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Make Love And War: Chinese Popular Romance In Greater East Asia, 1937-1945, Chun-Yu Lu May 2016

Make Love And War: Chinese Popular Romance In Greater East Asia, 1937-1945, Chun-Yu Lu

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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 …


The Universe In Perspective, Commentator, And The Birth Of A Masterpiece By Yu Kwang-Chung, Hsinmei Lin Mar 2016

The Universe In Perspective, Commentator, And The Birth Of A Masterpiece By Yu Kwang-Chung, Hsinmei Lin

Transference

Translated from the Chinese by Hsinmei Lin.


Spaces Of Reality: Tsai Ming Liang And Re-Thinking Identity, Kyra G. Middeleer Jan 2016

Spaces Of Reality: Tsai Ming Liang And Re-Thinking Identity, Kyra G. Middeleer

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.