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Mistress Gu The Tigress: Warrior Women & Knight-Errantry In Outlaws Of The Marsh, Ryan K. Christenson

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

Outlaws of the Marsh, also commonly known as Water Margin, is one of the four most beloved classic novels of Chinese literature, most frequently attributed to the 14th-century writer Shi Nai’an. In this novel, one of the more relatively obscure characters among the 108 outlaws of Mount Liang is Gu Dasao “the Tigress,” a heroic woman who is normally characterized as a “woman general” (nüjiang) along with the other two prominent women in the novel, “Ten Feet of Steel” Hu Sanniang and Sun Erniang “the Witch.” This characterization has endured to this day, perhaps due to tradition or simply convenience. …

Volume 9 Full Issue

BYU Asian Studies Student Journal

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Envisioning Dynamic Cultural Platforms: Strategic Integration Of Contemporary Art In Japan's Socio-Economic Landscape, Shota Hachisako

MA Theses

In this tale of transformative potential, the dissertation opens with Japan's unique juxtaposition of a burgeoning technological landscape against a modestly-sized art market. It envisions contemporary art as a dynamic force, capable of revolutionizing Japan's socio-economic fabric. This narrative of hope delves into how art, in Japan's context, can redefine corporate identities, fuel social innovation, and adapt to the digital age. The study advocates for an increased investment in the creative arts, seeing it as a key to merging Japan's rich cultural heritage with its economic aspirations. It paints a future where art not only enhances educational growth and international …

Theorizing Cultural Appropriation: Complications Of Globalization And Power In Hybrid K-Pop, David C. Oh

Media Studies - All Scholarship

The purpose of this paper is to theorize cultural appropriation using a critical perspective that centers structural inequity and uneven global power by examining the case of South Korean media. This paper argues that cultural appropriation is a particular form of intercultural borrowing that relies on structural inequities of power, whereby a more powerful culture takes from a less powerful culture in such a way that it causes structural and representational harm to the borrowed culture. To clarify cultural appropriation as a particular form of cultural borrowing, I provide a typology of different forms of cultural borrowing before positing six …

From Ideal To Cyber Victim: Unveiling The Relationship Between Korean Celebrity Image, Fan Expectations, And Cyberbullying Incidents, Rahma Jaidane

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

In the dynamic realm of the Korean entertainment industry, where glitz and glamour seamlessly intertwine with the personal lives of celebrities, a profound dichotomy unfolds. This research delves into the nuances of this narrative, focusing on how Korean celebrities strive for societal ideals of perfection while navigating the relentless scrutiny of an ever-watchful public eye. This study emerges in response to the evolving landscape where the pursuit of idealized images intersects with the dark side of cyberbullying, an escalating phenomenon with tangible consequences on the mental well-being of these public figures. The primary aim of this study is to explore …

The Study Of Attitude And Values Of The Korean Audience Of Thai Boys’ Love Series, Khattiya Mapha

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This research aimed to explore the attitudes, values, and behaviors of Korean audience of Thai Boys’ Love (BL) series, utilizing in-depth interviews with fourteen Korean viewers who participated in this study. They are aged between 18-45 years old. Drawing on multi-attribute attitude theory, Schwartz's value theory, and Ajzen's theory of planned behavior, this research provides a nuanced understanding of how Thai BL series influence Korean viewers in cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions. Participants expressed appreciation for the affectionate portrayals and open LGBTQ+ representation in Thai BL series, which they perceive as more authentic and emotionally resonant than similar content from …

Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (Strange Tales Of The Crescent Moon), Roger Thomas

Faculty Publications – Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Forced by family circumstances to abandon his samurai status, Takizawa Bakin (1767-1848) found his niche in life as a writer of popular fiction, eventually becoming the most prolific author of works in the yomihon genre, which consisted largely of historical romances. His dream of eventually restoring his family to its hereditary status is reflected in many of his works, beginning especially with Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (Strange Tales of the Crescent Moon), a novel appearing serially in sixty-eight chapters between 1807 and 1811 whose hero, the historical Minamoto no Tametomo (1139-1170), is drawn from a variety of sources, both standard …

An Integrated Theory Of Happiness: The Yang Zhu Chapter Of The Liezi, Devin K. Joshi

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This article examines the integrated approach to theorizing happiness in the Yang Zhu chapter of the book associated with the Daoist master Liezi. While ancient critics famously denounced Yang Zhu as an amoral, pleasure-seeking hedonist, I argue the Yang Zhu chapter offers an individually rational but socially non-conformist approach to well-being of considerable relevance to contemporary scholarship on happiness. Not only does the chapter offer an intriguing and counter-intuitive argument about what constitutes and causes well-being, but its philosophical implications address a large number of inescapably foundational conceptual questions that can serve as metrics for evaluating theories of happiness in …

(Re)Producing Orientalism: Industry Logic Of Chinese Mobile Game Re-Skins In The Global App Empire, Yizhou Xu

Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

Through the case study of the mobile title Game of Sultans, this article examines the proliferation of iterative and copycat games through the practice of reskins in the mobile game industry. Based on year-long autoethnographic fieldwork working in a Chinese mobile game company, I provide an on-the-ground perspective of how Orientalist representations in reskinned games are instrumentalized through the roles of “cultural brokers” and the work of localization for Western markets. By taking a theoretical and technological understanding of reskins, I argue that reskinned games, as a form of industrial mimicry, while an important aspect of standardized game production, …

Methodologizing Transnationality: Relational Writing As Collective Inquiry, Sun Young Lee, Minhye Son, Taeyeon Kim, Jin Kyeong Jung, Soo Bin Jang

Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications

How can we take transnationality as a space of in-betweenness to generate new possibilities, moving beyond geographically bounded spans between countries? This article presents five authors’ collective inquiry on transnational positionalities, which we practiced through the relational, transformative, and reflective writing of the self in a community space. We staged the collaborative writing into two processes: the emergent process of thematic writing and the relay writing. Interweaving “I” and “we” voices that cannot be captured through categorical thinking, our collaborative quest resists normative identity politics, proposing writing as a method of collective inquiry for the nuanced understanding of the transnationality …

Critiquing The Discourse On Women In The Edo Era: Intertextual Studies Of Ariyoshi’S Hanaoka Seishū No Tsuma, Nina Alia Ariefa, Melani Budianta, Dhita Hapsarani

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Under the Tokugawa clan, Japanese women’s position was declined throughout the Edo era (1603–1868). Almost one century afterwards, a female writer called Ariyoshi Sawako (1931–1984) raised the issue of female position in the Edo era through the novel Hanaoka Seishū no Tsuma (HSNT). This article will focus on two things. First is the exploration of the discourse of women in the Edo Era through three texts written during the era. The second part of the article will discuss the intertextuality of novel, with the discourse on women in the Edo era. New historicism method and Foucault’s concepts of discourse and …

Recontextualization Of Sun Wukong’S Heroism In The Monkey King Film Trilogy 2014–2018, Adi Kristina Wulandari, Manneke Budiman, Nurni Wahyu Wuryandari, Suma Riella Rusdiarti

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The classic Chinese novel, Journey to the West, written by Wú Chéng’ēn in the 16th century of the Ming Dynasty, is an influential work in Chinese culture. The main character of the novel, the Monkey King Sun Wukong, has become a highly popular character and been adapted into various cultural products. Sun Wukong’s popularity was adapted into three films directed by Cheang Pou-soi, namely Monkey King 1 (2014), Monkey King 2 (2016), and Monkey King 3 (2018). This article analyzes the reconfiguration of Sun Wukong in the films based on the monomyth schemes by Joseph Campbell, focusing on the construction …

Buddhist Music As A Contested Site: The Transmission Of Teochew Buddhist Music Between China And Singapore, Jie Zhang

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

In the Chaozhou City Gazetteer of Buddhism & Chaozhou Kaiyuan Monastery Gazetteer published in 1992, the then Abbot of the Kaiyuan Monastery, Shi Huiyuan 释慧原 heavily condemned the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) monk Shi Kesheng 释可声 (date unknown) for "starting the sins among laities in the Chaozhou region who dared transgressing (the Buddhist doctrines) and became chant leaders in a flaming mouth ceremony.” Why was the Abbot so upset with a fellow monk back in history? What did Kesheng do, and what were the implications of him starting this "transgression"? This article investigates the history of the international traffic of Buddhist …

Shan Song Xiao / 山松晓, 熙福 著, Jane Li

Zea E-Books Collection

故事梗概 这本书描写一百年来一家三代女儿的家族故事，从外祖母，母亲，再到女儿，她们生活在有重叠的生活里，又各自有着不同时代不同主旋律的生活轨迹。光阴荏苒，人生匆匆，回首过往，记录生活。 书中的人物以真实人物为原型，作者将真实名字略去，并在故事情节上加以了丰富和构想。 作者：熙福

ShanSongXiao 'Morning Pine on the Mountain' -- Summary of the story: This book describes the family story of three generations of daughters in a family over the past 100 years. From grandmother, mother, to daughter, they live in overlapping lives, and each has a life trajectory with different themes in different times. Time flies, life is in a hurry, look back on the past and record life. The characters in the book are based on real people. The author has omitted their real names and enriched and imagined the storyline. Author: Xi Fu

部分读后感： 你的小说语言淳朴，接地气。我非常喜欢你的小说，看过后有很多感想。一代一代的 女性不容易，我们赶上了好时代，要争取自己的权力！~ …

Living In Untranslatability--Performance Art In China And Usa, Ziyun Ma

Masters Theses

This thesis embodies discontinuities in performance art and its non-equivalent Chinese term “行 为艺术” between language and cultural context into a migrating journey. A comparative analysis on the disciplinary history of performance art studies in the US and China laid a foundation in exploring the dynamics of marginality in two contexts. Extracting from the narrative mechanism and body view of Chinese performance art, I demonstrate how the philosophy of living (生) inspired many artistic creation, which also echoes my research journey. And from our mutual living experience, I pose the concept of constructive untranslatability that applies positionality and situated knowledge …

Possibilities Of Performance: Sexuality, Pastiche, And Feminist Thought In Kurahashi Yumiko’S “Keiko-San Series”, Emily Frances Levine

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Most critical accounts of the life and works of Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-2005) cite her self-acknowledged turn to conservatism in 1970 to explain why the style and content of her writing changed dramatically at that time. This dissertation expands our understanding of this so-called “transformation” through an examination of Kurahashi’s “Keiko-san Series,” a set of nine texts originally published between 1970 and 2002. Despite its substantial share in Kurahashi’s collected works, the “Series” has largely flown under the critical radar; in filling this void in Kurahashi scholarship, this dissertation asks the question “What position does the ‘Keiko-san Series’ occupy in Kurahashi’s …

State Charter School Law Scores As A Predictor Of Illegal Activity Within The Chartering Sector, David Stashevsky

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

State charter school policy is influenced through a collaboration between advocacy groups and state legislators. Charter school advocacy groups have an inherent bias toward deregulation and autonomy. Two advocacy groups, the Center for Education Reform (CER) and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), each conduct annual analyses on state charter school laws using their own model charter law as the comparator. Each group has developed a rubric of indicators with sub-scores which combine to form an overall state score. Higher scores indicate a closer adherence to the advocacy group’s model charter law. The charter school sector in the …

根據《世説新語》某條疏證晋、齊、楚區域之學術、文化記憶與分歧, Chunhong Wang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

文化絶非一成不變的，此在時間和空間之兩端，俱可體會中國文化與時俱進，它在各個時代分别借用不同區域的文化資源，而匯總起來就形成整體的中國文化。中國古代任何時期士人或政治人物都具有兩面性，他既是傳統的，又是現實的，所謂傳統就指他受某種區域或學派的思想學術之熏染，所謂現實乃指其人現實處境中的具體反應，而此種人生際遇下的現實表現又必然與其文化傳承存在著某種關聯，或者説其人所受文化觀念之影響又鮮活地體現在其人生應對之間，尤其面臨巨大挑戰時候，其言行舉止必然與其人知識結構、學術積累及思想意識保持一定程度的契合，而《世説新語·言語》某條所記述王坦之、伏滔和習鑿齒三者之間的對話，恰好牽涉三晋、齊地與荆楚的歷史文化之歧異和衝突，而此三者又與秦、漢、魏晋三個時代依稀有著對應關係，所以既是時間的流轉，又屬空間理念之此消彼長，由此入手，揭示此三地文化歷史之記憶與分歧，亦涉獵中國文化版圖之犖犖大端，或藉以呈現朝代更替間的必然性邏輯，而此種分析和研究也既屬歷史的推流溯源，又可一窺接受文化路徑依賴的王、伏、習三者之不同的現實處境和内心世界。

Chinese culture advances by drawing cultural resources from different regions at different times, which come together to constitute its totality. Scholars and officials in ancient times were both traditional and realistic: the former meaning that they were influenced by the scholarship of a certain region or school of thought; the latter referring to their responses to their immediate realities. In life’s twists and turns, the choices they made were necessarily linked to cultural lineage or reflected the influence of cultural ideas vividly, and their writings and behaviors were in sync with their knowledge structures, intellectual cultivations, and ideologies, especially …

鍾會讒殺嵇康公案的再審視——對《世説新語》史料的分梳, Shulin Zhong

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

以鍾會爲個案，探討《世説新語》獨特的編撰體例、編撰思想及其對歷史人物的獨到品鑒與書寫，體現出不同於《三國志》《晋書》等史籍而自成一家之言的可貴價值。在以往研究中，鍾會被誤認爲進讒言而誅殺嵇康，成爲嵇康之死的直接推動者，被後世披以惡名，今以《世説新語》對鍾會的幾則記載爲例，參驗以其他典籍，可知鍾會之惡名實多爲誤解或誤讀。我們以“了解之同情”，重回歷史現場，以《世説新語》文本記載爲基點，對鍾會生平及行事，細加考索，可以了解到鍾會才學過人，“不是什麽不知義理的武人”（吕思勉語），其行事舉止、社會聲譽，總體而言，皆有令名，《世説新語》所載大抵契合當時實況。而後世對鍾會所責之惡名，宜有所釐正。

This article reinvestigates the case of Zhong Hui slandering Ji Kang and discusses A New Account of Tales of the World’s unique compilation style and philosophy and its appreciation and representation of historical figures, which illustrate its stand-alone value different from that of Annals of the Three Kingdoms and Book of Jin. Previous research has argued that Zhong Hui’s slander was the direct cause of Ji Kang’s death and has drawn critiques to the former. This article reads the records about Zhong Hui in A New Account of Tales of the World with references to other classical …

《堯山堂外紀》雜纂成書方法考略, Jingyi Cao

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

明人蔣一葵編纂《堯山堂外紀》一百卷，以人爲綱，輯録詩歌作品及其本事，體量龐大，取材獨特，唯全不注出處，無從得知其材料來源，瞭解其成書方法。《堯山堂外紀》事實上輯録了《歸田詩話》、《西湖遊覽志》、《西湖遊覽志餘》、《留青日札》等詩話、筆記、雜記類文獻，並通過抹除原著者的個人風格，改變原史料的叙事重點，統合諸書的不同體例等策略完成了對諸種文獻的利用。同時，蔣一葵曾箋釋李攀龍《唐詩選》，此書很可能也曾被與《堯山堂外紀》相互參照編纂。蔣一葵對《堯山堂外紀》的編纂有著明確的去取原則與體例自覺，即堅持以人爲中心、以文學掌故爲主要内容。他統一了不同文獻的不同風格，這使此書雖然出自諸書雜纂，卻具備極高的鎔裁性。《堯山堂外紀》的編纂代表了明代流行的文學文獻彙編方式，展示了其背後的工作方法與原則。

Ming-dynasty scholar Jiang Yikui 蔣一葵 compiled the Supplementary Records Compiled in the Yaoshan Study 堯山堂外紀 in one hundred volumes. Organized primarily around individual figures, this compilation encompassed a vast collection of poems and anecdotes. Notably, the sources of these select materials were not provided, rendering it challenging to discern their origins or understand the methodologies adopted in the compilation. Supplementary Records compiled in the Yaoshan Study records from varied genres of literary sources, such as Returning to the Farm: Remarks on Poetry 歸田詩話, Records of the West Lake Tour 西湖遊覽志, Additional Records of the West Lake Tour 西湖遊覽志餘, and …