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Commerce and Quarantine in Baghdad: Contending Visions of Ottoman and British Imperialism in Iraq, 1862-1908
This thesis argues that in the second half of the 19th century, the Iraqi provinces of the Ottoman Empire constituted a frontier of imperial contestation between the Ottoman and British empires. The Ottoman Empire sought ... -
Common Altaic verbal suffixes in modern Uyghur
(1994)Although the Altaic theory established by the leading Altaists Ramstedt, Poppe and others on the basis of striking similarities existing among the Altaic languages gains support from most scholars in the field, there are ... -
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, ... -
A Comparative Study of Mongolian Political Terminology
(1968)By Mongolian in the linguistic context, this study has in mind what has been referred to as East Mongolian,that is, the language whose various dialects are spoken by the tribes inhabiting the geographical areas of Inner ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Domestic Violence Law of China and the Institutional Design of Counter-DV Mechanism
Domestic violence (DV) is a pervasive social issue that requires efforts from multiple government departments and social groups to solve. It’s a disease that can be best tackled through a multi-agency counter-domestic ... -
Education Problems of Migrant Children in China
With the large-scale migration of the population and the migration of migrant workers into cities, migrant children’s education has become one of China’s current important issues in education. The paper first reviews the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
From the autobiographical to the surreal: the early fiction and zuihitsu of Uchida Hyakken
(2000)This dissertation is a re-evaluation of the 1920s--1940s fiction of the short story writer and Natsume Soseki disciple Uchida Hyakken (1889--1971), who underwent a literary revival in the 1980s. Previous scholars lamented ... -
From the Wellsweep to the Shallow Skiff: life and poetry of Wang Anshi (1021--1086)
(1986)Wang Anshi, who as prime minister oversaw imperial China's most massive economic and political reform program, was also one of the Northern Song dynasty's greatest writers of prose and verse. This study aims to introduce ... -
Guiguzi: a textual study and translation
(1985)The rather obscure early Chinese text Guiguzi is used in this study as a focus for the explication of an overall method of reading a Classical Chinese text. First, the study gives a textual history of this text, tracing ... -
The Hangzhou dialect
(1992)This dissertation is a description of the dialect of Hangzhou, including phonology, grammar, and lexicon. The history and classification of the dialect are also discussed. The data upon which the description is based was ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Investiture of the gods (Fengshen yanyi): sources, narrative structure, and mythical significance
(1987)This dissertation is a literary analysis of Fengshen yanyi, which is a popular Chinese classical novel depicting the fantastic adventures of Jiang Ziya and the military campaigns between the last evil king of the Shang ... -
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 ...