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Border Assemblages: The Political Economy of Asian Regional Vegetable Trade

Wang, Kuan-Chi (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)

In my dissertation, I study the spatio-temporal variegation and transnational circulation of vegetable commodities using the case of edamame beans (the largest frozen vegetable sector in Asia). My dissertation shows that ...
Capital's Chinese Pigpen: Political Ecologies of Pig Production in the People's Republic of China

Conant, Abram (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

This thesis analyzes contemporary political ecologies of pig farming in the People's Republic of China, as well as emergent discourses of “meatification” and the industrialization of Chinese agriculture more broadly. ...
Changing Rurality in Contemporary China: Double Commodification of the Countryside

Wu, Shuxi (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)

This thesis examines contemporary rural transformations in China. I suggest that a different spatial relationship among production, reproduction, and consumption is in the making, grafted onto the urban-rural divide. A ...
"Chineseness" in Malaysian Chinese Education Discourse: The Case of Chung Ling High School

Goh, Jing Pei (University of Oregon, 2012)

The Chinese education issues in Malaysia appear frequently in political discourse, often featuring contentious discussions of language learning and national education policies. Applying an historical approach to contextualize ...
Forging the Nation Through Rails: Transportation Infrastructure and the Emergence of Chinese Nationalism

Brady, Dylan (University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)

While nationalism remains a vital element in the production of the political and economic landscape, it is often treated as a static container for other processes or neglected altogether. Rather, it must itself be treated ...
Livelihood Strategies in China: Lessons Learned From Taiyuan

Bachrach, David (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

Studies of urban China often deploy top-down analyses and focus on tier-1 cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. This thesis contributes to a diversifying literature by using a bottom-up analysis to compare the livelihood ...
Navigating Chinese-ness: Infrastructure, Community and the More-Than-Human Nation

Brady, Dylan (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)

The Chinese rail system is among the largest, densest, and most heavily used rail networks in the world, playing a central role in the circulation of migrant workers, students, professionals and tourists within China’s ...
Superscribing Sustainability: Reformulating China's Contemporary Urbanism

Rodenbiker, Jesse (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)

Within China's post-1980's urban planning discourse, shan-shui, a significance-laden compound character set translatable as `mountain-water' or `landscape', aligned with urban sustainability. The focus of this genealogical ...
The Evolving Fashion of Taiwan from 1949-1987: Expression, Consumption, and Futurity

DiFonzo, Nakota (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

The martial law era was an important period for the development of the fashion market in Taiwan. Due to economic and/or cultural influence from China, Japan, Western Europe, and, importantly, the United States, Taiwan was ...