Graduate Students
Dissertations
2009
Yoon Sun Yang, “Nation in the Backyard: Yi Injik and the Rise of Korean New Fiction (1906-1913)”
Hyun-Jeong Lee, “Nations and the Peasants of Manchuria: Chinese and Korean Journalistic and Literary Discourses on the Wanbaoshan Incident (1931)”
2007
Paul Fischer, " The Formation of the Shi Zi"
Hongbing Zhang, “Global Passions: Travel, Space, and Cultural Transformations in Modern China, 1840s-1910s”
Garrett Olberding, "Towards Imperial Conviction: The Use of Evidence in the Military Memorials of the Early Han"
Samual Perry, " Asthetics for Justice: Prolitarian Literature in Japan and Colonial Korea"
2006
Krista Van Fleit, "People’s Literature and the Construction of New China, 1949-1966.”
2005
Weihong Bao, "Baptism By Fire: Spectatorship and Aesthetic Affect in Chinese Cinema from Shanghai to Chongqing."
Chisato Hotta, "The Construction of the Korean Community in Osaka Between 1920 and 1945: A Cross-Cultural Perspective."
Miho Matsugu, "The War in Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country: Aesthetics of Empire, Politics of Literature, Struggle of Women."
David M. Sena, "Reproducing Society: Lineage and Kinship in Western Zhou China."
2004
Jason McGrath, "Culture and the Market in Contemporary China: Cinema, Literature, and Criticism of the 1990s."
Paize Keulemans, "Sounds of the Novel: Storytelling, Print-culture, and Martial-Arts Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Beijing."
2003
Dean Brink, "Intertexts for a National Poetry: The Ideological Origins of Shintaishi."
2002
Alisa Freedman, "Tracking Japanese Modernity: Commuter Trains, Streetcars, and Passengers in Tokyo Literature, 1905-1935."
Yasuko Sato, "Neither Past Nor Present: The Pursuit of Classical Antiquity in Early Modern and Modern Japan."
Jun Yoo, “Sun Rising Over the Sea: The Emergence of Korean Women Under Dual Colonialism”
Theodore Yoo, "The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Work, and Health (1910-1945)."
2001
John Crespi, “A Vocal Minority: New Poetry and Poetry Declamation in China, 1915-1975”
Helen H. Koh, “Imagining Childhood: Korean Short Fiction of the 1970s”
William Marotti, “Politics and Culture in Postwar Japan: Akasegawa Genpei and the Artistic Avant-Garde, 1968-1970”
Amanda Seaman, “Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in Contemporary Japan”
Noboru Tomonari, “Autobiographies in Modern Japan: Self, Memory, and Social Change”
2000
Magnus Fiskesjo, “The Fate of Sacrifices and the Making of Wa History”
Sarah Frederick, “Housewives, Modern Girls, Feminists: Women's Magazines and Japanese Modernity”
Feng Li, “The Decline and Fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty: An Historical, Archaeological, and Geographical Study of China From the 10th to the 8th Centuries B.C.”
William Schaefer, “Relics of Iconoclasm: Literary and Visual Modernism, Shi Zhecun, and Shanghai's Margins”
Michelle Stephenson, “The Occupied Screen: Star, Fan, and Nation in Shanghai Cinema, 1937-1945”
