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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
301

Perceptions of health, illness and healing in a Sichuan village, China

Lora-Wainwright, Anna January 2007 (has links)
This thesis explores attitudes to the body, illness and healing in contemporary rural China through the prism of Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus. It is divided in two parts. Part 1 aims to situate attitudes to the body in the specific social, cultural and political economic settings which have engendered them. I show that bodily dispositions articulate ways of engaging with one's surroundings and claims to authority and status. Past experiences equip different generations with different habitus (Bourdieu, 1977; 1990). At the same time, habitus is revised in light of engagements with new environments. As such, this section shows that habitus is made through daily practices, and that attitudes to the body are contingent and contested. Hierarchies with regard to what constitutes a desirable body or a healthy diet are not stable but always disputed. Negotiations surrounding them are informative of wider social processes and serve to reproduce or challenge social relations and values. Part 2 examines bodily practices at times of illness through the case of oesophagus cancer, an illness prevalent in the area, and with specific reference to one case and brief comparisons to others (including some discussion of stomach cancer). This section aims to show that family relationships are produced and contested through various practices of care, and that such relations engender particular bodily attitudes. These practices are not enactments of an already given reality or relationship, but rather vital to producing them. Closer attention to practices during illness are therefore important for understanding how illness is experienced by all involved, but also how it intersects with family relations, attitudes to resources, strategies to secure them and invest them, and perceptions of the state and welfare provision. It shows that a study of social change and reproduction is central to understanding cancer. Conversely, practices surrounding cancer, such as decisions not to undergo surgery, also present ways in which social reproduction and change take place. Employing habitus allows a closer grasp of the intricate processes through which family relations are formed, why families opt for particular forms of treatment and how the effectiveness of therapy is produced.
302

The thousand buddha motif : a visual chant in buddhist cave-temples along the silk road

Pepper, France A. (France Allison) January 1995 (has links)
As early as the fifth century C.E., the thousand buddha motif had become a prevalent feature in the art of many cave-temples in Gansu, China. Past scholarship concentrated on tracing the textual sources of the motif and with relating it to the practices associated with the devotion to the three thousand buddhas of the three ages. Past research has not considered how the thousand buddhas may have been a reflection of a wider range of religious practices and popular beliefs nor has it explored the motif's artistic origin. / By demonstrating that the earliest examples of the two-dimensional painted form of the thousand buddhas came from Gansu and that the motif was related to an iconographic and architectural design that existed between several Gansu cave-temple sites, this study proposes that the thousand buddha motif was a Gansu cave-temple art innovation that influenced cave-temple decor in areas west of Gansu. In addition, possible reasons for the prevalence of the motif are suggested by considering that it may have reflected the relationship between the thousand buddhas and meditative practices as well as the acts of chanting and circumambulation.
303

The analysis of spatial-temporal dynamics of urban landscape structure a comparison of two petroleum-oriented cities /

Tang, Junmei, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-136).
304

Cong xian xiang xue jiao du tan tao da xue xue sheng ling xiu xiao yuan ke wai huo dong jing li de yi yi = The out-of-class experiences of university student leaders : a phenomenological approach /

Guan, Qiyun. January 2002 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 2002. / Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Education Studies. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-135).
305

Disappearing in the crowd, or how Taiwanese pilgrimages became culture /

Hatfield, Donald John W. January 1997 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, December 1997. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.
306

Cong jiao yu zhong "gai zao" nü xing : yi "Guangdong Sheng li di yi nü zi shi fan xue xiao" wei ge an yan jiu (1907-1938) /

Chan, Kung Fong. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-342). Also available in electronic version. Access restricted to campus users.
307

Urban land policy in China : a case study of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone /

Tsui, Yig-pui. January 1992 (has links)
Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Xeror copy of the typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 78-82).
308

Junior secondary school science education in the Shenzhen special economic zone /

Cheng, Chi-leung. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993.
309

Implications of intensified trans-boundary vehicular traffic on transport infrastructure in Hong Kong /

Fu, Yee-ming. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-180).
310

Junior secondary school science education in the Shenzhen special economic zone

Cheng, Chi-leung. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Also available in print.

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