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Rediscovering Sound in Tao Yuanming’s (365-427?) Poetry: A Data-based Study of Jin Phonology and Poetic Patterns
Tao Yuanming, an outstanding Chinese poet, utilized exceptional sound patterns in his poetry. However, due to the evolution of Chinese phonology over time, these sound effects are often overlooked in contemporary readings ... -
Sentimental Letters in the Postal Age: Media, Communication, and Emotion in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Epistolary Literature and Culture
This thesis seeks to understand the discursive emergence of the intimate relationship between letters and sentimental feelings by examining various texts that are either composed of or about “sentimental letters” in early ... -
Referential Choices in Oral Narratives of Chinese among Immersion Learners
Much research has investigated the production of referring expressions made by bilingual children in terms of referential functions. Few studies have focused on bilingual Chinese-English children. This thesis explores the ... -
A Philological, Text Critical Reading of Sections of Chapter Five of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, Basic Questions
The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic is the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) medical text at the center of professional, literature-based medical practice in China for the last two-thousand years. Since the Song dynasty, roughly ... -
Crown-jewel of the Jain Canon:The Kalpa Sūtra in Mūrtipūjaka Jain Scholastic and Spiritual Life
My dissertation project traces the textual tradition of the Kalpa Sūtra, a scripture sacred to the Jain religious community in India. For well over a millennium this work—more than any other single sacred document in the ... -
Character Amnesia: A Sociolinguistic Study on the Different Effects in the Decline of Handwriting Literacy of Chinese Characters
In the past few years, researchers have begun to empirically study character amnesia, finally providing trial-tested answers for the phenomenon and relieving many from the reliance on anecdotal evidence, which was previously ... -
Constructions of Gender Identity in Kurahashi Yumiko's Seishōjo
Kurahashi Yumiko’s use of transgressive themes and her experimentalism in content and form throughout her works have been points of both controversy and scholarly interest. In Seishōjo (1965), Kurahashi takes the taboo ... -
The Sinitic Poetry of the Zen Abbess Taisei Shōan (1668-1712)
This dissertation is the first-ever in-depth study of the collection of Sinitic poetry composed by the Japanese Zen nun Taisei Shōan 大成聖安 (1668-1712). She was an imperial princess, an abbess of a prestigious Zen convent ... -
Hardening Phenomenon in the Xiāng Dialects
The focus of this study is on the hardening phenomenon found in the Xiāng dialects of the Chinese language family. According to Coblin (2011: 47), hardening is the phenomenon referring here to a previous dental, retroflex, ... -
Ge Hong and the Making of an Emergency Medicine Formulary
The Zhouhou beiji fang 肘後備急方 (Emergency formulas to keep on hand) was compiled in the fourth century by the Daoist, alchemist, and scholar, Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343) under the name Zhouhou jiucu 肘後救卒 ([Formulas for] resuscitation ... -
The Principles of Hewen 合文
When one reads the literature on hewen 合文 (a pre-Han type of ligation formed from two or more Chinese characters) the majority of it will correctly state that these "combined graphs" (as the term literally means) were used ... -
Postwar Japanese Humor: Dark Humor and Laughter After the Little Boy
This dissertation discusses dark humor in postwar Japanese culture, and examines the ways in which humor was used to assuage or avoid cultural trauma. This study provides a framework for understanding normative postwar ... -
The Golden Tower and Its Master: A Study of Xiao Yi’s (508–555) Jinlouzi (“Master of the Golden Tower”)
This is a study of the Jinlouzi (“Master of the Golden Tower”), a sixth century zishu (masters text), its compiler, Xiao Yi (508–555), and of the cultural and social contexts in which the text was produced. While most of ... -
Black-toothed Beauty: Teaching Gender and Hegemony in Heike monogatari
あっぱれ、みかたにはかねつける人はいないものを。 “Heavens! No one on our side blackens his teeth!” The above is the remark of a Minamoto soldier, upon encountering a suspiciously good-looking gentleman on his side of the lines during the battle ... -
At the Intersection of Script and Literature: Writing as Aesthetic in Modern and Contemporary Japanese-language Literature
This dissertation examines the dynamic relationship between written language and literary fiction in modern and contemporary Japanese-language literature. I analyze how script and narration come together to function as a ... -
A Phonological Study on the Rimes of Shagou ji
In this thesis I explore the rhyming patterns of Shāgǒu jì 殺狗記 [Killing a Dog], a representative work of southern drama, based on the Liùshà zhǒng qǔ 六十種曲 [The Sixty Plays] edition of the text, and establishes thirteen ... -
Common Yue: A Comparative Study of Yue Dialect Historical Phonology
Common Yue is a comparative study of the phonology of the Yuè dialects of Guǎngdōng and Guǎngxī. It draws upon the lexical studies and zìyīn 字音character reading data of 21 Yuè dialects as recorded in the fieldwork of ... -
Glottal Stop Initials and Nasalization in Sino-Vietnamese and Southern Chinese
Middle Chinese glottal stop Ying 影 [ʔ-] initials usually develop into zero initials with rare occasions of nasalization in modern day Sinitic languages and Sino-Vietnamese. Scholars such as Edwin Pullyblank (1984) and Jiang ... -
The Emotionology of Anger in Early Buddhist Literature: Through the Lens of a Gāndhārī Verse Text
This dissertation examines the early Buddhist attitude toward anger (G kros̱a, OIA krodha) through the lens of an unpublished verse text, hereafter referred to as the *Kros̱a-gas̱a, from a newly discovered collection of ... -
Understanding “Slandering”: A Study of Luo Yin’s Writings of Slandering
This thesis is an attempt to study a collection of fifty-eight short essays-Writings of Slandering-written and compiled by the late Tang scholar Luo Yin. The research questions are who are slandered, why are the targets ...