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2011
“The Underside of Language: Izumi Kyōka and a New Hermeneutic for Modern Japanese Literature”
-Peter John Bernard
“Elite Conceptions of Religion in China: The New Generational Divide” (Joint Social Studies/EAS)
-Christopher James Carothers
“American Companies’ Perceptions and Peferences for Trademark Law Enfocement in the P.R.C.” (Joint Government/EAS)
-Nara Lee
“The World Heats Up: Japan and the Kyoto Protocol”
-Kevin Martinez
“’Period of Integrated Study’: A Small But Significant Japanese Public Education Reform”
-James Noyes
“The Human Rights Issue in Chinese Orphanages”
-Rachel Rauh
“Xiahe’s Ethnic Tourism: Contested Identities in a Powered Space” (Joint Social Studies/EAS)
-Robert Benjamin Schaaf
“The First Confucian Missionary in Europe: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and Chinese Philosophy in Europe”
-Martin Michael Wallner
2010
“Visions of an Ideal Society: The Role of Neo-Confucianism, Local Leadership, and Community Compacts in Chosǒn Korea”
-Joa Alexander
“Sino-Muslim Education and Changes in Chinese Muslim Identity in Republican China, the Zhonghua Minguo (1911-1949)” (Joint NELC/EAS)
-Tristan Brown
“Love in the Analects and in the Commentaries of the Analects”
-Cynthia Cheung
“Social Means to a Rational End: Emulation and China in the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Mechanism”
-Rachel Esplin Odell
“Re-creating the Periphery: The Role of Ethnic Minorities in History Textbooks in the People’s Republic of China, 1945-1956” (Joint History/EAS)
-Siodhbhra Margaret Parkin
“Privileging the Nikkeijin: The Influence of Nihonjinron Discourse on Japanese Immigration Policy”
-Sadie Ariel Stoddard
“Testing for Quality: What China’s National College Entrance Examinations Reveal About the Education for Quality Movement and Wider Social Discourses in the Reform Era and Beyond”
-Hannah C. Waight
“Building the Homeland: Case Study on Chinese Language Schools in the U.S.”
-Betty Zhang
2009
"Does China Favor Autocracies in Trade? The Effect of Regime Similarity on Dyadic Trade Relationships."
-Andrea Blankmeyer
"The Formation of Korean Civil Society Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1910-1945." (Joint EAS/History)
-Emily Bruemmer
"Reading Last Friends: Representations of Transgenderism in Contemporary Japanese Television Drama."
-Debbie Chiang
"Warming Up to Climate Change: The Role of International Donors in Viet Nam's New Environmental Agenda." (Joint Government/EAS)
-Quinn Dang
"Shell Games: Chinese Banking Sector Reform Through the Lens of Non-Performing Loan Resolution."
-Carey Hynes
"Professional Dancing in China: Shaping Body and Mind at Shanghai Theatre Academy."
-Marc Janke
"Philosophical Battles and Bridges: Syncretism in the Huainanzi."
-Anne Lewandowski
"Bargaining with the State: The Influence of INGOs in China's Environmental Movement." (Joint EAS/Government)
-Linda Y. Li
"Commemorating Cities: The Divergent Legacies of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Postwar Japan 1945 to the 1990s." (Joint EAS/History)
-Shi Lin Loh
"Inferring International Organizational Objectives: A Fresh Look at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization." (Joint Government/EAS)
-Nicholas Manske
"Contemporary Methods of Cultural Imperialism and its Corresponding Influence on Conspicuous Peripheral Consumption: An Inquiry into the Chinese Fashion System."
-Timothy Parent
"'Pity the Poor Girls': The Construction and Destruction of Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Chinese Filmmaking."
-Geraldine Kim Prasuhn
"Fujino Chiya's The Promise of Summer."
-Rachel Staum
"Copy Cats and Mass Naked Child Events: An Analysis of the Illegal Fan Activities in Anime and Manga."
-Alice Thieu
"Writing Mao: Memoirs of the Cultural Revolution and Remembrance of the Great Helmsman." (Joint EAS/History)
-Julie Vodhanel
"Governing a Big State is Like Cooking a Small Fish: Cooks in Early Chinese Literature."
-Jenny Dove Wanger
"Nationalism and Protest: The Seed for Civil Society in China."
-Nancy Yang
2008
"Open Secret (gongkai mimi): Capitalist Socialization in Communist China." (Joint EAS/Anthro)
-Jordan Baehr
"China's Nostalgic Youth: An Anthropological Study of the Effects of Postmodern Identity-Formation on Shanghai Television Consumption." (Joint Anthro/EAS)
-Nicole Buckley
"Trading Bases: An Analysis of Civilian Protest Against the Military Presence in Okinawa from 1995 to 2004."
-Philip K. Hafferty
"Information and Political Power: The Impact of Foreign Communications Technology in the Decline of the Late Qing and in the Modern People's Republic of China." (Joint EAS/History)
-Colin Kelly
"Nationalism for Sale: The Commodification of History and Collective Memory in China's Red Tourism."
-Mollie Margaret Kirk
"In Search of an Alternative: Negotiating Legitimacy in Reform Era China." (Joint EAS/Government)
-Jordan Lee
"The Search for China's Missing Women: Old Age Security and the Mitigating Effects of Rural Pension Programs." (Joint EAS/Economics)
-Steven Leung
"Empowered Equities: Shareholder Activism and Convergence in Japanese Corporate Governance."
-Wright Hunter McDonald
"Stable and Sustainable? Exploring the Distortions behind the Sustained Growth of Shanghai's Real Estate Industry." (Joint EAS/Economics)
-Nancy Xu
2007
"Pihuang, Violins, and Infallible Heroes: Internal Contradictions in the Model Operas."
-Laurence Coderre
"The Search for Utopia and Self-Definition in Japanese Society: the Identity Crisis in Haruki Murakami' s A Wild Sheep Chase and the anime Naruto."
-Tiffany Lee
"Accelerating Development: Can Labor Market Dynamics in El Salvador be Improved through Selectively Adopting the Japanese Lifetime Employment Model?"
-José Francisco Martínez
"Constructing Identity: A Study of International Adoptees and their Place in Korean Society." (N/A)
-Stephanie Lee
"Provincial Government and Regional Identity in China: The Case of the Chongqing."
-Cody Swyer
"Seizing the Future and Shunning the Dead: Funeral Reform in Rural Wenzhou." - Hoopes Prize Winner
-Abraham Moses Zamcheck
2006
"20/20 Hindsight: A look at the US response to the South Korean Nuclear Program" (N/A)
-Haewan Bae
"Real Estate and Stratification in Contemporary Urban China."
-Michael Bordonaro
"Guanbi Minfan: Taishicun and Organized Resistance in the Chinese Countryside."
-Christopher Badi Houghland
"History, Ethnicity, and Place in a small town in western China."
-Zhenzhen Lu
"Separate Bridges: Cultural Memory and Personal Trauma in the Works of Liang Xiaosheng and Yang Jiang."
-Charles Edward Maule
"FDI and Economic Diplomacy: The Prioritization of Economic Interests in Relations with China."
-Sean Tao Tom
"Short Term Loan (Poetry)."
-Yalun Tu
"Kami Overseas: Shinto in Hawaii, 1898-2005."
-Julia Elizabeth Twarog
"Hong Kong Disease: Entrenched Family Capital Control and its Effect on Corporate Growth."
-David Wilson
2005
"Redefining the Beneficiary of Mao's Cultural Revolution: The Rise and Fall of Ji Dengkui."
-Jessica Ji
"Everything You Wanted to Know about Baomu: Maids and Modern Migration in Shanghai."
-Jennie Johnson
"State of South Korean Sovereignty during the Korean War Armistice Negotiation (1951-1953)."
-HeeJin Lee
"Examining Recent Changes in North Korean Education, 1980-2003: An Analysis of World History and English Textbooks."
-Ho Min Lee
"The Revolutionary Hero and the External World: Cultural and Cross-Cultural Crises in Andre Marlaux and Ba Jin." (N/A)
-Jia Jia Liu
"Blood and Sand: The Frontier Poetry of Cen Shen."
-Thomas P. Lowe
"Not Exactly Shosetsu: Haruki Murakami's Dead Heat on a Merry-go-round."
-Daniel Robert Morales
"Minzu Opportunity: Ethnic Identity and the Shape of Development in Yuan Nan Province, P.R.C."
-Samuel Benjamin Smolley
"Harnessing the Lancang-Mekong River: Chinese Dam Development and the Downstream Social Consequences."
-Nalina Sombuntham
"Innateness and Spontaneity in Xunzi."
-Stephen Clifford Walker
2004
"Media Space: The Constructed Experience of International Pop Music in Contemporary China." (N/A)
-Bill Adams
"Corporate Philanthropy and Social Capital in China: A Case Study of Guanxi and SARS." (N/A)
-Helen Chou
"The Poet as Outsider: Self Representation and Transmission in Du Fu's Poetry."
-Rebecca Doran
"The Arduous Struggle for Liberation: Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Chinese Women's Literature of the 1980's."
-Julie Elizabeth Hackenbracht
"From a Social Economist's Perspective: Happiness in East Asia." (N/A)
-Amy Hunh
"Japan's Convoy System: Demise or Resurrection."
-Joyce Kwok
"Qigong, Heterodoxy and Human Rights: Examining Different Perceptions of Falun Gong and its Political Controversy in Contemporary China." (N/A)
-Kent Lam
"Securing Stability: Migrant Workers and the Fragmentation of the Labor Interest in Contemporary China."
-Emma Nothmann
"Owning a Share of Press Freedom: How and Why Political Restrictions and Media Conglomerates are Threatening Freedom of the Press in Hong Kong." (N/A)
-Amit Paley
"Society and Sacred Will: The Construction of Agency in American and Japanese Religion and Social Structure."
-Joshua David Savage
"The Secret Whispering of Walls: Village Spatial Formation in Southeastern China."
-Nick Smith
"Notes from the Khabarovsk Market: An Ethnographic Study of the Chinese Trading Minority in the Russian Far East."
-Joshua Stenberg
"Sacred Space and Marketplace: Constructing Tibetan Identity in Nepal."
-Claudine Stutchell
"Rainy Day Driving Fees and Washing Machine Wars: Market Segmentation for Industrial Goods in Post-Mao China." (N/A)
-Odette Yousef
2004
"Economic Assimilation of Rural Migrants in Shanghai." (N/A)
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2003
"Unwilling to Commit: Factors Contributing to Peace in the Taiwan Strait."
-Marcus Aden
"Out of the Ashes: Examining Japanese Children's Literature on the Atomic Bombings."
-Stephen Brumbaugh
"Master Yinshun and Pure Land Buddhism."
-Daniel Eng
"Facilitating Democratization in China: The Role of U.S. NGOs in Developing Village Elections."
-Grace Fu
"Ordinary Heroism: Individual Identity in the Films of Ann Hui."
-Tug Goddard
"The Role of Language in China's Minority Education: A Study of the Xishuangbanna Dai and the Yanbian Koreans."
-Loren Heinold
"Measuring the Returns to Education: An Empirical Study of the Cultural Revolution."
-Jenny Huang
"Conversions in China: Religious and Cultural Adjustment in the Jesuit and Mormon Missionary Institutions."
-Melissa Inouye
"Holy Whores: Women and Sexuality in Chinese Buddhist Literature."
-Helen Istvan
"Depictions of Children in PRC Propaganda Posters."
-Kate McFarlin
"Marking Boundaries: Ordered Space and Environmental Image in Tibetan Culture."
-Christopher Parlato
"The 1979 Foreign Joint Venture Law and the Future of China." (N/A)
-Matthew Pereira
"Out of Many, One: Teresa Teng's Performance of 'Heri jun zailai?' and its Expression of Hybrid Identity in 1970s Taiwan." (N/A)
-Meredith Schweig
"The Political Economy of the Ming Dynasty -- An Assessment of Two Interest Groups and Their Roles in Economic Policymaking."
-Eva Shi
"Pitch-accent at the Utterance-level in Tokyo and Kansai Japanese." (N/A)
-Benjamin Tobacman
2003
"On Relative Politeness in Japanese: An Analysis of the Use of Honorifics by Natives of the Kansai Region."
-Nicholas Topjian
"Looking Back: The Role of Nostalgia in Lou Ye's Suzhou He." (N/A)
-Julie Wecsler
2002
"Chen Yi and the Revival of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, 1961-1963."
-Kristen A. Hiestand
"My Two Encounters with the Korea of the Japanese Occupation Era: From Sentimentalism to Scholarly Inquiry."
-Jihwan Kim
"Institutional Answers to Cultural Questions: The Wuzhou Dispensary and Business History."
-Christopher R. Leighton
"Behind the Curtain: Classical Japanese Dance and the Iemoto Seido."
-Kathy Lu
"'Almost Human': The Ethics and Erotics of the African-American Other in Japanese Discourse."
-Naila Bayo Mariko McKenzie
"Soviet-Japanese Conflict at the Khalkhin-Gol River (Nomonhan Incident), May-September 1939."
-Timur A. Mukminov
"Going Home: Two Japanese Writers and Their Search for Identity."
-Erik Bertil Sandegard
"The Poet's Place: The Search for Identity in the Works of Xi Chuan and Yu Jian."
-Jillian Shulman
"Disciplining Japanese Children."
-Carli Spina
2001
"Creating the Corporate Family: Orientation Practices in Japanese Firms."
-Sven Alexis Carlsson
"Western Masks, Eastern Souls: The Dynamic Environment Confronting the Korean Women's Movement in the 1920s."
-Young Man Cho
"Offence-Defense Face-Off: A Theoretical Framework for Explaining and Projecting China's Strategic Responses to U.S. National Missile Defense."
-Jeremy Gaw
"A Tale of Two Universities: How Chinese University Students View American Foreign Policy."
-Alexis M. Grove
"The Golden Tiger of Kai: The Managerial and Economic Politics of a 16th Century Japanese Warlord."
-Jeffrey Yoshio Kurashige
"Chinese Americans on the Internet: Local Identity on a Global Network."
-Dawn Lee
"Palimpsests of Private Life: Memories and Artifacts From Shanghai Homes."
-Jie Li
"'Descendants of the Dragon': Chinese Americans at a Musical Crossroads."
-Peggy Lim
"From Self-Assured Crusaders to Circumspect Volunteers: The Politics of Protestant Medical Missions to China in the Republican and Post-Mao Eras."
-Jason Richard Mann
"Going Ape: 'A Bathing Ape' Street-Wear and the Culture of Fashion for Japanese Youth in the 1990s."
-W. David Marx
"Ownership and Performance in Chinese Enterprises: Not a Case of Simple Reform."
-Alexi Solit
2000
"The Japanese Corporate Governance System and the Impact of Financial Deregulation: An Empirical Study of the Period of 1981-1994."
-Ryan Patrick Bayley
"Storming the Japanese Citadel: Nasdaq Japan and the Birth of Stock Exchange Competition."
-Jordan Eric Cohen
"Regaining a Place in the Sun: The Transformation of Chocolate in China."
-Esther L. Healer
"Voices of Consciousness and Power: An Analysis of Xi Peilan and Nushu Literature."
-Hui Kuok
"The Rhythmic Journey: Early Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien: An Analysis of Summer at Grandpa's and Boys from Fengkuei."
-Sung Hee Moon
"Teaching Society in the Classroom: A Study of Early-Childhood Education in China and Japan."
-Dasa Pejchar
"Corruption and Economic Growth in the People's Republic of China: An Empirical Study Using Anti-Corruption Purges as a Proxy for Lowered Corruption."
-Tien-chen Timothy Wang
"Bureaucracy and Economic Reform: The Changing Face of Corruption in Mainland China."
-Ana R. Yang
1995
"A Critical Reading of the Works of Hori Tatsuo."
-Sean Jeffrey Hennessey
1992
"Brotherhood of the Four Seas: An Historical Analysis of New York City's Chiense Criminal Organization."
-Clarence Eric Mah
1991
"From Peaceful Coexistence to People's War: The Shift from Moderation to Radicalism in China's Third World Policy 1955-1965."
-Wai-yin Leung
1990
"Distorted Blossoms and Lucid Weeds: Reflections of Chinese and Others in Jinhua yua."
-Rania Huntington
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