ATTENTION: The software behind KU ScholarWorks is being upgraded to a new version. Starting July 15th, users will not be able to log in to the system, add items, nor make any changes until the new version is in place at the end of July. Searching for articles and opening files will continue to work while the system is being updated.
If you have any questions, please contact Marianne Reed at mreed@ku.edu .
Center for East Asian Studies: Recent submissions
Now showing items 481-500 of 762
-
Robot Fish
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-12-30)Broadcast transcript: Usually you expect this kind of news from Japan but this time it's South Korea where scientists have just created a robotic fish. Yes, folks, this is an electronic fish that can live underwater. At ... -
Noko Jeans
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-11-21)Broadcast transcript: Kim Jong Il. Totalitarian dictator AND fashionista? Possibly. In an entrepreneurial breakthrough, a Swedish firm has contracted with a textile manufacturer in North Korea to produce designer jeans ... -
Aliyah
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-12-16)Broadcast transcript: In Chinese, the syllables a li ya can have a variety of meanings depending on tone and character. One interpretation could be this: Oh! Leaving Asia. In Hebrew, aliyah means "the immigration of Jews ... -
Cosplay
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-11-04)Broadcast transcript: Typical Tokyo office worker by day. Warcraft Princess by night or on weekends. This is the type of double life the dedicated cosplayer lives. Cosplay--or kosupure in Japanese--is the latest recreational ... -
Reinventing the Wheel
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-10-28)Broadcast Transcript: You heard it here before though maybe not first: China invented everything. From gunpowder to the wheelbarrow to paper and ink, it was made in China first. Which puts the Chinese in a bind. I mean, ... -
Monk's Feet
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-10-21)Broadcast Transcript: Every morning before sunrise, the monk Hua Chi comes to this ancient monastery in Qinghai and, placing his feet in the same exact spot, he prostrates himself a few thousand times. So faithfully has ... -
DPRK Twitter
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-09-09)Broadcast Transcript: WTF!? The DPRK tweets. Apparently the lack of internet and personal cell phones does not prevent North Korea from posting news items from its official news service on Twitter. IMHO, it's propaganda ... -
The Late Ming Rebellions: Peasants and Problems of Interpretation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1972-01-01) -
The Transformations of Messianic Revolt and the Founding of the Ming Dynasty
(Cambridge University Press, 1970-09-01) -
Religion and Politics in Japan: The Case of the Sōka Gakkai
(Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1963-01-01) -
First Generation Indian External Sector Reforms in Context
(National Law University, Jodhpur, India, 2013)India's first generation external sector reforms are a fascinating case study of emergence from a post-Independence socialist-style economy to the world’s largest free market democracy. Part I of this article reviews the ... -
Androgynous Beauty, Virtual Community: Stardom, Fandom and Chinese Reality Shows under Globalization
(Syracuse University Press, 2012-01-01) -
Interiorized Feminism and Gendered Nostalgia of The ‘Daughter Generation’ in Ning Ying's Perpetual Motion
(Intellect, 2011-11-07)Ning Ying’s 2006 film Wuqiong dong/Perpetual Motion can be regarded as her first attempt to explore the genre of ‘women’s film’. Deviating from her previous neo-realist style, this film seeks to cultivate an alternative ... -
Chicken Feet
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-09-02)Broadcast Transcript: American chicken feet are no longer welcome on Chinese soil. A possible congressional ban on the import of Chinese chicken for safety reasons has made China madder than a wet hen. And, though officially ... -
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Redeeming the Father by Way of Japan?
(British Film Institute, 2008-01-01)Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. ix, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. -
Cross-Cultural Nostalgia and Visual Consumption: On the Literary Adaptation and Japanese Reception of Huo Jianqi’s 2003 Film Nuan
(Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006-01-01)Although not warmly welcomed by audiences in modernizing China, Huo Jianqi’s nostalgic melodrama Nuan has proven hugely popular and been critically acclaimed in thoroughly modernized Japan. This contrastive reception invites ... -
Mid-America Chinese Resource Guide
(East Asian Library, University of Kansas, 1998)The Mid-America Chinese Resource Guide is an Internet project of the Midwest Chapter Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) which began in October 1997. The goal of this project is to create an online reference ... -
The impact of agricultural colonization and deforestation on stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini) composition and richness in Rondônia, Brazil
(Springer, 2013)Stingless bees were collected throughout the state of Rondônia in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon for one year. The impact of agricultural colonization and subsequent deforestation on species composition and richness is ... -
The Institution of Polygamy in the Chinese Imperial Palace
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)This study examines Chinese imperial polygamy under two aspects, as institution and actual practice. Institution refers to its existence as a set of rules and expectations, practice to the actual ways in which imperial ... -
An empirical study on the production of dou: Is native like performance attainable?
(World Chinese Language Association, 2013)This study examines the production data of dou in a controlled elicitation task performed by English-speaking learners of Chinese. The results show that post-intermediate learners produced dou at a similar rate regardless ...
