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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Chineseness"”.
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(In)visible Ink: gender and Chineseness in contemporary Chinese art
This thesis presents a critical examination of contemporary experimental ink practices (shiyan shuimo) and calligraphy (shufa) in the work of four women artists in the People’s Republic of China – Bingyi, Ma Yanling, Tao Aimin and Xiao Lu. The thesis highlights the gendered histories and …
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On Not Learning Chinese: Multiple Chineseness of the Chinese Schools in the Philippines
… thesis aims to investigate the multiplicity of Chineseness produced in the Chinese schools in the Philippines. The study draws on participant observation based on my one-year teaching in a Philippine-Chinese school, on-site interviews with students, parents, administrators, educationalists and …
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"Lack, Loss and Displacement: Renarrativizing ""Chineseness"" Through the Aesthetics of Southeast Asian Literature and Film"
… this evaluation, the theoretical notion of ""Chineseness"" is reconstructed within a temporal and spatial context. First, by historicizing the experience of Chinese diaspora from South East Asia; next, by problematizing the notion of ethnic purity, and destabilizing the function of the …
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Remaking Chineseness: The Transition Of Inner Asian Groups In The Central Plain During The Sixteen Kingdoms Period And Northern Dynasties
… we call “Chinese” institutions, in other words, Chineseness.
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Documenting as Method: Photography in Southeast Asia
… and cold war. It helps me foreground Chineseness, which intersected the nation-building process, as an additional factor in the praxis of salon photography. As a way of making work, documenting offers a method for me to unpack the spectre of Chineseness through my photographic …
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The reawakening of the Chinese heritage through a cultural embassy : transformation of the Chinese architectural language
… ideology in a Boston context. The appropriate "Chineseness" will be identified through the use of cultural vocabularies of the Chinese architectural language.
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Ethnicity and community : southern Chinese immigrants and descendants in Vancouver, 1945-1980
… sense of community. This interior discourse on Chineseness unfolded in part because of changing demographic conditions within the ethnic group. After the Second World War, the older settlers who had arrived in Canada before the exclusion act of 1923 were joined and gradually outnumbered by their …
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The Hybrid Spirit Animating Chinese Pentecostals in Malaysia
… demonstrates that church members negotiate their Chineseness and construct a "Modern Chinese" ethnic identity as a strategic move away from Chinese stereotypes. Moreover, conversion to Christianity affords church members access to cultural capital. Yet, it is limited and unequal capital. In …
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Hometown as fatherland : Nanyang Chinese under Japanese pan-Asianism and Pribumi nationalism in Malaya and Indonesia, 1937-1955
… for inclusion/exclusion; and its use to maintain Chineseness in the new situation of Southeast Asia. Through the debate on the nature of literature, rights to gain citizenship and the will to keep Chineseness, the thesis will demonstrate how ethnic Chinese negotiated new identities within the new …
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A - Y: Of ‘British Chinese’ Art
… discourses around ‘Britishness’ and ‘Chineseness’, migration, hybridity, cultural commodification and assimilation. ‘Outtakes’ looks then at the tactical postures and gestures staged by Sanderson, Mo, Erika Tan and To across a range of works, which deconstruct and play on the …
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Hometown as fatherland : Nanyang Chinese under Japanese pan-Asianism and Pribumi nationalism in Malaya and Indonesia, 1937-1955
… for inclusion/exclusion; and its use to maintain Chineseness in the new situation of Southeast Asia. Through the debate on the nature of literature, rights to gain citizenship and the will to keep Chineseness, the thesis will demonstrate how ethnic Chinese negotiated new identities within the new …
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Sounding Chinese: Tracing the Voice of Early 20th Century to Present day Transnational Chinese
… specifically the speech sound that identifies Chineseness is the departure point for this research into the construction of the identity of transnational Chinese. This question also frames pronounce, Meddling English, Oh Canada! and the six volumes of a project The Phrase Book of Migrant …
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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
… have deprived modern Chinese poetry of its Chineseness and generated a double crisis - a “temporal crisis,” which means lagging behind the West, and a “normative crisis,” which means always being inferior to the Western original. This has resulted in calls for the development of a style of …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… masculinity discourse and the “impure” form of Chineseness embodied by female wenwusheng provides a performative perspective for understanding the complexity of Hongkonger cultural and political identity, especially given the increasing tension between Hong Kong and China since 1997. This …
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New Export China: Translations across time and place in contemporary Chinese porcelain art (1996-2016)
… a desire to reconnect with a lost sense of Chineseness and the realisation that cultural identity is a composite fabrication. The fourth exposes the tension between the superficial appeal of porcelain and the depths of meaning that can be concealed beneath an attractive facade. Finally, the …
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New Export China: Translations across time and place in contemporary Chinese porcelain art (1996-2016)
… a desire to reconnect with a lost sense of Chineseness and the realisation that cultural identity is a composite fabrication. The fourth exposes the tension between the superficial appeal of porcelain and the depths of meaning that can be concealed beneath an attractive facade. Finally, the …
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Anglophone Chinese modernity,1860-1910
… speaking” written on the margins of “China and Chineseness,” has potentially confronted the hegemony of China-centric studies. My project offers an alternative perspective on Chinese literary modernity and its historical conditions, conceptual presuppositions, theoretical underpinnings, and …
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From Text to Screen The Role of Feminism in Adapting Female-Oriented Internet Literature to Chinese Television Drama
… cosmopolitan aspiration, consumer desire, and Chineseness converge to generate new forms of gendered subjectivity. Moving beyond traditional semiotic analysis, this study approaches media adaptations as spaces of cultural negotiation that mediate emergent female agency and sexuality, revealing …
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Chinese-language Cyberspace: Overseas Chinese Cyber Nationalism and Migrant Identity
… “kiwiness” and inherited / reconstructed “Chineseness”. Findings suggest that Cyber China fosters a sense of being “authentic but privileged Chinese” among migrant netizens, whereas the lived experience in the host country and online ethnic media discourse often gives rise to “a sense of …
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The Talking of Objects: Migratory Experiences and Subjectivities of British Chinese Women in Contemporary Britain
… to articulate the cultural experience of British Chineseness from their perspective. Drawing on the emergent "material turn” in migration studies, this study situated the subjectivities of British Chinese women as migrants and settlers through their personal objects. Through this approach, women …
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