• Street food vendors in Indonesia: Conflicting representations under COVID-19 

  Milligan, Maeve (2023-09-06)

  The COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions on public life had a significant impact on street food vendors in Indonesia, with reports suggesting that vendors’ incomes decreased by 50% on average during this period. In ...
• The “Myth of the First Three Years” and the Ideology of Motherhood in Japan 

  Maruyama, Kaori (2023-05-01)

  The “Myth of the First Three Years” (sansaiji shinwa, 三歳児神話) refers to a common belief among Japanese that mothers should stay with their children until they turn three years old to ensure children’s proper development. ...
• The Immigration Dilemma: trajectories and challenges of highly skilled migration in Japan 

  Popova, Tatiana (2023-04-27)

  Japan has long been perceived as a country with restrictive approach to immigration. However, due to staggering demographic changes now the Japanese government faces the dilemma between meeting the needs of the labour ...
• Highlighting the Role of Traditional Spirituality in Independent Chinese Animation: Big Fish and Begonia 

  Wang, Chenxi (2022-12-19)

  Over the past two decades, Chinese independent animation has attracted much attention. The rise of Chinese independent animation is not only reflected in the expansion of its audience, but also in the depth and richness ...
• Song of a Broken World: A Study on NieR: Automata's Presentation of Argument 

  Tan, Xinlyu (2022-11-24)

  This thesis examines NieR: Automata, a video game published in 2017 on PlayStation 4 from a narratological perspective to see how it composes its narrative elements to make an excellent argument about existence. The director ...
• Bai Juyi's (772-846) Poems on Women: A Narratological Approach 

  Zhong, Qichen (2022-08-31)

  This thesis aims to explore the image of women in Bai Juyi’s (772-846) poetry with a narratological approach. It selects 108 of Bai’s poems about women as the research objects and divides them into two main categories: the ...
• Addressing Child Welfare Challenges in Rural China: An Assessment of the Child Welfare Director System and Possible Lessons from Japan 

  Zhang, Rongxin (2022-08-31)

  China’s rapid urbanization and mass migration over the past several decades has resulted in approximately 69 million children being left-behind in the countryside. Many of these children suffer from problems linked to a ...
• Beyond an Illusion of Comfort: Two Examples of Chinese Healing Style Media 

  Yao, Nan (2022-08-30)

  Healing style (zhiyu xi 治愈系 ) media refers to the various products and services labelled with a promise to comfort consumers, and the media category has gradually become viewed as a way to cope with the omnipresent stress ...
• Teaching Chinese pronunciation in Canadian universities: an analysis of a textbook and teachers' perspectives 

  Wang, Zhuangyuan (2021-09-28)

  A long Canadian tradition has promoted the rise of multicultural education. In this multicultural society, ways to deal with the cultural differences in the teaching of Chinese to students with various backgrounds and needs ...
• Remembering in memoirs: collective memory and cultural trauma in Red Guard autobiographies 

  Duan, Xuan (2021-08-30)

  China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) deeply wounded the collective identity of the nation’s population, as it caused dramatic chaos and violence in every social arena, bringing the country into a ...
• Ode to Joy: pop cultural representation of white-collar migrant women in a Chinese megacity 

  Yang, Linda (2020-08-31)

  This thesis examines the pop cultural representation of white-collar migrant women (WCMW) through the popular Chinese TV series Ode to Joy. Focusing on various aspects of their lives, this TV series raises many issues about ...
• The emergence of commercial marine ranching in Eastern China: an assessment of institutional frameworks 

  Wang, Guodong (2020-08-28)

  Based on research showing the serious environmental damage associated with conventional aquaculture, coastal marine ranching has been promoted by the Chinese government as an ecological and environmentally friendly way to ...
• Student engagement with institutional governance in contemporary Chinese universities: an internationalization process 

  Cheng, Siyi (2019-08-13)

  In recent decades, China has stood out for its active social experiment with its state-market relations and educational reforms to build internationally competitive universities. Students, as recipients of and participants ...
• Krishnamurti and the dance of dialogue: instigating insight in higher education 

  Flexer, Jerry (2019-08-01)

  This study examines the dialogic approach of the Indian-born educational philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986), who had developed his own unique approach to dialogue with small groups. The research considered two ...
• "Rotten Culture": from Japan to China 

  Li, Nishang (2019-05-01)

  A new sub-culture, “Rotten Culture (腐文化) ”, evolved from Japanese Boys’ Love (BL) manga, has rapidly spread in China and dramatically influenced many areas of Chinese artistic creation. “Rotten Culture” is an extension of ...
• Performing the everyday life in ruined city: wife, mistress, and housemaid of a literary celebrity 

  Cheng, Xiaomeng (2018-08-29)

  This thesis presents a study of “performing the everyday life” in the writer Jia Pingwa’s well-known novel Ruined City (Feidu 废都). By adopting the sociologist Erving Goffman’s idea of dramaturgical interactions in The ...
• De-revolutionizing the “red classics”: a case study of Tracks in the Snowy Forest in fiction, model opera, television and film 

  Wang, Liying (2018-08-10)

  “Red classics” generally refer to a collection of Chinese literary works produced from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. Many of them were remade to film, opera, and television series in different periods. One of the “red ...
• Technology and interactivity in modern/post-modern Japanese theatre 

  Draker, Diana Lily (2018-04-30)

  Multimedia technology in theatre is nothing new, but various companies in modern and post-modern Japan, such as Dumb Type, Hatsune Miku, and the robot theatre of Oriza Hirata and Hiroshi Ishiguro, have been experimenting ...
• North Korea, representation and armament: an investigation into the politics of missile defense 

  Chlumecky, Nicholas (2018-04-30)

  This thesis examines how corporations use North Korea’s media portrayal to profit. By gaining government contracts to develop weapons and missile defense systems, companies such as Lockheed Martin make billions of dollars. ...
• Shinzo Abe’s version of history and the “Rise of China” 

  Lai, Kong Yeung Ronald (2018-04-25)

  This thesis examines how Shinzo Abe’s historical perspectives on “comfort women” and the Nanjing Massacre are influenced by global demands. Abe’s official account on these issues have been affected by pressures to reconcile ...

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