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China’s energy relations with Canada, Kazakhstan, and Russia: Discursive politics of energy
DownloadFall 2019
At the heart of my research is an interest in the interplay between politics and sociocultural contexts in international energy politics. I explore this interplay by examining the development of bilateral energy relations between China and three oil-rich countries – Canada, Kazakhstan, and...
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Fall 2021
This thesis is a comparative study toward lianhuanhua 连环画, or serial-picture storybook, applying two works by a Shanghai-based lianhuanhua painter, Zhao Hongben. The chosen lianhuanhua by Zhao Hongben were completed in different historical periods: The Republican era (1939) and the post-1949...
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2016-05-25
Cowden, Brenna, Lee, Alyssa, Pollock, Karen
Purpose: Adoptions of non-special needs children from China have decreased dramatically over the past decade, while adoptions from the Waiting Child program have increased. Waiting children have identified medical needs or are over the age of 10 years. The purpose of this study was to determine...
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2020-09-28
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: This project investigates how medieval Japanese monastics from Nara-area schools performed cultic practices. But it is also concerned with how modern scholars treat the "lived religion" of those practices. My focus on creative syntheses of material, visual, and ritual...
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Dispossession and Accumulation in an Ethnic Minority Border Region: The Kazakh Project in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
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This study examines Altay Prefecture, one of China’s border regions inhabited by ethnic Kazakhs, as a case to elucidate how the Chinese state has achieved dispossession and accumulation through the management of ethnicity and culture in an ethnic minority region. Within the framework of a case...
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Europe going green? The European Union's promotion of a global mitigation norm on climate change
Fall 2011
Greenhouse gas emissions need to peak by 2020 to avoid dangerous climate change. Yet, emissions are rising, particularly in emerging economies like China. A global agreement on curbing emissions, which includes all major emitters, is urgently needed. Has the European Union (EU) contributed to the...
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Examining Huawei's Growth & Global Reach: Key Implications, Issues, and the Canadian Connection
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Zaamout, Noureddin, Alton, Tom, Houlden, Gordon
The China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) is pleased to publish this Occasional Paper titled “Examining Huawei’s Growth and Global Reach: Key Implications, Issues and the Canadian Connection.” This is the first publication by the China Institute on the subject of Huawei, but is one...