Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by FAS Department "East Asian Languages and Civilizations"
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Republic of Letters, Empire of Textbooks: Globalizing Western Knowledge, 1790-1895
(2016-05-18)This dissertation seeks to answer two overarching questions: what was “Western knowledge” in the nineteenth century, and how did it become a global knowledge form? I do so by sketching a transnational history of the networks ... -
Rethinking Constitutionalism in Late 19th and Early 20th Century China
(2013-03-06)In the tenets of Western political science, “limited government” is usually seen as the touchstone of modern constitutionalism. Yet significant issues can arise when one applies this framework to East Asia. By studying the ... -
Roots and Branches: Woodland Institutions in South China, 800-1600
(2015-05-14)In this dissertation I trace the evolution of the institutions governing woodland in South China over the longue durée. I claim that after a high point of state forestry the imperial government lost both the interest and ... -
Saving Deities for the Community: Religion and the Transformation of Associational Life in Southern Zhejiang, 1949-2014
(2015-09-19)My dissertation examines the post-1949 transformation of religious and organizational culture in rural Ruian County of the Wenzhou region, Zhejiang. It explores the diversified adaptation patterns adopted by rural religious ... -
Scholarly Culture in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century China
(2017-05-12)This dissertation traces the development of scholarly disciplines in late imperial China. This project focuses on linguistic study during a period when philology was woven into a comprehensive system of analyzing language, ... -
Southern Capital: Staging Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou
(2015-05-16)This dissertation explores the intersection of literary and economic imaginaries through an examination of the market as both theme and structure in late imperial drama. Theater played a crucial role in helping late imperial ... -
Stage Technology in Modern China: The Media of Revolution and Resistance
(2016-09-01)This dissertation examines how the introduction of new stage technologies—from electric spotlights to live-feed digital cameras—into modern Chinese theater has shaped dramatic text, performance practice, and artistic theory ... -
Study of the Cang Jie pian: Past and Present
(2017-09-07)Lost for nearly a millennium, recent manuscript discoveries are bringing back to light a foundational work of Han period “primary education 小學”: the Cang Jie pian 蒼頡篇. This dissertation looks at the study of the Cang Jie ... -
The Yoga of Dying: Xuanzang on the Nature of Death
(2018-05-15)This study reclaims the investigation undertaken by Xuanzang (602-667 C.E.) 玄奘, the translator and peripatetic scholar-monk of the Tang Dynasty, and his translation team, into the nature of dying. It conforms to the ... -
Visionary Realities: Documentary Cinema in Socialist China
(2013-10-11)This dissertation examines documentary cinema in Socialist China as an emerging technology of mass politics, a new medium for creating political imaginaries and writing history, and a global vernacular connecting China to ... -
Visualizing the Child: Japanese Children's Literature in the Age of Woodblock Print, 1678-1888
(2013-03-14)Children’s literature flourished in Edo-period Japan, as this dissertation shows through a survey of eighteenth-century woodblock-printed picturebooks for children that feature children in prominent roles. Addressing a ... -
When Heaven Collapsed: Writing the Taiping Civil War (1851–1864)
(2017-01-06)This dissertation investigates different aspects of the psycholinguistic devices employed during the Taiping Civil War (1851-1864), one of the most destructive wars in human history. By bringing together an unusual combination ... -
"With Malice Toward None" to "A House Divided": The Impact of Changing Perceptions of Ritual and Sincerity on Elite Social Cohesion and Political Culture in Northern Song China, 1027-1067
(2014-10-21)At the heart of this dissertation lie two political events that hitherto have predominantly been interpreted from the perspective of the xining reform and the factional disputes that accompanied it: the so called qingli ... -
Writing Herself: Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution in Korean Women's Lyric Poetry, 1925--2012
(2014-10-21)Despite a recent global surge in the reception and translation of Korean women poets, there has been surprisingly little scholarship on this topic. This dissertation aims to expand the focus of Western scholarship beyond ... -
Xuanzang’s Journey to the East: Picto-textual Efficacy in the Genjō Sanzō emaki
(2015-09-20)This dissertation asks how, in the context of elite medieval Japanese painting, matter could constitute meaning. This is attempted through a case study of one of the last great medieval illustrated handscrolls (Jp. emaki) ...