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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