Yi, Yuan

This dissertation is a study of the mechanization of cotton spinning in turn-of-the-twentieth-century China. More specifically, it examines efforts made by the Chinese workers to keep imported spinning machines performing at maximum efficiency in their cotton mills. Such efforts…

This thesis describes and analyzes the humor used in William Shakespeare’s plays from a philosophical and psychological perspective. In doing so, this thesis demonstrates how humor constitutes meaning in Shakespeare’s plays and at the same time traces the use of humor in the dev…