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Description:: This dissertation is a social and cultural history of the body and the beauty industry in the Japanese Empire from 1868 to 1945. The emphasis is on the thoughts and actions of state and private actors such as doctors and the first generation of Japanese cosmetic product developers. When these...
Keyword:: History of the Body, Beauty Industry, and Japan
Subject:: Asian history
Creator:: Takayama Mouchel, Emilie Yuki
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14279 and etdadmin_upload_603403

Description:: What does it mean for writing from the former French imperial territories of the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) to become Maghrebi literature? How does literature come to count as belonging to or appertaining to a particular place? Today, in the international spheres of the university and the literary market,...
Keyword:: Novel, Maghreb, Modernity, Territory, Nation, and Japan
Subject:: French and Italian
Creator:: Matthew Thomas Kerper Brauer
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/21/2019
Date Modified:: 11/19/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: My dissertation explores the dynamics of Northeast Asia’s island disputes, specifically the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute between Korea and Japan and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute between Japan and China. I focus on three questions that are important for academic and policy purposes and are not well addressed by existing theories: 1) what explains...
Keyword:: China, Island disputes, Korea, Northeast Asia, Territorial conflict, and Japan
Subject:: Political Science
Creator:: Katrin Fraser Katz
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/11/2019
Date Modified:: 02/11/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation, “Altered Belonging: The Transnational Modern Dance of Itō Michio,” argues that Itō forged an artistic and social identity out of the very categories of racial and national difference typically used to exclude Japanese from Euro-American society. The strategies he employed provide a paradigm for how performing bodies marked...
Keyword:: modernism, Asian American, transnationalism, performance, cosmpolitanism, and Japan
Subject:: Theatre and Drama
Creator:: Tara Rodman
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/30/2018
Date Modified:: 03/30/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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