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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Bhāvaviveka's Prajnāpradīpa: six chapters
(1986)This dissertation contains an English translation of chapters three, four, five, seventeen, twenty-three, and twenty-six of Bhavaviveka's Prajnaprad(')ipa, as well as an edition of the Tibetan text. The Prajnaprad(')ipa ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Altaic evidence for the Japanese and Korean case suffix systems
(1987)The dissertation discusses the evidence that the case suffixes preserve for the study of the genetic relationships of Japanese and Korean, in particular the light that they throw upon the question of the precise scenario ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
China's routes to Tibet during the early Qing Dynasty: a study of travel accounts
(1994)Prior to the 18th century Chinese knowledge of the route conditions from China Proper to Tibet was fragmentary and largely fictitious. It was only after the Kangxi Emperor's expedition in 1720 that accurate information ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ...