Search for dissertations about: "Asian literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the words Asian literature.

2. 1. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity

   Author : Nathan Light; USA IN Indiana University; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Folklore; Song; Islam; Muqam; Modernity; Language; literature and linguistics; Social sciences; Turkic; Canonization; Middle Eastern literature; Uyghur; Performance; China; Asian literature; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Abstract : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. READ MORE

4. 2. 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

   Author : Kim Jarle Wroldsen; Irmy Schweiger; Jenny White; Rune Steenberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ethnic; minzu; cadres; literature; china; xinjiang; propaganda; ideology; islam; confucianism; discourse; nationalism; maoism; Asiens språk och kulturer; Asian Languages and Cultures;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

5. 3. Images of an Empire : Chinese Geography Textbooks of the Early 20th Century

   Author : Mats Norvenius; Marja Kaikkonen; Marianne Bastid-Bruguière; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; China; modern schools; geography textbooks; national identity; Chinese minorities; Meiji Japan; nationalism; Sinocentrism; Orientalism; social Darwinism; geographical determinism; racism; militarism; constitutional monarchism; Sinology; sinologi;

   Abstract : In 1901 the Qing regime, in power 1644-1911, took wide-ranging measures to reform the Chinese Empire. Fundamental changes were carried out within the field of education, resulting in the completion of China’s first modern educational system in 1904. READ MORE

6. 4. Prisonscape : Literary Reconfigurations of the Real and Imagined Worlds of the Chinese Prison

   Author : Serena De Marchi; Irmy Schweiger; Monika Gänssbauer; Kwok-kan Tam; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Prison; China; Prison Literature; Space; Body; Asiens språk och kulturer; Asian Languages and Cultures;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

7. 5. A Treatise on the Unity and Trinity of God by Israel of Kashkar (d. 872). Introduction, edition and word index

   Author : Bo Holmberg; Arabiska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kashkar.; al-Kaskari; apologetics; authorship; unity; trinity; Israel of Kashkar; Yahya ibn Adi; Christian Arabic literature;

   Abstract : The present work is a contribution to the study of Christian Arabic literature. An apologetic treatise on the unity and trinity of God incorrectly attributed to Yahya ibn Adi (d. 974) is edited for the very first time and provided with a comprehensive word index. The edition is based on six manuscripts found in Egypt. READ MORE