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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Concentrating on the man-made scenery of a theme park in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of China-Nanzhao Folk Island, this thesis explores the way in which the Bai people acquire an identity by sharing a common history ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Although the Japanese government did not persecute European Jewish refugees who came to reside within the borders of its growing empire in the 1930s and early 1940s, Japanese antisemitism increased in fervency during the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)Traditional Chinese society did much to devalue and stigmatize soldiers. During the Chinese civil war the Chinese Communist Party's military campaign had to recruit large numbers of soldiers. This began a long struggle ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)This thesis presents an historical study of the Kyushu shrine family known as the Munakata, beginning in the fourth century and ending with the onset of Japan's medieval age in the fourteenth century. The tutelary deities ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Implemented as one of the basic national polices of China since 1978, the one-child policy has brought both advantages and disadvantages to one-child families in urban China. This thesis explores the various consequences ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The Chinese education issues in Malaysia appear frequently in political discourse, often featuring contentious discussions of language learning and national education policies. Applying an historical approach to contextualize ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The Tokugawa period (1600-1868) brought significant social, legislative, and institutional change to Japan, including peace and stability that pervaded much of early modern society. Life in these new social conditions was ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Applying a historical approach which contextualizes ethnic and gender perspectives, this thesis investigates the obstacles that second-generation Chinese American women encountered as they moved into the public sphere. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This thesis centers on the question of how the representation of buildings opens up possibilities for investigating Can Xue's fiction as literature with universal concern about humanity. It explores the significance of Can ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)This thesis looks at three different Japanese websites to examine how each spreads information about mizuko kuyō and how each provides online spaces for users in which they can share their own experiences with the ceremony. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)In Japanese culture, the figure of the Buddhist acolyte, or chigo, has been a popular object of artistic depiction, both in image and in text. In fact, during the medieval period, and especially the twelfth to the thirteen ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Within China's post-1980's urban planning discourse, shan-shui, a significance-laden compound character set translatable as `mountain-water' or `landscape', aligned with urban sustainability. The focus of this genealogical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)This thesis examines conflicting attitudes regarding artistic authenticity and differing approaches to connoisseurship vis-à-vis the field of Chinese art and its reception in Europe and North America. Although this thesis ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This thesis examines relevant questions and potential limitations/risks that arise when mindfulness, a traditional Buddhist religious practice, is implemented within modern Western society. It begins with an examination ...
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Science, Space, and the Nation: The Formation of Modern Chinese Geography in Twentieth-Century China (University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)At the turn of the twentieth century, the modern epistemological framework of science superseded indigenous Chinese knowledge categories as the organizing unit for empirical knowledge about space. By the 1920s, pioneering ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)The East China Sea (ECS) dispute between Japan, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of China began in the early 1970s and has continued to escalate. Although the Japanese government claims to handle conflicts ...
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