Search for dissertations about: "china history"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 48 swedish dissertations containing the words china history.
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1. Navigating the foreign quarters : Everyday life of the Swedish East India Company employees in Canton and Macao 1730–1830
Abstract : This thesis analyses the everyday life of the Swedish East India company employees in Canton and Macao 1730–1830. Through a focus on everyday practices, analysed on the basis of ethnicity, class and gender, I show how the Swedes and other foreigners led their everyday life in a constant interplay between adaptation to and transgression of Chinese rules. READ MORE
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2. Vackrare vardagsvara – design för alla? : Gregor Paulsson och Svenska Slöjdföreningen 1915–1925
Abstract : This thesis is structured in six chapters. Chapter I contains an introduction and includes purpose, theory, method, and concepts. READ MORE
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3. Toward revolution : war, social change and the Chinese communist party in north China 1937-45
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4. Embracing Science : Sino-Swedish Collaborations in the Field Sciences, 1902–1935
Abstract : 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. READ MORE
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5. Getting old in a changing world : Sons, pension, and the wellbeing of the elderly in contemporary China
Abstract : The Chinese population is rapidly aging, which has brought challenges for the elderly support system. Until very recently, only urban employees were eligible to receive a pension, while the rural elderly were forced to rely on income from their own labor and support from their family. READ MORE