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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nasjonalismen i Kina har sine røtter fra tidlig på 1900-tallet. Allerede tidlig i denne debatten om en felles kinesisk identitet ble Den gule keiser identifisert som en felles stamfar for alle kinesere. Myten om et felles ...

Between the time when you wake _up_ in the morning and _fall_ asleep in the evening, you might feel _down_ if you are _under_ a lot of pressure, or be _high_ in spirits if you feel on _top_ of a situation. Such spatial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interessen for temaet Kina i Afrika har eksplodert de siste årene, og debatten går hektisk mellom fagfelt, stater og kontinenter. Men denne debatten har en tendens til å presentere stereotype bilder av Kina som en diktatorisk ...

Xinjiang produksjons og anleggkorps ble opprettet i Xinjiang i 1954, med det som formål å sikre grensestrøket i nordvest, utvike og modernisere provinsen. Selv om Korpset er en sivil organisasjon er den organisert etter ...

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the Sixth Generation of Chinese cinema. Specifically what constitutes the Sixth generation, and what the generational designation implies for the Sixth Generation. Central issues ...

This study is an analysis of selections from two Chinese translations of the Qur'an. The analysis primarily examines the relation between these translations and the Arabic source text. The analysis concentrates mainly on ...

Abstract The Chinese economy has been one of the world’s most rapid growing in recent years. Within the Chinese population though, there has been a rising income disparity. China is now faced with the same problem as many ...

China has for centuries been a dream for western businessmen because of its vast size and population. The chance to bring a product to China and win a part of the potential market has caused foreigners to flock to China ...

Kina har i løpet av få år blitt en viktig aktør på verdensmarkedet, og er i dag verdens største mottaker av utenlandsinvesteringer. På grunn av landets lave produksjonskostnader, har Kina blitt et yndet sted for selskaper ...

The desire to enrol in good schools is strong among Chinese teenagers, and parents all over China share the hope that their child or children will qualify for further education. This study focuses on attitudes towards ...

The pioneers of Chinese studies in Russia were the Orthodox missionaries in Beijing from 1715 (Kangxi 54). From 1807 (Jiaqing 12) Russian missionaries in Beijing devoted themselves to studying Chinese as a linguistic ...

Since the May 4th Movement on in 1919, in China, and especially after the Cultural Revolution, the term nüxing wenxue (women s literature) has been used about anything that had to do with women and literature, no matter ...

Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) has been hailed as a great revolutionary leader, on par with Mao Zedong in mainland China. At the same time, he has been a powerful national symbol in Taiwan, where he has been praised as the founding ...