This paper focuses on Dianshizhai Pictorials (1884-1898), an influential pictorial with commercial success, as a case study. By analyzing selected illustrations of Western technology and policy, I will explore why and how the visual functioned as mediation between the new knowledge and the ideals of Chinese traditions. The intellectuals and literati, such as the editors and artists of Dianshizhai Pictorial, were relatively receptive and open-minded towards new knowledge and other innovative aspects of Western culture. But they were also distressed at many of the social changes induced by Western interaction in the settlements, especially the disintegrating effect on the traditional values and mores of Chinese society. My main argument is seeing is not necessarily believing. The Dianshizhai Pictorial was a part of the mediation between Ti (Chinese tradition and values as foundation) and Yong (Western Technology as tools). The editors and readers, and even high ranking officials like Li Hung Chang, wanted to see and use Western technology as effective tools (Yong). However, they were seeing the tools through Chinese minds, interpreting and believing through Chinese tradition and values, which is the basic foundation (Ti).

Abstract The rising of Asian values was spiritual and psychical revolution resulting from the confidence of some East Asian countries¡¦ considerable economic achievement. Asian values were also instinctive defense from losing self-personality or individual particularity in the process of modernization that to great extent means westernization whose relatively liberal elements or individualism may destabilize social harmony. As a matter of fact, Asian values have close relation with some Asian country leaders¡¦ political challenges coming from domestic and international arena. For Singapore, it has inward and outward functions: 1. Inward functions By means of promoting Asian values¡¦ virtue including social order, consensus and community-oriented characteristics, the People Action Party¡]PAP¡^can rule the plural society racially, shape the atmosphere and national culture that the ruling party wants, and soften the tension of anti-Chinese and racial conflict that can be seen usually in Malaysia and Indonesia. On the other hand, domestic anti-governmental power or faction can be under PAP¡¦s control and PAP can maintain it¡¦s political domination. In addition, the priority of the rights of development not only transferred Singaporean¡¦s attention from politics to economy, but also created seemingly economic miracle worthy of admiration. Most important of all, the middle class¡¦s expectation and desire for political participation could be satisfied to some extent by so called good government¡¦s excellent and wonderful performance. As a result, the Asian values could be seen as official ideology and strategy of governance. 2.Outward functions If Asian values could be espoused and preserved by most Asian, Asia will to a large extent get rid of impulse and intervention from western countries, and more autonomous than ever before. Intrinsically Singapore is a tiny country with least resources, territory and people. In geo-political position, Singapore was located in one of the most politically sensitive area in Asia, so it must make good use of diplomatic means. In such view, Asian values would be effective way of survival that can acquire regional countries¡¦ identity and support in Southeast Asia.

This thesis traces the immigration of "model minority" mothers: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, from their home countries to the United States. It examines the reasons women immigrate to the United States, the situations into which they immigrate, and the ways that they adapt traditional East Asian modes of mothering and child rearing techniques to life in the United States. This thesis finds that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean women emigrate to the United States primarily under the direction of male figures of authority. Motivators of their emigration include leaving poverty and war in their own countries, joining husbands or potential husbands in the United States, hoping to escape the cultural restrictions of their home countries, or becoming prostitutes. As these women make their own way in the United States, they find themselves encountering immense cultural difficulties, not the least of which is the alteration of their role as mothers as they try to raise their children in an entirely new cultural context. Despite the hopes of many of these women, what they find in the United States is not a life of leisure and wealth; rather, they are forced into positions in which they must work for long hours outside the home to provide economically for their families as well as raise their children and care for the home. This thesis finds that memoirs, novels, biographies, autobiographies, narratives, historical accounts, and sociological data highlight several major areas of adaptation for these women including: the differences in these women's sense of community in America, their expectations of the educational system in the United States, the reversal of power in the use of language between mother and daughter, and the complex measures of adaptation to and rejection of U.S. cultural norms that mothers must implement while raising their children. Rather than being crushed by the labor that they must perform and the cultural adaptations that they must make, these women willingly sacrifice their lives to build a base upon which their children can succeed through the attainment of higher education leading toward upward mobility.

Theses (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009. / Full text also available online. Scroll down for electronic link.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-183).

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Geography. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR38794

The following report is a description of the pre-production, production and post-production of the short film “Formosa, TX”, made in Marfa and Coupland, Texas in 2012. The film is a study of living Asian American in small town Texas. / text

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<p> This dissertation examines body politics in the People&rsquo;s Republic of China. It first closely looks at Zhuangzi&rsquo;s idea of <i>xu</i> by analyzing the major aspects of the term&mdash;blandness, lack of substance, spontaneity, dispossession, incompleteness, and absurdity. It then argues that the concept of xu generates profound implication for politics by bringing up a particular mode of politics&mdash;politics of indeterminacy. In this mode of politics, power relation and power structure are never settled. Instead, they morph without being actualized. Examined in this context, the body for Zhuangzi is understood as an indeterminate entity whose political agency is attributed to its capacity in re-articulating power relation by constantly receiving and transforming a manifold of forces. That the body can be alternatively construed this way is crucial for our re-examination of the shaping of reshaping of identity in the contemporary Chinese society. In this light, the work investigates two cases&mdash;the Cultural Revolution and the state capitalism to find out in what specific ways the body, identity and politics are intertwined in manifesting the story of changing political relations in the everyday life of the ordinary Chinese people. The work contends that the making of the subjectivity is an indeterminate process in which one&rsquo;s identity is impossible to be fixed. It can never be composed with certainty. The construction of identity is a process of detachment by which one experiences the unexperienced without being settled around a center. The making of the political, to Zhuangzi, is thus founded on this indeterminacy to create new self and dissident political subject. </p>