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Ukiyo-E: How Patterns In Edo Culture Shaped "The Floating World", Vanessa Hall

BYU Asian Studies Journal

Until the seventeenth century, it was exceedingly rare to find art depicting everyday Japanese life. It was only when artists began painting scenes from the street life in Yoshiwara, the red light district in the capital city of the time, that the popular school of art known as “Ukiyo-e,” a highly fashionable style of Japanese woodblock prints, was formed (J.E.L. 1914, pp. 1–4). Emerging from an era of Chinese philosophy that was against anything Japanese, early examples of Ukiyo-e were rare until Hishikawa Moronobu discovered a way to mass-produce the art through woodblock engraving prints, which ultimately established Ukiyo-e as …

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BYU Asian Studies Journal

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Anesaki Masaharu's Reception Of Leo Tolstoy And His Failed Attempt At Finding The Faith, Susanna Fessler Phd

East Asian Studies Faculty Scholarship

Among the voices opposed to the Russo–Japanese war of 1904–5 was that of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who published an essay titled Bethink Yourselves, arguing against hostilities. The essay was translated and published in Japanese, but gained little traction among the intelligentsia in Japan. There was, however, one strong voice that supported Tolstoy’s ideas: that of the religious studies scholar Anesaki Masaharu. Anesaki’s response to Tolstoy’s essay was at once a commentary about the spiritual state of Japan at the turn of the century and also a veiled criticism of the Japanese government.

Review Of Seeing Like The Buddha. Enlightenment Through Film By Francisca Cho, Ronald S. Green

Philosophy and Religious Studies

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Korean Contributions To Japanese Buddhism, Ronald S. Green, Chanju Mun

Philosophy and Religious Studies

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Indian Foundations And Chinese Developments Of The Buddha Dharma, Ronald S. Green, Chanju Mun

Philosophy and Religious Studies

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China And The North Korean Refugee Crisis, Christina Ahn

BYU Asian Studies Journal

On 8 May 2002, shocking images of five North Korean refugees at a Japanese consulate in northeast China were captured. Although two members of the party—both men—successfully made it inside the consulate, two women and a child were dragged away from the gate of their safe haven by Chinese police (Gittings 2002). All five individuals were eventually detained—and though their fates remain unknown, it is likely they were immediately deported to North Korea, possibly the worst outcome for any North Korean defector.

The Joss House As An Insight Into 19th Century Chinese Immigration, Joshua Bernhard

BYU Asian Studies Journal

“From the theater we went to the principal church or joss-house,” an anonymous author wrote about the San Francisco Chinatown for the Christian Recorder in September 1875. “Up three flights of stairs, rickety, worn, and uneven, and through the dark passages full of sickening odors, I reached a dismal, dreary, mysterious, and silent worship-house of this mysterious and superstitious people. Here and there in the temple a dim taper burned, but there were no lights in the halls, stairs, and passages, and the flickering flames only added to the oppressive and, if I may so call it ghostly feeling that …

Confucius Institutes: Expelling A Trojan Horse Or Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth?, Michael J. Swain

BYU Asian Studies Journal

During the past ten years, China has actively promoted its Confucius Institute (CI), a program of instruction in Chinese language and culture for college students outside of China. The program’s stated purpose is to meet an existing demand for education in Chinese language and culture, with the intent of strengthening relationships between China and other countries in order to promote a more harmonious world. However, many have viewed the CI program as nothing more than an expansion of Beijing’s soft power. Some Western institutions have even expelled CIs from their campuses. The growing concern suggests that China’s offering of what …

“Soviet Ballet In Chinese Cultural Policy, 1950s”, Eva S. Chou

Publications and Research

The foundation of ballet in China was laid with the 1954 establishment of the Beijing Dance School with a division in ballet. How a Tsarist entertainment genre came to be a prized genre in socialist soil is a story with many parts. Its context is the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance (1950-1960), which included provisions for Soviet experts to be assigned in all areas to aid in China's national construction. In the cultural arena, this included dance, both folk and ballet. This paper covers two necessary first steps: (1) how officials at the highest level came to …

Determinants Of Personal Information Protection Activities In South Korea, Pilku Kang

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how people’s awareness and ways to obtain relevant materials of personal information have influenced individual’s information privacy protection activities. This study uses the data of a 2016 survey on information security published by Korea Information and Security Agency.

The dependent variables of this study are preventive measures for the security of a Personal Computer (PC) and preventive measures against personal information breach. I classify independent variables into four types. They are internet users’ perception about information privacy, such as awareness of the importance of protecting one’s personal information, and awareness of information …

The Effect On Existence, De'siree Fairley

Spring Presentation of Undergraduate Research

The Rashomon effect is a sociological term that originated from the 1950 film Rashomon directed by Akira Kurosawa. It explains a story being told from multiple vantage points, but never gives an unbiasedly true version of the tale at its conclusion. By telling the story from multiple perspectives, characters who would originally be silenced such as the bride are given a voice. Telling the story in this format allows the audience to consider peoples’ perspectives that differ from their own. Without giving the audience the true conclusion of an incident this demands that they consider every aspect of a story …

粵東閩語合口介音的保留及其與相鄰方言點的比較, Yuen Yan Hui

Dissertations from all years

過往一直有不少音韻研究指出合口介音的消失是漢語方言發展的普遍現象，屬東南方言的閩語亦是其中一例，可惜閩系方言的開合口演變情況鮮為人所提及。本文把前人探討北方方言合口音消失的調查方法用到閩語裡，比較閩方言中不同分支對合口音的保留情況。閩語主要可分為四個支流，是為閩東、閩北、閩南以及粵東閩語。本文在各個分支中選取了代表地區，前三個分支的代表方言點分別為建甌、福州和廈門。而由於粵東閩語的內部差異是本文的討論重點，故是次調查共選取了三個在今音上有口音差異的地區以便比較分析，這些地區為汕頭、揭陽、潮陽和海豐。漢語方言合口音消失較多表現在的果攝、蟹攝、止攝、山攝、臻攝、宕攝和曾攝，本文從當中的六攝中選取了合共十個韻部中的例字，對閩東、閩北及閩南的代表地區今音做了例字記音表，並比較分析記音結果。記音結果發現，閩東地區對合口音的保留較其他地區的閩語齊全。此外，我們從是次記音亦看見一些閩方言的語音特色。

又，粵東閩語的韻母存在很多的內部差異，當中包括了數個合口介音的韻母。本文將分析及闡述這些合口韻的在韻腹及韻尾的差異，嘗試探討粵東閩語的存古情況。

〈公共交通工具的社會建構及其他〉 : 新詩創作三十首, Ki Chau Hon

Dissertations from all years

交通工具是日常生活中不可缺少的事物，除了是人們行走各處的途徑，也是公共空間的一種，其特性在文學作品中也多有表述。這次的創作計劃分三輯共三十首新詩作品，意在用不同角度敘述相關的香港故事，從而反思我們的日常生活，以及當中的歷史、文化論述。

第一輯的詩作回應了一些歷史／社會事件，包括六七暴動、移民潮、保育皇后 碼頭運動等，並用較抽離的視角反思它們對當下社會的影響。第二輯則更注視地方與交通工具的連繫，例如坪州、馬鞍山礦洞等地，除了有回顧歷史及城市變化的地文書寫，也關注當地人們的日常生活。第三輯以宏觀的角度，輔以平日的觀察，思考人與人／人與城市的關係，因而較多哲思及情感抒發，亦思考了汽車等工業產物以外的移動方式。整個創作計劃歷時近一年，希望聚焦在當下的香港故事，用現在的角度審視城市的身世，也並非漁翁撒網式地把所有交通工具都書寫一遍，而專注於主流聲音所忽略的事物。

水族, Hiu Tung Chan

Dissertations from all years

是次指導論文為小說創作，名為《水族》。都巿裡的魚，終其一生都只能活在魚缸，無法回到大海，但魚缸有大有小，缸內景色也不盡相同。魚兒居住在哪一個缸，其一在於命運，其二在於選擇。只要轉換環境之於魚兒是非做不可的事，勇敢在水中躍起，離開當下的水域，就有脫困的可能。

故事關於主角陳啟軒養了一條企圖跳缸的花羅漢，從魚的掙扎之上看到自身的厄困，亦因為這一尾魚結織了金魚鋪老闆溫嘉裕。溫嘉裕的自由生活與自己的朝九晚十一成了極大的對比，亦從對方的斜杠生活得知工作並非只有一種可能，最後拾回選擇工作的決定權，不再被社會壓逼左右生活的形狀。

本文旨在透過短篇小說創作，藉陳啟軒一角點出香港當下「九十後」所面對的困難，以及脫困的其中一種可能性，提示「九十後」尚有選擇的權利，亦藉溫嘉裕一角，帶讀者進入水族行業與獨立音樂圈子這兩種在香港頗為邊緣的文化，記錄二零一八年的當下，此兩個行業的狀態及形象。最後亦藉二人曖昧而明朗的關係，為香港尚未真正正名的同志留下期昐。

X-Rated And Excessively Long: Ji-Amari In Hayashi Amari's Tanka, Jon P. Holt

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

As a fixed 31-syllable form of short poetry, Japan's tanka is one of the world's oldest forms of still-practiced poetry, with examples perhaps dating back to the fifth century. In the modern periods of Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1926), poets radically reformed the genre, expanding diction beyond millennium-old classical limits, thereby allowing poets to write not only about cherry blossoms and tragic love but also about things like steam trains and baseball games; although today many tanka poets in practicing circles still employ classical Japanese, many modern masters innovated the genre by skillfully blending in colloquial language. Like their modern …

The Progressive Distribution Of Sentences Containing Relative Clauses In Japanese Textbooks Of English, Risa Nakagawa

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Relative clauses have been researched and found to be one of the more difficult English grammar items for people who speak English as a Second Language (henceforth, ESL) and people who use English as a Foreign Language (henceforth, EFL). In particular, objective relative clauses are one of the most challenging items for English learners. (Gibson, 1998; Gordon, Hendrick, & Johnson, 2001; Mellow, 2006; Hawkins, 1994; King & Just, 1991; Otsuka & Aburai, 2003). By examining the frequency of subjective and objective relative clauses in six English textbooks which are being used in middle schools and high schools in Japan, the …

A Meaning-Based Approach To The Language Of The Toefl Test And Japanese Efl Textbooks: A Functional Analysis Of Patterns Of Lexico-Grammatical Meanings And Structures, Koshin Fukuyoshi

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The primary objective of this research project is to show varying degrees of textual and semantic contributions that semantic density and grammatical metaphors make in the way that TOEFL iBT reading sections and Japanese EFL textbooks are used. This research is conducted from two theoretical perspectives within the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The first analysis is to investigate logical and semantic relationships within clause complexes in order to identify structural variations and their textual distributions. The second analysis focuses on the use of ideational and interpersonal grammatical metaphors and on the way that they further compact or untangle textual …

[Introduction To] Language As Bodily Practice In Early China: A Chinese Grammatology, Jane Geaney

Bookshelf

Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of speech and naming cannot be properly understood if viewed through the dominant Western philosophical tradition in which language is framed through dualisms that are based on hierarchies of speech and writing, such as reality/appearance and one/many. Instead, early Chinese texts repeatedly create pairings of sounds and various visible things. This aural/visual polarity suggests that texts from early China treat speech as a bodily practice that is not detachable from its use in everyday experience. Firmly grounded in ideas about bodies from the early texts themselves, Geaney’s interpretation offers new insights into three …

Hong Kong Youth Identity And Self-Presentation In The New Territories: A Qualitative Study On Letters From Youth And Teachers To An Ngo Internship Progrm, Robert W. Spires

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

Hong Kong youth issues have gained increased attention in recent years, particularly in light of youth protests and political involvement. In Hong Kong, NGOs are one avenue of intervention to address youth issues. This study examines the letters of youth from the New Territories, as well as their supporting secondary school teachers, to a Hong Kong NGO in order to gain placement in an NGO internship program. These letters are explored for issues of youth identity using the lens of dialogical self theory to better understand the impact of globalization on youth identity development. How the youth and their teachers …