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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures"”.
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The Maoist Message in the Chinese Countryside, 1949–1978
… focuses on a large body of grassroots propagandists, who were tasked with shaping both the mindscapes and landscapes of the Chinese countryside during the Mao era. Geographically focused on Southeast Shanxi, it explores how this cohort functioned as the nucleus of Mao’s rural propaganda …
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The Cult of Chinggis Khan in the Dayan Khanid Period
The importance of the Mongol Empire and its long-term effects across Eurasia have long been an object of fascination among historians. However, little has been written about how Činggis Qan and his empire were remembered in Mongolia in the post-imperial period — that is, from 1368, when the last …
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Resonant China: Transnational Music-making and the Construction of the Public, 1934-1958
… the construction of a music public – a tangible and transnational assemblage of individuals, audiences, institutions, and musical works that politicized Western art music as an aesthetic discourse in China. Through the Chinese sociality, comprised of mechanisms such as quanzi (circle) and guanxi …
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Script, Empire, and Business: A Global History of Japanese Script Reform, 1920-1945
… in the early twentieth century from economic and global historical perspectives and sheds new light on the history of the relationships among script, business, and the Japanese empire. Specifically, it examines the campaigns of the Kanamoji Association (Kanamoji-kai) in not only Japan but also …
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Perpetual Strangers: Buriyad Citizenship in the Russia-Mongolia Borderlands, 1822-1939
This dissertation examines the politics and practice of citizenship in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Russia-Mongolia borderlands through the experiences of the Buriyads, a Mongolic, pastoral nomadic people. It traces transformations in the relationship between the individual, the …
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Navigating History and Memory in China: Perspectives on the Recent Past from a Case Study of Chinese Students at an International High School
… school in the Shanghai/Suzhou region, understand their nation’s recent past as they prepare for university in the United States. Set against China’s intensified efforts to shape public memory through historical education, this research examines how young people actively construct their …
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Finding the Rainbow World: Transnational Queer Networks and Literary Translation in Cold War Japan
… relationship between transnational queer subcultures and networks of literary translation in Japan from the 1940s to the 1970s. In contrast to much of the English-speaking world, post-World War II Japan was relatively tolerant towards sexual minorities, particularly during the 1950s and …
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Authoritarian entitlement and constraint: Women's representation in Chinese local congresses
… dataset about the composition of provincial and prefectural congresses in China shows a puzzling contrast between ethnic majority women and ethnic minority women, which cannot be explained by socioeconomic factors. I use a mixed-method approach to examining the puzzle. I conducted fieldwork …