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Koble, Sean
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
The narrative structure and formal style of the director Shinoda Masahiro's films reveal his ethical objective to encourage his viewer to engage with works of cinematic representation as the creative products of human ...
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Kim, Ariel
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)
(Im)politeness research has often focused on either the importance of social norms or on the intentions of the speaker, overlooking the active role played by the recipient(s) in assigning social meaning. This limitation ...
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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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Wei, Ran
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
This thesis looks at the representations of Osaka from the 1920s to the 1940s in Tokyo writer Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and Osaka writer Oda Sakunosuke’s literature. I examine how Tanizaki and Oda approached issues of local and ...
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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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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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Chen, Yue
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
This dissertation studies the cultural imagination of Manchukuo the nation (1932-1945). As a nominal nation-state imposed upon Chinese Manchuria by the Empire of Japan, Manchukuo is a contradiction between sovereignty and ...
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Hirao, Akiko
(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)
The annual science fiction anthology series The Best Japanese SF started publication in 2009 and showcases domestic writers old and new and from a wide range of publishing backgrounds. Although representative of the second ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Wei, Peipei
(University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)
This dissertation presents a cross-linguistic investigation of how nonnative sounds are perceived by second language (L2) learners in terms of their first language (L1) categories for an understudies language pair---Japanese ...
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Wang, Li
(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
This dissertation focuses on the cultural representations of the one-child policy ever since 1978. The artistic discourses about the one-child policy provide a fantastic space to explore China’s post-socialist society and ...
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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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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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Chen, Jing-Yun
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
Previous studies of form-focused instruction (FFI) have examined the effect of various aspects of inputs, corrective feedbacks, and instructions on L2 learners' accuracy development. Although much research has suggested ...
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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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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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