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71	Visual Sensation and Performative Cultural Politics: Chinese Literary Text Messages and the Colors of Texts Huang, Wang 08 September 2010 (has links) No description available. Asian Literature
72	Zeami’s Treatment of Original Source Materials in Two Plays of His Late Period: The Examples of the Nō Plays Nue and Kinuta Ni, Yaohui 27 September 2010 (has links) No description available. Asian Literature
73	Sakaguchi Ango’s Conceptualizations of the Function of Literature in the Postwar Era Yi, Yongfei 19 October 2011 (has links) No description available. Asian Literature
74	At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism Louro, Michele L. January 2011 (has links) This dissertation situates Indian nationalist politics in a broad, international context of anti-imperialist movements beginning in the late colonial and interwar period. The archival record is rich with sources on the international and transnational connections of the Indian National Congress (INC); however, scholarship on the independence movement almost exclusively concentrates on the micro-histories of `locality, province, and nation' or the `subalterns' of India. Instead, this project contributes a much-needed international perspective to Indian colonial history. As a case study, this dissertation traces the relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru, then a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement and later India's first prime minister (1947-1964), and the League against Imperialism (LAI), a significant, yet little studied organization founded in Brussels in February 1927. The League offered a significant space for Nehru, and by extension the Indian National Congress, to interact and build partnerships with political leaders in other colonies, mandates and dependencies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; as well as North American and European social reformers concerned with working class and racial equality. A history of Nehru and his League connections underscores the significance of the international terrain in which Indian nationalists contested empire. In this project I argue that the making of Indian anti-colonial nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s emerged as a complex set of interactions on the ground in India, but also beyond the colonial borders of the subcontinent. / History Asian History
75	Making China's greatest poet\| The construction of Du Fu in the poetic culture of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) Chen, Jue 16 February 2016 (has links) <p> In traditional narrative of Chinese literary history, Du Fu (712–770) is arguably the “greatest poet of China,” and it was in the Song (960–1279) that his greatness was finally recognized. This narrative naturally presumes that the real Du Fu in history is completely accessible to us, which is not necessarily true. </p><p> This dissertation provides another perspective to understand Du Fu and the “greatness” of his poetry. I emphasize that the image of Du Fu that we now have is more of a persona that has been constructed from his available poetic texts. Poets in the Song Dynasty, especially those in the eleventh century, took initiative to construct this persona, and their construction of Du Fu was largely conditioned by their own literary and intellectual concerns. </p><p> The entire dissertation is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 investigates how Du Fu’s poetic collection emerged. His collection, as it was compiled and edited, not only provided a platform, but also set restrictions, for the construction of Du Fu. Chapter 2 examines how Du Fu used to be remembered before his collection took form. Memory of him before the eleventh century was considerably different from his received image. The remaining chapters focus on three major aspects of Du Fu’s persona—namely his images as a poet-historian, a master of poetic craft, and a Confucian poet—to analyze how and why Du Fu was constructed as such in the Song. Song poets accepted poetry as a medium loaded with valuable information, and they thus explored Du Fu’s poetry for history; they concerned themselves with issues pertaining to poetic craft, and retrospectively looked for examples in Du Fu’s poetry as established standards; they, as scholar-officials, committed themselves to the state, and declared Du Fu as their model. In sum, Song poets provided particular readings to Du Fu’s particular poems, and claimed these readings as the result of Du Fu’s intentional production. Through interpretation of Du Fu’s surviving poems, they constructed Du Fu as China’s greatest poet.</p>
76	The Wild Individual\| Politics and Aesthetics of Realism in Post-Mao China (1977-1984) Xie, Jun 24 March 2017 (has links) <p> This dissertation attempts to examine Chinese realist novels (novellas) flourishing in the transitional period between Mao’s era and post-Mao era (1976-1984). This period, rarely explored in English-speaking academia, constitutes a critical site to understand the social and cultural transformation from socialist to post-socialist China and to study the “individual” newly formed in that period whose influence continues to shape today’s China. By looking into realist novels, my research attempts to understand this social change and the historical construction of an individual subject distinct from both the human subject conceptualized in the socialist realism in Mao’s era and the bourgeois individual in the 19th century European Realism. Realist novels, which opened a textual space for social imagination in a liminal period, undertook the role of creating a life-world of post-socialist China with its mimetic and critical function, thus launching another “cultural revolution” immediately following the ending of Mao’s “Cultural Revolution.” The main body of my research consists of the analysis of three sub-genres—Enlightenment fiction (Chapter One), humanist fiction (Chapter Two) and peasant’s fiction (Chapter Three), each corresponding respectively to political subject, aesthetic subject and economic subject. The dissertation will show how the enlightenment subject, Kantian subjectivity and “persona economicus” reinvigorated in these fictional imaginations. However, it was also a period in which all these newly constructed “myths” of subject were pressed to meet their internal limits which led to their ineluctable dissolution. This was due to the emergence of the “wild individual,” for example, we can detect the terrifying unrestrained desire of lower class that participated in the discursive formation of the autonomous subject and we can detect the anxiety caused by the accumulation of capital even in the overall optimistic narrative of peasant’s literature.</p><p>
77	Reconstruction of Childhood in Naka Kansuke's Gin No Saji Inamoto, Masako January 2002 (has links) No description available. Asian Literature Asian Studies Language
78	Foundations of pan-Asian identity among Asian-American college student leaders / Nishihara, Janet Seiko. January 2002 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-182). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
79	The complexity of Asian American identity: the intersection of multiple social identities Chen, Grace Angel 28 August 2008 (has links) Not available / text Asian Americans Asian Americans--Ethnic identity Asian Americans--Race identity
80	Ethnic variations in mental health symptoms and functioning among Asian Americans / Kim, Wooksoo. January 2002 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-103).

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