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Gohara, Kazutoshi, Koji Kadota, Akifumi Kijima, Motoki Okumura, Keiko Yokoyama, and Yuji Yamamoto. "Joint Action Syntax in Japanese Martial Arts." PLOS ONE, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/18463.
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Chapman, Kristopher Paul. "Inside the Dojo : participation and performance in the Japanese martial arts." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417012.
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Price, Brian R. "The Martial Arts of Medieval Europe." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103377/.
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During the late Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, fighting books—Fechtbücher—were produced in northern Italy, among the German states, in Burgundy, and on the Iberian peninsula. Long dismissed by fencing historians as “rough and untutored,” and largely unknown to military historians, these enigmatic treatises offer important insights into the cultural realities for all three orders in medieval society: those who fought, those who prayed, and those who labored. The intent of this dissertation is to demonstrate, contrary to the view of fencing historians, that the medieval works were systematic and logical approaches to personal defense rooted in optimizing available technology and regulating the appropriate use of the skills and technology through the lens of chivalric conduct. I argue further that these approaches were principle-based, that they built on Aristotelian conceptions of arte, and that by both contemporary and modern usage, they were martial arts. Finally, I argue that the existence of these martial arts lends important insights into the world-view across the spectrum of Medieval and early Renaissance society, but particularly with the tactical understanding held by professional combatants, the knights and men-at-arms. Three treatises are analyzed in detail. These include the anonymous RA I.33 Latin manuscript in the Royal Armouries at Leeds; the early German treatise attributed to Hanko Döbringer that glosses the great Johannes Liechtenauer; and the collection of surviving treatises by the Friulian master, Fiore dei Liberi. Each is compared in order to highlight common elements of usage that form the principles of the combat arts.
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Joern, Albert. "The repositioning of traditional martial arts in Republican China." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114301.
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In this thesis, I discuss how practitioners of martial arts in the Republican era of China were engaged in a process of reinventing what embodied the field of martial arts during a time when physical culture was treated as an instrument of nation-building in response to colonial discourses and the process of modernization. Martial arts were repositioned from being a loosely associated field of practice for people who engaged with a set of combative skills that focused on weapons training that championed archery and spear fighting, towards being a recreational activity with a formalized body of knowledge, skills and practices imbued with a Chinese sense of identity suitable for the modern class of urban and educated Chinese citizens. It is my belief that these efforts were a very important factor in why the practice of martial arts today is so closely associated with concepts of self-cultivation. This repositioning of Chinese martial arts was driven by a schism between the traditionalists who defended the beliefs and practices from the imperial age of China, and the modernists who saw the complete adoption of Western technologies and concepts as the only course for the modernization of China. Due to the shifting politics around education, understandings of the body and its representation in society, the efforts to preserve traditional practices were complicated through the dynamics related to identity and state power. The field of martial arts was criticized by reformists and modernists such as those involved with the New Culture Movement, who argued that China needed to embrace scientific notions of the Western nations and abandon "feudal superstitions." Within this context, the field of traditional Chinese martial arts was stigmatized by associations with the failed Boxer Rebellion, the diversity of practices and the secrecy that existed between different schools of practice. In response to the modernity movements that criticized the traditional systems of belief that martial artists drew upon to substantiate their systems of practice as a recreational pursuit, associations such as the Jingwu Tiyu Hui and the Zhongyang Guoshuguan were formed according to Western institutional models as part of the effort to unify and "modernize" Chinese martial arts. The teachers and administrators involved with these institutions wanted to preserve the practice of martial arts, and to accomplish this they had to develop new ways to systemize the training methods, essentially reinventing them by promoting them to a new generation of students in a format that had never existed before.À travers cet essai, j'examine la façon dont les pratiquants d'arts martiaux dans l'ère républicaine de la Chine étaient impliqués dans le but de réinventer ce qu'incarnait le domaine des arts martiaux à une époque où la culture physique était traitée comme un instrument de construction de la nation en réponse au discours colonial et au processus de modernisation. Les arts martiaux ont été repositionnés à partir d'un ensemble de personnes indirectement associés qui se livraient à un ensemble de combats et qui concentraient leurs compétences sur des entraînements aux armes encourageant le tir à l'arc et le combat à la lance, afin de devenir une activité de loisir avec un corps formalisé de connaissances, de compétences et de pratiques imprégnées avec une identité chinoise adapté à la classe moderne urbaine et de citoyens chinois éduquée. Ceci est ma conviction que ces efforts ont été un facteur très important dans la raison pour laquelle la pratique des arts martiaux aujourd'hui est si étroitement associée aux concepts de la culture de soi.Ce repositionnement des arts martiaux chinois fut motivé par le schisme entre les traditionalistes qui défendaient leurs croyances et leurs pratiques de l'époque impériale de la Chine, et les modernistes qui, eux, ont vu l'adoption complète de technologies et de concepts occidentaux comme le seul mouvement bénéfique à la modernisation de la Chine. En raison de la politique à travers l'éducation, la compréhension du corps et de sa représentation dans la société, les efforts visant à préserver les pratiques traditionnelles ont été compliquées par la dynamique liée à l'identité et le pouvoir de l'état. Le domaine des arts martiaux a été critiqué par les réformistes et les modernistes incluant ceux qui furent impliqués dans le « New Culture movement», qui a fait valoir que la Chine devait embrasser des notions scientifiques des pays occidentaux et abandonner leurs «superstitions féodales. » Dans ce contexte, le domaine des arts martiaux traditionnels a été stigmatisé par des liens avec la révolte des Boxers, la diversité des pratiques et la discrétion qui existait entre les différentes écoles de pratique.En réponse aux mouvements de modernité qui ont critiqué les systèmes de croyances traditionnels dont les pratiquants d'arts martiaux ont fait appel à l'appui de leurs systèmes pour justifier leur pratique comme une forme de loisir, des associations telles que les Jingwu Tiyu Hui et le Zhongyang Guoshuguan ont été formés selon les modèles occidentaux institutionnels dans le but d'unifier et de , en quelque sorte , moderniser les arts martiaux chinois. Les enseignants et les administrateurs concernés par ces institutions voulaient préserver la pratique des arts martiaux, et pour ce faire ils ont dû développer des nouvelles façons de systématiser les méthodes de formation, les réinventer en les promouvant à une nouvelle génération d'étudiants sous une forme qui n'avaient jamais existé auparavant.
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McNally, Ian. "Internal Cultivation or External Strength?: Claiming Martial Arts in the Qing Period." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557155402412377.
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Castillo, Gilbert Gerard. "Gender, Identity, and Influence: Hong Kong Martial Arts Films." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3354/.
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This project is an examination of the Hong Kong film industry, focusing on the years leading up to the handover of Hong Kong to communist China. The influence of classical Chinese culture on gender representation in martial arts films is examined in order to formulate an understanding of how these films use gender issues to negotiate a sense of cultural identity in the face of unprecedented political change. In particular, the films of Hong Kong action stars Michelle Yeoh and Brigitte Lin are studied within a feminist and cultural studies framework for indications of identity formation through the highlighting of gender issues.
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Ng, Pei-San. "Strength From Within| the Chinese Internal Martial Arts as Discourse, Aesthetics, and Cultural Trope (1850-1940)." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10251445.
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My dissertation explores a cultural history of the body as reflected in meditative and therapeutic forms of the Chinese martial arts in nineteenth and early twentieth-century China. Precursors of the more familiar present-day taijiquan [special characters omitted] and qigong [special characters omitted], these forms of martial arts techniques focus on the inward cultivation of qi [special characters omitted] and other apparently ineffable energies of the body. They revolve around the harnessing of “internal strength” or neigong [special characters omitted]. These notions of a strength derived from an invisible, intangible, yet embodied qi came to represent a significant counterweight to sports, exercise science, the Physical Culture movement, physiology, and other Western ideas of muscularity and the body that were being imported into China at the time.
What role would such competing discourses of the body play in shaping contemporary ideas of embodiment? How would it raise the stakes in an era already ideologically charged with the intertwined issues of nationalism and imperialism, and so-called scientific modernity and indigenous tradition? This study is an inquiry into the epistemological and ontological ramifications of the idea of neigong internal strength, tracing the popular spread of the idea and its impact in late Qing and Republican China vernacular discourse. I pay particular attention to how the notion of “internal strength” might shed light on thinking about the body in the period. Using the notion of neigong as a lens, this project examines the claims of the internal forms of Chinese martial arts, and the cultural work that these claims perform in the context of late Qing and Republican China. I locate the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the key formative period when the idea first found popular conceptual purchase, and explore how the notion of neigong internal strength became increasingly steeped in the cultural politics of the time.
Considering the Chinese internal martial arts not only as a form of bodily practice but also as a mode of cultural production, in which a particular way of regarding 'the body' came to be established in Chinese vernacular culture, may additionally yield rich theoretical fodder. How might such claims about a different kind of “internal strength” revisit or disrupt modernist assumptions about the body? The project highlights the neglected significance of the internal martial arts as a narrative of the Chinese body. More broadly, it suggests fresh avenues for scholarship on the body, in showing how these other-bodily "ways of knowing" took on meaning in the period and beyond.
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Yu, King-hei, and 余境熹. "Study of the places in "A dealy secret"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46089044.
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Wong, King-tung, and 黃競東. "Reinventing the real: transfigurations of cinematic kung fu in the 21st century." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47849885.
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Kung fu is a cinematic genre investing on the discourse of the “real”.
From Kwan Tak Hing, Bruce Lee, Jacky Chan, Jet Li to Donnie Yen, cinematic
representations of kung fu are inextricably intertwined with realism – real
techniques, real fighting and real body.
This paper is a theoretical reflection of “real kung fu” as a cultural
imaginary and its transfiguration since the 1950s. The discussion will focus on
recent developments of the genre in two major industries – digitalization of kung
fu in Hollywood and recent return of kung fu masters in Hong Kong through coproduction.
Through a parallel analysis of kung fu productions in a global context,
this project outlines and predicts possible reinventions of the genre in the first
decade of the 21st century.
On the one hand, the notion of “real kung fu” is reinvented by digital
technology. By applying Jean Baudrillard’s idea of “simulacra and simulation” to
the context of kung fu cinema, Leon Hunt’s tripartite scheme of authenticity and
Edward Said’s Orientalist discourse are (de/re)constructed in an age of digital
production. Through a scrutiny of The Matrix (1999) and Kung Fu Panda (2008),
I will demonstrate that the convergence of digital cinema and digital gaming
creates a new spectatorship that redefines kung fu with an alternative
understanding of body, time and space.
On the other hand, the Ip Man trilogy (2008-2010) and Legend of the Fist:
The Return of Chen Zhen (2010) show that there is a possible return of kung fu
masters in local martial arts co-productions. Instead of a nostalgic return to the
established genre in the 1970s, these realist kung fu films reinvent the genre by
synthesizing different paradigms of realist styles and renegotiating the longstanding
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Morris, Andrew D. "Cultivating the national body : a history of physical culture in republican China /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9907604.
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Kang, Inhye. "World display, imperial time: the temporal and visual articulation of empire in Japanese exhibitions (1890-1945)." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110464.
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This dissertation investigates how Japanese expositions held from the 1890s to the 1940s, both abroad and at home, represented Japan itself as a 'guardian of Asian culture' while promoting the expansion of its empire. Japan's governing stance over other Asian nations at expositions during the prewar period appeared to imitate the imperial exhibitions of its Western counterparts, and yet the Japanese engagement of Asia in these exhibitions was portrayed as "almost the same, but not quite" the same empire. This study thus proposes to interpret Japan's exhibitionary practices toward other Asian nations as "mimicry," borrowing Homi K. Bhabha's conception, in order to challenge the totalizing vision of the West that was commonplace at exposition sites. I argue that the preoccupation with exhibitionary techniques provided Japan with a cultural, aesthetic, and ethnic claim over other Asian nations in terms of time and space. Further to this point, I argue that the importance of the visual technologies used by Japan in their expositions – technologies that were mimicked from Western empires – lies in their spatialization of time and temporal re-organization. This study thus aims to investigate the processes whereby Japanese expositions re-contextualized the aesthetic, cultural, and racial and ethnic identities of other Asian nations in terms of time and space.This dissertation investigates multiple sites of Japan's expositions, as well as numerous major figures who were involved in these exhibition practices. Chapter 2 concerns three (pre-)exhibitionary sites where Japanese traditional art and its art history were reorganized by modern art programmers such as Okakura Tenshin and Ernest Fenollosa: national treasure survey sites, the National Pavilion at the 1893 Chicago Exposition and the Official Catalogue for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle (Histoire de l'Art du Japon). More specifically, I argue that these three exhibitionary sites were specific instances where Japanese traditional art and Asian art became "de-territorialized and re-territorialized" through the techniques of preservation, presentation and cataloguing. Chapter 3 examines the Japanese pavilion at the 1910 Japan-British Exhibition in terms of the visual technique of panoramas. The Japanese pavilion in this show self-adjusted to the panorama technique using a Western perspective, wherein Britain emerged as the temporal norm to be emulated in the logic of imperialism while Japan was relatively viewed as a "different" empire. Yet Japan, by mimicking the temporal logic of the Western empire, re-enacted its own temporal operations toward other Asian nations. Chapter 4 explores the ways in which anthropological exhibitions rearticulated the racial and ethnic identities of Asian nations under the name of a multi-ethnic empire. The Tokyo Anthropological Association and its leader, Tsuboi Shōgorō, made extensive use of visual technologies, like Western anthropologists, such as composite photography and anthropological expositions, and I thus investigate how they attempted to redefine racial and ethnic identities by way of these modern visual technologies. Chapter 5 considers the climax of Pan-Asianist expansion at the 1940 Chosŏn Great Exposition, held in Seoul, in the middle of Asia-Pacific War. This chapter examines how the visual practice of panoramas incorporated people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds under the inclusive umbrella of a multi-cultural East Asian empire, to encourage their participation in the war. I further contend that the performance of these panoramic imageries displayed both the inclusiveness and yet the simultaneous contradictions of multi-cultural empires.Cette thèse explore comment les expositions japonaises de type universel, tenues entre les années 1890 et 1940, au pays comme à l'étranger, représentaient le Japon lui-même comme étant « gardiennes de la culture asiatique » alors qu'elles promouvaient du même coup l'expansion de l'empire japonais. Le point de vue japonais sur les autres nations asiatiques lors de ces expositions impériales d'avant-guerre semblait imiter celui de ses homologues occidentaux, à la nuance près, qu'il a été dépeignait comme étant « semblables, mais pas tout à fait pareilles » à son empire. Cette étude propose en ce sens d'interpréter les pratiques japonaises d'exposition en ce qui concerne les autres nations asiatiques, selon l'angle du « mimétisme » – pour emprunter le terme à Homi K. Bhabha. Cela m'amène à postuler que c'est précisément cet intérêt hâtif pour ces techniques qui a permis au Japon de prétendre avoir une mainmise culturelle, esthétique et éthique sur les autres nations asiatiques. J'avance dans cette veine que l'importance des technologies visuelles utilisées par le Japon au sein de ces expositions reposait sur leur déploiement et leur réorganisation spatiotemporels. Mon étude souhaite, en ce sens, investiguer les processus à travers lesquels les expositions japonaises décontextualisaient et recadraient les identités esthétiques, culturelles, raciales et ethniques des autres nations asiatiques en lien avec l'espace et le temps.Cette thèse se penche sur plusieurs expositions menées par le Japon et s'intéresse à l'implication de différentes personnalités influentes en ce qui concerne les pratiques d'exposition. Chapitre 2 s'intéresse à trois cas de figure où l'art japonais traditionnel et son histoire furent revisités par des commissaires d'art moderne comme Okakura Tenshin et Ernest Fenollosa, notamment avec les études menées sur l'héritage national du Japon, avec le Pavillon national japonais de l'exposition lors de Chicago de 1893 et avec le catalogue officiel de l'exposition universelle de Paris de 1900 (Histoire de l'art du Japon). Plus précisément, je postule que ces trois cas ont été des moments où l'art japonais traditionnel et l'art asiatique furent « déterritorialisé et reterritorialisé » à travers des techniques de préservation, de présentation et de catalogage. Chapitre 3 se penche le pavillon du Japon lors de l'exposition Japon-Grande-Bretagne de 1910 en ce qui a trait à la technique visuelle du panorama. Lors de cette exposition, le pavillon japonais s'est inspiré de la technique occidentale du panorama, alors que la Grande-Bretagne, avec sa perspective impériale, semblait être l'exemple à suivre. En « imitant » de la sorte la logique temporelle de l'Empire britannique, le Japon recréait les mêmes types d'opérations temporelles par rapport aux autres nations asiatiques. Chapitre 4 explore comment les expositions anthropologiques réarticulaient les identités raciales et ethniques des autres nations asiatiques au nom d'un empire multiethnique. L'Association anthropologique de Tokyo, sous l'influence de son directeur Tsuboi Shōgorō, a fait un usage important des techniques visuelles telles que les photographies composites et les expositions anthropologiques, je m'intéresse à cet égard sur la manière dont l'usage de techniques modernes de visualisation a tenté de redéfinir les identités raciales et ethniques des autres nations asiatiques. Chapitre 5 traite de l'apogée du panasianism lors de la Grande exposition Chosŏn qui s'est tenue à Séoul au milieu de la guerre en Asie et dans le Pacifique. Ce chapitre examine comment la pratique visuelle du panorama, en incorporant des personnes de différentes ethnies et cultures sous l'étiquette multiculturelle de l'empire de l'Asie de l'est, tentait d'encourager leur participation à la guerre. J'affirme à cet effet que le déploiement de ces représentations panoramiques affichait une forme d'inclusion des empires multiculturels qui comportait néanmoins diverses contradictions.
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Pei, Kuangyi. "Studies of Editorials of Chinese Newspapers in Regard to Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1325.
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More than sixty years have passed since China's Resistance War against Japan in 1937-1945 ended. Chinese people made a significant contribution to winning the victory over Japan. Chinese newspapers and magazines, especially editorials at that time, played a key role in the propaganda of the War of Resistance, boosting national morale, and exposing war crimes of Japanese aggressors.
Chinese newspapers and magazines included many important incidents and issues regarding the War of Resistance. This thesis selects editorials of three representative topics: the future of the War of Resistance, the defensive combat of the Chinese nationalist army in the front lines, and the war crimes of Japanese invaders to offer a clear, concise narrative whose central themes are better reflecting and commemorating that unforgettable time from the cultural dimension.
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Su, Christopher (Christopher Thomas). "An Ambitious Social Experiment: Education in Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1942-1945 by Christopher Su." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65525.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2011.Page 6 missing. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Introduction: Alice Nakamura, a senior of the Class of 1943 at Rohwer Center High School in Arkansas, read these words at the conclusion to her graduation speech. Substantively, it sounds like any other reflection on self-identity by a second-generation immigrant. In reality, Alice's speech stands out because it was delivered from a school located behind barbed wire, where the United States government had detained her because of her Japanese ancestry. Between 1942 and 1945, the United States government removed more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry residing on the west coast to remote relocation centers located in the barren mountainous states of the American west. Deprived of their freedom, these internees found themselves faced with the challenge of carrying on their everyday lives while surrounded by barbed wire. Parents concerned about the educational prospects of their children pushed for the development of primary and secondary schools, which the administrations provided. Adults seeking to occupy their time after work and alleviate boredom initiated education programs taught by internees who possessed relevant technical abilities and academic credentials. Despite the limited freedom and control the internees had over their squalid living conditions, educational programs emerged as one area in which they were able to establish a voice for themselves and collaborate with camp authorities. Due to the wartime shortage of teachers, many young Japanese teachers staffed the primary and secondary schools. The internees completely ran the Adult Education program with only perfunctory oversight from the camp administrations. In return for this degree of autonomy, the WRA requested the establishment of Americanization classes in all levels of camp schooling. These classes focused on the dissemination of American values and preparation for life after the war. Internees had mixed reactions to these government-mandated requirements but many valuable lessons came out of these classes. Primary and secondary students had an intensely personal experience learning about democracy inside barbed wire. As these students went on to attend colleges and find jobs after internment, they took these experiences with them and crafted new and deeply personal definitions of being an American citizen. The Adult Education programs gave internees English skills and new cultural knowledge that they used in their post-war communities and to communicate with their own children. Despite the horrid conditions that the Japanese experienced in the internment camps, the education program created relatively positive interactions between the internees and the camp authorities. Although suffering from supply shortages and a high variance in teaching quality, the educational programs challenged internees to think about democracy and what it means to live in America. Japanese internees provided staffing for these programs and worked with the camp administrators to implementing the curriculums, which allowed a degree of self-governance, an uneasy feat in government-controlled wartime internment centers. The Japanese-American internment process began on February 19, 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the military to create special areas within the United States from which "any and all" persons may be excluded. The exclusion order applied to both citizens and aliens, meaning that the government intended to remove both Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans. The former are issei, a term meaning "first-generation" in Japanese, and the latter are nisei, "second-generation." Throughout the internment process, more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese-ancestry were excluded from the zones of exclusion, often forced to sell their belongings, and relocated to barren camps established in the interior of the United States. The internment process had no pretenses of kindness - following Pearl Harbor, propaganda posters depicting Japanese as apes and other savage animals were widely distributed, and racist sentiments were openly published and distributed through the press. A selection from a San Francisco newspaper derided the Japanese during the onset of the internment process: "Herd 'em up, pack 'em off and give 'em the inside room in the badlands. [...] Let us have no patience with the enemy or with anyone whose veins carry his blood [...] I hate the Japanese." A propaganda poster distributed in 1943 titled, "How to Spot a Jap," described a Japanese as having "buck teeth" and being unable to smile because he "expect[s] to be shot...and is very unhappy about the whole thing." Even Americans from the interior expressed hostility. ...
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Meachem, Dhugal. "Virtual worlds, non humans and power beams : a neoformalist analysis of the digital animation aesthetic in Hong Kong's mythical martial arts films." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2003. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/513.
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Adamson, William Charles. "The Nationalism of Joachim Meyer: An Analysis of German Pride in his Fighting Manual of 1570." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1286.
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This work addresses the nationalistic elements in the 1570 work Kunst des Fechtens by Joachim Meyer of Strassburg. Meyer's teachings on the longsword are attached to the Swabian Johannes Liechtenauer and then transferred to the Italian rapier thus establishing Meyer as less concerned with nationalist purity as others of his century. His teachings are examined for their pleadings for moral conduct and the preservation of martial studies to the youth of Germany and the young Duke of Bavaria, Johann Casimir. Using modern examples alongside Meyer's writings the case is also made for the integration of nationalist sentiments, moral and ethical instruction, and martial arts training.
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Hoye, Nathaniel. "Transitive and Intransitive Verbs in Ki Idioms." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157620/.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine idiomatic structures with ki in the ki-wo [transitive verb] and ki-ga [intransitive verb] constructions. It is argued that for Japanese language learners, it is crucial to be able to understand and produce ki idioms, because they are frequently used in everyday speech. There are often misconceptions regarding ki in the West for those who are fans of Japanese culture due to the influence of martial arts and anime, which paint ki as a spiritual energy that can be controlled and developed. However, upon examining the above mentioned idiomatic structures with ki, it is clear that ki can be expressed as both controllable by the subject of ki (transitive), as well as a thing that acts of its own accord and is spontaneous (intransitive). This thesis somewhat corroborates the studies of W. M. Jacobson, Zoe Pei Sui Luk , and Yoshihiko Ikegami by arguing that intransitive constructions are often used in Japanese, and examining both transitive and intransitive expressions with ki is significant to understanding the meanings produced in ki expressions. It is hoped that analyzing 37 transitive and intransitive idiomatic structures with ki will help Japanese language learners not only understand the syntactic and semantic aspects of transitivity in the Japanese language, but also to help these L2 learners conceptualize the abstract noun ki, which can be defined in so many different ways in a dictionary.
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Araya, Aaron. "The Perception of Japanese Calligraphyin English Language Textbooks of JapaneseArt History : A Case Study of Artistic Practice ofHon’ami Kōetsu (1558-1637)." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-178063.
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Byrd, Gregory Dean. "General Ishii Shiro: His Legacy is That of Genius and Madman." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1010.
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This paper covers the development of the chemical weapons division founded by Ishii Shiro, and discusses the horrible experimentation that was done by the Japanese. These experiments have been a source of controversy. The Chinese feel the Japanese should acknowledge these as war crimes. When the Japanese left Manchuria, they left the world’s largest chemical waste dump behind, and even to this day the government refuses to admit the actions of Unit 731. The information on biological warfare that the Japanese discovered during the experimentation in China later was used as a negotiation tool with the United States to secure their freedom and gain immunity from prosecution for General Ishii Shiro and his men. This paper will show the evolution of Japanese biological warfare during WWII using research obtained from a wide range of documents, books, newspapers, and journal articles, as well as documents found at the National Archives.
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Kinuhata, Hitomi. "Hugh Borton : his role in American-Japanese relations /." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0629104-174631/unrestricted/KinuhataH072004f.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0629104-174631. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.
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Stucke, Walter Joseph. "The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1338.
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This thesis sets out to demonstrate the role of Western missionaries and Korean Christians, especially Protestants, on Korean nationalism. The first significant introduction of Protestantism into Korea came in 1884. Within just over thirty years, the Protestant Church in Korea expanded and many of the nationalist leaders took active roles in the Korean nationalist movement against Japanese imperialism. This thesis consults both Western and Korean primary sources including period newspapers. Some of the Korean primary sources were translated from Korean into English and others were originally written in English by Koreans. Also consulted are many valuable secondary sources which help further shed light on the subject at hand and give credence to the thesis. Chapters 2-4 show the direct contributions of Western missionaries to Korean nationalism and Chapters 5-7 show the indirect contributions of Western missionaries by the direct involvement of Korean Christians in their fight for independence against the old Korean order and Japan.
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Lackney, Lisa M. "From Nostalgia to Cruelty: Changing Stories of Love, Violence, and Masculinity in Postwar Japanese Samurai Films." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1279473191.
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Fassmann, Sarah. ""Super Salesmen" for the Toughest Sales Job: The Utah Nippo, Salt Lake City's Japanese Americans, and Proving Group Loyalty, 1941-1946." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1286.
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This thesis examines the Utah Nippo, its messages to Salt Lake City's Nikkei population, and draws out the paper's editorial themes intended for resident Utah Nikkei. The Utah Nippo was one of three Japanese-language newspapers that published during World War II and it was a voice for community leaders and editors who urged Salt Lake Nikkei to behave in certain ways that (they believed) would prove a certain loyal American identity. Such an identity was comprised of prescribed behaviors: supporting the government and war effort, attending patriotic activities, keeping a low social profile, and quietly enduring the fear and discrimination directed at them as Nikkei in the midst of a national war against Japan. The Utah Nippo painted the model minority stereotype during World War II, although scholars view it as a postwar concept imposed on Asian Americans. Although not entirely dictated by the Japanese American Citizens League, the newspaper content was influenced by the League's wartime campaigns for working with the U.S. government and behaving loyally. Nikkei in community leadership roles actively encouraged this image because it meant safety by assurance of Americanism. Individuals and editorials highlighted behaviors that helped or hurt the group image. The newspaper also focused on ending racism in the U.S. within Nikkei communities and as they resettled throughout the nation. While the Utah Nippo printed such sentiments, not all residents necessarily agreed with or did as the newspaper suggested, yet the articles indicated the identity that editors and leaders hoped to create. In light of the tenuous situation that Salt Lake Nikkei felt they lived in, it made sense for individuals to outwardly conform and incorporate the paper's behavioral guidelines in order to deflect suspicions over loyalty away from the group.
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Filho, Marcio Antonio Tralci. "Artes marciais chinesas: histórias de vida de mestres brasileiros e as tensões entre a tradição e o modelo esportivo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/39/39133/tde-01082014-094628/.
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Essa dissertação se propôs a discutir o conceito de tradição, bem como a sua importância, no campo das artes marciais chinesas (Kung Fu) no Brasil. Para tanto, recorri às histórias orais de vida de cinco mestres brasileiros, discípulos de chineses, como fontes primárias para contribuir com essa discussão. Essas narrativas foram cotejadas com os referenciais teóricos a respeito da relação mestre-discípulo, da relação entre tradição e autoridade e de certos momentos da história do Kung Fu, com destaque para o intenso processo de transformação sofrido por essas práticas ao longo do século XX, o que abarcou, inclusive, a migração de alguns mestres para o Brasil. Em concordância com o esboço metodológico proposto por Pierre Bourdieu, a análise desse elemento específico do Kung Fu, a tradição, foi precedida por um delineamento de seu - campo esportivo, o qual revelou que as artes marciais chinesas apresentam, de fato, uma grande dispersão em suas denominações, não somente em relação às suas diversas manifestações, mas também pelas experiências de vida dos mestres de cada denominação e sua relação com questões de classe social, de capital social, de gênero, de raça/etnia e de territorialidade. A respeito da tradição, é unânime a consideração dos entrevistados de que se trata de um elemento fundamental no Kung Fu, sendo que um estilo, escola ou família podem ser denominados tradicionais em razão de sua antiguidade e de sua genealogia. Entretanto, é a justificação da importância do conceito de tradição que demarca dois discursos distintos: o primeiro, remetendo-se à ancestralidade, à fundação e a elementos simbólicos, se volta para a tradição enquanto manutenção do legado dos mestres; o segundo, referendando-se no caráter intrínseco da relação entre mestres e discípulos e em contextualizações histórico-políticas das artes marciais, alude para um processo interpretativo em relação aos elementos considerados tradicionais. Chama a atenção o fato de que ambos os discursos são reticentes em relação ao modelo esportivo, mas sob perspectivas diferentes: se um enfatiza os conteúdos simbólicos e filosóficos em resistência ao tecnicismo, à competitividade e ao apelo estético das manifestações esportivas, o outro pontua as questões que permearam as artes marciais chinesas em relação à dominação política e cultural que sofreram em determinados momentos da história. Desse modo, a presente pesquisa evidenciou que essa circulação de narrativas é relevante para a compreensão do campo esportivo do Kung Fu no Brasil. Além disso, as artes marciais chinesas demonstraram ser um campo privilegiado que permite aos envolvidos entrarem em contato com questões sofisticadas a respeito das relações estreitas que a história, a política, a cultura e a sociedade podem estabelecer com as práticas corporais. Ainda que não sejam nomeados, mitologia e história, sincronia e diacronia, estrutura e transformação, tradição e autoridade são conceitos circulantes caros ao campo esportivo do Kung Fu e que não podem ser negligenciados quando se aborda essa prática de maneira rigorosa e crítica.This dissertation aimed to discuss the concept of tradition as well as its importance in the field of Chinese martial arts (Kung Fu) in Brazil. To this end, I resorted to the oral life histories of five Brazilian masters, disciples of Chinese ones, as primary sources to contribute to this discussion. These narratives has been confronted with the theoretical background about the master-disciple relationship, the relationship between tradition and authority and certain moments in the history of Kung Fu, especially the intense process of transformation undergone by these practices throughout the twentieth century, which encompassed even the migration of some masters to Brazil. In accordance with the methodological outline proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, the analysis of this particular element of Kung Fu, the tradition, was preceded by a design of its \"sports field\", which revealed that Chinese martial arts have, in fact, a great dispersion in their denominations, not only in relation to their different names and manifestations, but also by the life experiences of the masters of each denomination and its relation to issues of social class, social capital, gender, race/ethnicity and territoriality. Regarding the tradition is unanimous the consideration of the interviewed that it is a fundamental element in Kung Fu, and a style, school or family can be called traditional because of its antiquity and its genealogy. However , is the justification of the importance of the tradition\'s concept that demarcates two distinct discourses: the first, referring to the ancestry, the foundation and symbolic elements, turns to tradition while the maintaining of the masters\' legacy; the second, endorsing on the intrinsic character of the relationship between masters and disciples and the historical and political contextualization of martial arts, refers to an interpretive process in relation to the elements considered traditionals. It calls atention the fact that both discourses are reticent about the sports model but from different perspectives: the first one emphasizes thee symbolic and philosophical content in resistance to the technicality, competitiveness and aesthetic appeal of the sports, the another one points out the issues involved in the Chinese martial arts in relation to political and cultural domination suffered at certain times in it history. Thus, the present study showed that this movement of narratives is relevant for understanding the sports field of Kung Fu in Brazil. Moreover, Chinese martial arts have shown to be a privileged field that allows the subjects involved on it to get in touch with sophisticated issues about the close relations that history, politics, culture and society can be established with body practices. Although not named, mythology and history, synchrony and diachrony, structure and transformation, tradition and authority are circulating concepts valued to the sports field of Kung Fu and that can not be overlooked when discussing this practice rigorously and critically.
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Spence, Johnny Hampton. "South Pacific Destroyers: The United States Navy and the Challenges of Night Surface Combat in the Solomons Islands during World War II." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1865.
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During the South Pacific campaigns of World War II, the United States Navy faced a formidable challenge in waging nighttime surface battles against the Japanese Navy. In a war that emphasized the carrier and battleship, the little destroyer became a key player in these actions. By studying this campaign from the perspective of the destroyers, three key factors emerge that allowed the Americans to achieve victory: innovation in tactics, adaption of technology, and efficient use of resources.
The research for the thesis was based upon action reports, oral histories, and other documents obtained from the National Archives, Naval War College, Naval History and Heritage Command Center, and East Carolina University. The Japanese perspective was attained from numerous secondary sources.
Innovation in tactics, technology, and resources allowed the Americans to persevere through severe defeats to achieve success against a very skilled Japanese Navy in the seas of the South Pacific.
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劉天枝. "論金庸武俠小說的絕境書寫 :以"射鵰"三部曲為例 = Research on the desperation narrative of Jin Yong's Martial Arts novels : taking the Condor Trilogy for instance." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3954251.
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Humphrey, Ashley Renee. "Where's the Roda?: Understanding Capoeira Culture in an American Context." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1543574890650575.
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馮筱然. "金庸武俠小說中《武》與《俠》的承繼與創新 = The inheritance and innovation of "wu" and "xia" in Jin Yong's novels." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2000. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/205.
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Tuaillon, Demésy Audrey. "L'histoire vivante médiévale. Approche socio-anthropologique." Phd thesis, Université de Franche-Comté, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01062398.
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L'histoire vivante est une manière de présenter le passé, qui peut se décliner en fonction d'époques variées ; celle qui est prise en compte dans cette recherche concerne la période médiévale. La pratique s'expose à travers deux activités distinctes mais complémentaires : la reconstitution historique et les Arts martiaux historiques européens, couramment nommés AMHE. L'étude menée répond à un travail de terrain interdisciplinaire, mêlant des approches ethnologiques et sociologiques. Les données recueillies proviennent d'observations participantes, mises en place lors de différents événements, d'entretiens (semi-directifs ou directifs) auprès de divers informateurs et, enfin, de deux séries de questionnaires. C'est une méthodologie aussi bien qualitative que quantitative qui a été utilisée, afin de permettre une compréhension globale de l'objet d'étude.La problématique retenue, en fonction d'une dialectique constante entre le terrain et la théorie, questionne les modalités d'expressions d'une pratique culturelle génératrice d'identités. Plusieurs axes ont ainsi pu être dégagés. C'est d'abord sous l'angle de la diffusion des connaissances (actions culturelles, rapport au patrimoine, liens entretenus avec la mémoire et principe de transmission) que l'histoire vivante est abordée. Ensuite, la recherche porte sur les éléments de définition associés à la démarche, entre activité de loisir et professionnalisation. Les thématiques présentées renvoient autant au fait associatif qu'au développement technique, en passant par les enjeux touristiques et les ambivalences relatives au concept de fête. Enfin, le dernier point évoque la pratique sociale, créatrice de liens entre les participants. Du profil sociologique des enquêtés au principe de communauté, les investigations réalisées invitent à appréhender les normes et valeurs spécifiques à ce type d'activités. L'un des principaux enjeux consiste à afficher les mécanismes relatifs à la délimitation identitaire d'un groupe particulier : c'est en fonction du rapport à l'altérité et des normes véhiculées par un ensemble précis que le lien social se maintient ou se délie. La faible reconnaissance dont dispose l'histoire vivante favorise ainsi une approche en termes de jeu identitaire, fécond pour l'analyse globale d'une démarche contemporaine en expansion.
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Lee, Ming-yen. "An Analysis of the Three Modern Chinese Orchestras in the Context of Cultural Interaction Across Greater China." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1397886249.
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Ramos, Isabella. "Walking in The City: Koji Nakano’s Reimagining and Re-Sounding of The Tale Of Genji." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1037.
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Imagined Sceneries is a work written by composer Dr. Koji Nakano of Burapha University, Thailand for two sopranos, koto, light percussion, narrations, soundscapes recorded in Kyoto, Japan in December 2015, and digital projections of Ebina Masao’s 1953 print series Tale of Genji. Imagined Sceneries’ reimagining and “re-sounding” of Heian Kyoto relies on a balance between what is imagined and what is experienced in performance. Its many elements collectively explore multiple layers of Japanese histories, soundscapes, environments, and sensibilities. Using Michel de Certeau’s concepts of the city, this thesis journeys through Nakano’s imagined spaces.
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Ganoe, Kristy L. "Mindful Movement as a Cure for Colonialism." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1367936488.
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Marta, Felipe Eduardo Ferreira. "A memória das lutas ou o lugar do "DO": as artes marciais e a construção de um caminho oriental para a cultura corporal na cidade de São Paulo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13145.
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Currently, the eastern martial arts are a part of the corporal culture of the city of São Paulo. His practice is available as an opportunity to experience. In other words, anyone that desire easily can have access to those corporal practices originated at countries of the far east. But how that was possible? How an element of so different culture is able to be established in São Paulo? To try to answer those questions that, I wrote this work. Accordingly, this research was based on oral sources, bibliographic and documentary to investigate the process of introduction and spread of some of the most popular eastern martial arts practiced today in the city of São Paulo. Specifically on oral sources, I chose a strategy that focused masters immigrants from three countries: Japan, China (Hong Kong) and South Korea. The justification for such strategy resides in the fact of that are those the countries where originated some of the most popular eastern martial arts, currently practiced in the city of São Paulo. For analysis of the statements, were observed the annotations of Alessandro Portelli (1997), for whom the oral reports It is a document of present, in its shared responsibility by both the deponent as the researcher . As a result, it was observed that the introduction of oriental martial arts in most due to the migration of peoples of oriental origin, started in the early years of the twentieth century, and that the success in the work of dissemination of such practices should be the process of modernization, the perspective advocated by Norbert Elias (1994), to which they were submitted. This modernization is expressed in the adoption in their home countries and also in the receiving country, in Brazil, the labor standards of some body of European origin, with emphasis, accordingly, for the sport and gymnastics and also the methods by "control the potential violence" inherent in such practices. It was also noted that the period after World War II, more specifically in the 1960s and 1970s, represented a new moment in the dissemination of such practices in the city. Process that until then had been promoted by the exclusive work of the masters immigrants and that from that moment on, begin to benefit from the emergence of a breeding ground for these practices arise from increased visibility in the city, a phenomenon generated by the diffusion mass products of the entertainment industry relating to eastern martial arts. Finally, there was the role of a phenomenon that began for some of these practices even in the final years of the nineteenth century, in their home countries, but currently still in progress, making it a sport. Accordingly, with the help of the studies conducted by Pierre Bourdieu (1990, 1983) and Norbert Elias (1994, 1992), it was found that the unfolding of this process have been the responsible for a clash between the traditions of martial arts and oriental desires of those who are supporters of the process of modernization, Westernization and spotivization of these practices. Such situation has acted in the sense of become possible the association of the martial arts in a variety of ways. Senses that in some way seek satiate the desires of the actors involved in the life of martial arts, are the work of dissemination of the practice and are in its consumption
Atualmente as artes marciais orientais são um elemento constitutivo da cultura corporal da cidade de São Paulo. Sua prática encontra-se disponível enquanto possibilidade de experiência. Em outras palavras, qualquer pessoa que deseje pode facilmente ter acesso a essas práticas corporais originadas nos países do extremo oriente. Mas como isso foi possível? Como um elemento de uma cultura tão diferente em relação a que existia em São Paulo pôde se estabelecer? Foi justamente para tentar responder a essas questões que escrevi este trabalho. Nesse sentido, a presente pesquisa se baseou em fontes orais, bibliográficas e documentais, para investigar parte do processo de introdução e disseminação de algumas das mais populares artes marciais orientais atualmente praticadas na cidade de São Paulo. Especificamente sobre as fontes orais, optei por uma estratégia que focou mestres imigrantes de três países: Japão, China (Hong Kong) e Coréia do Sul. A justificativa para tal estratégia reside no fato de que são esses os países onde se originaram algumas das artes marciais orientais mais populares, atualmente praticadas na cidade de São Paulo. Para análise dos depoimentos, foram observados os apontamentos de Alessandro Portelli (1997), para quem os relatos orais são um documento do presente, compartilhados em sua responsabilidade tanto pelo depoente quanto pelo pesquisador . Como resultado, observou-se que a introdução das artes marciais orientais, em muito, deve-se à imigração dos povos de origem oriental, iniciada nos anos iniciais do século XX, e que parte do sucesso no trabalho de disseminação dessas práticas deve-se ao processo de modernização, na perspectiva defendida por Norbert Elias (1994), ao qual elas foram submetidas. Essa modernização expressou-se na adoção em seus países de origem e também no país receptor, no caso o Brasil, de alguns padrões de trabalho corporal de origem européia, com destaque, nesse sentido, para o esporte e para os métodos ginásticos e também para o controle da violência potencial inerente a essas práticas. Verificou-se também que o período Pós II Guerra Mundial, mais especificamente nas décadas de 1960 e 1970, representou um novo momento no processo de disseminação dessas práticas na cidade, processo que até então vinha sendo promovido pelo trabalho exclusivo dos mestres imigrantes e que, a partir desse momento, começa a se beneficiar do surgimento de um terreno fértil para essas práticas advindo do aumento de sua visibilidade na cidade, um fenômeno gerado pela difusão em massa de produtos da indústria do entretenimento relacionados às artes marciais orientais. Por fim, verificou-se o papel de um fenômeno que teve início para algumas dessas práticas ainda nos anos finais do século XIX, em seus respectivos países de origem, mas que atualmente continua em curso, a esportivização. Nesse sentido, com o auxílio dos estudos realizados por Pierre Bourdieu (1990; 1983) e Norbert Elias (1994; 1992), verificou-se que os desdobramentos desse processo têm sido os responsáveis por um embate entre as tradições dessas artes marciais orientais e os anseios daqueles que são partidários do processo de modernização, ocidentalização e esportivização para essas práticas. Tal situação tem agido no sentido de tornar possível a associação das artes marciais na cidade de São Paulo a uma diversidade de sentidos, que, de alguma forma, buscam saciar os anseios dos atores sociais envolvidos no cotidiano das artes marciais, seja no trabalho de disseminação das práticas, seja no seu consumo
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Levy, Deborah. "Mitate et citation dans l’oeuvre de Morimura Yasumasa : autoportrait d’une histoire de l’art." Thesis, Paris 8, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA080025.
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La citation et le mitate sont des procédés mimétiques proches au regard des autoportraits photographiques de Morimura Yasumasa. En citant directement les tableaux et le cinéma occidental, l’artiste reconstitue une histoire de l’art et de l’image dans le contexte japonais et du Kansai. Pourtant, bien que la citation, l’imitation et la copie caractérisent ses œuvres, l’artiste et les critiques japonais n’ont encore jamais mis en cause l’implication de l’influence du mitate. Or, sa définition, qui se traduit par une « transposition » que l’on déplace d’un cadre spatiaux-temporel à l’autre, sous une forme à la fois poétique, parodique et théâtrale, correspond à la galerie d’autoportraits morimuriens. A travers un réexamen comparatif avec l’ukiyo-e de l’époque Edo et l’histoire de l’autoportrait au Japon, la production de Morimura et de l’art japonais dit « postmoderne » sont réévalués. Le dessein d’un tel procédé rend possible une autre lecture, de reconfigurer une histoire de l’art spécifique au Japon. En effet, à travers le jeu ludique du mitate, Morimura questionne la vision de l’image, plutôt que sa signification, afin d’établir une première déchirure avec l’histoire de l’art européen et ses concepts. Dès lors, la transposition du mitate forme l’objectivation d’un moi ancré dans une dichotomie à la fois plastique, conceptuelle et genrée. L’analyse du genre au Japon et des médias occasionnent ainsi une relecture culturelle et sociale de l’autoportrait morimurien, tout en saisissant une nouvelle vision du troisième genre. L’examen du mitate et de l’histoire de l’art japonais encourage, par conséquent, une réévaluation d’un canon artistique japonais prémoderne et actuelQuotation and mitate are mimetic processes present in the photographic self-portraits of Morimura Yasumasa and in the Japanese postmodern art. Quoting Western master pieces and cinema, Morimura recreates a history of image and art in the Japanese framework and in the Kansai landscape. Although the quotation, imitation and copy are characteristics of his production, the artiste and Japanese critics had never noticed or questioned the influence of mitate. And despite Japanese contemporary arts are considered in the international Postmodernism and Simulation’s movements, this thesis shows that the reading of the mitate allows a specific and an exclusive re-examination of the Japanese art history. After comparing ukiyo-e from the Edo period and contemporary artworks, we ascertain a clear definition of mitate, as an analogical “transposition” based on outward forms to create a new poetic, theatrical and parodic image. Consequently, the demonstration of the playful mitate in the Japanese contemporary visual wakagumi attests that artists bring into play the vision of the image, rather than its signification. Finally, mitate insides the Morimura’ self-portraits lead to a plastic, conceptual and gendered dichotomy. In this case, gender and media in Japan give a new examination of his production, and makes appears the vision of a third gender likes to the wakashû. Thus, artists and contemporary mitate-e testify the exchanges, influences and impacts between Western and Japanese arts to introduce a first gap with the European art history and its conceptions
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Fabro, Dakota. "From Self-Doubt To Inner Peace: An Ethnographic Narrative." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/116.
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In the midst of honing my craft as an educator, this ethnographic narrative was done for the purposes of taking an introspective look at the many moving parts of becoming an effective educator as well as developing an ethnographic view of the students who will pass through my classroom during my tenure as an educator. This ethnographic narrative examines my individual background, the educational spaces within which I find myself, communities I serve, and the students I was given the privilege of building relationships with within the classroom. This project serves as an in-depth analysis of the implicit biases one might hold as a teacher and a vehicle for continual introspection on my part as an effective and culturally-aware educator.
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Bernardi, Jeremy. "L’armement, la figure du combattant et le combat dans les peintures funéraires pariétales et vasculaires de Campanie et de Lucanie (fin Ve – début du IIIe siècle avant J.-C.)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0173.
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Cette thèse porte sur les armes et les combattants représentés dans la peinture funéraire vasculaire et pariétale de Campanie et de Lucanie, dont la production commence dans la seconde partie du Ve siècle et s’éteint au début du IIIe siècle avant J.-C. Nous entendons montrer ici l’existence d’une idéologie élitaire particulière, dont les représentations permettent de discerner la trame et qui se situe à l’articulation des sphères religieuse (eschatologique), militaire et sociale. Cette idéologie militaire est construite autour de l’exploit militaire individuel, porté aux nues par la composition du « retour du guerrier », figurant un cavalier rapportant les dépouilles (spolia) de son ennemi vaincu, élément-clé permettant au combattant défunt d’accéder à l’immortalité. Les techniques de combat représentées dans ce contexte sont principalement celles du duel, qui constitue le mode d’affrontement le plus à même de permettre au vainqueur de se saisir des dépouilles de son adversaire. Les peintures étudiées révèlent ainsi une structure particulière de la bataille, qui relève d’un mode de guerre archaïque où les enjeux diffèrent de ceux de la guerre moderne de type clausewitzienne. L’examen des peintures permet également de confirmer les bouleversements militaires, sociaux et institutionnels connus par les textes qui ont lieu en Italie centrale et méridionale au cours du dernier tiers du IVe siècle, comme le rapprochement romano-campanien, la réforme d’Appius Claudius et les guerres samnitesThis thesis investigates the weapons and combatants depicted in the vascular and parietal funerary paintings of Campania and Lucania, whose production began in the second half of the fifth century and died out at the beginning of the third century BC. We intend to show that we can identify a particular military ideology visible through the paintings, which is situated at the confluence of the religious (eschatological), military and social spheres. The individual military exploit is celebrated through the composition called the "Return of the Warrior", depicting a horseman bringing back the spoils (spolia) of his defeated enemy, a key element allowing the deceased combatant to attain immortality. We will also see that the fighting techniques are focused on dueling. Single combat is the most likely to allow the victor to seize the spoils of his defeated opponent. The specifics of the battle as it is represented is characteristic of archaic warfare, which differs in substance from modern warfare. The paintings studied thus reveal a particular structure of the battle, characteristic of archaic warfare, which differs in substance from modern warfare. We will also be able to confirm the military, social and institutional upheavals known from ancient sources that took place in central and southern Italy during the last third of the fourth century, such as the Roman-Campanian rapprochement, the reform of Appius Claudius and the Samnite wars
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Sato, Takahiro. "Kenshi’s Experiences of Kendo: A Phenomenological Investigation." 2011. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1022.
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The aim of this study was to extend existing literature on the martial arts by examining the experience of kendo (Japanese fencing) participants. In-depth, existential phenomenological interviews were conducted with nine (eight males and one female) currently competitive kendo practitioners (i.e., kenshi), ranging in age from 19 to 40 years. All participants were of Japanese descent but resided in the United States at the time of the interviews. Thematic analysis of the transcripts revealed several prominent aspects of the lives and performance experiences of kenshi. The most important finding was the relatively equal emphasis participants placed on the mastery of kendo technique, aesthetically elegant skill execution, and victory in competition. Other aspects of kenshi’s experience included the building of strong relationships with influential sensei (i.e., instructors), the display of proper manners and etiquette, and the learning of life lessons.
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"Movement Synchronization in Capoeira." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57234.
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abstract: Previous literature on synchronization to music using finger tapping tasks in a laboratory or otherwise controlled setting has led to some invaluable, albeit dated, theories about time and synchronization. In an effort to modernize some of the approaches utilized in research on music synchronization, this study applies established theories of music entrainment to a fieldwork study. Specifically, this study focuses on the extent to which participants of Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art disguised as a dance, synchronize to external timekeepers by analyzing icti in several types of movements and comparing them to musical rhythmic beats.
Sports psychology studies have shown that the presence of music can have involuntary effects on exercise. For example, walkers and runners will spontaneously synchronize gait to auditory signals. However, runners do not normally focus on choreology, acrobatics, and environmental stimuli while exercising. This study contributes to this field of research by adding observations and analyzing degrees of synchronization in a martial art, which may be more cognitively demanding than running.
In Capoeira, participants are still expected to attend to music. The degree of synchronization that occurs in a Capoeira class can then be compared with synchronization in martial arts that have music solely as a background component. These future studies would be analyzing music entrainment in real-life environments with physical activities that are more cognitively complex than running. Moreover, these future studies can help to confirm or challenge current theories of attention and music entrainment and synchronization.Dissertation/Thesis
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Khan, David M. "Questions of cultural identity and difference in the work of Yasumasa Morimura, Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Art History in the University of Canterbury /." 2007. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/etd/adt-NZCU20071012.091748.
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Davre, Amandine. "(In)visibilité de la radioactivité dans l’art et la photographie du Japon après « Fukushima » : médiations et expositions." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25577.
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Au lendemain du séisme et du tsunami qui ont frappé le Japon le 11 mars 2011, la situation catastrophique qui s’est déroulée à la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima Daiichi a amené son lot de confusions, de peurs et d’angoisses. Face à une gestion gouvernementale du désastre hésitante et à une couverture médiatique peu appropriée à l’échelle de l’évènement
nucléaire – une catastrophe dont les effets sont invisibles et s’étendent dans le temps – la création artistique japonaise s’est mobilisée. Hantés par ces évènements traumatiques et par une radiophobie ambiante, les artistes se sont autant questionnés sur le devoir de l’art en temps d’indicible désastre que sur sa possibilité et sa figurabilité. Consacrée à la mise en visibilité de la radioactivité, cette thèse met en lumière l’émergence d’une nouvelle impulsion artistique souhaitant composer avec la catastrophe nucléaire et compléter son iconographie, que nous nommons l’ « art post-Fukushima ». Nous nous intéressons au travail photographique de trois artistes japonais, Arai Takashi, Kagaya Masamichi et Takeda Shimpei, qui utilisent des techniques photographiques analogiques – daguerréotype, autoradiographie et radiogramme – visant à documenter et à exposer la trace de l’irradiation. Le sujet est ainsi approché sous l’angle des (in)visibilités de l’évènement nucléaire, de ses médiations et de ses expositions : exposition du support photosensible à la lumière (qu’elle soit naturelle ou radioactive) et à l’évènement nucléaire, exposition au sens plus large de promotion et de diffusion au Japon et en Occident, puis exposition du spectateur à ce type de photographie. À la veille du dixième anniversaire de la triple catastrophe, cette thèse de doctorat se destine à rendre visibles les enjeux de l’art post-Fukushima et à participer, à son tour, à replacer « Fukushima » et la contamination radioactive au centre de l’attention collective et à réactualiser sa mémoire.On the 11th March 2011 an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan triggering a catastrophic chain of events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that seeded fear and confusion in the population. In the face of the government’s hesitant handling of the crisis and of inadequate media coverage regarding the scale of the disaster, Japanese artists mobilized to create their own responses relating to the ongoing and invisible effects of the calamity. In the shadow of the catastrophe, haunted by traumatic events and by an encompassing radiophobia, these artists have come to question the limits of figurability and also to ask what art is capable of and what its role can be. This thesis examines the emergence of “post-Fukushima art,” a term coined to describe a new, more politicized impulse in Japanese art, one that strives to provide an iconography adequate to the nuclear disaster and to render radiation visible. The thesis explores the photographic works of three artists in particular, Arai Takashi, Kagaya Masamichi and Takeda Shimpei. The trio employ analogue photographic techniques – daguerreotype, autoradiography and radiography – as a means to document and expose traces of irradiation. Their art is viewed through the prism of varied (in)visibilities linked to the nuclear catastrophe and addresses issues such as mediation and exposure. Exposure is understood in multiple senses, including exposure of a photosensitive support to light (such as radioluminescence), exposure to radioactive material generated by the disaster and, drawing on the French term exposé, exposure in the sense of exhibition. Exhibitions involve exposing viewers to photographs that relate to the catastrophe. On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the triple disaster, the thesis outlines the continuing stakes involved in post-Fukushima art as an effort to remember the event. It contributes to broader efforts aimed at refocussing attention on the aftermath of the disaster, including the radioactive contamination it caused.