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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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Chinese Wine Consumption A study on increased Chinese wine consumption and the development of tasteRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This study focuses on women from a middle size city in Liaoning province who gave birth to a second child after the transformation of the family planning policy in China. I conducted ten interviews to investigate the ...
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Culinary Integration and Sweet Imagination: The Case of Japanese Confectionery under Globalisation (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)The Japanese food boom in recent years makes Japanese cuisine one of the most popular food around the world. There are also many academic studies on different aspects of Japanese food culture, among which, culinary ...
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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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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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Der Adler im Drachenhort - German Imperialism in Kiautschou in the Context of Sino-German Perception (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis is concerned with the exploration of the different Sino-German perceptions and consequences thereof within the colonial context of the German leased Kiautschou concession in China during the years of 1897 and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Since China opened its economy up to foreign investments in the late 1970s, its growth measured in GDP has centered around ten percent annually. Unsurprisingly, its energy consumption has followed and currently situated ...
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The Downward Spiral : Non-regular employment and consequences of labour market reform under Prime Minister KoizumiRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)This paper is an examination of how the Japanese labour market has changed over the last twenty years through neoliberal reform, as exemplified by the “structural reforms” of the Koizumi Cabinet of 2001-2006. The transition ...
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The Emergence of New Written Histories Amongst Tibetan Pastoralists in Post-Mao China: The Case of Amdo Wongtak TsowaRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)Since the end of the last century, a wave of literary production has taken place in the Tibetan region known as Amdo in the west of China. Though fiction and poetry writing has been at the center of this movement, texts ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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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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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)The development of Halal has recently spread in Japan and become a new trending topic in Muslim tourism and Japanese businesses. But Halal in Japan is not that new. It is said that Halal first spread along with the Japanese ...
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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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(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, 2019)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Målet ved denne oppgaven har vært å se hvilken påvirkning Kinas økonomiske og politikse ekspansjon har på den strategiske situasjonen i Sørøstasia. Kinas ledere må balansere det voksende behovet for energi med evnen til å ...
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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, 2020)The independent migrant workers’ movement in South Korea, represented by the Migrant Trade Union, is an example of a unique formation in South Korea. Thus, it is of interest to us as a subject of academic research. The MTU ...