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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. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
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Japan has provided China with ODA since 1979, 75% of this aid has been given as yen loans. The loans have greatly contributed to China’s economic growth through funding of industrial infrastructure projects. Next ...
Seeking Balance between Individual and Society : Comparison of the Luxury Consumption Motivations between Chinese and Japanese Youth Restricted 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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
ABSTRACT
During the last four decades, the active participation of South Korean women in the country’s economy has increased steadily. This has been followed by the enactment of several legal acts aimed to protect female ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Kina har opplevd en spektakular økonomisk vekst siden reformene startet for over 30 år siden, og vil med vedvarende vekst firedoble sitt energibehov frem mot 2020. Dette er et faktum som kan skremme vannet av de fleste, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Contemporary Japan, with its low birth rate and high life expectancy, is an aging society. Furthermore, the country’s population is set to rapidly decrease in the coming decades. For demographic reasons such as these, it ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
The Downward Spiral : Non-regular employment and consequences of labour market reform under Prime Minister Koizumi Restricted 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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis addresses when and where the modern concept of environment arose in human history, as well as the shifts in people’s perception of the environment and environmental change in modern China, by applying conceptual ...
(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 ...
Japan's "Overseas Shinto Shrines" as Cultural Heritage in Present-Day China: A Case Study of the Nation-Founding Heroes Shrine Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Kim Sisup (1435 1493) was a Confucian literatus, Buddhist monk and Taoist philosopher in the beginning of the Korean Choson dynasty (1392 1910). He was also politically active and wrote within various genres; poetry, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
I denne oppgaven har jeg tatt for meg og beskrevet den japanske sikkerhetspolitikken i perioden etter den andre verdenskrig og frem til i dag med det formål å forklare hvilken betydning den japanske fredsgrunnloven har ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
Kant in China : A Study on the Introduction and Interpretation of Immanuel Kant's Philosophy from Late Qing China Restricted 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. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis looks into the changing role of the media in China since the initiation of economic reforms in 1978. The media setting has become increasingly complex since due to changes in ownership-structure, the emergence ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Shanghai’s film industry of the Republican era (1912-49) saw the emergence of female stardom, which reached its zenith in the 1930s. This thesis explores the dramatic transformations from the illegitimate use of women in ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
A Cultural History of ‘Redness’ in Chinese Civilization – The Origins: from the Neolithic up to Qin Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(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 ...
(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, ...
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 ...
The Emergence of New Written Histories Amongst Tibetan Pastoralists in Post-Mao China: The Case of Amdo Wongtak Tsowa Restricted 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 ...
(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 ...
Women, the Clan-based Gender Order, and Rituals of Rebellion: A Case Study of Qiqiao Festival in Xicun Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Lost in Hong Kong: Feeling at Home in the Cinema of Wong Kar-wai Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis aim to shed light on how the global MeToo-movement was received, perceived and reported by the media in South Korea and Japan, and how this affected the individual countries. The use of MeToo flourished in South ...
Residents’ Perception towards Rural Tourism Development in China: A Case Study of Sideng Village Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Poverty Alleviation through Ecotourism in the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site, Yunnan China Restricted 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 ...
(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 ...
Chinese Wine Consumption A study on increased Chinese wine consumption and the development of taste Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)