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A Fly in Amber: Carter’s Korea Troop Withdrawal & The Recasting of U.S. Hegemony and Korean Agency
During the long 1970s, the U.S.-ROK alliance underwent a highly contested process of reassessment and restructuring. President Jimmy Carter’s troop withdrawal policy was an important episode during which this larger process ... -
Altaic evidence for the Japanese and Korean case suffix systems
(1987)The dissertation discusses the evidence that the case suffixes preserve for the study of the genetic relationships of Japanese and Korean, in particular the light that they throw upon the question of the precise scenario ... -
Between State and Market: China's Development Banking in Comparative Perspective
In recent decades, China has been massively financing infrastructure projects around the world, building highways, railways, bridges, power plants and ports both domestically and overseas. Conventional wisdom sees this ... -
Bhāvaviveka's Prajnāpradīpa: six chapters
(1986)This dissertation contains an English translation of chapters three, four, five, seventeen, twenty-three, and twenty-six of Bhavaviveka's Prajnaprad(')ipa, as well as an edition of the Tibetan text. The Prajnaprad(')ipa ... -
Bolshevik agitation in the Russian Army: March through November, 1917
(1956)World War I ended a year earlier for Russia than for the other combatants: it had to, for by the end of 1917 the Russian Array no longer existed. The dissolution of this array during 1917 was inextricably bound- up with ... -
Build the Wall and Deplete Their Attention: How the Chinese Government’s Strategic Information Control Shapes Public Opinion and Maintains Regime Support
Although China bans Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, its own social media landscape has grown strong and evolves quickly. As of 2020, over 70% of the Chinese population were online. McKinsey reports China has become the ... -
Cambodia's relations with the United States and the People's Republic of China: |b The Cold War in Southeast Asia
(1966)The study of Cambodian foreign policy is instructive in several ways. The history of Cambodia's relations with the United States and China illustrates the many problems confronted by both the Big Powers and the small ... -
The Case of Kathputli: Implications of In-Situ Public Private Partnerships in Delhi
This thesis presents ethnographic research from Delhi, India to suggest novel ways in which citizenship is understood through the context of decades of liberalization and a marked legal emphasis on property and individual ... -
China's routes to Tibet during the early Qing Dynasty: a study of travel accounts
(1994)Prior to the 18th century Chinese knowledge of the route conditions from China Proper to Tibet was fragmentary and largely fictitious. It was only after the Kangxi Emperor's expedition in 1720 that accurate information ... -
Commerce and Quarantine in Baghdad: Contending Visions of Ottoman and British Imperialism in Iraq, 1862-1908
This thesis argues that in the second half of the 19th century, the Iraqi provinces of the Ottoman Empire constituted a frontier of imperial contestation between the Ottoman and British empires. The Ottoman Empire sought ... -
Common Altaic verbal suffixes in modern Uyghur
(1994)Although the Altaic theory established by the leading Altaists Ramstedt, Poppe and others on the basis of striking similarities existing among the Altaic languages gains support from most scholars in the field, there are ... -
Communist China in Latin America, 1949-1960
(1968)Although Chinese Communist interest in Latin America during the 1949-1960 period was overwhelmingly political, formal political contacts were almost nonexlstanto Chinese trade relations were generally politically motlvated, ... -
A Comparative Study of Mongolian Political Terminology
(1968)By Mongolian in the linguistic context, this study has in mind what has been referred to as East Mongolian,that is, the language whose various dialects are spoken by the tribes inhabiting the geographical areas of Inner ... -
Comparison of the basic doctrines of lay-Buddhism with the this-wordly philosophy of Confucius and Mencius
(1969)Buddhism and Confucianism are the two torches of Eastern civilization. Both of these religious are vital forces aiming at the development of benevolence, wisdom and guidance to a life of peace, happiness and. order. For ... -
Division to Unification: Concept of the Chinese Nation Behind Bilingual Education Policies in the Sichuan Tibetan Area
The imagination of the Chinese nation is a process continuing up to the present. As the Ethnic Classification Project was significant in the initial construction of the Chinese nation, education played an essential role ... -
Domestic Violence Law of China and the Institutional Design of Counter-DV Mechanism
Domestic violence (DV) is a pervasive social issue that requires efforts from multiple government departments and social groups to solve. It’s a disease that can be best tackled through a multi-agency counter-domestic ... -
Education Problems of Migrant Children in China
With the large-scale migration of the population and the migration of migrant workers into cities, migrant children’s education has become one of China’s current important issues in education. The paper first reviews the ... -
Fangsheng Landscape: The human-animal relationship in Nanjing
This thesis is an investigation of both human-animal relationship and a Buddhist ritual practice in modern China. Fangsheng, the Buddhist animal release, is very popular among lay Buddhists in Nanjing and other cities in ...