Thesis--München. / Bibliography: p. l, 3-5.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Classics, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis, München. / Bibliography: p. l, 3-5.

Thesis (D.Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2009. / Supervisor: Dr Katherine Clarke. Bibliography: leaves 319-339.

Thirty years after its initial implementation, China’s one child per family policy has been undeniably successful statistically speaking. Over 400 million births can be estimated to have been prevented, and the birth rate per family has lowered from 2.47 in 1979 at its implementation, to 1.6 most recently in 2010. These numbers cannot be ignored. However, attributing this success to the policy restrictions alone would be viewing it outside of the context of a thirty year evolution of substantial social, political, cultural, and economic changes which have completely changed the face of China. This paper examines the far reaching effects of the one child policy as it is informed by Foucauldian post structuralist theory which defines power as productive, and re conceptualizes the policy as that which is a crucial manifestation of rising biopolitically strategic forms of governmentality which enhance nations through the subjugation, enhancement and creation of the bodies of their subjects. Critical to China’s case is rising ‘non-resistant’ behaviors and attitudes which not only comply with, but actively agree with the one child policy limitations once considered abhorrent. This paper complicates the logic behind the rise of these ‘non-resistant’ attitudes, by suggesting that they are evidence to the fact that this ‘modern’ Chinese subject is the productive outcome of several discourses which proliferated in the last thirty years during the juxtaposed implementation of both economic reforms and family planning limitations. This paper chronicles two of the productive discourses involved in the making of this newly emergent ‘modern’ Chinese subject: the culturally productive discourse involved in the care and feeding of ‘little emperors‘ and the socially exclusive discourse with paints the rural population as internal ‘rural others’.

Byzantine religious manuscripts were commissioned by people from many levels of society. Several contain portraits of their commissioners, represented together with a holy figure. An analysis of these scenes, examining features such as the holy figures represented and their specific iconographic meaning, and the relation of mortal to divine, reveals many facets of Byzantine art, religion and society. This analysis indicates a major distinction between portraits representing the emperor, and those depicting all other patrons. Non-imperial portraits show deep personal devotion and piety. The manuscripts in which they occur were commissioned to honour the holy figure, and many request salvation in return. Imperial commissions, on the other hand, were not votive gifts. Their portraits stress the public, political, and occasionally religious role of the emperor as the elected of God upon earth, and head of state. These portraits are thus highly informative of several aspects of Byzantine life.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1997. / Typescript. Abstract. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 382-385).

Revision of the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1995. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1997. / Typescript. Abstract. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 382-385).

Revision of the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1995. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references and index.