The focus of this thesis is on the categorization of handwritten Chinese characters. The main question is, ‘How can handwritten Chinese characters be categorized in order to make unknown characters...Show moreThe focus of this thesis is on the categorization of handwritten Chinese characters. The main question is, ‘How can handwritten Chinese characters be categorized in order to make unknown characters findable?’. Handwritten Chinese characters differ from regular or printed Chinese characters. Learning to read handwritten Chinese is not part of any university curriculum and it is usually not taught in language schools. There are only a few sources that can be used to find the corresponding regular form of an unknown handwritten character. Four sources are reviewed in order to explore and judge various methods. This research is based on the methods used in A Manual of Chinese Running-Hand Writing: Especially as it is Used in Japan written by Groeneveldt and De Saint Aulaire (1861), Dictionnaire des formes cursives des caractères chinois (1909) by Stanislas Millot, Sōsho Daijiten (1936) by Sukeyuki Endō and Chinese cursive script: An introduction to handwriting in Chinese (1958) by Fang-yü Wang. The product of this research will be a set of guidelines of what a user-friendly dictionary would look like.Show less
This MA thesis, “Inside the Heart of the Taiwanese High School: the Representation of the Classroom and its Students in Four Taiwanese High School Films”, examines how in Blue Gate Crossing, Winds...Show moreThis MA thesis, “Inside the Heart of the Taiwanese High School: the Representation of the Classroom and its Students in Four Taiwanese High School Films”, examines how in Blue Gate Crossing, Winds of September, You Are the Apple of My Eye, and Our Times, the classroom and its students are portrayed. I argue that the classroom is not solely used for teaching classes. Instead, the portrayal of the classroom and its students are more focused on the social aspects of the room. Dividing the social functions of the classroom in five themes, which are: the classroom as a social meeting point, the classroom as a place of loneliness, the classroom as a place of rest, the classroom as a place of friction, and rebellion against the authorities, the classroom becomes the center of the student's life during their six-year long stay.Show less
This thesis tests a hypothesis of Joost Cote. Joost Cote wrote about Indisch Dutch that moved to Australia. Among these migrants were binnen- and buitenkampers. Cote argues that the incarceration...Show moreThis thesis tests a hypothesis of Joost Cote. Joost Cote wrote about Indisch Dutch that moved to Australia. Among these migrants were binnen- and buitenkampers. Cote argues that the incarceration experience consolidated the sense of ‘European-ness’ amongst the Dutch and the Eurasian internees. According to Cote, this difference in war experience shows a fracture within the Indisch community: the Indisch Dutch versus ‘the Hollanders’. This thesis investigates to what extend this fracture was actually present and to what extent this fracture originated in the wartime experience.Show less
