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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)This thesis aims to contribute to the discourse of masculinity in the context of work, family life and individual life purpose of men, through the case of young Japanese salarymen. It postulates that the hegemonic masculinity ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)North Korea is an historical anachronism in the global society of today. This paper presents a different approach in analyzing why. North Korea’s current status can be said to be the result of a long line of foreign influence ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)With my master s thesis I wanted to shed light on some of the many contradictions in TAR. I want to look at the status of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in China today and see how some of these contradictions are created. ...
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Poverty Alleviation through Ecotourism in the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site, Yunnan ChinaRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Based on the material gathered from two months of fieldwork, this thesis explores the relations between ecotourism and poverty alleviation in the villages within the Three Parallel Rivers of the Yangtze (Jinsha), the Mekong ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Lesbians in Japan and South Korea have long been ignored in both academic, and in social context. The assumption that there are no lesbians in Japan or South Korea dominates a large population in these societies, because ...
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Kant in China : A Study on the Introduction and Interpretation of Immanuel Kant's Philosophy from Late Qing ChinaRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This thesis examines the introduction and interpretation of Kant from late Qing China.The thesis is divided into five parts. The first part introduces the historical context in which Kant was introduced and interpreted. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)China’s rapid economic development during the last 30 years has been largely driven by the employment of cheap labor in labor-intensive industries. Millions of farmers have migrated to the bigger cities to work in the ...
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Seeking Balance between Individual and Society : Comparison of the Luxury Consumption Motivations between Chinese and Japanese YouthRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)The purpose of this study is to explore the distinctions of luxury consumption motivations between Chinese and Japanese youth in the context of institutionalized individualization. It compares the different consumption ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This thesis is a qualitative case study of how the younger generations of China value membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Through the use of individualisation theory it has further set out to find out whether ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Murakami Haruki is one of the most prestigious Japanese novelists alive who gains a phenomenal readership around the world. One of the major discourse handled in Murakami’s oeuvre is ‘the other world’—a world that is both ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis is a historical analysis of the Chinese immigration to Oslo from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. It aims to identify the four main different waves of the Chinese immigration to Oslo — first wave (the 1960s ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Since Japanese language makes extensive use of Chinese characters in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese in ancient times, it makes people to believe that Chinese always has ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)By conducting a close reading and a structural analysis, this thesis explores a narratology of scene in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber(Honglou meng《红楼梦》). The terminology of scene in the Western literary criticism ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis investigates how the Korean national identity has been constructed in Korean culture-related texts aimed at two different groups, overseas Koreans and foreigners, by comparing Korean culture-related texts ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The sensational success of a Chinese reality music talent show, Super Girls Voice (SGV), in 2005 not only crowned many unknown Chinese girls/women with the hail of celebrity overnight, but also caused hot debates on many ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)he subject of this thesis is tradition and the current trend of tea culture in China. In order to answer the following three questions whether the current tea culture phenomena can be called tradition or not; what are ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The present MA thesis is the first ever comprehensive study of Jìngzuò yàojúe 靜坐要訣 ( Meditation Essentials ), a Chinese meditation treatise authored by Confucian scholar-official Yuán Huáng (h. Liǎofán, 1533–1606) but ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)My thesis examines how foreigners have been portrayed in traditional Chinese literature, with the underlying question being to which degree the traditional Chinese world-view was adhered to in different eras and circumstances, ...
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A Cultural History of ‘Redness’ in Chinese Civilization – The Origins: from the Neolithic up to QinRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)One of Zhu Xi’s (1130-1200) most important texts, the Preface to the Mean and Commonality 中庸序 (date of composition: 1189) is organised as a long recontextualisation and commentary on a sixteen character long passage from ...