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Make Love And War: Chinese Popular Romance In Greater East Asia, 1937-1945, Chun-Yu Lu
Make Love And War: Chinese Popular Romance In Greater East Asia, 1937-1945, Chun-Yu Lu
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My dissertation examines Chinese popular romances produced and consumed in the Japanese colonized and occupied regions, including Taiwan, Manchukuo, and Shanghai, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. I investigate the complex relationships between emotion, representation, and consumption vis--vis wartime discourses and sociopolitical turmoil. Through extensive archival research in Taiwan, China and Japan, I (re)discovered and reevaluated five important wartime popular romance writers and their works. In addition to fiction, sequels, film and stage play adaptations, Japanese translation and readers/viewers responses all together create the cultural phenomena of the popular romance genre. In this dissertation I ask the following questions: How are …
Dismantling The Illusion Of Otherness: An Authorial Study Of Lou Ye’S Spring Fever And Blind Massage, Ying Huang
Dismantling The Illusion Of Otherness: An Authorial Study Of Lou Ye’S Spring Fever And Blind Massage, Ying Huang
Senior Projects Fall 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.