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He, Jianjun, 1970-
(University of Oregon, 2007-12)
This dissertation discusses the political conceptualization and social practice of the body in early China through a close examination of the texts and documents produced from the Spring and Autumn period to the end of the ...
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Wood, Michael S., 1969-
(University of Oregon, 2009-03)
In the postwar era, early modern or Edo period (1600-1868) Japan has most often been represented as a culture in isolation due to ostensibly draconian Bakufu regime policies that promised death to any one returning from ...
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Hackenbracht, Julie Elizabeth
(University of Oregon, 2009-06)
As Mainland China transitions from a planned socialist economy to one more
market-focused, its economic successes have garnered attention worldwide. However,
this astounding economic growth brought with it a number of ...
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Shen, Yipeng
(University of Oregon, 2010-06)
My dissertation delves into the recent articulation of popular nationalism in
Mainland China, with particular emphasis on the changes that globalization and
transnationalism have brought about to the representation of ...
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Liu, Wenjia, 1981-
(University of Oregon, 2010-09)
The late-Qing tanci "A Pair of Male Phoenixes Flying Together" (Feng shuangfei ; preface dated 1899) is unusual for its depiction of a wide variety of gender issues and sexual relationships. Because the 52-chapter work is ...
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Terry, Patrick Alan, 1984-
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
During the early stage of Japan's High Economic Growth Period (1955-1970), a group of directors and films, labeled the Japanese New Wave, emerged to strong critical acclaim and scholarly pursuit. Over time, Japanese New ...
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Yang, Mei
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
Independent filmmaking in China, with the directors' reiteration of literary and cinematic realism carried on from May Fourth, reflects the nation's social uneasiness triggered by the enlarging division between the ...
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Stellard, Lisa
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
This thesis considers the importance of cheng-yu (Chinese language-specific, idiomatic lexical-syntactic units) in second-language acquisition at the intermediate and advanced levels and examines current research in order ...
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Kaiser, Marjolijn, 1984-
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
This thesis focuses on the metafictional elements in selected works of the contemporary Chinese authors Gao Xingjian, Huang Jinshu, and Wang Xiaobo. I define metafiction as both a formal feature inherent in the text and ...
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Kusakabe, Madoka
(University of Oregon, 2011-09)
Sedimentations of transformations and experiences empowered the 20th century writers Sata Ineko and Hirabayashi Taiko as writers. Because of their mutual belief in the early principles of the proletarian literary ...
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Zheng, Xiucai
(University of Oregon, 2012)
From Chunqiu and Zuozhuan to Shiji, women have experienced a downgrade of their formal status in historical records. In Shiji, women, the wives of dukes, lost their formal equality with their duke husbands in terms of being ...
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Bassoe, Pedro
(University of Oregon, 2012)
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, one of the most widely read and translated authors of the Taishō period, wrote some two dozen short stories centered on the theme of Christianity during his brief career. In this paper, I examine these ...
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Thompson, Katherine
(University of Oregon, 2012)
Focusing on the unique challenges of Chinese-to-English translation, this thesis attempts to bridge the gap between practical concerns related to readability and the cognitive structure and functions of metaphor. It explores ...
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Shernuk, Kyle
(University of Oregon, 2012)
This thesis represents an investigation into the strategies used by postsocialist Chinese male subjects to articulate their subjecthood and desires. The introduction explains the choice for using a phenomenological ...
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Ho, Wing Shan
(University of Oregon, 2012-09)
My dissertation addresses two major issues in Chinese contemporary film and TV
studies: the first is the proliferations of new forms of subjectivities and the state’s attempt
to regulate them via the construction of an ...
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Tuft, Bryna
(University of Oregon, 2013-06-30)
During the period of economic expansion and openness to personal expression and individuality following Deng Xiaoping's reforms, the Chinese avant-garde women writers engaged in a project of resistance to the traditionally ...
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Laird, Colleen
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)
Since the mid-2000s, there has been a significant increase in female directors in Japan. Organized around the central feature of this emerging wave, this dissertation is a multifaceted project that combines historical ...
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Zhang, Yu
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
This dissertation has examined the tanci fiction Jing zhong zhuan, or A Biography of Dedication and Loyalty, authored by a gentry woman writer Zhou Yingfang in the late nineteenth century. I argue that by adapting the ...
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Gwyther, Jordan
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
Centering my focus on a detailed translation of the poetry of Bai Juyi's New Yuefu, I will reconstruct the poet's world on the foundation of political allegory found within his verse. Bai Juyi once said that there are four ...
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Peng, Xinjia
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
Saurssure argues that the relationship between form and meaning in language is arbitrary, but sound symbolism theory argues that there are forms in language that can develop non-arbitrary association with meanings. This ...
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