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Description:: This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Mulekwa, Charles (creator); Emigh, John (Director); Ybarra, Patricia (Reader); George, Olakunle (Reader); Bogues, Barrymore (Reader); Brown University. Theatre Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Theatre; National Theatre; Stage; State; Song; War; Northern Uganda; Luo; Buganda; Southern Uganda; Colonial Era; Colonialism; Shakespearean; Syncretism; Fate; Uhuru/Independence; Postcolonial; Ruler; Agency; Image; Home; Epistemic; Coup; Crisis; Rebellion; Resistance; Fire; Displacement; Repression; Mirth; Citizen; AK-47; Night Commuters; Point of View; Winds of Change; European; Western World; African; Diaspora; Politics; Culture.; Performance; Drama; Playwriting; Play; Theater; Legacy; World politics; Postcolonialism; Ritual; Time; Bananas; Exile; Violence; Peace; Hope; Children; Revolutions; Hegemony; Jails; Murder; Political persecution; Silence; Child soldiers; AK-47 rifle; Globalization; History; Political science; Culture; Uganda; Uganda--Buganda; Western countries
Collection:: Theatre Arts and Performance Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation traces how written examination became a hegemonic institution to distribute social resources after the 1905 abolition of the imperial examination system (keju), which …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Chu, Shiu On (creator); Nedostup, Rebecca (Advisor); Brokaw, Cynthia (Reader); Steffes, Tracy (Reader); Brown University. Department of History (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Modern China; Examination; State
Collection:: History; Theses and Dissertations

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