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(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 ...
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(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. ...
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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, 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, 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 ...
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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, 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, 2016-02-23)This thesis analyzes contemporary political ecologies of pig farming in the People's Republic of China, as well as emergent discourses of “meatification” and the industrialization of Chinese agriculture more broadly. ...
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(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 ...
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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, 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, 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 ...
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(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 ...
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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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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)The Japanese state has long attempted to control the choices and behaviors of women through campaigns of moral suasion and social management. These campaigns have varied in terms of their efficacy but have all endeavored ...
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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, 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, 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 ...
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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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