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Fall 2021
The history of Buddhism cannot be understood solely in terms of theological or philosophical development; one must also attend to the social, cultural, and political changes that inevitably shaped and re-shaped the religion, its adherents, and its practices as it journeyed throughout Asia and...
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From Youth to Midlife: The Historical Trajectory of Individual Life in Three Films Adapted from Wang Shuo’s Novels
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This thesis takes three films, Kanshangqu henmei 看上去很美 (Little Red Flowers, d. Zhang Yuan, 2006), Yangguang canlan de rizi 阳光灿烂的日子 (In the Heat of the Sun, d. Jiang Wen, 1994), and Yuanjia fuzi 冤家父子 (Papa, d. Wang Shuo, 1991), all adapted from Wang Shuo’s works of fiction, as cases in which to...
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Fall 2018
The two kinds of Japanese adjectives, i-adjectives and na-adjectives, along with nouns, employ different forms (-i, -na, and no) to modify a noun. Based on such patterns, along with other grammatical characteristics identified in constructed examples, boundaries between lexical categories have...
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Fall 2009
Spoken and written data were analysed to examine the use of first person pronouns (1PP) in Japanese by non-native speakers (NNS), and then compared to 1PP use by native speakers (NS). For English NS who are used to obligatory subjects in their L1, Japanese 1PP poses challenges since Japanese 1PP...
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Spring 2017
Pronouns serve a variety of functions in everyday language use. They not only function as reference, but also reflect the values of language users. This research focuses on the uses of a non-standard form of third-person pronoun in Chinese social media. There are three third person singular...
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Fall 2010
Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604), one of the most acclaimed courtesans at the Qinhuai pleasure quarters in the late-Ming period, is well-known for her orchid paintings in Chinese art history. This thesis explores the courtesan-painter’s success in the courtesan world and in the male-dominated history of...
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Bandits Out of the Marshes: Shuihu zhuan in the Context of Late Imperial Military Historical Fiction
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This thesis examines the Chinese Late Imperial novel Shuihu zhuan (Water Margin) from the perspective of viewing it as a historical representation of the mid-Song Dynasty’s many wars and the ways in which it shares thematic and character-based parallels with other Late Imperial novels set during...
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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...