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Jungar Refugees and the Making of Empire on Qing China's Kazakh Frontier, 1759-1773
(2014-02-25)
This dissertation tells the story of what happened to Jungar refugees on the Qing empire's Kazakh frontier in the years immediately following the collapse of the Jungar confederation, 1759-1773. Narratives of violence ...
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 ...
A Jester with Chameleon Faces: Laughter and Comedy in North Korea, 1953-1969
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation is a study of ordinary North Korean people who have persevered in the face of tremendous social, political, and economic trials throughout their country's modern history and a tribute to their unflagging ...
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 ...
Realm of Shadows and Dreams: Theatrical and Fictional Lyricism in Early Qing Literature
(2014-06-06)
Early twentieth-century Chinese literary critics create a model of literary development that highlights leading genres for each dynasty. For the Ming and the Qing dynasties, these are drama and fiction. This model relegates ...
Popular Opinion and Public Reasoning: Intellectual Changes and Institutional Innovations in Late Ming China (1580s-1640s)
(2014-06-06)
This study examines the rise of popularist discourse in the realms of intellectual transformation, political reforms, institutional innovations, social activism, and cultural construction from the 1580s to the 1680s. ...
In Sickness and in Health: Americans and Psychiatry in Korea, 1950-1962
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation begins with a simple set of questions: how and why did the Western discipline of psychiatry gain traction in the Republic of Korea? My answers point to the Korean War and the US-ROK alliance as the two ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...