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The connection between Eileen Chang’s experiences in Hong Kong and her desolate writing style Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate perceptions of guanxi by Chinese graduates. Guanxi is a social concept that has received increased interest in Western research, but how is it perceived in China? What advantages ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of Mazu worship on pre-modern Chinese women from the perspective of women's studies. To achieve this goal, the paper will attempt to conduct an analysis following the ...
Unfamiliar but Real: On the Construction of Slowness through Long Takes in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In recent years, boasting an appealing sense of slowness, slow cinema has emerged as a distinctive trend in film production and attracted considerable attention within film studies. Often taken to be a key figure within ...
Terrorism in China: An Overview of China's Terrorist Narrative Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
During the Zhou to early Han dynasties, significant changes occurred in China's political, social, and cultural landscape. This era saw the emergence of new ritual practices that profoundly influenced individuals and society ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The main topic of this thesis is to examine if Chinese individuals alter their perspectives and political stance towards the Chinese government after moving to Norway. This research has been carried out by conducting ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne masteroppgaven er en studie i om hvorvidt trykkunst på Taiwan reflekterer nasjonal og orientalsk identitet.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Internet addiction is a relatively new phenomenon that has gained a lot of media attention in recent years. In particular internet gaming addiction has been covered by many news outlets. It is not uncommon to see headlines ...
“I Will Make a Man Out of You”: A Case Study of the Crackdown on the “Little Fresh Meat” in the Chinese Entertainment Industry Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Framing the China in Africa Discourse: An in-depth analysis of articles from The Economist, The Diplomat and Huanqiu in 2021-2022 Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Facial Recognition Technology in China Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Ningxia is a province in China which has struggled with increased natural disasters and less accessibility to water in the rise of climate change. The government of China has therefore established massive migration processes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Understanding the Chinese Cyber Espionage Ecosystem Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
As geopolitical tensions between China and the West continue to foment, China’s distant water fishing vessels occupy a precarious space as both overrepresented on the lists of vessels engaging in illegal, unreported and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Filial piety has been a valued part of Chinese culture since ancient times. It has been interpreted in various ways that make it a practical tool for imperial rulers to regulate behavior. Based on people’s filial duties ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
As a result of numerous food safety accidents in China over the past 20 years, the trust in food is low. Both a threat to people’s health and the regime’s legitimacy, it is in the government’s interest to resolve food ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
With China’s fast-paced economic development, consumerism has reached unseen heights in recent years. Consequently, this economic growth came with various environmental issues and concerns about food safety. In 2013, in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Incidents in recent years that involve China exerting extra-territorial control over foreign citizens of Chinese descent, has given rise to two concerns: That Beijing is increasingly willing to insert itself into the ...
Changing representations of “leftover” women in media: urban TV dramas through the lens of individualization Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis explores how ideology is constructed in China today. The influential public intellectual and professor at Fudan University, Zhang Weiwei has written a book and starred in a TV series that both discuss ideas and ...
Internationalizing the Renminbi Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
How do Chinese netizens make sense of social movements in the US? A case study of how Zhihu users discuss BLM Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Abstrakt (Norsk) I en globalisert tid, enten det gjelder økonomisk og kulturell utveksling eller gjensidige interesser for å løse globale kriser, finnes det et økende behov for produktive samarbeid over landegrensene. For ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
De offisielle språkene i Hongkong er i dag kinesisk og engelsk. Det er imidlertid uklart om ‘kinesisk’ refererer til kantonesisk eller putonghua (også kjent som mandarin). Putonghua ble offisielt introdusert for Hongkongs ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The world is currently facing an unprecedented environmental crisis. The natural, social, and economic costs of ecological degradation have reached such a point that the question of how to ensure development continues along ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This Master`s thesis is the result of research into the presence of traditional native culture of the Chinese-born immigrants in New York City. The 400-year-old city has been built by immigration and to this day keeps on ...
The National Identity Crisis among Young Generation in Post-colonial Hong Kong: Negotiating National and Local Identity under Chinese Nationalism Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Besieged by Waste or Circular Economy - The Governance of Urban Chinese Community Behavior Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
In May 2008, China was struck by a massive earthquake that killed closed to 70,000 people. Communities were torn to the ground, and the economic losses were enormous. Ten years have passed since the massive forces took ...
Han Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism: Emotional attraction and critical self-reflection in contemporary Chinese society Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Sustainable Tourism Among Chinese Outbound Tourists: A Case Study of Chinese Tourists to Norway Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis explores the political and cultural implications of China’s polar research vessels, the Xue Long and the Xue Long 2. Through a theoretical frame of technopolitics, it looks at how these vessels are perceived ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Media is an important aspect of life for most people, not the least for young Chinese. The amount of information available in the media, the variety of sources, the timeliness of information, as well as the reach of it ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This paper focuses on the gay-lesbian contract marriage in urban China. It documents the lived experiences of gay men and analyses their motivations and struggles when considering a contract marriage with lalas as an ...
Go West, Young Folks! A Comparative Case Study of Chinese Graduates' Attitudes Towards Employment Policy Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
De myndighetsledede samfunnsmessige omveltningene på 80- og 90-tallet i form av privatisering av institusjoner og økonomi ga det kinesiske individ mer personlig spillerom til å forme egne liv. Forbruk som et verktøy for å ...
The Chinese Social Credit System. Surveillance and Social Manipulation: A Solution to “Moral Decay”?
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The aim of this thesis is to shed light upon the concept of soft power used in domestic governance by the CCP between the years of 2014 and 2017. During the initial research stages, a shift in rhetoric was noticed in soft ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis constructs a comprehensive overview of the published academic energy security literature in China during the 12th five-year plan period, with the goal of determining the presence of green energy development in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The food safety problem in China poses a set of urgent, multifaceted and serious challenges to the Chinese public, society and state, with important ramifications for social justice and national health. The disproportionate ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
China is facing a slowing economic growth. The target for the years following 2016 is set to a yearly GDP growth of around 6,5 percent. Both researchers and politicians are saying that in order for China to to reverse the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Most of the existing “experimentation under hierarchy” literature investigates what drives the diffusion of policy innovation in China at the local level, emphasizing the leading role that the central government has played. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Housing is arguably the most important asset in most modern societies, and a change in housing arrangements is expected to spark changes on the political level. The incentive to participate politically is believed to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
After the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, Chinese women have dealt with new forms of gender-based restrictions in their career advancements. LEAN IN, a community inspired by Sheryl Sandberg’s book «Lean In: Women, ...
Welcome to the Desert of the Constitutive Outside: Terrorism at the Limit of the Social in Post-Political China Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Abstract Until recently, the Arctic including the Arctic Ocean was only mentioned in the context of global warming. However, global warming has led to a thawing of ice that unveiled great findings of natural resources. The ...
Quality, competition and Marxism: A narrative identity approach to worldview of the Chinese Communist Party Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to gain insight into the CCP s professed self-image by analyzing party speeches which have members as their primary audience. By utilizing Margaret Somers' concepts pertaining to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis is a comparative study of elite taekwondo athletes in China and Norway and is primarily based on interviews with 25 former and active Chinese elite athletes and one coach at the Beijing Sports University (BSU). ...
On The Road: The Establishment Of Trust Among Chinese Donkey Friends Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis is about the trust among Chinese online donkey friends , a group of young people finding travel companions on the web, in the different stages of their journey. The burgeoning phenomenon of donkey friends ...
Reading Liao Bingxiong: Chinese Cartoonist of the 20th Century Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The cartoonist Liao Bingxiong 廖冰兄 articulated his changing vision of Chinese reality in a long series of cartoons and calligraphic pieces from the 1930s and onwards to the time of his death in 2006, at the age of 91. His ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This paper identifies the key framing concepts used by Green Origin Association (GOA) to frame environmentalism in present day China for the sake of making it a public issue. High Suzhi, Voluntarism and closeness to nature ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
The transition from a planned to a market-oriented economy has not only led to unprecedented economic growth for China but also brought about far-reaching changes in the lives of Chinese people. In prereform China labour ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
By conducting a narrative analysis and a close reading this thesis explores modern cosmopolitan ideas that are rooted in Chinese culture and history. The thesis analyses Kang Youwei s Datong Shu, a selection of articles ...
Rethinking rural resistance in China - A Case Study of the 2011 Wukan Incident in Guangdong province
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Rural protests and mass incidents are crucial to our understanding of China s state-society relations, the possibility for economic and political reform and the future of the Chinese Communist Party regime. The widespread ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis investigates a temple in Sichuan where golden statues of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De sit next to those of conventional deities such as Laozi and Guan Yu. Based on his findings the researcher considers ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Abstract: The political and moral curriculum is the one of the most important curriculum for children in school because it is the curriculum that governments use to civilize young citizens. The Chinese political and moral ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Tensions between China and Japan over disputed maritime boundaries in the East China Sea have dramatically escalated in the past decade. This thesis examines how disputed delimitation in the East China Sea has impacted the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Hui 回 is among the 10 officially recognized Islamic minzu 民族 (ethnic group; nationality) of China. To a difference from much previous work done on the Hui, this research project does not presume Hui as an ethnic group. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Although Chinese Internet sphere is under the strict censorship and control by the authority, it is certainly not difficult to observe the cases that Chinese individuals utilize the Internet and mobilize, develop influential ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The purpose of the thesis is to examine how and why Chinese students decide to study in Norway. By exploring the decision making process of Chinese students, it sheds light on which aspects of Norway s educational institutions ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This study will examine two different media representations of the Weng’an incident, a social riot that took place in Weng’an county in Guizhou Province during the summer of 2008. The aim of my thesis is to scrutinize how ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
When a string of suicides strikes at a Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集团) factory that assembles the Apple iPhone in China, accusations of worker mistreatment spread quickly in the international press. Even though statistics ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis discusses the concept of faithfulness in translation, more specifically two aspects of faithfulness, which in this paper is defined as faithfulness in meaning and faithfulness in intention. The material applied ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Discussion and debate about Sino-Russian relations is on the rise and attracts the attention of experts and policy-makers around the world. Russia and China are arguably two of the biggest players in the international ...
The Popular Chinese Soap Opera Struggle : Historical background, plot, and selected linguistic features Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
In this thesis I used the Chinese soap opera Struggle as my main source of modern colloquial Chinese. In doing so, I aimed to highlight some aspects of modern Mandarin that are not, or insufficiently, recorded in textbooks ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore expressions of masculinity in contemporary urban China amongst young middle to upper class Chinese Men. The thesis focuses on expressions related to material and physical aspects ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis treats a broad selection of Chinese academic articles, all of which concern different aspects of Dungan culture and language. The articles are, without exception published in Chinese academic journals after the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The Chinese state and society are frequently engaged in an area of mutual concern: the increasing threat of climate change. The state is approaching this concern by directing China’s development towards a low-carbon economy, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
In the last decades involuntary resettlement has forced millions of people to leave their homes all over the world. There are in many cases a direct link between resettlement and impoverishment. China has in the last decades ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis is a comparative analysis of Chinese and British media coverage of China in Africa. The study is aimed at researching how China is framed in the respective country’s media, and to determine whether the frames ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
When we read the Zuo Zhuan,one of the earliest works of narrative history, it is impossible to ignore the huge amount of personal names in it; According to published statistics, This book includes 2455 different persons ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
For more than 30 years, China’s family planning policy has limited the reproduction of its population. Today, the consequences of this policy are becoming increasingly clear. While scholars are calling out for a policy ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
China has seen a tremendous economic growth during the last three decades. With a renewed focus on economic development in the reform era, increased domestic consumption has been both natural and important for the Chinese ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The subject of this thesis is Yan Fu’s translation Yuanfu 原富 (The Origin of Wealth) of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Its purpose is to discover how Yan Fu introduced unfamiliar Western economic concepts into late Qing ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Praksisen av kinesiske bryllupsritualer har vært kjent siden Han dynastiet. Tradisjonelle kinesiske tolkninger av bryllupsritualer har vært konsentrert rundt prinsippene om de seks riter, og spilt en viktig rolle i utviklingen ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Can poetry be transmitted through translation? If so, how, and to what effect?
In this thesis, I propose that the translation of poetry is best accomplished by a structured group of translation typologies that can be read ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The pronunciation of Beijing Mandarin, which is the basis for Modern Standard Mandarin, is in reality not as straightforward as it is usually presented. General books on the language and common textbooks in English on the ...
Analyses of Nôm Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
In the tangled history of Vietnam with many political and cultural impacts with China due to the geographic location of these two countries, there is a script named Nôm which is an invention of Vietnamese elite based on ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Study of Hakka culture has been an academic field for only a century. Compare with many other studies on ethnic groups in China, Hakka study and research is still in her early childhood. This despite Hakka is one of the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
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China is almost unanimously being portrayed as the most important ally of the military junta in Burma. The notion that Burma is turning into a vassal state of China is not uncommon; it has even been suggested ...
Governing Education for Migrant Children : The Practice of Government-Minban Migrant School in Shanghai Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the practise of governing migrant schools, and to investigate the underlying rationalities behind the governance of education for migrant children, as well as to analyze the extent ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Denne oppgaven omhandler debatten rundt plagieringsproblemet i kinesisk akademia. Ved å analysere utsagn fra en rekke forskjellige deltakere i plagieringsdebatten i Kina, har jeg avdekket flere forskjellige oppfatninger ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The yīn yáng 陰陽 and the wǔ xíng 五行 Five Phases cosmological schemes are of utmost importance not only for cosmology, but in particular for an understanding of traditional Chinese medical theories, all kinds of healing ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis is a study of some of the social consequences of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. It aims at describing how centrally formulated policies on post-earthquake restoration have been implemented locally, and how the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The most common way of representing Chinese speech sounds in writing, and also the chief tool for teaching Chinese pronunciation to foreigners, is China’s official alphabetical writing system; Hànyǔ Pīnyīn. Most modern ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Klimakonferansen i København i 2009 fikk stor mediedekning, og det var knyttet store forventninger til utfallet, fordi forhandlingene skulle ha avsluttet Baliveikartets to forhandlingsspor, og bestemt Kyotoprotokollens ...