Browsing by Subject "Asian studies"
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A Work of Love: Horace Underwood and the Formation of White Korean Christianity
(2018)Christianity in South Korea has long been touted the one success story in Asia, dubbed the “Korean miracle,” whose traction and trajectory of explosive growth are unanimously traced back to the Protestant missionaries who ... -
Affect Theory and the Politics of Ambiguity: Liminality, Disembodiment, and Relationality in Music
(2014)This dissertation develops a "politics of ambiguity" through case studies of affect in contemporary works by European, American and Singaporean composers. While studies of intercultural music have focused on narratives of ... -
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 ... -
Anger Eliminativism: Stoic and Buddhist Perspectives
(2022)Many psychologists and philosophers hold that anger is a completely normal and often healthy human emotion. This position perhaps traces back to Aristotle, who argued that anger is morally good when it is moderated, such ... -
“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 ... -
Between Shanghai and Mecca: Diaspora and Diplomacy of Chinese Muslims in the Twentieth Century
(2019)While China’s recent Belt and the Road Initiative and its expansion across Eurasia is garnering public and scholarly attention, this dissertation recasts the space of Eurasia as one connected through historic Islamic networks ... -
Chollywooding and Pandering: The Present and Future of Sino-Hollywood Negotiation
(2022)The relationship between China and Hollywood has been a contested subject as a result of complicated historical trajectories. Whether during the Republican era or during the post-1994 period when Hollywood films were reimported ... -
“Conquest without Rule: Baloch Portfolio Mercenaries in the Indian Ocean.”
(2008)The central question this dissertation engages with is why modern states in the Persian Gulf rely heavily on informal networks of untrained and inexperienced recruits from the region of Balochistan, presently spread across ... -
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ART AUCTION MARKET 2008-2017
(2019)This project offers an introduction to the Japanese art auction market, analysis into insights for auction house specialization and segmentation, insights on the top 100 artists in terms of median hammer prices (unfiltered ... -
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 ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Dizang Forum: The Formation of Virtual Buddhist Community and the Innovation of Dizang Belief in Modern China
(2017)In this modern era, our lives are largely influenced by digital technology and the Internet. The interactive feature of the new technology has transformed our conventional understanding of objects. Technology that provides ... -
Endless Question: Youth Becomings and the Anti-Crisis of Kids in Global Japan
(2014)Young people in Japan contend with shifting understandings of family and friends, insecure jobs, and changing frames around global and national identities. The category of youth itself is unsettled amid a long period of ... -
Equality of Life: Thinking With Multi-Species Relationships in Taiwan
(2019)Since its founding in 1993, Taiwan’s Life Conservationist Association (LCA) advocates for laws supporting the “equality of life” as an alternative to “human equality.” According to European Enlightenment liberalism, “human ... -
Equity in access to healthcare in Brunei Darussalam: Results from the Brunei Darussalam Health System Survey (HSS)
(2014)Background: Universal healthcare has been promoted by organizations including the World Health Organization and United Nations as a means of ensuring healthcare access for vulnerable populations. Despite momentum towards ... -
Falling in Love With Virtual Boyfriends: Otome Games in Japan and Mainland China
(2022)My thesis focuses on the popularity of otome games in Japan and mainland China. During the time of COVID-19, people have to stay at home and be isolated from their families and friends. Thus, playing video games, individually ... -
Fear and Fruition: Bhairava in Text, Art, and Practice
(2019)The following dissertation addresses the origins, development, and contemporary living religious world of the Hindu deity Bhairava. An ambivalent deity associated both with antinomian and orthoprax Hinduism, his example ... -
Feminists without Feminism: Women’s Online Movement in Contemporary China
(2022)With the widespread stigmatization of “women’s rights” in China, I observed that young women increasingly reject the identification of “feminists.” In comparison, some of them voice their opinions on social media advocate ... -
Fierce Practice, Courageous Spirit, and Spiritual Cultivation: The Rise of Lay Rinzai Zen in Modern Japan
(2020)In this dissertation, I examine the development of lay Rinzai Zen in modern Japan, a transformation that entailed a large-scale opening of Zen practices to non-clerics and eventually contributed to Zen’s worldwide spread. ... -
From "Education Beyond Utility" to Utility for Legitimacy: Contemporary Opposition to Article 9 Revision in the Context of the Soka Gakkai's Historical Development
(2012)This study examines the contemporary debate over proposals to revise the Japanese "Peace Constitution" from the perspective of its meaning to the Soka Gakkai. To the present, the LDP's chief target for revision has been ...
