As the heir to an ancient civilization that has lasted for over fifty centuries, the Chinese-speaking world continues to show an instinctive concern for its own culture, especially in the realm of art, even in its current stage of significant development. As such, the art from C…
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This dissertation, entitled “The Rising of the Avant-garde Movement in 1980s People’s Republic of China: A Cultural Practice of the New Enlightenment,” deals with Chinese Avant-garde Literature and Art in the reform era of the 1980s, when the PRC was turning from high socialism …
This dissertation examines the material and corporeal configurations of the moral self in the Chinese literary tradition from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Unlike the modern Western understanding of morality as an abstract valence produced by the interiority of a rati…
As Cultural Revolution ended in late 1970s, Chinese intellectuals were again in their quest for modernity by referencing western cultures. However, as soon as the “Reform and Opening” policy was promulgated, the Chinese cultural modernity failed to resurrect the zeitgeist of May…
The North-China Herald (NCH) was established in 1850 Shanghai as a weekly and was then the only English newspaper in the treaty port. It was later nicknamed the “Old lady on the Bund.” With its weekly NCH and daily, the North-China Daily News (NCDN), the NCH group became the mos…
This dissertation examines the dynamic relationship between written language and literary fiction in modern and contemporary Japanese-language literature. I analyze how script and narration come together to function as a site of expression, and how they connect to questions of v…
This recording project commissioned and recorded sixteen new solo vocal settings of the poetry of Dongjoo Yoon. This is the first CD recording consisting solely of art songs set to Yoon's poetry using the advanced compositional techniques currently being employed in contemporary…
This thesis attempts to explicate how ecocriticism can provide a useful way out of the current environmental scenario. While reading literary expressions, ecocritics ask basic questions like: How nature is represented in the given text? What are the factors (socio-cultural-econo…
Ancient civilizations had great respect for Fire-worshipping. Indus civilization was highly popular for its Fire-worshiping. This Fire-worship is known as Yajn͂ a. The word Yajn͂ a itself is a vast term. It covers many factors of human life starting from birth to death. Not only F…
This dissertation unravels how discussions of sympathy gained momentum in intellectual, aesthetic, and political discourse in modern China from the 1910s to the 1950s. Through textual analysis of newspapers, journals, political documents, and unofficial communist publications as…
This dissertation examines the theories and practices of proletarian international solidarity during the 1920s and 30s in East Asia, found in various writings and activities. Locating its arguments in concurrent scientific studies, linguistic theory, and literary and art critici…
This dissertation mainly studies the “genre consciousness” of literati playwrights in late-Ming and early-Qing China and the “meta-theatrical representations” found in their works. Based on the concepts of (non)illusion, allegory and play, the dissertation consists of four case …
As one of the greatest thinkers in ancient China, Zhu Xi was renowned for his philosophy but his achievements in historiography occupied an important position in traditional China as well. However, Zhu Xi’s historiography were only implied, but has not been discussed enough yet …
Nguyễn Văn Đạt (a.k.a., Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, 1491–1586) was a sixteenth century poet, scholar-official, and teacher in northern Vietnam. Starting in 1535, he served as a Mạc Dynasty (1527–1677) official until 1542, when he retired to his native village on the northern Vietnamese c…
This study investigates the theatrical function and moral significance of disrupted banquets in six plays of William Shakespeare and in a history play of Chinese playwright Guan Hanqing in the Yuan dynasty. By examining feasting scenes interrupted by unanticipated guests, or des…
Despite their value as sources attesting to the reception of Buddhism by Chinese laypeople, miracle tale literature has escaped the attention of all but a few scholars of Chinese Buddhism. These scholars have tended to discuss this literature in general terms, seeking to underst…
現代嶺南女作家的文學創作與中國現代文學史的五四新文學、革命文學、左翼文學、抗戰文學及延安文學等各時期的文學主潮基本保持一致。在新文學領域，澳門女作家趙連城、冼玉清；廣府女作家許廣平、草明、吳乃茵、杜君慧；潮汕女作家馮鏗、陳波兒、許心影、陳曙光、陳鳳兮；客家女作家李堅真、李素英，等等，從嶺南邊緣地帶進入北京、上海、武漢、延安等文化中心，融入文學主潮，以嶺南文化獨有的品格和活力，創作了不少優秀的文藝作品，在文學史上具有一定的作用和地位。在文言詩詞領域，趙連城、冼玉清、許心影、張荃等在抗戰時期的愛國詩篇，與同時代嶺南文人饒宗頤等一樣，表現了崇高的中華民族詩魂…
Buddhist thought diagnoses human suffering as the result of a fundamental misperception of reality. As such, Buddhists have developed practices that aim to replace or improve ordinary ways of seeing the world. In Tibet, one such practice is pilgrimage to holy mountains. This dis…