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Japanese literature after Sartre: Noma Hiroshi, Ōe Kenzaburō, and Mishima Yukio
(1997)This dissertation is an exploration of postwar Japanese literature written in the wake of Sartre's fiction as it was introduced in Japan. I focus on the work of Noma Hiroshi, Oe Kenzaburo, and Mishima Yukio. The postwar ... -
Kim Il Sung and the DPRK- USSR- PRC Triangle:The Creation of an Asian Dynasty in a Communist State
(2013-02-25)This paper will analyze Kim Il Sung's consolidation of power during the Cold War era in the context of the relationship between Moscow and Beijing as it related to North Korea. I will show the consolidation of Kim Il Sung's ... -
Language usage in Kyōgen
(1986)Kyogen is a traditional form of Japanese comic drama closely associated with the No, a tragic, symbolic and aristocratic form, which developed in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Kyogen is part of the ... -
Not so Black and White: Panda Conservation, Bile Farming and the Conflict between Cultural Traditions and Modern Values in China
(2013-11-14)This study examines the conservation of bears in China and compares two distinct cultural attitudes--the traditional utilitarian view of animals as resources to be used in service to humans, and the emerging view that ... -
The origins and development of jueju verse
(1991)One of the most popular and important of genres in the Chinese poetic tradition is the jueju, or quatrain. It is at first striking that such a brief and apparently minor form played such an important role in the poetic ... -
Pi Xirui and Jingxue lishi
(2004)Jingxue lishi (The History of Classical Scholarship) is a textbook that was written by a schoolteacher for the purpose of helping his students learn the subject that he taught. Pi Xirui (1850--1908) was more than a ... -
Poetry of exile and return: a study of Su Shi (1037-1101)
(1989)As one of the leading scholar-statesmen of the Northern Song (960-1127), Su Shi influenced the development of literary and cultural values during a critical formative period in Chinese history. Serving the court during a ... -
Revival of Indigenous Practices and Identity in 21st Century Inner Asia
Scholars and observers have noticed an emerging pattern in the world wherein communities that have suffered a period of cultural and religious repression, when faced with freedom, experience a sudden surge in certain aspects ... -
Sāmkok: a study of a Thai adaptation of a Chinese novel
(1983)Samkok is a translation of the Chinese novel San-kuo yen-i done by a team of translators headed by Chaophraya Phrakhlang (Hon). It was commissioned by King Rama I during a time of military and political change and was ... -
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the People's Republic of China: Security Function Growth is Occurring along Anti-Terrorism Lines.
(2014-04-30)I will argue that the SCO is not failing as security organization (as many have claimed) but is in fact pivoting towards security and intelligence functions aimed at repressing subversive elements and domestic threats under ... -
"A significant season": literature in a time of endings : Cài Yōng and a few contemporaries
(1997)The years 159 to 192 C.E., from the palace coup overthrowing Liang Ji to the assassination of Dong Zhuo, form a distinct epoch marked by sociopolitical calamities that presage the end of the Han era. Literary works by Cai ...