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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Birobidjan - The Story Of The Jewish Autonomous Province Of South East Siberia
(1953-08-05)Much has been written about Jews in the Soviet Union in general, but little attention has been paid to the particular problem of the Jewish Autonomous Province of Birobidjan. The purpose of this study is to present an ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
City of the Turks: Urban Encounters in Vidyāpati's Kīrttilatā
This thesis study examines two main issues through a close examination of Vidyāpati Ṭhakura’s 15th century Avahaṭṭha text, the Kīrttilatā. The first issue revolves around the interactions and encounters of Hindus and Muslims ... -
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 ... -
Consonant Endings of MÃng Dynasty Mandarin as Reflected in the Chinese Transcriptions of Uyghur Vocabulary in Gāochāng guǎn zázì
This thesis is intended to provide a better understanding of MÃng 明 dynasty Mandarin (Guānhuà 官話) consonant endings as reflected in the Chinese transcriptions of Uyghur vocabulary in Gāochāng guǎn zázì 高昌館雜字, a MÃng ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Disability, Deviance, and Modernity in the Early Works of Edogawa Rampo
Japanese mystery fiction author Edogawa Rampo (1894-1965) frequently depicted disability in his novels. While some have criticized these works’ highly negative imaginings of disabled characters by appealing to contemporary ... -
Discursive Provocateurs
By setting hermeneutical analysis within contemporary discourse, this dissertation reveals that in the period from the end of World War II to the early 1980s globalization in Japan occurring under the auspices of the same ... -
Female Children in Medieval Japanese Noh Plays
(2014-04-30)Even though female characters play consequential roles in noh plays and have been analyzed, female children have not been a subject of research. Therefore, I am going to analyze female children in noh plays in terms of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ...