Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Taiwan"
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Form and Transformation in Modern Chinese Poetry and Poetics
(2013-10-18)Hu Shi began the modern Chinese New Poetry movement by calling for the liberation of poetic forms, but what constitutes "form" and how best to approach its liberation have remained difficult issues, as the apparent material, ... -
Hydraulic Taiwan: Colonial Conservation under Japanese Imperial and Chinese Nationalist Rule, 1895-1964
(2023-05-15)This dissertation argues that conservation was a powerful historical force in Taiwan under Japanese colonial and early Republican Chinese rule. Unlike the Qing empire before it, the Japanese colonial state was committed ... -
The Rural Developmental State: Modernization Campaigns and Peasant Politics in China, Taiwan and South Korea
(2012-10-25)This dissertation analyzes the causes of rural development in East Asia, as well as the relative success or failure of rural development policies among East Asian countries, providing detailed case studies of China, Taiwan, ... -
The Song Readers: Rap Music and the Politics of Storytelling in Taiwan
(2013-09-24)This dissertation is an ethnographic study of Taiwan's hip-hop scene and an examination of rap music's emergence as a trenchant form of musical narrative discourse in the post-martial law era (1987 to the present). Its ... -
Theorizing Musicality: Theory, Analysis, and Ethnography on 黄梅戏 Huangmei Opera and 歌仔戲 Kua-a Opera
(2023-05-12)My dissertation examines the sounds and performance practices of two Sinitic opera traditions in China and Taiwan to 1) elucidate music theoretical concepts local to these communities, 2) illuminate the place-bound aesthetic ...