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  • Change in some aspects of Chinese core values, 1978-1988

    Creator:
    Qi, Xiaoping
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    Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values represent the most basic aspects of social life, change in some aspects of Chinese core values indicates that China is moving rapidly from being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern industrial society. China today can...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Xiaoping Qi for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

  • Changing pastoral lifeways in the land where the horse was king : the effects of China's Grassland Contract Policy on Mongolian herders' attitudes towards grassland management and cooperation

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    Conte, Thomas J.
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    This thesis explore the effects of China's Grassland Contract policy on sedentary and mobile Inner Mongolian pastoralists' attitudes towards cooperation, current grassland management practices, and the future viability of livestock herding in New Barag Right Banner, Inner Mongolia. Semi-structured interviews, a scaled survey instrument, and participant observation were carried out...
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    government of Deng Xiaoping have had in degrading both the nomadic grazing strategy of Mongolian herders as

  • Image Based Crypto

    Creator:
    Basa, Gungor
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    The ability to create reproducible cryptographically secure keys from temporal environments (e.g., images) has the potential to be a contributor to effective cryptographic mechanisms. Due to the noisy nature of these environments, achieving this goal in a user friendly fashion is a very challenging task, especially since there exists a...
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    value feature matrix and binary feature matrix such that ~mi = 〈m1,m2, ...,mc〉 c ∈ N and ~qi = 〈q1, q2

  • Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan village of Sichuan, China

    Creator:
    Schmitt, Edwin Anton
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    This ethnographic research aims to discover the implications of the commodification of production processes amongst the Ersu Tibetans of Sichuan, China. This thesis examines the commodification of Ersu agriculture and ethnic identity in the historical context of both China and the world-system. Ethnohistorical and ethnoecological methodologies are utilized to answer...
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    . This especially goes out to Fu Zhenqing, Wu Hao, Qi Yu, Kui Li (on her way to SUNY), He Lei, Xiao

  • The changing social position of the elderly in contemporary urban China

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    Lin, Pei, 1966-
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    This thesis uses an anthropological approach to examine the current social status of the young elderly in contemporary urban China and explores the problems these people are facing. A review of literature sets up complementary theoretical frameworks for the understanding of the interaction between changing social environment and transitional life...
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    often referred to as Westernization. (Qi, 1989:21) However, this is not completely true. Modernization