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Fall 2022
The Japanese language involves several quotative particles (similar to that in He said that … in English). Among these particles, two particles to and tte the most frequent ones. Previous studies have described that formality of conversation distinguishes these two particles (to is used in...
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The Revival of Public Shintō: Politics, Environmentalism, and Popular Culture in Contemporary Japan
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Shintō is often recognized as Japan’s indigenous religion embedded with Japanese animistic beliefs such as kami cults. However, upon investigation, Shintō is much more complex, as it constantly changes and transforms; even whether it independently existed in pre-modern Japan (before 1868) is up...
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Underground Rock Music in Inland Chinese Cities: An Ethnographic Study of the Music and Ideology of the Developing Zhengzhou Rock Music Scene, 2000-2023
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Rock music, a Western-originated popular music genre, has existed in mainland China for almost forty years. Emerging in Beijing during the tumultuous and rapidly changing social, political, and economic landscape of the 1980s, Chinese rock music voiced younger generations’ concerns about the...
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Fall 2023
Instant messaging, as a type of Internet-mediated communication, is prevalent in people’s daily lives. It allows people to use various multimodal resources—e.g., images, emojis, audio, and videos—to interact with each other remotely (Herring and Androutsopoulos, 2015). This research focuses on...
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A comparative study of clause combining strategies by Chinese L1 Japanese learners and Japanese native speakers
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The primary purpose of the present study is to compare the clause combining strategies used by Chinese L1 Japanese speakers and native Japanese speakers speaking Japanese. This study used storytelling data from the corpus I-JAS and involved both quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify...
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From Patricide and Child God to Revolutionary Martyr and Filial Son: Changing Ideological Representations of Nezha in Two Chinese Animated Films
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Through a comparative close reading of four Chinese animated films adapted from the story of Nezha, a Chinese patricide and child god best known from the Ming dynasty novel Creations of the Gods, this study examines how animated films about Nezha reflect changing ideologies about rebelliousness...
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The Collection of Dongpo's Joy of Chan: Su Shi's Buddhist Writings and Their Resonances in the Late Ming
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This thesis investigates the text and context of The Collection of Dongpo’s Joy of Chan (Dongpo chanxi ji 東坡禪喜集), a collection compiled in the late Ming 明 (1368-1644) in two editions that mainly contains Buddhist writings of Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101). Su Shi was one of the most prominent poets and...
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Fall 2023
The doctrine of akunin shōki has had a profound impact on Japanese religious and intellectual history. The idea that “the object of Amida’s salvation is evil people,” has a long history both within True Pure Land Buddhism (Jōdo Shinshū) and outside of it. I argue that, while there have been...
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The Records of Music: Confucian Ideology, Cosmology, and Self-Cultivation Practices in Western Han China
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This thesis investigates the Records of Music (Yue Ji 樂記), a treatise considered to be the earliest fully developed text on musical theory in Chinese history. Compiled during the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE), it was the work of Liu De 劉德, King Xian of Hejian 河間獻王, and his circle of...
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The Nuclear Future and Politics in the Postwar Asian Screens: A Comparative Close Analysis of Four Chinese and Japanese SF Films from 1954 to 1963
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In this thesis, I undertake a comparative analysis of the portrayal of the power of the nuclear and its envisioned future in four seminal Chinese and Japanese Science Fiction films from 1954 to 1963. These include Shisanling shuiku changxiangqu 十三陵水库畅想曲 (Ballad of the Ming Tombs Reservoir, d. Jin...