Chapman University
US Army War College
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Gettysburg College
University of the Pacific
Whitworth Digital Commons
Lingnan University
A Lifetime Of Stress: Analysis And Treatment Of An Inlaid Chinese Box,
2023
State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College
A Lifetime Of Stress: Analysis And Treatment Of An Inlaid Chinese Box, Katherine Mcfarlin
Art Conservation Master's Projects
Inlaid wooden objects are complex and intricate mixed media assemblages that can provide significant challenges to the conservator, as the properties of the individual materials can conflict and complicate treatment options. For example, traditional inlay materials such as ivory and mother-of-pearl are particularly susceptible to shifts in moisture and acidity, and the hygroscopic nature of historic proteinaceous adhesives can exacerbate dimensional changes in the surrounding wood. This paper describes the research and subsequent treatment to stabilize and restore a Qing dynasty wooden tabletop chest inlaid with ivory, mother-of-pearl, and various siliceous minerals. A combination of adhesive failure along multiple joints …
Patriotism And The Mass Line: Ccp Ideology From Mao To Xi,
2023
Fordham University
Patriotism And The Mass Line: Ccp Ideology From Mao To Xi, Anne Elizabeth Weston
Senior Theses
China’s modern ideology and political environment have shifted over time, as lessons learned from various mass movements and policies have been incorporated into its ideological construction. Analyzing these elements and their impact on modern CCP ideology is key to understanding CCP ideology and the role it plays in Chinese politics. This paper will construct a timeline of significant movements and policies throughout modern Chinese history and examine how CCP ideology was shaped by these events.. The CCP’s ideology combines Maoist ideas, such as the mass line, with ideas of patriotism and nationalism to create governmental compliance within China. It attempts …
Qing Dynasty Religious Manipulation Of Tibet,
2023
Ursinus College
Qing Dynasty Religious Manipulation Of Tibet, Hannah Nancy Lee
East Asian Studies Honors Papers
Here I report that part of the Manchu gaining control of Tibet was their use of religious manipulation. Through the line of Manchu leaders, there are trends of the Manchu focusing on securing their rule and using culture to gain compliance. The trend of securing power is set by early Qing leaders, and this trend becomes religious manipulation in later emperors.
Enhancing The Battleverse: The People’S Liberation Army’S Digital Twin Strategy,
2023
University of South Florida
Enhancing The Battleverse: The People’S Liberation Army’S Digital Twin Strategy, Joshua Baughman
Military Cyber Affairs
No abstract provided.
'Taiwanization' In The Strait Conflict: Public Opinion's Effect On Peace Vs Conflict,
2023
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
'Taiwanization' In The Strait Conflict: Public Opinion's Effect On Peace Vs Conflict, Grant Smith
International and Global Studies Undergraduate Honors Theses
Since the election of Tsai Ing-wen, the Taiwan Strait Conflict has been rising in tension. Many scholars state that interdependence leads to peace; however, Taiwan and China extensively trade with one another, and peace has not occurred. To understand why the Taiwan Strait continuously suffers from conflict, one must explore mechanisms that can alter the effect of commercial interdependence on peace. In a democracy, this power would reside with the voting public. To understand why Taiwan’s trade relations have not led to peace, we must examine the Taiwanese public opinion. Most believe that peace has not come about because Taiwan …
Patterns Of Integration: A Network Perspective On Popular Religious Connections In China’S Lower Yangzi, 1150–1350,
2023
Bucknell University
Patterns Of Integration: A Network Perspective On Popular Religious Connections In China’S Lower Yangzi, 1150–1350, Song Chen
Faculty Journal Articles
The spread of cults from their original homelands in the Song dynasty (960–1279) created crisscrossing ties between local communities and fostered social and cultural integration in Chinese society that transcended class and geographic boundaries. Scholars have produced numerous case studies on these translocal cults and their implications, but the pattern of connections across space created by these cults is yet to be explored. Using the data collected from local gazetteers that have survived from the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties, this article takes a bird’s‑eye view of the spatial distribution of popular cults in China’s Lower Yangzi region between 1150 …
Sounding Out Stories: A Critical Analysis Of The Prince, How To Become A Dictator, The King Of Kowloon, Three Narrative Podcasts On Contemporary China,
2023
University of Wollongong
Sounding Out Stories: A Critical Analysis Of The Prince, How To Become A Dictator, The King Of Kowloon, Three Narrative Podcasts On Contemporary China, Siobhan Mchugh
RadioDoc Review
It’s unusual and welcome to see not one, but three, well-produced narrative podcasts made in the West about China. Hosted by female journalists with a Chinese background, all provide strong context on Chinese history and politics but focus essentially on an individual: The King of Kowloon (produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) memorialises an eccentric graffiti artist called Tsang Tsou-choi, his art seen in the context of Hong Kong’s shrinking democracy. Both The Prince (by The Economist) and How To Become A Dictator (by The Telegraph) zero in on Xi JinPing, President of the People’s Republic of …
The Guangzhou Abolition Of Prostitution Movement And Thought In The Republic Of China From The 1920s To 1930s,
2023
University of Guelph
The Guangzhou Abolition Of Prostitution Movement And Thought In The Republic Of China From The 1920s To 1930s, Rui Li
Madison Historical Review
The 1920s and 1930s were the peaks of the abolition of the prostitution movement in Guangzhou during the Chinese Republican era. This paper will analyze articles from different sources of mass media and administrative reports of municipal government to restore public opinion and even specific measures to abolish prostitution in Guangzhou at that time. At the same time, the public opinion generated by different intellectuals and the actions taken by the Guangzhou city government to abolish prostitution is used to discuss the certainty of the existence of prostitution and the difficulties that would be encountered in abolishing it. In turn, …
Between Verb And Preposition: Diachronic Stages Of Coverbs In Mandarin Chinese,
2023
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Between Verb And Preposition: Diachronic Stages Of Coverbs In Mandarin Chinese, Glynis Jones
Masters Theses
Mandarin Chinese has long been known to possess a category of words known as ‘coverbs’ in the literature, which sit in the gray area between verb and preposition. Li and Thompson (1974) describe the historical origins of Mandarin coverbs to be full transitive verbs, despite their modern state being decidedly less verbal. They also note that coverbs are a non-homogenous class. This thesis works to establish categories of coverbs in Mandarin Chinese and their distance from true verbhood in order to understand the diachronic shift that coverbs are currently undergoing before our very eyes. I will draw on the work …
The Personality And Psychology Of Chen Zi-Ang, A Fiery, Noble Warrior And Martyr (陳子昂烈士之人格心理),
2023
Gettysburg College
The Personality And Psychology Of Chen Zi-Ang, A Fiery, Noble Warrior And Martyr (陳子昂烈士之人格心理), Xiao-Yu Chen
Student Publications
From the perspective of psychology, personality refers to the long-term, significant pattern in which a person perceives themselves while responding to others and the world. In the vast majority of situations, a person’s experiences at and before age twenty-five, in addition to their reactions to these situations, have a significant impact over their personality and psychology. In the vast majority of cases, the significant sources of these experiences are the substantial impacts of familial circumstances and early professional interactions, in addition to their broader social-historical worlds. Chen Zi-Ang the martyr was in the human realm for forty or forty-one years …
Poetic Theory And Practice In The Ming And Qing Dynasties : Poetry : The Pain Of Loss And The Pleasures Of Everyday Life,
2023
McGill University
Poetic Theory And Practice In The Ming And Qing Dynasties : Poetry : The Pain Of Loss And The Pleasures Of Everyday Life, Grace Fong
How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
In this final episode, we will first listen to the “Song of Suffering Calamity” by the woman poet and scholar Wang Duanshu (1621-ca. 1680), narrating her flight from the invading Qing army during the Ming-Qing transition. We will conclude with two examples by women among the many poems in the Ming and Qing that record quotidian pleasures and reflections on daily life. Whether pain and loss or pleasure and joy, men and women in late imperial China inscribed their emotions and thoughts in poetry.
Poetic Theory And Practice In The Ming And Qing Dynasties : Poetry As Autobiography,
2023
McGill University
Poetic Theory And Practice In The Ming And Qing Dynasties : Poetry As Autobiography, Grace Fong
How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
An outstanding development in this period is the practice of writing poetry as autobiography, as the record of a life story. We will discuss the life-long collection of over 1000 poems by an eighteenth-century woman poet to illustrate her poetic self-construction.
Poetic Theory And Practice In The Ming And Qing Dynasties : Poetic Theory And Practice In The Ming And Qing,
2023
McGill University
Poetic Theory And Practice In The Ming And Qing Dynasties : Poetic Theory And Practice In The Ming And Qing, Grace Fong
How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
The Ming, and especially the Qing, witnessed the unprecedented spread of writing poetry among literate men and women in the history of imperial China. This episode introduces the influential theories of poets, such as Yuan Mei’s “native sensibility” (xingling), which promoted naturalness and personal expression over formal learning and ethical concerns, thus encouraging the common practice of poetry.
Song Poems (Sanqu) Of The Yuan Dynasty : Poetry Of Rambunctious Wit And Impudent Humor,
2023
Denison University
Song Poems (Sanqu) Of The Yuan Dynasty : Poetry Of Rambunctious Wit And Impudent Humor, Xinda Lian
How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
The carefree playfulness presented in Wang Heqing’s poem “On the Big Butterfly” tells us much about the cultural milieu of the time when the sanqu flourished, and reminds us of the genre’s origins in streets, marketplaces, and entertainment quarters.
Song Poems (Sanqu) Of The Yuan Dynasty : The Art Of Tongue-In-Cheek : Two Love Songs By Two Great Dramatists,
2023
Denison University
Song Poems (Sanqu) Of The Yuan Dynasty : The Art Of Tongue-In-Cheek : Two Love Songs By Two Great Dramatists, Xinda Lian
How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
The two love songs—authored by Guan Hanqing and Bai Pu respectively—present humorous dramatic moments in a lively language of everyday speech.
Song Poems (Sanqu) Of The Yuan Dynasty : The Power Of Poetic Imagery,
2023
Denison University
Song Poems (Sanqu) Of The Yuan Dynasty : The Power Of Poetic Imagery, Xinda Lian
How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
Using a cluster of carefully chosen images, Ma Zhiyuan’s “Autumn Thoughts” invites readers to identify themselves with a weary traveler, a “heartbroken man at the end of the earth.”
Illuminating Chinese Aesthetics With Kant’S Account Of Genius? Possibility And Difficulty,
2023
San Jose State University
Illuminating Chinese Aesthetics With Kant’S Account Of Genius? Possibility And Difficulty, Kefu Zhu
Comparative Philosophy
Many scholars interpret Chinese Aesthetics with the Kantian theory of genius because they seem to form a parallel: similar innate and spontaneous mental talents that exceed normal cognition and imagination generates beautiful arts with similar extraordinary qualities. I argue that projecting Kant’s genius to illuminate the creative power analogically, i.e., the carefree-wandering mind, is infeasible. The theory of genius assumes a critical project that stipulates a valuable way to exercise the power of judgment. Genius is only a postulated idea for successfully making aesthetic judgments on artworks. In contrast, the carefree-wandering mind assumes a Daoist metaphysical-ethical theory centering on the …
Dreaming Philosophers: The Daoist And The Metaphysician,
2023
San Jose State University
Dreaming Philosophers: The Daoist And The Metaphysician, Kelly S. Inglis
Comparative Philosophy
Is this just a dream? Daoist philosopher Zhuang Zi and metaphysician Descartes both considered this question but came to very different conclusions. In his Dream Hypothesis, Descartes imagined that all of his beliefs about the external world could be mistaken, which led him to the realization that the only thing that he could be certain of was his own existence: “I think therefore I am.” But what am “I”? “I am a thinking thing”, he said and concluded that the existence of one’s mental self is clear, certain and indubitable, while the existence of a physical world was open …
Long Song Lyrics (Manci) Of The Song Dynasty : Li Qingzhao : Singing Her Autumn Sorrow,
2023
Denison University
Long Song Lyrics (Manci) Of The Song Dynasty : Li Qingzhao : Singing Her Autumn Sorrow, Xinda Lian
How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
A master of tune and sense, Li Qingzhao knows how to bring out her almost unspeakable inner feeling through her skillful employment of the ci form, the music of words.
Long Song Lyrics (Manci) Of The Song Dynasty : Su Shi : Meditation On The Past,
2023
Denison University
Long Song Lyrics (Manci) Of The Song Dynasty : Su Shi : Meditation On The Past, Xinda Lian
How to Read Chinese Poetry Podcast
Su Shi does not only expand the subject matter of the ci poetry, but also gives his song lyrics a genuine personal voice, an unambiguous autobiographical tone as that found in the shi poetry.
