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UCLA
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Hur, Joon.
The State and Identity Construction in Chosǒn Korea.
Degree: Asian Languages & Cultures 00A9, 2019, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8sm4g242
► This dissertation examines whether, among Koreans in the premodern period, there existed a shared collective identity that could be utilized by modernizing nationalists and that…
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▼ This dissertation examines whether, among Koreans in the premodern period, there existed a shared collective identity that could be utilized by modernizing nationalists and that significantly informed the nature of nationalism in twentieth century Korea. The specific time this dissertation delves into is the period of the Chosǒn dynasty (1392-1910), especially the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which are believed to be the most important period of Korea’s institutional and philosophical systemization. Examining the reciprocal interactions among Chosǒn people and their accompanying political and intellectual debates, this dissertation explores how the government’s state-building project, generally understood as Korea’s Confucianization in existing studies, contributed to the construction of a shared collective identity among the constituent social groups of Chosǒn. This dissertation consists of four chapters. Chapter One delves into ritual debates such as the debates on the sacrifice to Heaven during the early Chosǒn period in which the Chosǒn elite should refer to their state’s history and tradition to support their arguments. Chapter Two deals with the tension between Korea’s socio-cultural heritage and the new cultural and institutional tendencies accompanied by the influx of Neo-Confucianism in the late fifteenth century. Chapter Three examines how the elite’s efforts to transmit their core values to the non-elite influenced the construction of people’s sense of belonging to a larger collectivity whose members shared the same social and cultural values. The final chapter discusses how the non-elite in Chosǒn reacted to the elite’s guidance and how they reinterpreted the values the elite emphasized. This chapter leads to the conclusion that the systemization of rituals and institutions where various social groups of Chosǒn people could reciprocally interact contributed to the construction of a certain Koreanness By putting more emphasis on Korea’s historical and cultural context, this dissertation suggests that Korea had its own process of change, constructing a distinctive political and social entity which is different from but not inferior to Western nation-states. Also, questioning dangerous generalizations about “Asian” or “Confucian” cultures, this dissertation posits that Korea and other Asian cultures should be seen not as backwaters outside the mainstream of world history but rather as representative examples of the historical processes of nation formation.
Subjects/Keywords: History; Asian history; Asian studies
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Hur, J. (2019). The State and Identity Construction in Chosǒn Korea. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8sm4g242
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hur, Joon. “The State and Identity Construction in Chosǒn Korea.” 2019. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8sm4g242.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hur, Joon. “The State and Identity Construction in Chosǒn Korea.” 2019. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
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Hur J. The State and Identity Construction in Chosǒn Korea. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8sm4g242.
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Hur J. The State and Identity Construction in Chosǒn Korea. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2019. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8sm4g242
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UCLA
2.
Kim, Hanshin.
The Transformation in State and Elite Responses to Popular Religious Beliefs.
Degree: History, 2012, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/52v2q1k3
► My dissertation examines how the attitudes of states and literati toward the popular religious beliefs had been transformed during the period between the late Tang…
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▼ My dissertation examines how the attitudes of states and literati toward the popular religious beliefs had been transformed during the period between the late Tang and Southern Song period. The previous researches concentrated on how the socio-economic and socio-psychological changes had caused the rapid growth of the popular religious cults since the Song dynasty period, and they presumed that the rapid increase of the state and literati involvement with the local cults just reflected the increasing significance of the popular religions. However, I argue that the previous presumption was only partially right. My research intends to demonstrate that the transformation in the state and literati response to the popular religious cults was attributed not only to the change of the popular religions but also to that of the socio-political environment around them. In Chapter Two, I argue that during the period between the late Tang and the Five Dynasties period the difference in the local policies between the northern five dynasties and southern regional regimes caused the disparity in their stances on the popular religious beliefs. The Chapter Three and Chapter Four, however, contrast the differences in the state and literati stances on the popular religious cult between the Northern Song political leadership with the Southern Song literati. Finally, the Chapter Five is illustrating my argument by taking a concrete example of the evolution of King Zhang cult. Consequently, this dissertation demonstrates that there were both the regional and temporal differences in the state and literati response to the popular religious cults. First of all, there was a marked difference in their responses between the states of the north China and those of the south China. Secondly, there was also a clear-cut distinction between the state activism approach of the Northern Song reformers and the local activism approach of the Southern Song literati.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian history
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Kim, H. (2012). The Transformation in State and Elite Responses to Popular Religious Beliefs. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/52v2q1k3
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kim, Hanshin. “The Transformation in State and Elite Responses to Popular Religious Beliefs.” 2012. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/52v2q1k3.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kim, Hanshin. “The Transformation in State and Elite Responses to Popular Religious Beliefs.” 2012. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kim H. The Transformation in State and Elite Responses to Popular Religious Beliefs. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/52v2q1k3.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kim H. The Transformation in State and Elite Responses to Popular Religious Beliefs. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2012. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/52v2q1k3
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Temple University
3.
Louro, Michele L.
At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism.
Degree: PhD, 2011, Temple University
URL: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,102771
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This dissertation situates Indian nationalist politics in a broad, international context of anti-imperialist movements beginning in the late colonial and interwar period. The archival…
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This dissertation situates Indian nationalist politics in a broad, international context of anti-imperialist movements beginning in the late colonial and interwar period. The archival record is rich with sources on the international and transnational connections of the Indian National Congress (INC); however, scholarship on the independence movement almost exclusively concentrates on the micro-histories of `locality, province, and nation' or the `subalterns' of India. Instead, this project contributes a much-needed international perspective to Indian colonial history. As a case study, this dissertation traces the relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru, then a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement and later India's first prime minister (1947-1964), and the League against Imperialism (LAI), a significant, yet little studied organization founded in Brussels in February 1927. The League offered a significant space for Nehru, and by extension the Indian National Congress, to interact and build partnerships with political leaders in other colonies, mandates and dependencies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; as well as North American and European social reformers concerned with working class and racial equality. A history of Nehru and his League connections underscores the significance of the international terrain in which Indian nationalists contested empire. In this project I argue that the making of Indian anti-colonial nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s emerged as a complex set of interactions on the ground in India, but also beyond the colonial borders of the subcontinent.
Temple University – Theses
Advisors/Committee Members: Spodek, Howard, Immerman, Richard H., Lees, Lynn Hollen, Metcalf, Thomas R..
Subjects/Keywords: Asian History
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Louro, M. L. (2011). At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism. (Doctoral Dissertation). Temple University. Retrieved from http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,102771
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Louro, Michele L. “At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,102771.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Louro, Michele L. “At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism.” 2011. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Louro ML. At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Temple University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,102771.
Council of Science Editors:
Louro ML. At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Temple University; 2011. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,102771

University of California – Berkeley
4.
Nguyen, Martina Thucnhi.
The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tu Luc Van Doan): Colonial Modernism in Vietnam, 1932-1941.
Degree: History, 2012, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/25s5x7xm
► This dissertation provides the most thorough history currently available of the Self-Reliant Literary Group. It sheds light on the cultural and political history of the…
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▼ This dissertation provides the most thorough history currently available of the Self-Reliant Literary Group. It sheds light on the cultural and political history of the 1930s, arguably the country's most dynamic intellectual and literary period. I examine the nature of colonial intellectual life by addressing the following questions: how did Vietnamese intellectuals make sense of the sweeping forces of modern life brought by French colonialism? How did they understand, internalize, and appropriate the foreign ideas and worldviews transmitted by their colonizers? And ultimately, how did they use this imported knowledge to help themselves and their compatriots? I argue that the cultural, social and political program of the Self-Reliant Literary Group was less concerned with the immediate seizure of political power than the progress towards a just, civil and modern Vietnamese society. Its reforms were wide in scope, concerned with cosmopolitan questions of fairness, freedom and social justice. The Group preferred the unknown and unpredictable future brought by modern life to the known stagnation of tradition. The Group believed that the past and its paradigms held back Vietnamese progress and iconoclastically broke away from their strictures. It looked to westernized societies for models to emulate, borrowing selectively and deliberately from western culture to envision a Vietnamese society that would someday be seen by other modern civilizations as an equal.As arguably the most important group of intellectuals in 1930s Tonkin, the Self-Reliant Literary Group is an ideal lens through which to view this complex landscape. The publishers of the first satirical newspaper in Vietnam, the Group served as the vanguard of a new, youthful generation of Vietnamese intellectuals – educated only in modern French and vernacular Vietnamese, unfamiliar with the classical Chinese worldview of their Confucian literati predecessors. Deeply committed to the ideals of human progress, the Group reexamined every aspect of Vietnamese society, and sought to replace outdated traditions with new ways to build a civil society. I maintain that the Self-Reliant Literary Group constituted the first Vietnamese modernists – never before had intellectuals advocated such boldly iconoclastic, sweeping changes across the whole of Vietnamese society. Their reform program covered disparate issues such as rural/urban relations, national costume, domestic and international politics, women's issues, publishing, fashion and architecture. I examine their writings and social/political project to describe how these intellectuals constructed their own vision of a modern, civil Vietnamese society in a colonial context.
Subjects/Keywords: History; Asian history
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Nguyen, M. T. (2012). The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tu Luc Van Doan): Colonial Modernism in Vietnam, 1932-1941. (Thesis). University of California – Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/25s5x7xm
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Nguyen, Martina Thucnhi. “The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tu Luc Van Doan): Colonial Modernism in Vietnam, 1932-1941.” 2012. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/25s5x7xm.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Nguyen, Martina Thucnhi. “The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tu Luc Van Doan): Colonial Modernism in Vietnam, 1932-1941.” 2012. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Nguyen MT. The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tu Luc Van Doan): Colonial Modernism in Vietnam, 1932-1941. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/25s5x7xm.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Nguyen MT. The Self-Reliant Literary Group (Tu Luc Van Doan): Colonial Modernism in Vietnam, 1932-1941. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2012. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/25s5x7xm
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5.
Xie, Jun.
The Wild Individual| Politics and Aesthetics of Realism in Post-Mao China (1977-1984).
Degree: 2017, New York University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10192412
► This dissertation attempts to examine Chinese realist novels (novellas) flourishing in the transitional period between Mao’s era and post-Mao era (1976-1984). This period, rarely…
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▼ This dissertation attempts to examine Chinese realist novels (novellas) flourishing in the transitional period between Mao’s era and post-Mao era (1976-1984). This period, rarely explored in English-speaking academia, constitutes a critical site to understand the social and cultural transformation from socialist to post-socialist China and to study the “individual” newly formed in that period whose influence continues to shape today’s China. By looking into realist novels, my research attempts to understand this social change and the historical construction of an individual subject distinct from both the human subject conceptualized in the socialist realism in Mao’s era and the bourgeois individual in the 19th century European Realism. Realist novels, which opened a textual space for social imagination in a liminal period, undertook the role of creating a life-world of post-socialist China with its mimetic and critical function, thus launching another “cultural revolution” immediately following the ending of Mao’s “Cultural Revolution.” The main body of my research consists of the analysis of three sub-genres—Enlightenment fiction (Chapter One), humanist fiction (Chapter Two) and peasant’s fiction (Chapter Three), each corresponding respectively to political subject, aesthetic subject and economic subject. The dissertation will show how the enlightenment subject, Kantian subjectivity and “persona economicus” reinvigorated in these fictional imaginations. However, it was also a period in which all these newly constructed “myths” of subject were pressed to meet their internal limits which led to their ineluctable dissolution. This was due to the emergence of the “wild individual,” for example, we can detect the terrifying unrestrained desire of lower class that participated in the discursive formation of the autonomous subject and we can detect the anxiety caused by the accumulation of capital even in the overall optimistic narrative of peasant’s literature.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian literature; Asian history; Aesthetics
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Xie, J. (2017). The Wild Individual| Politics and Aesthetics of Realism in Post-Mao China (1977-1984). (Thesis). New York University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10192412
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Xie, Jun. “The Wild Individual| Politics and Aesthetics of Realism in Post-Mao China (1977-1984).” 2017. Thesis, New York University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10192412.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Xie, Jun. “The Wild Individual| Politics and Aesthetics of Realism in Post-Mao China (1977-1984).” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Xie J. The Wild Individual| Politics and Aesthetics of Realism in Post-Mao China (1977-1984). [Internet] [Thesis]. New York University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10192412.
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Council of Science Editors:
Xie J. The Wild Individual| Politics and Aesthetics of Realism in Post-Mao China (1977-1984). [Thesis]. New York University; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10192412
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University of California, Berkeley
6.
Ng, Pei-San.
Strength From Within| the Chinese Internal Martial Arts as Discourse, Aesthetics, and Cultural Trope (1850-1940).
Degree: 2017, University of California, Berkeley
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10251445
► My dissertation explores a cultural history of the body as reflected in meditative and therapeutic forms of the Chinese martial arts in nineteenth and…
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▼ My dissertation explores a cultural history of the body as reflected in meditative and therapeutic forms of the Chinese martial arts in nineteenth and early twentieth-century China. Precursors of the more familiar present-day <i> taijiquan</i> <b>[special characters omitted]</b> and <i> qigong</i> <b>[special characters omitted],</b> these forms of martial arts techniques focus on the inward cultivation of <i>qi</i> <b> [special characters omitted]</b> and other apparently ineffable energies of the body. They revolve around the harnessing of “internal strength” or <i>neigong</i> <b>[special characters omitted].</b> These notions of a strength derived from an invisible, intangible, yet embodied <i> qi</i> came to represent a significant counterweight to sports, exercise science, the Physical Culture movement, physiology, and other Western ideas of muscularity and the body that were being imported into China at the time. What role would such competing discourses of the body play in shaping contemporary ideas of embodiment? How would it raise the stakes in an era already ideologically charged with the intertwined issues of nationalism and imperialism, and so-called scientific modernity and indigenous tradition? This study is an inquiry into the epistemological and ontological ramifications of the idea of <i>neigong</i> internal strength, tracing the popular spread of the idea and its impact in late Qing and Republican China vernacular discourse. I pay particular attention to how the notion of “internal strength” might shed light on thinking about the body in the period. Using the notion of <i>neigong</i> as a lens, this project examines the claims of the internal forms of Chinese martial arts, and the cultural work that these claims perform in the context of late Qing and Republican China. I locate the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the key formative period when the idea first found popular conceptual purchase, and explore how the notion of <i>neigong</i> internal strength became increasingly steeped in the cultural politics of the time. Considering the Chinese internal martial arts not only as a form of bodily practice but also as a mode of cultural production, in which a particular way of regarding 'the body' came to be established in Chinese vernacular culture, may additionally yield rich theoretical fodder. How might such claims about a different kind of “internal strength” revisit or disrupt modernist assumptions about the body? The project highlights the neglected significance of the internal martial arts as a narrative of the Chinese body. More broadly, it suggests fresh avenues for scholarship on the body, in showing how these other-bodily "ways of knowing" took on meaning in the period and beyond.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Asian studies
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Ng, P. (2017). Strength From Within| the Chinese Internal Martial Arts as Discourse, Aesthetics, and Cultural Trope (1850-1940). (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10251445
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ng, Pei-San. “Strength From Within| the Chinese Internal Martial Arts as Discourse, Aesthetics, and Cultural Trope (1850-1940).” 2017. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10251445.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ng, Pei-San. “Strength From Within| the Chinese Internal Martial Arts as Discourse, Aesthetics, and Cultural Trope (1850-1940).” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Ng P. Strength From Within| the Chinese Internal Martial Arts as Discourse, Aesthetics, and Cultural Trope (1850-1940). [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California, Berkeley; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10251445.
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Ng P. Strength From Within| the Chinese Internal Martial Arts as Discourse, Aesthetics, and Cultural Trope (1850-1940). [Thesis]. University of California, Berkeley; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10251445
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The University of Arizona
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Greene, Barbara.
Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga.
Degree: 2017, The University of Arizona
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10619229
► The Dark Valley Period and its resultant Asia Pacific War remains an open question in Japan; this era is consistently revisited in both public…
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▼ The Dark Valley Period and its resultant Asia Pacific War remains an open question in Japan; this era is consistently revisited in both public debates over textbooks and state apology as well as in popular culture and literature. The discussion of the Dark Valley Period and the conflicts it generated also exists within manga, a widely consumed media, and has shifted genres multiple times in the decades following the Japanese surrender. Some genres, such as early senki-mono, portrayed the war as a heroic, although ultimately futile, action undertaken by self-sacrificing youth. Semiautobiographical works, such as those created by the late manga artist Mizuki Shigeru, countered this narrative by showing the war as brutal, senseless, and useless. Often, the popularity or decline of a genre skewed closely to the general attitude concerning the wartime period. Due to its wide-scale consumption by youth, manga has the potential to both represent and forward shifts in public perception. Additionally, historical revisionists and anti-Article 9 proponents have shifted their discourse into manga in order to appeal to and influence a younger audience. This strategy is further strengthened by previous genre works, such as the Space Battleship Yamato series, which reframed the Dark Valley Period and the Asia Pacific War in a positive light indirectly through their narrative. This dissertation posits that the discussion has recently shifted into sh?nen/seinen fantasy manga and that this discussion reflects a level of sympathy with revisionist historians that would normally cause a public backlash against the series in question if this sympathy was not masked by genre.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian literature; Asian history; Asian studies
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Greene, B. (2017). Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga. (Thesis). The University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10619229
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Greene, Barbara. “Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga.” 2017. Thesis, The University of Arizona. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10619229.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Greene, Barbara. “Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga.” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Greene B. Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Arizona; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10619229.
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Council of Science Editors:
Greene B. Repercussions of the Dark Valley - Reenacting And Reinterpreting an Era via Fantasy Manga. [Thesis]. The University of Arizona; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10619229
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Arizona State University
8.
Han, Ye.
From Hangzhou to Lin’an: History, Space, and the Experience
of Urban Living in Narratives from Song Dynasty China.
Degree: Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2017, Arizona State University
URL: http://repository.asu.edu/items/46315
► This dissertation uncovers the contemporary impressions of Song cities represented in Song narratives and their accounts of the interplay between people and urban environments. It…
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▼ This dissertation uncovers the contemporary
impressions of Song cities represented in Song narratives and their
accounts of the interplay between people and urban environments. It
links these narratives to urban and societal changes in Hangzhou 杭州
(Lin’an 臨安) during the Song dynasty, cross-referencing both
literary creations and historical accounts through a close reading
of the surviving corpus of Song narratives, in order to shed light
on the cultural landscape and social milieu of Hangzhou. By
identifying, reconstructing, and interpreting urban changes
throughout the “pre-modernization” transition as well as their
embodiments in the narratives, the dissertation links changes to
the physical world with the development of Song narratives. In
revealing the emerging connection between historical and literary
spaces, the dissertation concludes that the transitions of Song
cities and urban culture drove these narrative writings during the
Song dynasty. Meanwhile, the ideologies and urban culture reflected
in these accounts could only have emerged alongside the appearance
of a consumption society in Hangzhou. Aiming to expand our
understanding of the literary value of Song narratives, the
dissertation therefore also considers historical references and
concurrent writings in other genres. By elucidating the social,
spatial, and historical meanings embedded in a variety of Song
narrative accounts, this study details how the Song literary
narrative corpus interprets the urban landscapes of the period’s
capital city through the private experiences of Song authors. Using
a transdisciplinary methodology, it situates the texts within the
cultural milieu of Song society and further reveals the connections
of these narratives to the transformative process of urbanization
in Song society.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian literature; Asian studies; Asian history
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of Urban Living in Narratives from Song Dynasty China. (Doctoral Dissertation). Arizona State University. Retrieved from http://repository.asu.edu/items/46315
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Han, Ye. “From Hangzhou to Lin’an: History, Space, and the Experience
of Urban Living in Narratives from Song Dynasty China.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Arizona State University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://repository.asu.edu/items/46315.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Han, Ye. “From Hangzhou to Lin’an: History, Space, and the Experience
of Urban Living in Narratives from Song Dynasty China.” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Han Y. From Hangzhou to Lin’an: History, Space, and the Experience
of Urban Living in Narratives from Song Dynasty China. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/46315.
Council of Science Editors:
Han Y. From Hangzhou to Lin’an: History, Space, and the Experience
of Urban Living in Narratives from Song Dynasty China. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2017. Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/46315

Princeton University
9.
Burton-Rose, Daniel.
Terrestrial reward as divine recompense| The self-fashioned piety of the Peng lineage of Suzhou, 1650s-1870s.
Degree: 2016, Princeton University
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► This dissertation focuses on the religious commitments of the Peng clan of Suzhou. From the early to mid-Qing dynasty (1644-1911) the Pengs were arguably…
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▼ This dissertation focuses on the religious commitments of the Peng clan of Suzhou. From the early to mid-Qing dynasty (1644-1911) the Pengs were arguably the most successful corporate lineage in the entire empire in terms of civil examination performance. They were also pioneers of a charitable style of status justification in which the Pengs explained their worldly success as divine reward for their good works. By the early eighteenth century, many of the Pengs’ peers and social inferiors promulgated their claims as well. In the thriving genre of morality books <i>(shanshu)</i> particularly successful Peng patriarchs served as iconic shorthand for the terrestrial reward of civil examination success for philanthropic acts. Examination hopefuls and morality book consumers throughout the empire sought to obtain a portion of the prosperity of the Pengs by emulating their charitable commitments. Drawing on source materials ranging from autobiographies and genealogies to the transcripts of spirit-writing sessions, I focus my study on the pivotal figure of Peng Dingqiu (1645-1719). Dingqiu’s 1676 <i>optimus</i> distinction and self-presentational strategy were critical in the consolidation of the concrete and symbolic power of the Peng lineage. Exploring the role of spirit-writing altars in intra-elite relations, I argue that Dingqiu’s claim of a prophecy of his civil examination success had wide ranging consequences for his descendants and his own posthumous persona. In documenting the collective devotional commitments of the Peng lineage in realms such as a tower complex devoted to the deity Wenchang and local Daoist institutions, I provide a nuanced portrait of elite religiosity and its impact on the late imperial cityscape. Simultaneously, I use attention to the familial lineage in order to explain the centrality of religious modes of discourse in elite self-organization. A descriptive catalog of works by Peng lineage members from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries illustrates the scope of members’ cultural impact and provides a basis for understanding how successive generations represented their ancestors through editorial and publishing endeavors.
Subjects/Keywords: Religious history; Asian history; Asian studies
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Burton-Rose, D. (2016). Terrestrial reward as divine recompense| The self-fashioned piety of the Peng lineage of Suzhou, 1650s-1870s. (Thesis). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10120373
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Burton-Rose, Daniel. “Terrestrial reward as divine recompense| The self-fashioned piety of the Peng lineage of Suzhou, 1650s-1870s.” 2016. Thesis, Princeton University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10120373.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Burton-Rose, Daniel. “Terrestrial reward as divine recompense| The self-fashioned piety of the Peng lineage of Suzhou, 1650s-1870s.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Burton-Rose D. Terrestrial reward as divine recompense| The self-fashioned piety of the Peng lineage of Suzhou, 1650s-1870s. [Internet] [Thesis]. Princeton University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10120373.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Burton-Rose D. Terrestrial reward as divine recompense| The self-fashioned piety of the Peng lineage of Suzhou, 1650s-1870s. [Thesis]. Princeton University; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10120373
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

The University of Utah
10.
Baldridge, Seth Robert.
Gold powder and gunpowder| The appropriation of western firearms into Japan through high culture.
Degree: 2016, The University of Utah
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10006268
► When an object is introduced to a new culture for the first time, how does it transition from the status of a foreign import…
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▼ When an object is introduced to a new culture for the first time, how does it transition from the status of a foreign import to a fully integrated object of that culture? Does it ever truly reach this status, or are its foreign origins a part of its identity that are impossible to overlook? What role could the arts of that culture play in adapting a foreign object into part of the culture? I propose to address these questions in specific regard to early modern Japan (1550–1850) through a black lacquered <i> ōtsuzumi</i> drum decorated with a gold powder motif of intersecting arquebuses and powder horns. While it may seem unlikely that a single piece of lacquerware can comment on the larger issues of cultural accommodation and appropriation, careful analysis reveals the way in which adopted firearms, introduced by Portuguese sailors in 1543, shed light on this issue. While the arquebus’s militaristic and economic influence on Japan has been firmly established, this thesis investigates how the Kobe Museum’s <i> ōtsuzumi</i> is a manifestation of the change that firearms underwent from European imports of pure military value to Japanese items of not just military, but also artistic worth. It resulted from an intermingling of Japanese-Portuguese trade, aesthetics of the noble military class, and cultural accommodation between Europeans and Japanese that complicates our understandings of influence and appropriation. To analyze this process of appropriation and accommodation, the first section begins with a historical overview of lacquer in Japan, focusing on the Momoyama period, and the introduction of firearms. The second section will go into the aesthetics of lacquerware, including the importance of narrative symbolism and use in the performing arts with a particular emphasis on the aural and visual aesthetics of the drum. Finally, I will discuss this drum in the global contexts of the early modern era, which takes into account the tension between the decline in popularity of firearms as well as the survival of the drum. Pieced together, these various aspects will help to construct a better understanding of this unique piece’s place in the Japanese Christian material culture of early modern Japan.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Asian studies; Art history
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Baldridge, Seth Robert. “Gold powder and gunpowder| The appropriation of western firearms into Japan through high culture.” 2016. Thesis, The University of Utah. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10006268.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Baldridge, Seth Robert. “Gold powder and gunpowder| The appropriation of western firearms into Japan through high culture.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Baldridge SR. Gold powder and gunpowder| The appropriation of western firearms into Japan through high culture. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Utah; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10006268.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Baldridge SR. Gold powder and gunpowder| The appropriation of western firearms into Japan through high culture. [Thesis]. The University of Utah; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10006268
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Temple University
11.
Tiethof-Aronson, Adrian K.
The wheel of great compassion| A study of Dunhuang manuscript p.3538.
Degree: 2015, Temple University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1597130
► Of the thousands of Buddhist manuscripts discovered at Dunhuang, there are many examples of non-official <i>sūtras</i> and <i> dhāran&dotbelow;ī</i> collections more difficult to identify…
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▼ Of the thousands of Buddhist manuscripts discovered at Dunhuang, there are many examples of non-official <i>sūtras</i> and <i> dhāran&dotbelow;ī</i> collections more difficult to identify than those with titles identical to canonical <i>sūtras</i>. Manuscript collection catalogs are the first sources consulted when one undertakes research involving manuscripts and in order to be a truely valuable resource, they need to reflect current scholarship. This thesis studies the Dunhuang manuscript, Pelliot <i>chinois</i> 3538, from different perspectives, examining its ritual, iconography, and textual variances. It compares its iconographical program to manuscript <i>sūtras</i> and canonical scriptures, uncovering new information regarding the content of multiple manuscripts. From this research it is apparent that P.3538 is an Avalokiteśvara <i> dhāran&dotbelow;ī</i> ritual that is iconographically informed from a variety of canonical texts: <i>sūtras</i> in the <i> Nīlakan&dotbelow;t&dotbelow;ha</i>/Qianshou cluster, the <i> Mahāpratisarā dhāran&dotbelow;īsūtra</i> and its corresponding amulet culture, and <i>sūtras</i> connected with the bodhisattva’s narrative history. In examining other manuscripts from Cave 17, we have found that it is a member of a Dunhuang manuscript cluster and is visually represented in an ink on paper altar diagram, Stein no. Ch.00189, from the British Museum. Integrating these findings would enrich descriptive catalogs for future research.
Subjects/Keywords: Religious history; Asian history; Asian studies
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Tiethof-Aronson, A. K. (2015). The wheel of great compassion| A study of Dunhuang manuscript p.3538. (Thesis). Temple University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1597130
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tiethof-Aronson, Adrian K. “The wheel of great compassion| A study of Dunhuang manuscript p.3538.” 2015. Thesis, Temple University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1597130.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tiethof-Aronson, Adrian K. “The wheel of great compassion| A study of Dunhuang manuscript p.3538.” 2015. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Tiethof-Aronson AK. The wheel of great compassion| A study of Dunhuang manuscript p.3538. [Internet] [Thesis]. Temple University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1597130.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Tiethof-Aronson AK. The wheel of great compassion| A study of Dunhuang manuscript p.3538. [Thesis]. Temple University; 2015. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1597130
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West Virginia University
12.
Mani, Fiona.
Guns and shikaris: The rise of the sahib's hunting ethos and the fall of the subaltern poacher in British India, 1750-1947.
Degree: PhD, History, 2012, West Virginia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.594
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https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/594
► This dissertation examines the history of hunting in India under British colonialism, but with some background on earlier periods and a brief discussion on Nepal…
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▼ This dissertation examines the
history of hunting in India under British colonialism, but with some background on earlier periods and a brief discussion on Nepal and successor states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. The study relies on Indian and British sources including private papers, memoirs, books, and official records. It examines hunting by different native groups in India, British men and women, and considers the relationship of hunting to political authority, gender identity, and conservation and the environment.;Before the British takeover of India, the country had a hunting tradition that included royal hunting and tribal hunting. The British also had a hunting tradition dating back to the Middle Ages that generally limited hunting rights to the aristocracy and the royals and restricted/prohibited hunting by other groups, which in some classes was classed as poaching. As the British extended control over large areas in the late 18th century, the British connected themselves with princely rulers to gain legitimacy. This shared activity resulted in a blending of British and Indian hunting traditions and gave rise to what I call the Anglo-Indian hunting tradition.;Hunting was connected with masculinity generally, yet a small number of women also participated. The Anglo-Indian hunting tradition also involved employment of shikaris due to their expert knowledge, but the British were critical of shikaris often because they were seen as poachers and hunted without guns, which some British men viewed as "feminine." Nevertheless, the Anglo-Indian hunt crossed social and communal boundaries as the British established strong bonds with their shikaris. The British hunting tradition emphasized paternalism congruent with the benevolence of imperialism. This tradition developed in the 19th century. British men like Jim Corbett hunted to protect Indians from the depredations of wild animals like tigers or leopards.;During the 19th century British sportsmen and especially Indian princes killed large numbers of animals in their hunt. By the late 19th and certainly by the 20th century declining numbers of game animals persuaded British hunters and officials to establish a system of laws, licenses and permits to regulate and limit hunting and suppress poaching. The British sportsman of the 20th century was a gentlemanly, refined hunter whose primary characteristic trait was a sense of restraint and a strong sense of ecological awareness. Hunting retained its imperial legacy well into the post-colonial period as Indian hunters took up the mantle of the British out of a moral desire and continued to protect Indians from wild animal disturbances.
Advisors/Committee Members: Joseph Hodge, Gregory Barton, Robert Maxon.
Subjects/Keywords: European history; Asian history; South Asian studies
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mani, Fiona. “Guns and shikaris: The rise of the sahib's hunting ethos and the fall of the subaltern poacher in British India, 1750-1947.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, West Virginia University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.594 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/594.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mani, Fiona. “Guns and shikaris: The rise of the sahib's hunting ethos and the fall of the subaltern poacher in British India, 1750-1947.” 2012. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mani F. Guns and shikaris: The rise of the sahib's hunting ethos and the fall of the subaltern poacher in British India, 1750-1947. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.594 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/594.
Council of Science Editors:
Mani F. Guns and shikaris: The rise of the sahib's hunting ethos and the fall of the subaltern poacher in British India, 1750-1947. [Doctoral Dissertation]. West Virginia University; 2012. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.594 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/594
13.
Holzhauser, Erin.
A Manchu in conquistador's clothing| Jesuit visualizations of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Degree: 2016, University of Colorado at Denver
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10112621
► Upon their arrival in China, priests of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, quickly began writing their opinions and observations of the Ming Dynasty,…
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▼ Upon their arrival in China, priests of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, quickly began writing their opinions and observations of the Ming Dynasty, of the Manchu invasion, and of the subsequent Qing Dynasty. These priests arrived in China with both secular and religious goals, and these goals created the context for their comments, coloring their writings. However, when the Jesuits praised the Qing Dynasty, they began to use particularly European metaphors in their descriptions of the Manchus, from appearance and mannerisms to policies. While the Jesuit descriptions serve as informative material, they are not objective, detached observations. In terms of their opinions, Jesuit writings offer historians critical information about the Jesuits themselves and about the Manchus as a distinctively non-Chinese dynasty, despite their efforts to Sinofy themselves in the eyes of the Han Chinese majority.
Subjects/Keywords: Religious history; Asian history
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Holzhauser, E. (2016). A Manchu in conquistador's clothing| Jesuit visualizations of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. (Thesis). University of Colorado at Denver. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10112621
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Holzhauser, Erin. “A Manchu in conquistador's clothing| Jesuit visualizations of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.” 2016. Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10112621.
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Holzhauser, Erin. “A Manchu in conquistador's clothing| Jesuit visualizations of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Holzhauser E. A Manchu in conquistador's clothing| Jesuit visualizations of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Colorado at Denver; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10112621.
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Holzhauser E. A Manchu in conquistador's clothing| Jesuit visualizations of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. [Thesis]. University of Colorado at Denver; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10112621
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Florida Atlantic University
14.
Noxon, Corey.
Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography.
Degree: 2017, Florida Atlantic University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329
► A paleodemographic analysis was conducted using skeletal data from J?mon period sites in Japan. 15P5 ratios were produced as proxy birth rate values for…
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▼ A paleodemographic analysis was conducted using skeletal data from J?mon period sites in Japan. 15P5 ratios were produced as proxy birth rate values for sites throughout the J?mon period. Previous studies based on numbers of residential sites indicated a substantial population increase in the Kant? and Ch?bu regions in central Japan, climaxing during the Middle J?mon period, followed by an equally dramatic population decrease, somewhat resembling changes that occurred during a Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT). The J?mon are viewed as a relatively sedentary, non-agricultural group, and provided an opportunity to attempt to separate the factors of sedentism and agriculture as they relate to the NDT. Skeletal data showed fairly stable trends in birth rates, instead of the expected increase and decrease in values. This discrepancy calls into question the validity of previous studies. The stable population levels suggest that sedentism alone was not the primary driver of the NDT.
Subjects/Keywords: Archaeology; Asian history; Ancient history
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Noxon, C. (2017). Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography. (Thesis). Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329
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Noxon, Corey. “Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography.” 2017. Thesis, Florida Atlantic University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329.
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Noxon, Corey. “Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography.” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Noxon C. Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography. [Internet] [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329.
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Noxon C. Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography. [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329
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University of Colorado
15.
Doi, Risako.
Beyond the Greater Learning for Women: Instructional Texts (Joshiyo orai) and Norms for Women in Early Modern Japan.
Degree: MA, History, 2011, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/hist_gradetds/7
► This thesis aims to further our understanding of norms and education for women in early modern Japan by investigating exemplary women and the practice…
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▼ This thesis aims to further our understanding of norms and education for women in early modern Japan by investigating exemplary women and the practice of reading and writing by women discussed in joshiyo orai, published primers written for women in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868). I argue that social expectations for women constantly changed in Tokugawa Japan due to multiple social forces such as the rise of commercialism, increased literacy, and the nuclearization of peasant families. As a result, some acts that were considered unconventional in the early years came to be justified in the later years as acts that conformed to sanctioned values of chastity, filial piety, and moral cultivation. I also demonstrate that conforming to those social norms enabled some women to be active outside the home and household and, in some cases, ironically enabled them to deviate from the social norms of their time.
Advisors/Committee Members: Marcia A. Yonemoto, Timothy B. Weston, Miriam L. Kingsberg.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian History; History; Women's Studies
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Doi, Risako. “Beyond the Greater Learning for Women: Instructional Texts (Joshiyo orai) and Norms for Women in Early Modern Japan.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Colorado. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/hist_gradetds/7.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Doi, Risako. “Beyond the Greater Learning for Women: Instructional Texts (Joshiyo orai) and Norms for Women in Early Modern Japan.” 2011. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Doi R. Beyond the Greater Learning for Women: Instructional Texts (Joshiyo orai) and Norms for Women in Early Modern Japan. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Colorado; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/hist_gradetds/7.
Council of Science Editors:
Doi R. Beyond the Greater Learning for Women: Instructional Texts (Joshiyo orai) and Norms for Women in Early Modern Japan. [Masters Thesis]. University of Colorado; 2011. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/hist_gradetds/7

Iowa State University
16.
Waldrop, Nick.
Educating the enemy: Chinese students and the Sino-American Cold War, 1948-1955.
Degree: 2016, Iowa State University
URL: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15215
► In response to the People’s Republic of China’s intervention in the Korean War, the United States terminated education exchange programs and detained scientifically and technically…
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▼ In response to the People’s Republic of China’s intervention in the Korean War, the United States terminated education exchange programs and detained scientifically and technically trained Chinese students and intellectuals living in America. This response was partly an exigency of the war but was also reflective of the broader Sino-American Cold War. Utilizing archival material from the Truman and Eisenhower Presidential Archives, as well as published government documents, this paper traces the shifting patterns of American thought regarding education exchange and the utility of Chinese intellectuals and argues that the American government politicized Chinese students as early as the remission of the Boxer Indemnity Fund in 1905 but came to actively utilize them during the Cold War in an attempt to wage an intellectual war against the PRC. By retaining Chinese students, the United States hoped to deny China advanced scientific and technical information. It also finds that the pressures of constraining a large cohort of stateless individuals, whose technically illegal residence in the United States placed considerable administrative and financial burdens on the American government, led, in part, to enactment of immigration reforms during the early to mid-1950s.
Subjects/Keywords: History; Asian American Studies; History
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Waldrop, N. (2016). Educating the enemy: Chinese students and the Sino-American Cold War, 1948-1955. (Thesis). Iowa State University. Retrieved from https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15215
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Waldrop, Nick. “Educating the enemy: Chinese students and the Sino-American Cold War, 1948-1955.” 2016. Thesis, Iowa State University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15215.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Waldrop, Nick. “Educating the enemy: Chinese students and the Sino-American Cold War, 1948-1955.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Waldrop N. Educating the enemy: Chinese students and the Sino-American Cold War, 1948-1955. [Internet] [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15215.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Waldrop N. Educating the enemy: Chinese students and the Sino-American Cold War, 1948-1955. [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2016. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15215
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Utah State University
17.
Spencer, Patricia Annamaria.
Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948).
Degree: MA, History, 2013, Utah State University
URL: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463
► The Indian labor diaspora that settled in Malaya, now known as Malaysia, was a diaspora that was used to further colonial ambitions. Large scale…
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▼ The Indian labor diaspora that settled in Malaya, now known as Malaysia, was a diaspora that was used to further colonial ambitions. Large scale agricultural projects required a workforce that Malaya did not have. South Indian peasants from the untouchable Madrasi caste were taken to Malaya, initially, as indentured servants. When indenture was abolished, they were engaged as contract workers. Inferiority and backwardness were common colonial perceptions that were held against them. These laborers were exploited by the British as they had no bargaining power or the ability to demand more than a meager wage.
World War II redefined the way these laborers started to view the British. Having suffered defeat in the hands of the Japanese, the colonial power retreated meekly. This was a significant development as it removed the veil of British dominance in the eyes of a formerly docile people. When the British returned to Malaya after the war, it was a more defiant Indian labor community who greeted them. These wanted more concessions. They wanted citizenship, better wages and living conditions. They wanted a future that did not retain them on the rubber estates but one where they could finally shed their subaltern roots and achieve upward mobility.
This new defiance was met with antagonism by the colonial power whose main concern was to get the lucrative but stalled rubber industry up and running again. The destitution and impoverishment suffered by the Indians during the war was ignored as they were rounded up like cattle to be put to work again on the estates.
When their demands were not met, Indian laborers joined forces with the heavily Communist influenced Chinese migrant community to go on strikes, the strongest weapon they had at their disposal. The creation of the All Malayan Rubber Workers' Council, a predominantly Indian trade union, is essential in showing how Indian labor became a threat to the British that they eventually had to retaliate with draconian military suppression through the imposition of the Emergency in 1948.
Archival material from the Malaysian National Archives, The National Archives of the United Kingdom, the Labor
History and Archive Study Center at the People's
History Museum in the United Kingdom, and the Hull
History Center in the United Kingdom, were analyzed to present an alternate narrative as opposed to the colonial narrative, in recognizing and attributing a modern spirit and agency amongst this formerly docile labor diaspora. This work presents the events of 1945-1948 as a time when Indians rejected the colonial perception of them as an inferior people, and challenged the colonial power. However, their efforts were subverted by the British and by doing so, the British ensured the maintenance of a labor diaspora that would continue to be exploited by those who ruled over them.
Advisors/Committee Members: Edward Glatfelter, James Sanders, Colleen O'Neill, ;.
Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial; subaltem; Asian History; History
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Spencer, Patricia Annamaria. “Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948).” 2013. Masters Thesis, Utah State University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Spencer, Patricia Annamaria. “Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948).” 2013. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Spencer PA. Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948). [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Utah State University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463.
Council of Science Editors:
Spencer PA. Malaya's Indian Tamil Labor Diaspora: Colonial Subversion of Their Quest for Agency and Modernity (1945-1948). [Masters Thesis]. Utah State University; 2013. Available from: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1463
18.
Hsieh, I-Yi.
Marketing Nostalgia| Beijing Folk Arts in the Age of Heritage Construction.
Degree: 2016, New York University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10139814
► This dissertation presents an analysis of the reconstruction of urban folk arts as cultural heritage in China. Focusing on material culture and folk performances…
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▼ This dissertation presents an analysis of the reconstruction of urban folk arts as cultural heritage in China. Focusing on material culture and folk performances revived in two Beijing folklore markets, the dissertation discusses the neoliberal marketization that coincides with urban commercial zoning in China since the 1980s. The dissertation examines the intertwined cultural and economic dimensions of collective nostalgia, urban marketization and heritage developmentalism. Based on ethnographic and archival research in Beijing from 2010 to 2015, the dissertation addresses China’s collaboration with UNESCO in world cultural heritage program. It looks closely at the process of cultural heritage marketization, which is geared toward a developmental agenda. Such a heritage construction appears in conjuncture with the rise of the new Chinese cultural industry and cultural entrepreneurship, reconfiguring the sociopolitical role of folk arts and folk artists in China. Through the ethnographic lens, the dissertation focuses on depicting the everyday life in contemporary Beijing surrounding folklore marketplaces. In particular, it describes material engagements established by connoisseurs and collectors in two major folklore markets, the Shilihe and the Panjiayuan market, demonstrating a new Chinese folklore connoisseurship that ascends and reconfigured in contemporary Beijing. This dissertation argues that the desire, and the collective effort, to overcome the post-Mao social and cultural transformation have materialized in the revival of folk traditions as marketized cultural heritage. It contends that the ascending cultural market propels the hope of national rejuvenation while bringing about a new form of possessive individualism alongside the process of privatization.
Subjects/Keywords: Cultural anthropology; Asian history; Asian studies
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Hsieh, I-Yi. “Marketing Nostalgia| Beijing Folk Arts in the Age of Heritage Construction.” 2016. Thesis, New York University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
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Hsieh, I-Yi. “Marketing Nostalgia| Beijing Folk Arts in the Age of Heritage Construction.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Hsieh I. Marketing Nostalgia| Beijing Folk Arts in the Age of Heritage Construction. [Internet] [Thesis]. New York University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10139814.
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Hsieh I. Marketing Nostalgia| Beijing Folk Arts in the Age of Heritage Construction. [Thesis]. New York University; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10139814
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Indiana University
19.
Kory, Stephan N.
Cracking to divine| Pyro-plastromancy as an archetypal and common mantic and religious practice in Han and medieval china.
Degree: 2012, Indiana University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3543218
► Pyro-plastromancy, the mantic art of cracking turtle plastrons with fire, is one of the earliest documented forms of divination in East Asian history. This…
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▼ Pyro-plastromancy, the mantic art of cracking turtle plastrons with fire, is one of the earliest documented forms of divination in East Asian history. This dissertation springs from the simple thesis that the divinatory cracking of turtle plastrons remained a living mantic and religious tradition in first-millennium CE China. Theoretical insights from the modern academic fields of semiotic, literary, cultural, and religious studies are utilized to help construct a multi-dimensional approach able to account for the methods, functions, institutions, and theories associated with the technique. These dimensions are separately and diachronically analyzed in the body of the dissertation to set up a number of brief comparative and synchronic views of pyro-plastromancy set in more circumscribed Han and medieval Chinese milieus. Pyro-plastromancy is not just any form of Chinese divination; it is the archetypal model, as reflected in the pervasive use of the pyro-osteomantic (divination with fire and bone) and pyro-plastromantic term <i>bu</i> for all divination. As the historically earliest form of royal divination, the divinatory cracking of bones and shells possessed a special political and religious authority as the high orthodox form of divination, even when much cheaper and hence popularly accessible arts like achilleomancy (divination with yarrow stalks) and hemerology (the determination of auspicious dates) became dominant. For academic purposes, the study of a semi-ossified form of orthodox divination is an ideal place to attempt a truly multi-dimensional analysis, because while all the features of a developed and socially sanctioned mantic activity were present, its scope and evolution was relatively limited. This dissertation concludes that the divinatory cracking of turtle plastrons persisted as potent source of cultural capital, served as a focal point of institutional and popular mantic and religious interaction, and flourished as an archetypal and common way to access culturally constructed notions of divine or spiritual power in Han and medieval China.
Subjects/Keywords: Literature, Asian; Religion, History of; Asian Studies
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Kory, Stephan N. “Cracking to divine| Pyro-plastromancy as an archetypal and common mantic and religious practice in Han and medieval china.” 2012. Thesis, Indiana University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kory, Stephan N. “Cracking to divine| Pyro-plastromancy as an archetypal and common mantic and religious practice in Han and medieval china.” 2012. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kory SN. Cracking to divine| Pyro-plastromancy as an archetypal and common mantic and religious practice in Han and medieval china. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3543218.
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Kory SN. Cracking to divine| Pyro-plastromancy as an archetypal and common mantic and religious practice in Han and medieval china. [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2012. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3543218
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Indiana University
20.
Tsai, Wei-chieh.
Mongolization of Han Chinese and Manchu Settlers in Qing Mongolia, 1700-1911.
Degree: 2017, Indiana University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10283459
► Inspired by the recent approaches of the New Qing History school centering on ethnicity and empire and the South Chinese Studies school focusing on…
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▼ Inspired by the recent approaches of the New Qing History school centering on ethnicity and empire and the South Chinese Studies school focusing on local societies, this dissertation probes into Han Chinese and Manchu becoming Mongols in Qing Mongolia using the Qing archives in Mongolian, Manchu, and Chinese preserved in Mongolia, China and Taiwan. This research focuses on two case studies: 1) Descendants of Han Chinese settlers in Outer and Inner Mongolia; 2) Offspring of Manchu bondservants as human dowry in Inner Mongolia. These groups of Han Chinese and Manchu settlers migrated, legally or not, to Mongolia since the seventeenth century. They married with local Mongolian people, raised children, and learned the Mongol way of life in Mongolia. Ultimately, they and their offspring even acquired Mongol status, which is considered the most important marker of mongolization. The Great Shabi as the estate of the Jibzundamba Khutugtu and the Manchu-Mongol marital alliance are also discussed in this dissertation as the main mechanisms facilitating the identity and status changes. Intermarriage and Buddhist belief were the two criteria for those Han Chinese and Manchu settlers and their offspring to be integrated into Qing Mongolian society. The immigration of those Han Chinese and Manchu settlers into Mongolia was initiated by the Qing government, but the Qing government wanted to keep the occurance of mongolization at a minimal level. This research draws a parallel between the problems of nativization faced by the Qing and Russian empires, and provides a case study to compare Han Chinese settlers in Inner Asia and Southeast Asia to explore different modes of Han Chinese migration. In the end, this dissertation argues that the ethnicity in late imperial and modern China is a negotiation between the religious and livelihood decisions for the Han Chinese settlers or state service for the Manchu settlers, the social institution of the Mongolian local authority, and the rules of the Qing state.
Subjects/Keywords: Cultural anthropology; Asian history; Asian studies
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Tsai, W. (2017). Mongolization of Han Chinese and Manchu Settlers in Qing Mongolia, 1700-1911. (Thesis). Indiana University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10283459
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tsai, Wei-chieh. “Mongolization of Han Chinese and Manchu Settlers in Qing Mongolia, 1700-1911.” 2017. Thesis, Indiana University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10283459.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tsai, Wei-chieh. “Mongolization of Han Chinese and Manchu Settlers in Qing Mongolia, 1700-1911.” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Tsai W. Mongolization of Han Chinese and Manchu Settlers in Qing Mongolia, 1700-1911. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10283459.
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Council of Science Editors:
Tsai W. Mongolization of Han Chinese and Manchu Settlers in Qing Mongolia, 1700-1911. [Thesis]. Indiana University; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10283459
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21.
Goehrke, April M.
Ero ka? Guro nanoka? Erotic Grotesque Nonsense and Escalation in Mass Culture.
Degree: 2018, New York University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750861
► With its roots in 1920’s and 30’s Japan, the term eroguro nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) refers to an artistic movement with an aesthetic that…
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▼ With its roots in 1920’s and 30’s Japan, the term eroguro nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) refers to an artistic movement with an aesthetic that focuses on grotesque visuals and bizarre humor. My project is to examine the contemporary form of eroguro nansensu as an avenue for considering how mass culture changes and develops over time. Focusing on how mass culture changes is important because it could potentially illuminate breaks/openings where something can escape the hegemony of the culture industry. The method of change, and potential mode of escape from the culture industry that I identify here is <i>escalation</i>. Escalation both contains and explains mass culture’s propensity towards repetition but also allows for a certain amount of change. Eroguro nansensu may also have a unique place to reflect on and potentially critique the manga (comic) industry and what this says about Japanese culture more generally. While eroguro nansensu may be rejected by many due to the intensity of the erotic and grotesque imagery, or ignored as simply meaningless nonsense, there are enough artists and fans interested in this aesthetic that there is hidden potential here that I aim to bring into the light. Nonetheless, no extended scholarly work has yet been done on the contemporary revival of eroguro nansensu as a genre of manga in the last few decades of the 20th century. I am attempting to fill in some of that gap with my own analysis as well as by presenting information on contemporary eroguro nansensu as a mass culture movement, about which little has been written in English or Japanese to date. In my dissertation I begin with the historical background of eroguro nansensu, and proceed through analysis of its use of humor and aesthetics, all as a means of considering mass culture and its critique.
Subjects/Keywords: Cultural anthropology; Asian history; Asian studies
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Goehrke, April M. “Ero ka? Guro nanoka? Erotic Grotesque Nonsense and Escalation in Mass Culture.” 2018. Thesis, New York University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750861.
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Goehrke, April M. “Ero ka? Guro nanoka? Erotic Grotesque Nonsense and Escalation in Mass Culture.” 2018. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Goehrke AM. Ero ka? Guro nanoka? Erotic Grotesque Nonsense and Escalation in Mass Culture. [Internet] [Thesis]. New York University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750861.
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Council of Science Editors:
Goehrke AM. Ero ka? Guro nanoka? Erotic Grotesque Nonsense and Escalation in Mass Culture. [Thesis]. New York University; 2018. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750861
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22.
Maranan, Joven G.
Countdown to martial law| The U.S.-Philippine relationship, 1969-1972.
Degree: 2016, University of Massachusetts Boston
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10160224
► Between 1969 and 1972, the Philippines experienced significant political unrest after Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos’ successful reelection campaign. Around the same time, American President…
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▼ Between 1969 and 1972, the Philippines experienced significant political unrest after Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos’ successful reelection campaign. Around the same time, American President Richard Nixon formulated a foreign policy approach that expected its allies to be responsible for their own self-defense. This would be known as the Nixon Doctrine. This approach resulted in Marcos’ declaration of martial law in September 1972, which American officials silently supported. American officials during this time also noted Marcos’ serving of American business and military interests. Existing literature differed on the extent Marcos served what he thought were American interests. Stanley Karnow’s <i>In Our Image</i> noted that Marcos did not adequately serve American interests, noting that he sent an insignificant amount of soldiers to Vietnam. Karnow also did not mention business interests. Raymond Bonner’s <i>Waltzing with a Dictator </i> mentioned that Marcos was effective for serving American business and military interests. James Hamilton-Paterson’s <i> America’s Boy</i> agrees with Bonner’s assessment, also noting that Marcos served American business and military interests. Materials from the <i>Digital National Security Archive</i> (DNSA) and <i> Foreign Relations of the United States</i> (FRUS) series affirmed Bonner and Hamilton-Paterson’s position, while noting that Karnow’s work was outdated because of the limited information he had when <i>In Our Image</i> was published. There are three issues that concerned the U.S.-Philippine relationship under President Marcos during this time. The first issue was the societal and political unrest that threatened to undermine Marcos. The second issue concerned U.S. officials’ application of the Nixon Doctrine to the Philippines. The third regarded President Marcos’ serving of military and business interests in the Philippines. Marcos supported maintaining America’s Filipino bases, which were important hubs of American military operations during the Vietnam War. In addition to military interests, President Marcos also aided American businesses in the Philippines, by removing restrictions that threatened American business activity. Each of these concerns led to President Marcos’ declaration of martial law. American officials’ tacit support for Marcos reflected their commitment to the Nixon Doctrine, which ensured political stability that preserved American business and military interests.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; American history; Modern history
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Maranan, Joven G. “Countdown to martial law| The U.S.-Philippine relationship, 1969-1972.” 2016. Thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston. Accessed March 06, 2021.
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Maranan, Joven G. “Countdown to martial law| The U.S.-Philippine relationship, 1969-1972.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
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Maranan JG. Countdown to martial law| The U.S.-Philippine relationship, 1969-1972. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Massachusetts Boston; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10160224.
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Maranan JG. Countdown to martial law| The U.S.-Philippine relationship, 1969-1972. [Thesis]. University of Massachusetts Boston; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10160224
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University of California – Berkeley
23.
Lipscomb, Leigh-Ashley.
Housing the Truth: The Archived Legacy of Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste.
Degree: Asian Studies, 2011, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g14z6bj
► Based on testimony and documentation in the archives of Timor-Leste and Indonesia, participant observation and interviews with key actors in the transitional justice process, this…
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▼ Based on testimony and documentation in the archives of Timor-Leste and Indonesia, participant observation and interviews with key actors in the transitional justice process, this study seeks to document and analyze the fate of the thousands of stories that were given by the Timorese and Indonesian people to transitional justice institutions established by Timor-Leste since 1999. By tracing the life of these stories and their tropes, these institutions' truth-telling processes will be assessed. Key analytical questions include: How do transitional justice institutions create and express "truth" narratives, and how are those forms of expression relative to the local cultural context? What are victims' and perpetrators' roles in the creation, transformation and preservation of these narratives? What becomes of these stories after the institutional truth-seeking mandates end? Finally, what can the study of Timor-Leste teach us about truth-telling in other post-conflict states? This study will document both the synchronization and discord of local knowledge with the production of universal narratives of justice in Timor-Leste through the transitional justice process. Interlocutors, referred to as narrative centers, are shown to be indispensible animators of truth-telling and loci for bringing victims' truths from the margins to the centers of national discourses.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian studies; Asian history; Asian literature; East Timor; Transitional Justice
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Lipscomb, L. (2011). Housing the Truth: The Archived Legacy of Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste. (Thesis). University of California – Berkeley. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g14z6bj
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Lipscomb, Leigh-Ashley. “Housing the Truth: The Archived Legacy of Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste.” 2011. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g14z6bj.
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Lipscomb, Leigh-Ashley. “Housing the Truth: The Archived Legacy of Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste.” 2011. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lipscomb L. Housing the Truth: The Archived Legacy of Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g14z6bj.
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Lipscomb L. Housing the Truth: The Archived Legacy of Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2011. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8g14z6bj
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Princeton University
24.
Walsh, Brian P.
The rape of Tokyo| Legends of mass sexual violence and exploitation during the occupation of Japan.
Degree: 2016, Princeton University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10120354
► Much recent writing on the Occupation of Japan has challenged the traditional picture of a well-disciplined American army laying the groundwork for Japan’s transition…
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▼ Much recent writing on the Occupation of Japan has challenged the traditional picture of a well-disciplined American army laying the groundwork for Japan’s transition to democracy by the example of its behavior. Instead it depicts the Occupation, especially its opening phase, as marred by the widespread rape of Japanese women by American servicemen. In addition, many writers claim the United States encouraged, requested or even ordered the Japanese government to establish brothels for its troops. Copious documentation of American behavior from both Japanese and American sources does not support such claims. Rather, it makes very clear that though there were a fair number of reported rapes of Japanese women by American and other Allied servicemen, stories of mass rape during any period of the Occupation, including its opening phase, are simply not credible. In addition the contemporary record suggests that American authorities regarded prostitution not as a benefit for their troops, but as an entrenched social problem which they tolerated reluctantly. This raises the question of how such stories became incorporated into the mainstream. Part of the reason for this was the psychic environment in which these stories were originally created. There is an innate and deep-seated association between rape and war in the human psyche. The Japanese understanding of war in the mid-twentieth century reinforced this association. Rape also served as a metaphor for the American conquest of Japan. GHQ robbed Japanese men of their control of women’s sexuality. Many women then used their sexual autonomy to consort with American soldiers. To many this seemed like a hypocritical seizure of Japanese women, a rape of sorts. Shortly after the Occupation ended a leftist anti-American propaganda campaign and a boom in exploitation literature coincided to produce a great number of works purporting to be true exposes of American cruelties. Though these books are wholly unreliable, and contradict contemporary evidence, many have been incorporated into mainstream history. This is an error. Stories of mass rape and organized sexual exploitation during the Occupation are better understood as metaphoric expressions of the humiliation of defeat, occupation and continuing diplomatic subordination, than as history.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian studies; History; Gender studies
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Walsh, B. P. (2016). The rape of Tokyo| Legends of mass sexual violence and exploitation during the occupation of Japan. (Thesis). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10120354
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Walsh, Brian P. “The rape of Tokyo| Legends of mass sexual violence and exploitation during the occupation of Japan.” 2016. Thesis, Princeton University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
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Walsh, Brian P. “The rape of Tokyo| Legends of mass sexual violence and exploitation during the occupation of Japan.” 2016. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
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Walsh BP. The rape of Tokyo| Legends of mass sexual violence and exploitation during the occupation of Japan. [Internet] [Thesis]. Princeton University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10120354.
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Walsh BP. The rape of Tokyo| Legends of mass sexual violence and exploitation during the occupation of Japan. [Thesis]. Princeton University; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10120354
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25.
Sanchez, Mary Grace.
Mail order brides| A M.O.B. of their own.
Degree: 2015, California State University, Long Beach
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1587313
► In this thesis, I explore two works from Mail Order Brides/M.O.B., <i> A Public Message for Your Private Life </i>(1998) and <i>Mail Order Bride…
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▼ In this thesis, I explore two works from Mail Order Brides/M.O.B., <i> A Public Message for Your Private Life </i>(1998) and <i>Mail Order Bride of Frankenstein</i> (2003), that take into account the histories and identities produced within Filipino/a American Communities. I use Sarita Echavez See and Emily Noelle Ignacio's theories on parody to analyze the performative aspects of M.O.B's artworks. According to See and Ignacio, parody can be utilized as a tool to simultaneously form solidarity within Filipino American communities. By examining these ideas, I argue that M.O.B. performs appropriated representations of their ethnic and assimilated cultures by using parody to critique and problematize often-misrepresented individual and cultural identities.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian American Studies; Art History
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Sanchez, M. G. (2015). Mail order brides| A M.O.B. of their own. (Thesis). California State University, Long Beach. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1587313
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Sanchez, Mary Grace. “Mail order brides| A M.O.B. of their own.” 2015. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach. Accessed March 06, 2021.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sanchez, Mary Grace. “Mail order brides| A M.O.B. of their own.” 2015. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Sanchez MG. Mail order brides| A M.O.B. of their own. [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1587313.
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Sanchez MG. Mail order brides| A M.O.B. of their own. [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2015. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1587313
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San Jose State University
26.
Boyd, Morgan Gerard.
The Gold Mountain Theater Riots a social history of Chinese theater riots in San Francisco during the 1870s and 1880s.
Degree: 2013, San Jose State University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1533005
► During the 1870s and 1880s, San Francisco's Chinese theaters were scenes of tumultuous riots, which this thesis has designated as The Gold Mountain Theater…
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▼ During the 1870s and 1880s, San Francisco's Chinese theaters were scenes of tumultuous riots, which this thesis has designated as The Gold Mountain Theater Riots. City petitions and ordinances restricting the performances of Chinese theaters, police raids on Chinese theaters when they did not comply with these ordinances, stampedes caused by panics, and tong and Chinese theater rivalries were all catalysts for violence in America's first Chinese theaters. The Gold Mountain Theater Riots attempts to gain further knowledge of why these extra-theatrical events occurred, through the examination of Chinese audiences and the police involved in these theater riots as reported in San Francisco Newspapers during this era.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian American Studies; Theater History
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Boyd, M. G. (2013). The Gold Mountain Theater Riots a social history of Chinese theater riots in San Francisco during the 1870s and 1880s. (Thesis). San Jose State University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1533005
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Boyd, Morgan Gerard. “The Gold Mountain Theater Riots a social history of Chinese theater riots in San Francisco during the 1870s and 1880s.” 2013. Thesis, San Jose State University. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1533005.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Boyd, Morgan Gerard. “The Gold Mountain Theater Riots a social history of Chinese theater riots in San Francisco during the 1870s and 1880s.” 2013. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Boyd MG. The Gold Mountain Theater Riots a social history of Chinese theater riots in San Francisco during the 1870s and 1880s. [Internet] [Thesis]. San Jose State University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1533005.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Boyd MG. The Gold Mountain Theater Riots a social history of Chinese theater riots in San Francisco during the 1870s and 1880s. [Thesis]. San Jose State University; 2013. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1533005
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
27.
Morgan, Daniel Patrick.
Knowing heaven| Astronomy, the calendar, and the sagecraft of science in early imperial China.
Degree: 2014, The University of Chicago
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3606338
► This dissertation is a series of textual case studies on nontraditional sources for <i>li</i>[special characters omitted]"calendro-astronomy" circa 250 BCE - 250 CE: (1) the…
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▼ This dissertation is a series of textual case studies on nontraditional sources for <i>li</i>[special characters omitted]"calendro-astronomy" circa 250 BCE - 250 CE: (1) the silk manuscript guide to military planetary astronomy/astrology <i>Wuxing zhan</i>[special chracters omitted] (168 BCE), (2) excavated calendars and state <i>li</i> manuals, and (3) the <i>Jin shu</i>'s [special characters omitted] record of the debate surrounding a failed attempt at li reform in 226 CE. This selection affords us a number of unique cross sections through the astral sciences. Balancing transmitted with excavated sources, I emphasize realia and their perspective on era technical knowledge, the formats in which it was produced and consumed, and its transmission and practice beyond an elite court-centered context. In addition to the three elements of <i>li</i> – calendrics, eclipses, and planetary astronomy – my selection draws together the broad array of astral sciences, exploring distinctions in genre, sociology, and epistemology between, for example, mathematical astronomy, hemerology, and omenology, and the (tortuous) processes by which knowledge moved between them. Each chapter also juxtaposes the normative descriptions of manual literature with products of practice—tables, calendars, and test results—to reflect upon the distance between them and, thus, the limitations of the former as historical testimony. Across these cross sections, my study focuses on the question of empiricism and progress. I foreground these topics <i>not</i> because they define twentieth-century notions of science but because, as I argue, they define early imperial notions of <i>li</i>—a point that our twenty-first-century aversion to positivism and Whig history tends to obscure. To this end, I catalog the conceptual vocabulary of observation and testing, submit empirical practices to mathematical and sociological analysis, and, most importantly, explore the formation and function of legend—the histories of science that early imperial actors wrote and recounted in their own day. As it stands, the dissertation has four body chapters. Chapter 1 provides a history and sociology of the astral sciences in the Han, covering the sources, legend, and conceptual vocabulary of <i>li</i>, the history of Han li from the perspective of both ideas and institutional reforms, and a survey of participants' backgrounds, motivations, education, and epistemological contentions. Chapter 2 examines how the Wuxing zhan manuscript segregates and conflates distinct genres of planetary models, then sketches the subsequent history of these genres, showing how, despite seemingly opposite orientations to reality, actors gradually rewrote and reassessed (crude) hemerology-based omenological (<i>tianwen</i>[special characters omitted]) models through the lens of progress made in mathematical (<i>li</i>) ones. Chapter 3 explores a similar gulf that opened between astronomy and calendrics in this period, as well as the gulf between imperial…
Subjects/Keywords: Asian Studies; History of Science
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Morgan, D. P. (2014). Knowing heaven| Astronomy, the calendar, and the sagecraft of science in early imperial China. (Thesis). The University of Chicago. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3606338
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Morgan, Daniel Patrick. “Knowing heaven| Astronomy, the calendar, and the sagecraft of science in early imperial China.” 2014. Thesis, The University of Chicago. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3606338.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Morgan, Daniel Patrick. “Knowing heaven| Astronomy, the calendar, and the sagecraft of science in early imperial China.” 2014. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Morgan DP. Knowing heaven| Astronomy, the calendar, and the sagecraft of science in early imperial China. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3606338.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Morgan DP. Knowing heaven| Astronomy, the calendar, and the sagecraft of science in early imperial China. [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2014. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3606338
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UCLA
28.
Branstetter, John G.
Translational Moments: Citizenship in Meiji Japan.
Degree: Political Science, 2017, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/275806xg
► I argue that translational thinking is a vital mode of political thinking which harbors a basic democratic potential. I theorize translations as metaphorical relations which…
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▼ I argue that translational thinking is a vital mode of political thinking which harbors a basic democratic potential. I theorize translations as metaphorical relations which do not referentially link terms. Rather, I contend that translation creates an indeterminate relationship which allows words and images to appear where they are not supposed to. In this way, translation verifies the contingency of social order and reaffirms the axiom of equality. I argue that translation is therefore a political practice which creates moments of radical democratic potential. I demonstrate this by examining four historical episodes, or what I call “translational moments,” in the intense period of cultural and political change that followed Japan’s mid-19th century Meiji Restoration. Focusing on the translation of the word “citizen,” I examine how translation broke down or reinforced Tokugawa worldviews and assess the historical consequences of these disruptions. Moments one and two concretize my theoretical claims by focusing on the intertextual translation of the words “citizen” and citoyen from English and French into Japanese for the first time. I examine Fukuzawa Yukichi’s translation language for “citizen” in Conditions in the West, and Nakae Chōmin’s translation of citoyen in Rousseau’s Social Contract. Moments three and four demonstrate the expansiveness of translation as a poetic activity by examining the translation of the language of citizenship into actual social practice. I first look at the spread of rhetoric in the debating associations of the Freedom and Popular Rights Movement to understand the ways in which they transformed standards of valid public speech. Finally, I explore the appearance of women in the public sphere through Kishida Toshiko’s speeches and the growth of women’s employment in silk and cotton mills. I show how the Confucian discourse of the family constrained the democratic potential of their appearances in public.
Subjects/Keywords: Political science; Asian studies; History
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Branstetter, John G. “Translational Moments: Citizenship in Meiji Japan.” 2017. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/275806xg.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Branstetter, John G. “Translational Moments: Citizenship in Meiji Japan.” 2017. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Branstetter JG. Translational Moments: Citizenship in Meiji Japan. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/275806xg.
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Branstetter JG. Translational Moments: Citizenship in Meiji Japan. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2017. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/275806xg
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University of California – Santa Cruz
29.
Tai, Jeremy.
Opening Up the Northwest: Reimagining Xi'an and the Modern Chinese Frontier.
Degree: History, 2015, University of California – Santa Cruz
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/87z489hj
► This study examines how different ideological regimes in modern China have all responded to crises, whether economic, territorial, or spiritual, by extending state power and…
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▼ This study examines how different ideological regimes in modern China have all responded to crises, whether economic, territorial, or spiritual, by extending state power and accumulation strategies into the northwestern corner of the country. Histories of modern China have typically turned to eastern centers of state and colonial power, especially Beijing and Shanghai, for an index of economic development and modernity. I show how Northwest China, a seemingly remote backwater, has figured prominently in political economy over the long twentieth century. The dissertation demonstrates how economic planning in China was born not in the People’s Republic, but during the Great Depression when the Northwest became the first of a series of focal regions created to transfer capital and population from the coast. “Opening Up the Northwest” was followed by three campaigns launched in the name of correcting regional inequality in the People’s Republic of China: the First Five Year Plan (1953-1957), the Third Front (1964-1980), and, most recently, “Open Up the West” (2000-present). My dissertation contributes a cultural and historical perspective to conversations among geographers and political scientists about the growing importance of regional economies as subnational scales of territorial organization. Through a panorama of state campaigns in the Northwest representing fascist, communist, and neoliberal ideologies, my project shows how Chinese leaders have garnered national support by constructing fantasies that speak to the cultural and environmental particularities of the region. State-builders have often inspired a nation to head to the Northwest by likening this region to “virgin land” in the American West or reminding their audiences of past glory along the ancient Silk Road. Beyond the gaze of state authorities, my work delves into complex experiences inflected by gender, class, and ethnicity in the regional center of Xi’an. A closer look at these historical moments reveals the realities of underdevelopment, the dispossession of ethnic minorities and agricultural communities, orphans forcibly recruited for settler colonialism, traditional virtues imposed on “Modern Girls,” the criminalization of refugees and migrants, and accelerated environmental degradation. My work contributes to the growing literature on everyday life in China, using the local histories of Xi’an and its environs to show how the material instantiations of modernity always fall short of the desires they engender no matter where they take place.
Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Geography; Urban planning
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Tai, J. (2015). Opening Up the Northwest: Reimagining Xi'an and the Modern Chinese Frontier. (Thesis). University of California – Santa Cruz. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/87z489hj
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tai, Jeremy. “Opening Up the Northwest: Reimagining Xi'an and the Modern Chinese Frontier.” 2015. Thesis, University of California – Santa Cruz. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/87z489hj.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tai, Jeremy. “Opening Up the Northwest: Reimagining Xi'an and the Modern Chinese Frontier.” 2015. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Tai J. Opening Up the Northwest: Reimagining Xi'an and the Modern Chinese Frontier. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Santa Cruz; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/87z489hj.
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Tai J. Opening Up the Northwest: Reimagining Xi'an and the Modern Chinese Frontier. [Thesis]. University of California – Santa Cruz; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/87z489hj
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UCLA
30.
Apter, Norman D.
Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China.
Degree: History, 2013, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7645h3t1
► This dissertation examines the development of child welfare in twentieth-century China, and interprets those developments within the context of China's long history. The first chapter…
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▼ This dissertation examines the development of child welfare in twentieth-century China, and interprets those developments within the context of China's long history. The first chapter traces government efforts to provide support for indigent or abandoned children from the Southern Song Dynasty in the 13th century CE to the early Republican era in the 20th century. The Song government provided grain and other forms of assistance to destitute families and encouraged the adoption of abandoned children. Such initiatives were abandoned after the collapse of the Song dynasty, and revived only in the early Qing dynasty. In the Qing, however, members of a newly formed merchant-gentry elite took the lead in providing relief for foundlings; the Qing state encouraged these works through the provision of supplementary monetary support and honorary plaques. Government relief efforts were intensified and broadened after the devastation accompanying the Taiping upheaval in the mid-19th century. Thereafter, reformers began to focus greater attention on education and life skills, a trend that intensified in the 1910s and `20s when government officials and private activists endeavored to turn poor and indigent children into healthy and productive modern citizens. Chapter 2 traces child relief efforts in Shanghai during the Republican period. Rapid urbanization and the growing disparity between rich and poor motivated Chinese officials, business leaders, education reformers as well as Western expatriates to organize relief efforts and vocational educational opportunities for dependent children. State-private collaboration continued in supporting homes for abandoned infants, poor and orphaned children, and street urchins. Private institutions dominated relief work throughout the period, but the Republican government became increasingly involved in coordinating and supervising relief efforts after establishing the Social Affairs Bureau in 1930. Police and public health officials worked together to improve neonatal services for the destitute, to discourage child abandonment and infanticide, and to place street urchins in homes and give them vocational training. Chapter 3 concentrates on the impact of the Sino-Japanese war from 1937 to 1945 on government and private child welfare programs. The sheer numbers of displaced persons and "warphans" compelled the state and civic leaders to organize and coordinate relief efforts on a far greater scale than ever before. Relief efforts were combined with educational services to train poor and destitute children in the hope of transforming them into useful and public-minded modern citizens. Chapter 4 analyzes the intensification of Republican-era trends in the Maoist period (1949-1976), as the state created a hierarchy of welfare management agencies permeating society down to the county level. The state coordinated all communications media and a series of mass campaigns with the goal of transforming parentless children and homeless youths into healthy, loyal, hard-working, and productive citizens.…
Subjects/Keywords: Asian history; Social work
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Apter, N. D. (2013). Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7645h3t1
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Apter, Norman D. “Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China.” 2013. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 06, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7645h3t1.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Apter, Norman D. “Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China.” 2013. Web. 06 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Apter ND. Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 06].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7645h3t1.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Apter ND. Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2013. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7645h3t1
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