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- 5Evan Oddleifson
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- 3Houlden, Gordon
- 3Pollock, Karen
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2019-01-01
Since its launch in 2006, Google Trends has provided valuable data on the search patterns of internet users. This data has important applications for content and sentiment analysis, measuring public attitudes, public interest, unemployment, issue salience as well as surveilling, describing, and...
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2021-10-26
Evan Oddleifson, Guofeng Wu, Tom Alton, Camille Bourgeois-Fortin, Darren Choi, Sean Janke, Shaoyan Sun, Xiaowen Zhang, Liang Ma
Canada and China have a strong history of economic connection and, through its rise to prominence over recent decades, China has become Canada’s second most important national economic partner, after the United States. Given the many countries re-evaluating their relationships with China,...
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China’s energy relations with Canada, Kazakhstan, and Russia: Discursive politics of energy
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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...