Browsing by Subject "Asian literature"
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An Invisible Conundrum: Visualizing “Queer Immobility” in the Contemporary PRC
(2022)Until the end of the 20th century, with the deepening of the Opening-up and Reform movement under the context of globalization and advancement of communication methods, both culture and economy in the PRC have achieved ... -
“Art Is to Sacrifice One’s Death”: The aesthetic and ethic of the Chinese diasporic artist Mu Xin
(2021)In his five-year-long world literature lecture series, running from 1989 to 1994, the Chinese diasporic writer-painter Mu Xin (1927-2011) provided a puzzling advice for the group of emerging Chinese artists living in New ... -
Culinary Nostalgia and Fantasy: Dipping the Post-socialist China in Hot Pot
(2020)What is a hot pot? As a Chinese cooking method, prepared with a simmering pot of soup stock at the dining table, containing a variety of East Asian foodstuffs and ingredients, hot pot is not just one dish. This thesis is ... -
In Between the Closet and the Wild: Queer Animality in Contemporary China
(2023)This thesis investigates the intersections between queer and posthuman studies, exploring how animality can serve as a force for queer movements. Drawing on the theories of Eve Sedgwick and Jack Halberstam, this project ... -
Killing Me Softly in a Metropolis: Tales of Murder and Murderous Passion in Republican Shanghai (1911-1937)
(2021)The relationship between metropolitan cities around the world and tales of murder has encompassed the complicated nature of modern life, and such is also the case of Shanghai in the Republican era. The prosperity of the ... -
Narrating Cats and Cat Lovers in Modern China: Animality, Subjectivity, and Media Space
(2020)This thesis examines cats and cat lovers in the intersection between the humananimal relationship and the cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth century China and beyond. I argue that the presentation and representation ... -
Reading for Cosmotechnics: Dissipation, Enflaming and the Contemporary
(2021)This thesis is a response to theorist Yuk Hui’s impassioned call for more thinkers to take up the crucial task of developing pluralist “cosmotechnics” and technodiversity, that is to say, to construct and attend ... -
Reading the Rotten: A Textual Analysis of Chinese Danmei and Dan’gai
(2021)The concerns and questions in this paper are predicated on what havehappened during the past three years in the field of Chinese danmei culture. I notice that, on the one hand, the state is cracking down on danmei fans’ ... -
The Female Figures in Aesthetic Literature in Early Twentieth-Century China and Japan—Yu Dafu and Tanizaki Junichiro as Examples
(2020)In this thesis, I mainly discussed the commonalities and differences between two representative authors of Chinese and Japanese aesthetic literature in the early 20th century: Yu Dafu and Tanizaki Junichiro, in terms of ... -
Tree-Burning: Yu Hua and Can Xue as Writers of the Rhizome
(2022)The thesis explores how Chinese avant-garde writers Yu Hua and Can Xue’s early short fictions pose a profound stylistic and structural challenge to existing conventions of realist fictions in China. It mainly uses the idea ... -
Vanishing Point: Translating Language and Identity in Lee Yang-ji’s Yuhi and Kazukime
(2023)This thesis seeks to examine how identity and language are formulated, negotiated, and destabilized in Lee Yang-ji’s novellas, Yuhi (1989) and Kazukime (1983), particularly when these works are translated into a third language, ...
