This thesis will discuss the significance of Wataya Risa’s novel Install (インストール) and conclude with a translation the beginning of the text. The story follows Asako, a seventeen year old girl sick of high school life and ...

This thesis examines and analyzes anti-black racism in China through two different cases. Aaron A. Vessup, a professor from Chicago, moves to China to continue his teaching career. He is exposed to racism and microagressions, ...

This thesis is a new translation of the prologue and first act of Cao Yu's drama Leiyu (The Thunderstorm). Also included is an introduction explaining the historical context of the play, the Western influences on the play ...

Historically, Chinese legal governance has been through criminal codes that specify punishments for actions taken against the state or society. Following the First Opium War (1839-1842), power struggles between China and ...

This thesis takes a look at one of the short stories in Feng Menglong's Sanyan collection, "Du Shiniang Sinks Her Jewel Box in Anger." Written during the late Ming dynasty, the story has been typically analyzed by present-day ...

North Korea faces a unique migration trend in that nearly 80 percent of those migrating to China are female. This paper synthesized existing scholarship to present a more holistic picture of the driving factors that cause ...

This thesis postulates that the rise of the merchant class during the Ming Dynasty, as interpreted from historical context and Feng Menglong’s short stories, created a complementary fusion culture of capitalism and ...

Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s classic bunraku (puppet) plays found their new theater in the younger Japanese film industry of the 1950s and 60s. This fascination with the traditional aspects of Japanese society and life ran ...