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2009 Dissertation

44 posts

Chinese Communist Propaganda Abroad, 1949-1976

  • Matthew Johnson
  • 8 minute read
A review of Reaching the Distant Comrade: Chinese Communist Propaganda Abroad (1949-1976), by Çağdaş Üngör This dissertation provides a comprehensive…
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Making of Geology in Late-Georgian England

  • Jennifer Ferng
  • 5 minute read
A review of Practical and Economic Interests in the Making of Geology in late Georgian England, by Leucha Veneer. Practical…
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Colonialism, Gender & Okinawa in Modern Japan

  • David Tobaru Obermiller
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A review of Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan, by Valerie Holshouser Barske.  Divided into six…
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Another Tale of the Heike

  • Roberta Strippoli
  • 5 minute read
A review of Another Tale of the Heike: An Examination of the Engyōbon Heike monogatari, by Amy Christine Franks. Amy…
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Spiritual-Religious Groups in the PRC after 1978

  • Francis Khek Gee Lim
  • 8 minute read
A review of Emergence and Development of Spiritual-Religious Groups in the People’s Republic of China after 1978, by Kristin Kupfer.…
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Moscow Olympics & Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, 1952-80

  • Miriam Dobson
  • 6 minute read
A review of Red Sport, Red Tape: The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War, 1952-1980, by…
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Proto-Genbun Itchi in Edo & Early Meiji

  • William Hedberg
  • 5 minute read
A review of A Heteroglossic Theory of Proto-Genbun Itchi in Edo and Early Meiji Writings, by Kelly J. Hansen. Historians…
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The Ishii Brothers’ Vendetta in Genroku Japan

  • David Gundry
  • 5 minute read
A review of The Violent Virtue: First Narratives of the Ishii Brothers’ Late Genroku Katakiuchi, by Drake Langford. Drake Langford’s…
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Japanese Visions of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”

  • Kerim Yasar
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A review of Saving Metropolis: Body and City in the Metropolis Tales, by Lawrence Bird. Film and architecture share much…
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Muslims & Modernity in Imperial Russia

  • Elizabeth Bospflug
  • 5 minute read
A review of Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Inroads of Modernity, by Mustafa Tuna. Before 1917, Muslim intellectuals in Russia’s Volga-Ural region…
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