Sökning: "Asian Languages and Cultures"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Asian Languages and Cultures.
1. Embracing Science : Sino-Swedish Collaborations in the Field Sciences, 1902–1935
Sammanfattning : In 1902, a Swedish professor at Shanxi University started to study the region’s geology and in 1913, he suggested to the Chinese Republican Government an expansion of these surveys nationwide. As a result, the Head of the Geological Survey of Sweden, J. G. Andersson, was employed as a geological adviser to the Chinese Government. LÄS MER
2. Prisonscape : Literary Reconfigurations of the Real and Imagined Worlds of the Chinese Prison
Sammanfattning : This study focuses on the prison writings from and about modern China (from the Mao era to the present day). It builds on previous research on Chinese prison camp literature as well as on sociological and historical studies of the evolution of punishments, both within the Chinese context and from a more global perspective. LÄS MER
3. “Bridal Couples" : On Hybridity in Conceptual Chinese Photography 1995–2009
Sammanfattning : Chinese art of the 1990s responded to the many changes in the environment and thereby to changes in personal lives. Many Chinese artists of the time were therefore concerned with their selves and their works reveal explorations of personal identity. LÄS MER
4. Hand-in-Hand in the Peach Flower Land : Analysis of Huí Cadre Agency in the Literature Propaganda Magazine Kāidū River in the North-West Borderland of China
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies how mínzú (ethnic) agency is effectuated through propaganda literature among Muslim minority cadres in the Yānqí Huí Autonomous County of the Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region of North-West China in the 2010s. The aim is to understand to what extent and in what ways mínzú identification can have a socio-politically significant impact on the activities of mínzú cadres in a restrictive environment and in a medium where mínzú agency is controversial and difficult to implement. LÄS MER
5. The effects of extramural language : Relationships between engagement in Japanese language activities and general Japanese language proficiency
Sammanfattning : Many L2 learners believe they learn their target language by using it extramurally, i.e. outside the classroom. This topic, language learning as a result of engagement in L2 use, has garnered increased attention in the last decade. LÄS MER