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Navigating the Complexity of Ethnicity: State-Sanctioned Narratives and Han Perception of Xinjiang in Contemporary China
In a nation-state composed of multiple ethnic groups like contemporary China, the complexities of relationships between the Han majority and minority groups become a critical subject of inquiry. This paper delves into these ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
How The “Red Terror” Arose: A Case Study of Hailufeng, 1927–1928
Marked by the random killing and plundering of landlords, gentry, and all “counter-revolutionaries”, the “Red Terror” prevailed from 1927 to 1930, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started its own road of revolution. ... -
Silent Messengers: Visualizing the Growth of Christianity in China by Chinese Christian Posters, 1927-1942
Christians in China experienced both the hopefulness and the hopelessness in 1930s China. The re-establishment of the Nanjing government in 1927 partially alleviated the fierce anti-Christian sentiments prevalent in China. ... -
Imagining Wu in the Han
This master’s thesis attempts to analyze the perception and understanding of the concept of wu 武 in the Han dynasty by exploring the relevant literary sources. It is divided into four subsections. In the “Institutional ... -
The Role of China’s State-owned Enterprises in Preserving Social Stability
As recent debates on China’s re-emphasis on the state sector mainly focused on economic profitability, this paper examines how much the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) contribute to social stability. Using a province-level ... -
Social Network and Legal Mobilization in China: A Case Study of The Network of Homeowners in City C
Legal mobilization in China is a crucial issue for the study of civil society under authoritarian regimes. Scholars have argued that formal institutions like the state’s promoting law projects, media and NGOs contribute ... -
The Cultural Lineage in the Field of Chinese Art Manifesting on Dong Qichang’s Work, Theory and Value
As an often-debated topic in literature and history, the power of cultural lineage in some ways also manifests itself in the field of art. The study of the cultural lineage traces the origin of the Chinese literati spirit ... -
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, ... -
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 reformation of the Russian Orthodox Church
(1966)In 1905-06, at a time when Russian society was undergoing a radical transformation, the Russian Orthodox Churchattempted its own reformation. The attempt failed, but the undertaking had significance nonetheless. It was the ... -
The development of the peasant commune in Russia
(1957)The subject of the origin and development of the peasant commune and of the practice of making a periodic redistribution of land is perhaps the most obscure and controversial question in the whole range of Russian history. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Franklin D. Roosevelt and United States policy toward Indochina during World War II
(1967)The history of the United States policy toward and involvement in what is now North and South Vietnam has been and remains a source of bitter debate. There are very few facts amicably agreed upon and even fewer volumes not ... -
North Korea’s Cyber Proxy Warfare: Origins, Strategy, and Regional Security Dynamics
North Korea has been viewed as the world’s most reclusive, repressive, and isolated country for the last 70 years. However, contrary to its undeveloped image, since the late 2000s, several governments, mainly the U.S. and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
From Sleepless in Seattle to "I Seoul U": How Korean Gay Men Narrative, Negotiate and Reproduce Discourses of Race, Culture, Religion and Sexual (In)Visibility
In both Seattle and Seoul, Korean gay men have often been constructed as marginal, whose perpetual invisibility to the public sphere has been attributed to intensely-heterosexist cultural configurations complicated by ...