Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "East Asian Languages and Civilizations"
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An Acropolis in China: The Appropriation of Ancient Greek Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature
(2016-05-17)This dissertation explores the transcultural relationships between modern China and ancient Greece, with a view toward appreciating how Greek philosophical and literary visions have been received, reformulated, and repurposed ... -
Afterlives of the Culture: Engaging with the Trans-East Asian Cultural Tradition in Modern Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese Literatures, 1880s-1940s
(2014-10-21)This dissertation examines how modern literature in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan in the late-nineteenth to the early-twentieth centuries was practiced within contexts of these countries' deeply interrelated literary ... -
The Anatomy of Chaju Kukpang: Military-Civilian Convergence in the Development of the South Korean Defense Industry under Park Chung Hee, 1968-1979
(2016-05-19)Based on empirical study of newly declassified sources from South Korea, the dissertation examines the Park Chung Hee regime’s (1961-1979) policies related to chaju kukpang, or “self-reliant national defense,” from the ... -
Animation and Boundlessness
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Application of the Helium Isotopic System to Accretion of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Dust through the Cenozoic
(2013-02-25)The Helium isotopic system provides novel tools to probe the sedimentary record of the earth over the last few hundred million years. Radiogeneically derived \(^4He\) and solar wind implanted \(^3He\) is delivered to ... -
Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet Under Qing Rule, 1792-1911
(2014-02-25)In the late eighteenth century, a Qing-centered, pluralistic legal order emerged in the Tibetan regions of the Qing empire. In the Gansu borderlands known to Tibetans as "Amdo," the Qing state established subprefectures ... -
Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900
(2014-06-06)Whales are an enigma. It is difficult to pin them down because they straddle categories. Whales were difficult not just because of their extraordinary size, but rather because they were peculiar sorts of fish, with meat ... -
Brushes with Some “Dirty Truths”: Handwritten Manuscripts and Religion in China
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Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern, 1900-1957
(2014-06-06)Carbon Technocracy argues for the centrality of fossil fuel energy to the making of global industrial modernity and to the emergence of East Asian technocratic imaginaries in the first half of the twentieth century. It ... -
The Careers of the Blind in Tokugawa Japan, 1603-1868
(2015-05-14)The blind deviate from bodily ideals and how we make sense of this difference matters. My dissertation examines the blind in Tokugawa Japan (1603–1868) to offer a contrasting perspective on disability from a non-Western ... -
The Case of the Missing Indigene: Debate Over a “Second-Generation” Ethnic Policy
(University of Chicago Press, 2015)The last few years have seen a vigorous public policy debate emerge over a “second generation” ethnic policy (di’erdai minzu zhengce) which, if implemented, would constitute a major revision of ethnic politics in China. ... -
Chōsen no mibun shakai: Nihon to no hikaku no kokoromi [Status society in early modern Korea: An attempt at comparison with Japan]
(部落問題研究所 Kyōto-shi : Buraku Mondai Kenkyūjo, 2011) -
Church over Nation: Christian Missionaries and Korean Christians in Colonial Korea
(2012-11-07)This dissertation examines the interrelationships between the foreign Missions and the Korean Church in colonial Korea. In contrast to previous scholarship that assumes a necessary link between the Korean Church and Korean ... -
The Civilizing Project in Medieval Korea: Neo-Classicism, Nativism, and Figurations of Power
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the adoption and maturing of a neoclassical form of Confucianism in medieval Korea (875-1545) in relation to the long and complex roads to building a centralizing aristocratic order. In the tenth ... -
Conjuring the Masses: The Figure of the Crowd in Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
(2012-10-22)This dissertation argues that the figure of the crowd in literature and visual culture constitutes a crucial component in the emergence and construction of the cultural, political, and historical values of modern China. ... -
Culture of Remembrance in Late Chosŏn Korea: Bringing an Unknown War Hero Back into History
(George Mason University, 2010)Numerous scholarly works have been produced on “memory projects” as the culture and politics of nation-states in the modern world. Yet remaking of the past is not the monopoly of modernity. This paper investigates the ... -
A Demographic estimate of the population of the Qing eight banners
(2016)The Eight Banners (Chinese baqi 八旗/Manchu jakūn gūsa) is well known as the omnibus military, social, political, and economic institution that played a crucial role in enabling the Manchu conquest of China in the middle ... -
Divorce and the Divorced Woman in Early Medieval China (First Through Six Century)
(2016-05-17)This dissertation consists of two parts: a cultural study of divorce in early medieval China and a literary study of the divorced woman as represented in various early medieval Chinese writings, including literary and ... -
Du Fu: Poet Historian, Poet Sage
(2016-05-17)This dissertation argues that Du Fu’s (712-770) ascent to the pinnacle of the Chinese literary pantheon was bound up with a revolution in the ways poetry was understood to be a serious endeavor. In Du Fu’s time, poetry had ...