals ...
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King, Sara
(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
In this current research, we aimed to examine the authenticity of a hands-on father’s Osaka dialect in Kore’eda’s 2013 film Soshite Chichi ni Naru and explore whether native Japanese listeners would perceive him to have ...
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Nie, Shijia
(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
My dissertation explores the relationship between the literary, religious and entertainment culture of mid to late Tang and the voices in Li Shangyin’s romantic poems that reinvented the literati romantic identity. By ...
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