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Fall 2013
The “Code for Officials of the Rear Palace” (Kōkyū shiki-in ryō) in the Yōrō Law Codes lists twelve bureaucratic offices held by women in the imperial court. The most prominent of these offices, naishi no kami (Director of the Palace Retainer’s Office) was held exclusively by women of the...
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When Routes become Roots: Liu Na'ou, Jiang Wenye, and Their Transnational Cultural Productions, 1923-1945
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This thesis investigates works of two Taiwanese-born, Japanese-educated, and Chinese-based authors during the volatile years of 1923 to 1945 – Shanghai-based short story writer Liu Na’ou 劉吶鷗 (1905–1940) and Beijing-based musician-cum-poet Jiang Wenye 江文也 (1910–1983). They were born in Taiwan...
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Fall 2018
This thesis concerns the identity construction of the Korean Chinese who were Chinese citizens of China but had Korean ancestry, and who “returned” to South Korea, their forefathers’ homeland, in the 1990s. The factors underlying the hybrid identity of the Korean Chinese and their identity crisis...
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Spring 2017
In the Japanese language, it is known that when the evidential -soo da ‘looks like’ connects to a negative predicate, an additional element sa occasionally appears between the negative marker and -soo da, giving rise to two different forms, -na-soo da and -nasa-soo da. An example is shown below: ...
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Using plain forms but still being polite: speech style shifting as an interactional phenomenon in Japanese native and non-native talk
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The Japanese language is known for its various styles of speech, conditioned by factors such as social status, formality, and gender. When a speaker switches between the speech styles within the same talk targeted at the same recipient, such a phenomenon is called speech style shifting...
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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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Treading in the Formaldehyde of Tradition: Kata as Somatic Text in the Japanese Nō and Kyōgen Theatres
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One of the misconceptions of Western audiences of traditional Japanese theatre, particularly the medieval dramatic theatre nō and its comic counterpart kyōgen, is that they are “museum arts.” That is, that they are now only being performed in an attempt to preserve them as intangible cultural...