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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, 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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The Physiology of the Mind in Chinese Medicine: Interpretation of the 五神 “Five Spirits” in Zhang Jingyue’s Categories of the Canons (1624)Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)Abstract This thesis will argue that psychological theory was always a central part of Chinese scholarly medicine. Such theories were prominent already in the early literature and continued to be discussed and elaborated ...
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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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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, 2011)This paper seeks to explore the impact the two national health crises - SARS and the tainted milk scandal - might have had on the public sphere in China. In both cases, insufficient information and government cover-ups ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Every communication medium – from pamphlets, newspapers, radio to television – has two-sided influences in politics. On the one side, they can buttress authoritarian governments. On the other side, their potential in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)The Peoples Republic of China’s Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region, or eastern Central Asia, is an area that has recently seen large scale ethnic unrest, as the native Uygurs have protested violently against Chinese domination ...
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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, 2019)This thesis deals with the autobiographical writings of the Chinese writer Xie Bingying (謝冰瑩, 1906-2000). Xie rose to fame after she published her War Diaries (congjun riji 從軍日記) in 1929, a short series of letters Xie wrote ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)In this paper I will try to address tendencies of Orientalist representation found in certain examples of Western English-written album-reviews. When reviewing Chinese bands some music-critics have reduced contemporary ...
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Residents’ Perception towards Rural Tourism Development in China: A Case Study of Sideng VillageRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Education in China was largely dominated by Christian schools which were mostly financed by Western sponsors during late nineteenth to early twentieth century. This had positioned Chinese students, educators, Christian ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)According to the latest official survey (2005) there are 5.54 million people with intellectual disabilities in China. The large majority of these are still confined to the home, depending on their families for any needed ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)The Liancourt Rocks, known also by the name ‘Dokdo’ in Korean, and ‘Takeshima’ in Japanese, are two tiny islets situated between Japan and the Korean Peninsula in the Sea of Japan. The islets have been the source of bilateral ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Looking at global box-office winners from the years 2000-2009, this paper finds that the China we encounter on the silver screen, is rarely an antagonist. It is not a China that follows traditional Yellow Peril stereotypes. ...
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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, 2010)The two Chinese goddesses Xi wangmu and Nugua might have roots as far back as the Shang dynasty (c.1600-1046 BC).They can with certainty, through texts and iconography be placed in the timeframe of the Eastern Zhou dynasty ...
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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, 2019)