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  The Serenity of West Point 寂静的西点军校 

  Huang, Weijia (The China Press, 2017-06-16)
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  Formulating a thesis; or: chaos and cosmos 

  Schwartz, Peter J. (Boston University, 2016)
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  Recasting the Chinese novel: Ernest Major's Shenbao publishing house (1872– 1890) 

  Yeh, Catherine V. (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2015)

  Recent studies have convincingly mapped the literary beginnings of the modern Chinese novel since the 1890s. However, the pivotal role of the Shenbaoguan publishing house and its British owner and manager Ernest Major ...
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  Development and practice: intermediate-advanced reading materials to improve reading skills and to enhance the understanding of Japan advancing cross-cultural literacy 

  Ishikawa, Satoru
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  "Kyo ni tsukeru yuube" no digitaru chizu: Soseki to jinbungaku no dijitaru jidai. (A digital map of arriving at Kyoto one evening: Soseki and the era of the digital humanities) 

  Frederick, Sarah (Kyoto Soseki no Kai, 2017-10-28)
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  Teaching Chinese Characters with Etymology 

  Chang, Hsiao-chih (NECLTA website, 2017-10-28)

  Etymological knowledge is a powerful tool for learning Chinese characters because it will allow students to better understand how a character is created, thus will make learning more interesting and efficient.
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  Keynote: The pleasures of haiku: From Basho to Shiki and beyond 

  Beichman, Janine (Boston University, 2017-10-12)

  Haiku is a "globe-trotting" form now, as the website for this symposium says, but a little more than a century ago it was moribund and about to die out. Masaoka Shiki and his group of dedicated fellow poets revived it, as ...
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  Better than sex? Shiki's Food Haiku 

  Vincent, J. Keith (Boston University, 2017-10-12)

  Bedridden for seven long years with tuberculosis of the spine, Shiki never lost the ability to enjoy a good meal. He ate huge quantities of food even after the disease had ravaged his digestive tract to such an extent that ...
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  Japanese haiku and the formation of Chinese short poetry 

  Yeh, Catherine (Boston University, 2017-10-12)

  The birth of the Chinese short poetry (xiaoshi 小詩) in 1921, is attributed to the efforts by Zhou Zuoren 周作人 to introduce haiku. Zhou had studied in Japan between 1906-1911 together with his brother Lu Xun 魯迅. Both became ...
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  Does good haiku have a gender? Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826) and the Mino School 

  Crowley, Cheryl (Boston University, 2017-10-12)

  In contemporary Japan, membership in haiku groups is overwhelmingly female. However, in the early part of the Edo period (1603-1868), only 2-5% of poets writing haikai (the premodern name for haiku) ...

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