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Graduation Year

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Ahuja, Bideesha

May 2003

Sucheta Mazumdar

Role of Human Capital in Development - A Chinese Perspective

Bae, Bumjoon

May 2000

Margaret McKean

Movement in the Periphery: Japanese Emigration to Brazil 1924-1934

Boniface, Elizabeth

December 2004

Steve Levine

Extant Culture: A Culture Equation that Explores Decisions to Enter the Korean War

Bowles, Lynnsie

December 2005

Anne Allison

Sex, Desire, and Men with Other Men: A Study of American Yaoi Fans

Chandler , Zachary Earle

December 2002

Anne Allison

Challenges to Japanese Pacifism in Postwar Popular Culture

Chen, Chienyuan

May 2007

Kristina Troost

The Colonial Fantasy: Morinaga Taiichiro's Voyage to Taiwan

Chi, Ellen Juin

May 2002

TJ Shi

Township Electoral Procedure Promoting Direct Elections in China

Chiu, I-Wen

May 2008

Leo Ching

Fashioning Taiwan: Japanese Magazines and Intra-Asian Cultural Flows

Choi, Seong-il

May 2005

Sucheta Mazumdar

Civil-Military Relations in South Korea and its Perspective in Light of Experiences of U.S. Civil-Military Relations

Collgreen, Stephanie

September 2001

Peter Nickerson

The Transformation of the Candidates for Immortality in the 13 Yuan Dynasty Daoist "enlightenment" musical comedies

Edwards, Steven

May 2006

Sucheta Mazumdar

A Historical Analysis of Arbitration and Contract Law in the People's Republic of China and its Implications on Foreign Business in the Future

Feistel, Amy Lanette

December 2001

Nan Lin

Nation-States, Global Cities: The Question of Identity Formation

Goffman, Samuel

December 2006

Guo-Juin Hong

From Third World Marxism to Cultural Revolution: 1960s Chinese Opposition to Imperialism in Transnational Perspective

Groves, Aubrey

May 2009

Ralph Litzinger

Disenfranchising and Rebuilding Chinese Women in Japanese Trainee Programs: a case study of State Ambivalence, Exceptions, Community Relationships, and Motivations in the Bonito Flake Factories of Yamagawa, Japan

Hick, Daniel

May 2005

Margaret McKean

An Evaluation of Recent Reforms of Japan's Legal Education and Lawyer Qualification Process

Hirayama, Nagatomi

May 2005

Sucheta Mazumdar

The Third Parties: The Democratic League and Chinese Party Politics 1920s - 1950s

 

Huggins, Heather

May 2004

Zeng Yi

Labor Unrest in China and State-Society Relations

Jung, Yoojin

December 2006

Bai Gao

A Comparative Study of Developmental Strategies: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Economic Development in Korea and China

Kataoka, Rie

May 2004

TJ Shi

Township and Village Enterprises and Rural Development in China

Kempf, Kathryn

December 2005

Leo Ching

Economic and Social Impacts in the Fast Lane: A Survey of the Global Automobile Industry

Langer-Osuna, Rafael

May 2009

Peter Nickerson

Exporting Daoism: A Bibliography of Daoist Studies in English and the Economic, Legal, Cultural and Relgious Factors Shaping the Export of Daoism

Lauder, Kristen

May 2006

Ralph Litzinger

Building Relationships: Identity Construction within China's Education System

Martineau, Thomas

May 2004

Naomi Quinn

Educating and Raising Children: What the Discourse on this Topic of Mixed, Chinese, and Chinese-Americans Tells Us about American and Chinese Perspectives of a Child's Nature

Mortensen, Dasa

May 2008

Ralph Litzinger

Ethnic Tourism and the Transformation of Ethnic and Urban/Rural Identity: A Case Study of Xianggelila County, Yunnan Province, P.R. China

Munger, Amy

May 2008

Leo Ching

Engaging Technology: East Asian Pedagogy in the Digital Age

Nikkel, Trixanna

May 2007

Leo Ching

One Nation, Two Nationalisms: The Struggle for China's Future

Oh, Sangaun

May 2004

Zeng Yi

Comparative Analysis of Son Preference in China and South Korea

Powers, Robert

May 2009

Ralph Litzinger

Stripping the State's Nation: Grassroots Nationalism enacted on the Human Flesh Search Engine

Ranieri, Michael

December 2003

Margaret McKean

Japanese Banking Reform

Raynor, Andrew

May 2007

Guo-Juin Hong

Viewing China's Past, Present and Future Through the Maoist Looking Glass: The Politics and Productivity of Remembrance

Richardson, Tiffany

May 2007

Meg McKean

A Path Diverged - The Dissimilarity of the German and Japanese Reconciliation Experience

Rzeszotarski, David

May 2009

Gennifer Weisenfeld

Art and Ideology in Asia-Pacific War Era Japan: Sensoga from Yasukuni no Emaki

Schroeder, Jeffrey

May 2009

Richard Jaffe

Kiyozawa Manshi: A Buddhist View of Material Progress

Snow, Corey

May 2004

Margaret McKean

Japan and E-Commerce: An Investigation into the Apparent Late Arrival of the Internet in Japan

Sommers, Justin

May 2007

TJ Shi

The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Using International Relations Theory to Analyze China's Approach

Song, Yoonjin

December 2001

Sucheta Mazumdar

Internationalization of the Issue of Japanese Sexual Slavery: A Case Study of the Republic of Korea

Szablesicz, Marcella

December 2004

Ralph Litzinger

A Space to be Your (Virtual) Self: An Introduction to the World of Internet Gaming in the Urban Chinese Wangba

Wat, Janice

May 2003

Nan Lin

Hong Kong Migration Trends: Causes and Consequences

Williford, Laura

May 2007

Jan Bardsley

Sex Slavery & Sex Tourism: Exploitation of Asian Women by Japanese Men

Wu, Jui-Hua

September 2002

Karen Wigen

The "Modern Girl" in Taisho Journalism and Fiction (focusing on Tanizaki's Naomi)

Yang, Dennis

May 2005

Steve Levine

U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Cross-Strait Relations: An Examination of the Bush Administration 2000-2004

 

Yoo, Sue

May 2004

Sucheta Mazumdar

Korean-American Youths of North Carolina : Discovering Identity

 

 
       
 

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