Scholars' Bank will
be on a content freeze from 9/6 - 9/16 as we transition to a new & improved version. Minimal downtime expected
on 9/16. Stay tuned for more updates!
Asian Studies Theses and Dissertations
Recent Submissions
-
Lam, Sarah
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
In 1945 the first detonation of a nuclear weapon was conducted at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The decades leading up to and following this event involved the systematic displacement, exploitation, and poisoning of ...
-
Wu, Shuxi
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
This thesis examines contemporary rural transformations in China. I suggest that a different spatial relationship among production, reproduction, and consumption is in the making, grafted
onto the urban-rural divide. A ...
-
Fang, Hong
(University of Oregon, 1997-06)
How to protect the global environment and how to obtain
a sustainable development are the major concerns of the
international community today. China, with the biggest
population and the highest economic growth rate in ...
-
Ghandour, Fawzi Rami
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)
The longest film series to feature the same actor, the It’s Tough Being a Man film series, known to fans as the Tora-san series, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with the release of its fiftieth installment, Tora-san, ...
-
Bartholomew, David
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
In the past decade there has been a growing interest in representations of shachūhaku, or car camping, in Japanese media. In this thesis, I examine three different kinds of media representations of shachūhaku to understand ...
-
Scrivani, Kourtney
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
As a result of the pandemic in 2020, many large fan events canceled to adhere to health guidelines. From this context, conventions had to change their models to virtual entities. This thesis investigates the fan production ...
-
Coyle, MacKenzie
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
This thesis examines the role of international trade in building the Ōshū Fujiwara’s autonomous Hiraizumi polity, and ultimately critiques the idea of “center-periphery” binaries in Japanese history. Following the introduction, ...
-
DiFonzo, Nakota
(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
The martial law era was an important period for the development of the fashion market in Taiwan. Due to economic and/or cultural influence from China, Japan, Western Europe, and, importantly, the United States, Taiwan was ...
-
Fischer, Thomas
(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
This thesis explores the afterlives of the Chinese revolutionary icon Sun Yat-sen and their relevant contexts, arguing that these contexts have given rise to different images of the same figure. It serves as a gallery in ...
-
Fang, Hong
(University of Oregon, 1997-06)
How to protect the global environment and how to obtain
a sustainable development are the major concerns of the
international community today. China, with the biggest
population and the highest economic growth rate in ...
-
Dewan, Anudeep
(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
Darjeeling Tea is one of the most expensive types of tea sold today. It has a Geographical Indication (GI) Status that brings it under the intellectual property regime. The tea is valued for the cultural category it ...
-
Duong, Anh Tu
(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
Over the past few decades, “mindfulness” has become popular and spread throughout the world, from North American to Australia. It has been applied in numerous context: mental health, education, and business, among others. ...
-
Korovianska, Veronika
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
Russian literature is traditionally regarded as one that served a model and guide for
Chinese intellectuals in developing their national literature. It is also recognized that Eastern
European literatures drew much ...
-
Song, Depei
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
This thesis examines 硬盘Yingpan ‘hard drive,’ a newly created online derogatory code word referring to the migrants in Shanghai against the historical background of discrimination of migrants in Shanghai. Based on corpus ...
-
Steinmetz, Mayumi Takanashi
(University of Oregon, 1985-06)
Nosatsu is both a graphic art object and a religious object.
Until very recently, scholars have ignored nosatsu because of its
associations with superstition and low-class, uneducated hobbyists.
Recently, however, a new ...
-
Folse, Brandon
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)
The ways in which individuals navigate the globe today complicates previous conceptualizations of migration and mobility. Once such mode of contemporary movement which challenges scholars is known as "birth tourism." This ...
-
Xiong, Shuangting
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)
The crisis of the Chinese nation in the early twentieth century compelled May Fourth intellectuals to search for a modern self in order to modernize and strengthen the nation. They did so by self-consciously experimenting ...
-
Combs, Nicole E.
(University of Oregon, 1999-06)
The reopening of China's economic and cultural doors in the 1970s provided the fundamental stage for development of a new art. The Chinese government focusing its efforts on economic development created policies that ...
-
Lewinski, Roland
(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
This thesis concentrates on the partial reconstruction of the axiological basis at the core of the ideological – nationalistic disputes between China and Japan. The recent history of Sino-Japanese international relations ...
-
Cheng, Feng
(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
In western media, Asian men have traditionally represented as either effeminized or emasculated. First providing a historical and ideological account for such representations, this thesis proceeds to analyze the advantages ...
View more submissions
Search Scholars' Bank
Browse
-
All of Scholars' Bank
-
This Collection
My Account
Discover
-
Author
-
Fang, Hong (2)
-
Bartholomew, David (1)
-
Cheng, Feng (1)
-
Combs, Nicole E. (1)
-
Conant, Abram (1)
-
Coyle, MacKenzie (1)
-
DePaulo, Julie (1)
-
Dewan, Anudeep (1)
-
DiFonzo, Nakota (1)
-
Duong, Anh Tu (1)
-
... View More
-
Subject
-
Date Issued
-
Has File(s)
Statistics
RSS Feeds