Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1981. / Each Chinese entry in the bibliography is in characters and is transliterated. Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, leaves 176-191).

Thesis (M.A.)--Guo li Taiwan da xue, 1969. / Reproduced from typescripts. On double leaves. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-79).

Thesis (M.A.)--Guo li Taiwan da xue, 1969. / Reproduced from typescripts. On double leaves. Bibliography: p. 75-79.

This thesis presents a study of “performing the everyday life” in the writer Jia Pingwa’s well-known novel Ruined City (Feidu 废都). By adopting the sociologist Erving Goffman’s idea of dramaturgical interactions in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, this thesis contends that the social interactions in Ruined City are all performed. I particularly pay attentions to the relationships involving the novel’s central character, the celebrity-writer and one of the four “cultural idlers” in Xijing, which is the ancient capital Xi’an the author lives in real life, Zhuang Zhidie, and the three women in his life— the wife Niu Yueqing, the mistress Tang Wan’er, and the housemaid Liu Yue. Considering Goffman’s idea, I consider Zhuang Zhidie performs various roles when he encounters with each of the women, and they in turn perform the corresponding role to fit in the performance environment Zhuang has regularized with his role and his definitions of situations. In a novel notorious for its graphic descriptions of sex, these relationships are also performed in sexual encounters, and presented with symbolic objects relevant to the characters' roles. / Graduate

Thesis (M.A.) -- Guo li Taiwan shi fan da xue. / Reproduction of ms. Bibliography: p. 1277-1304.

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Mia Alessandra Nieto is an 8-year old living with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) in Austin, Texas. When she was diagnosed at 10 months, she was the youngest child ever diagnosed with JIA in the state of Texas. However, it took 37 days to confirm her condition because there is an immense lack on knowledge in the field of pediatric rheumatology among general practitioners despite the fact that JIA is the most prevalent chronic condition in children in the United States with over 300,000 diagnosed. This is an overview of Mia’s story, along with information regarding the lack of knowledge on the condition not only in the general population but mainly and more importantly among the medical professionals in the United States. / text

Background: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a long-term inflammatory arthritis which starts before the age of 16; 60% of those with JIA continue to have symptoms into adulthood. There are wide variations in experiences of adolescents with JIA, including the effects of the condition on social and intellectual development, self-management, psychological and physical functioning. Individual differences may be due to differences in how adolescents conceptualise JIA. Leventhal's Common Sense Self-regulatory Model (CS-SRM) has been used to theorise adults' experiences of illness, however, this has rarely been used with adolescents. The CS-SRM has three components, mental representations (component 1) that drive coping procedures and illness behaviours (component 2) which are then evaluated and appraised (component 3). A review of studies with adolescent cohorts that applied the CS-SRM found no evidence-base with which to justify application of an adult theory with children or adolescents. Thus the applicability of the theory and the use of the associated questionnaire, the Revised Illness Perceptions Questionnaire (IPQ-R), with adolescents are problematic. Aims: The aims of this PhD were first to assess the suitability of the CS-SRM for adolescents with JIA by investigating the three components of the model, and second, to develop a questionnaire for use with this population. Methods: To investigate the first two components of the CS-SRM, twenty-one participants aged between 11-16 years were recruited from a national cohort of JIA patients. Data collection was undertaken using cognitive interviewing. Framework analysis of the data was used to identify domains used by adolescents to conceptualise their JIA and content analysis to further investigate the suitability of the IPQ-R to assess beliefs. Transcripts were analysed identifying problems or inconsistencies with IPQ-R use. Adolescents' ways of coping with JIA were investigated using the somatic experience module of a computer-based interview, 'In My Shoes' (IMS). To evaluate the third component of the CS-SRM, quantitative data were used in a longitudinal mediation analysis to investigate the extent to which emotional representations and pain predicted physical behaviour (n= 50). To address the second aim of this PhD, Version 1 of the Pain Perception Questionnaire for Young People (PPQ-YP) was devised and sent to 18 healthy adolescents (11- 16) to assess linguistic validity and face validity of the items using a recent pain to answer items and provide feedback on language and length. The psychometric properties of a revised version were tested with 76 adolescents with JIA. Results: Adolescents' responses to having JIA were driven by their emotional and cognitive responses to symptoms (in this case pain) rather than illness beliefs per se. Thus, it is important to assess pain beliefs rather than broader illness representations. The need to preserve their social identity as 'normal' was a coping goal shared across the sample, however different strategies were identified, either to focus on maintaining normal activities or to attend to pain directly. Adolescents who focused on their pain held a more negative emotional representation, reported higher pain and lower functionality compared to adolescents who tried to maintain normality. Based on these results, longitudinal mediation models investigated the role of emotional representations and pain in predicting physical behaviour. Pain mediated 44% of the relationship between emotional representations and physical behaviour. Conclusions: Modifications to the model are recommended to take into account the role of social identity in the process of developing illness behaviours as well as the importance of a symptom driven conceptualisation of the condition.

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Le cinéma chinois indépendant se développe dans les années 1980, alors que la Chine vient de commencer une politique d’ouverture et de modernisation. Le pays, dont la croissance est exceptionnelle et continue, devient rapidement une puissance économique émergente. Il connaît ainsi un processus de mutations qui bouleverse ses territoires et les conditions de vie de ses populations. Jia Zhang-ke, qui est l’un des principaux cinéastes indépendants chinois, s’attache tout au long de son œuvre à filmer et à interroger ce processus de mutation. Son projet est de garder une trace de ce que les mutations détruisent, font disparaître, de ce qui le remplace, et également de ce moment même de la mutation. Pour tenter de filmer ce passage, Jia Zhang-ke met en œuvre des dispositifs filmiques d’entre-deux et d’alternance, s’enracinant dans les héritages de l’art pictural chinois et des modernités cinématographiques européennes. Son cinéma, en cela, questionne le processus de mondialisation, ou de globalisation, et participe à l’élaboration de la connaissance, en même temps qu’il peut être considéré comme une forme de résistance. / The independent Chinese cinema develops in the 1980s, while China has just begun a policy of openness and modernization. The country, the growth of which is exceptional and continuous, quickly becomes an emergent economic power. It so knows a process of transformations which upsets its territories and the living conditions of its populations. Jia Zhang-ke, who is one of the main Chinese independent film-makers, works throughout his work to film and to question this process of transformation. His project is to keep a track of what the transformations destroy, remove, of what replaces it, and also of this same moment of the transformation. To try to film this passage, Jia Zhang-ke operates cinematic devices of jump ball and alternation, taking root in the inheritances of the Chinese pictorial art and the European film modernities. His cinema, in that respect, questions the process of globalization, and participates in the elaboration of the knowledge, at the same time as he can be considered as a shape of resistance.