Browsing Asian languages and literature by Subject "Asian studies"
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A Study of the Usages and Meanings of Ākāra in Abhidharma
This essay is a study of the term ākāra in terms of its usages and meanings in abhidharma. The term ākāra has a remarkably rich history of meaning. It can mean “appearance” and “way” in pre-abhidharmic Sanskrit and Pāli ... -
Adoption of Aspiration Feature in Sino-Korean Phonology
This dissertation examines the adoption of aspiration feature in Sino-Korean character readings. In broad usage, the term Sino-Korean refers to Chinese loanwords in Korean, but in this dissertation, it is used for a ... -
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 ... -
Forming the Image of Cheng Xuanying (ca.600-690)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the life of Cheng Xuanying 成玄英 (ca.600-690), a prominent Daoist of the early Tang 唐 court known for his Sub-commentary on Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi shu 莊子疏), of particular interest is Cheng's ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Manuscripts, Texts and Geographical Writings: A Study of Dunhuang Manuscript P.2005
This dissertation deals with Tang (618-907 A.D.) Dunhuang manuscripts, with a specific focus on the manuscript numbered P.2005 (Shāzhōu tújīng 沙州圖經) and its related historical-geographical materials. P.2005 is studied as ... -
Mind in Dispute: The Section on Mind in Harivarman’s *Tattvasiddhi
This dissertation is an in-depth study of the dispute on the doctrines regarding the structure of mind as recorded in the fourth century CE Abhidharma work, the *Tattvasiddhi (成實論, TatSid hereafter) by Harivarman. Despite ... -
Painting the Formless and Strumming the Soundless: Yang Xiong's Taixuan jing as Expression of the Absolute
This dissertation is a study of Yang Xiong’s (53 BCE–18 CE) Taixuan jing that attempts to incorporate philological methods with philosophical insights by situating the text within the intellectual and historical context ... -
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 ... -
Saigyo's "Six Elements and Four Mandalas" Sequence: The Story and Rhetoric of Enlightenment
This paper analyzes Saigyo's little-discussed waka cycle on the six elements and four mandalas of Shingon. I first introduce the sequence in the context of other similar works by Saigyo, then turn to a discussion of the ... -
The Formation and Circulation of Early Yanzi Lore, Fourth Century B.C. - Third Century A.D.
Abstract The Formation and Circulation of Early Yanzi Lore, Fourth Century B.C. - Third Century A.D. Li Yang Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor William G. Boltz Department of Asian Languages and Literature In ... -
The Problem of Philosophy in Classical Chinese Thought: the Text Zhuangzi as Case Study
This thesis is an attempt to look at the Zhuangzi and whether it can be appropriately understood as a philosophical text. The greater question is what is philosophy proper, and how has it been articulated in comparative ... -
A translation of Orikuchi Shinobu's Kuchibue
Orikuchi Shinobu's largely autobiographical novel Kuchibue (1914) is here translated into English for the first time. This translation is meant to introduce this important example of a well-known, non-heteronormative voice ... -
Wei-Jin Sacrificial Ballets: Reform versus Conservation
(2013-02-25)This dissertation examines the sixteen extant Wei-Jin sacrificial ballet hymns of Wang Can, Fu Xuan, Xun Xu, and Zhang Hua to discover the impetus for and significance of the changes in sacrificial hymns during the Wei-Jin ...