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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Chinese Literature"”.
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American interest in Chinese literature
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1924.
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The Path Toward the Other: Relational Subjectivity in Modern Chinese Literature, 1919-1945
… territory of relational subjectivity in modern Chinese literature. As a model of identity that positions the self in a web of social interaction, emotional connectivity, relational subjectivity suggests that the self is continually partial, open, and constantly "under construction." Lacking an …
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Encountering the nonhuman: body and ecological thinking in contemporary Chinese literature and vsual culture
… scrutinizes ecological imaginaries portrayed in Chinese literature, film, and art of the twenty-first century. I contend that comprehending the interconnectedness between human and nonhuman entities is paramount for fostering ecological awareness amid the unfolding climate crisis. My research …
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Casting off the shackles of family: Ibsen's Nora character in modern Chinese literature, 1918-1942
"Among a gallery of female characters which Mao Tun creates, Hsien-hsien in the story ""Creation"" and Mei in the novel Rainbow are typical Nora figures. Both of them leave the family and try to seek self-fulfillment by participating in social movements. However, the pursuit of personal fulfillment …
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Representing Divorce, Reforming Interiority: Narratives of Gender, Class and Family in Post-Reform Chinese Literature and Culture
"This project stands at the juncture of modern Chinese literature, post-socialist studies, cultural history of divorce, and critical studies about global middle-class cultures. Employing analytical tools mainly from literary studies, cultural studies and feminist theories, I examine stories, …
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The tension of national allegory: the search for Chinese identity and modernity – an analysis of Chinese literature in the post-Mao era in the context of globalization
This dissertation focuses on an analysis of Chinese literature in the post-Mao era in the context of globalization. It utilizes Fredric Jameson's third-world cultural theory, particularly his ideas relating to national allegory, and applies theoretical constructs, such as postmodernism (e.g the …
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A New Perspective to Consider Rationality in Business Negotiation: Dao and the Doctrine of the Mean
… analyzes several significant ancient Chinese literary works to provide business negotiators with valuable insights and a new perspective to consider business negotiation. Negotiation theory often focuses on analyzing cases, experience, or doing simulations, experiments, surveys. There …
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From Premodern Xiaoshuo To A Modern Sino-Japanese Discourse On Fiction: A New History Of Xiaoshuo From The Warring States To The Twentieth Century
The first modern Chinese study of the history of premodern Chinese fiction is Lu Xun’s 魯迅 (1881-1936) A Brief History of Chinese Fiction 中國小說史略 (A Brief History hereafter), a work of fundamental importance in Western and Chinese academia. Lu’s influence on the study of premodern Chinese fiction is …
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新马诗人淡莹诗中文学地景之研究 = A study of poetic landscapes in Danying's poems
… lurking fears of being rootless as an overseas Chinese. The continuous quests for a cultural root and the sense of belonging are implied in the landscape of memory, which is represented in melancholic statements similar to the feminine expressions of ?guiyuan?(??) in traditional Chinese …
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Changing institutional environment, Chinese company characteristics, and climate-change reporting
… context influences climate-change reporting by Chinese companies. Specifically, the thesis theoretically and empirically examines factors that influence climate-change reporting in China’s changing political and economic institutional environment. The thesis addresses how the political ideology …
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Voices of male teachers in Shanghai public kindergarten: A phenomenological study
<p>Western and Chinese literature have suggested that early childhood education (ECE) is a feminized profession and many men remain invisible and silent gendered subjects in this field and fail to understand or accept the gendered realties. Employing a combination of theory of gendered …
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Xu Dishanovy příběhy vnitřního a morálního růstu
… of the short story writing of the prominent Chinese author Xu Dishan (1893-1941), active during the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on the inner development of the main characters in three selected short stories ("The Merchant's Wife," "Chuntao," and "Yuguan") and on those features of the …
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From a young Bolshevik to a professional writer : A critical study of Wang Meng 's novels with reference to his writing from the 1950s to the 1990s
… and because of its challenge to the dominant Chinese traditional literary discourse. Wang Meng is significant for employing new fictional forms and styles as vehicles for examining the contentious issues that arise in Chinese society. His works are often regarded as a mirror to reflect …
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Blurring the lines : postmodernism and the use of tradition in the works of Yu Hua
The modern Chinese writer Yu Hua (1960-) uses and incorporates a wide variety of arguably postmodernist techniques and themes in his fiction. There are, however, parallels between these themes and techniques and various aspects of pre-modern Chinese literature and philosophy. Additionally, in an at …
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‘The Bridge’: How The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950) shaped twentieth-century responses to China
… thesis examines the short stories about China by Chinese and British writers published in the journal The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950). The writers were responding to a traumatic period in history spanning part of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II and its aftermath. TPNW, promoted …
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The ecological turn: positioning the natural world in post-Mao fiction and film
… dissertation bridges ecocritical perspectives of literature (often understood within the context of European and American literary traditions) with discourses of post-Mao Chinese modernity. Topographical and spatial transformations within Mainland China, accompanying an ideological shift from …
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HPV vaccination: knowledge, attitudes and beliefs in the Chinese population
… and its relationship to cervical cancer in the Chinese population. Aims and objectives The aims of my thesis are: 1) to systematically review the evidence from the Chineselanguage literature in relation to knowledge of and attitude towards HPV infection and HPV vaccination, and 2) to explore …
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The Tale of the Southern Tour
… The work is a musical sketch depicting ancient Chinese story of Emperor Shun’s southern tour which took place thousands of years ago. The piece consists four sections, with each section depicting a different scene. Different compositional techniques and materials are used to build the thematic …
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