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Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: Veiled Criticism Through Extreme Entertainment, Thoby Jeanty Dec 2022

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: Veiled Criticism Through Extreme Entertainment, Thoby Jeanty

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

This thesis examines the writings of Meiji novelists living during a time of transition. Their writings became known as part of a genre called Erotic Grotesque Nonsense. The genre became defined as engaging in extremes to entertain an audience captivated by the eroticism, grotesque, or even the nonsensical nature of the stories being told. The thesis discovers there is a pressing social commentary on the tumultuous transition to modernity hidden within these works. The traditions established during the Tokugawa era starting from 1603 and lasting until 1867 came under pressure with the start of the Meiji era in 1868. Each …


A Study Of The American Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program And Its Influence On Chinese Education: Taking Shandong Students As An Example, Pengxiu Sun Sep 2019

A Study Of The American Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program And Its Influence On Chinese Education: Taking Shandong Students As An Example, Pengxiu Sun

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The American Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program (ABISP) was one of the most important events in the modern Chinese history of overseas education. This thesis focuses on the group of Shandong students which has representative characteristics of the whole American Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program (ABISP) students to provide descriptive data for the influence on Chinese higher education through the achievements of Shandong students in the American Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program (ABISP) in higher education. Through tracking the forty-two Shandong ABISP students, the thesis shows the establishment of Tsinghua University and ABISP students’ study and life in Tsinghua and the United States. …


Japan's Population Decline And Its Implications For Japanese Society, Nandor Forgach Jan 2009

Japan's Population Decline And Its Implications For Japanese Society, Nandor Forgach

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Japan's Evolving Military: East Asia, The United States, And The International System, Kelly Therese Fink Jan 2008

Japan's Evolving Military: East Asia, The United States, And The International System, Kelly Therese Fink

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Globalization Of Language And Real-World Usage: Japanese Language And Culture, Rebeccah C. Newman Jan 2007

Globalization Of Language And Real-World Usage: Japanese Language And Culture, Rebeccah C. Newman

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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The Transatlantic Relationship Vis-A-Vis China: A Comparative Analysis Of The Foreign Policy Approaches Towards China By The Eu And The U.S., Andrea Schierbaum Jan 2006

The Transatlantic Relationship Vis-A-Vis China: A Comparative Analysis Of The Foreign Policy Approaches Towards China By The Eu And The U.S., Andrea Schierbaum

Theses

No abstract provided.


Watsuji Tetsuro's Ontological Ethics As A Conceptual Framework For Environmental Philosophy, Albert E. Pike Jan 2006

Watsuji Tetsuro's Ontological Ethics As A Conceptual Framework For Environmental Philosophy, Albert E. Pike

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The Japanese Biological And Chemical Warfare Program In China, 1932-1945, Beata Marzena Wilk Jan 2004

The Japanese Biological And Chemical Warfare Program In China, 1932-1945, Beata Marzena Wilk

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It's Right To Rebel: The Story Of China's Red Guards, 1966-1968, John Knight Jan 2004

It's Right To Rebel: The Story Of China's Red Guards, 1966-1968, John Knight

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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The United States' Role In The Exculpation Of Japanese Biological Warfare Units From War Crimes Committed During World War Ii, Catherine Fisco Jan 2003

The United States' Role In The Exculpation Of Japanese Biological Warfare Units From War Crimes Committed During World War Ii, Catherine Fisco

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No abstract provided.


The Radical Impulse Of The "Fatherless Sons" In Post-Mao China, Wang Yan Jan 2002

The Radical Impulse Of The "Fatherless Sons" In Post-Mao China, Wang Yan

Theses

No abstract provided.


Evolution Of Labor In Japan: A Comparative Study Of Labor Exportation To The Dominican Republic In The 1950s And Remigration Of Nikkeijin From Latin America In The 1990s, Hiroko Ishikawa Jan 2002

Evolution Of Labor In Japan: A Comparative Study Of Labor Exportation To The Dominican Republic In The 1950s And Remigration Of Nikkeijin From Latin America In The 1990s, Hiroko Ishikawa

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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The Causes And Effects Of The Chinese Civil War, 1927-1949, Jennifer Lynn Cucchisi Jan 2002

The Causes And Effects Of The Chinese Civil War, 1927-1949, Jennifer Lynn Cucchisi

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Toward The Technological Suspension Of Ignorance: Ethics Of ¨Redemptive Knowledge~ From Confuscius To Kierkegaard, David E. Randolph Jan 2001

Toward The Technological Suspension Of Ignorance: Ethics Of ¨Redemptive Knowledge~ From Confuscius To Kierkegaard, David E. Randolph

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No abstract provided.


A New Suit Of Clothes: A Study Of Japanese Catholicism In Endo Shusaku (1923-1996), Megumi Kanazaki Jan 1999

A New Suit Of Clothes: A Study Of Japanese Catholicism In Endo Shusaku (1923-1996), Megumi Kanazaki

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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