Undergraduate Program
Honors
Any student who has maintained an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher is eligible to be considered for honors. Students who wish to receive honors must submit a bachelor's thesis. This paper is read by two members of the department and, if judged to be of superior quality, the student is recommended for graduation with honors. With the consent of the departmental adviser, honors students are required to enroll in at least two quarters of the Senior Thesis Tutorial ( EALC 29500 , 29600 , 29700 ).
2009
Michael Carbone
“Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Life: Hu Shih and John Dewey in China”
Camilia Dodik
“Eros and Resistance: Politicized Portrayals of Sexual Deviance in Two Post-War Japanese Works”
Kate Lipkowitz
“The Case of the Two Katherin Masfields: Ling Shuhua and Katherine Mansfield in China”
Dana Lutenegger
“China’s Galileo: The Criticism of Ma Yinchu and Factionalism in Chinese Politics”
Jillian Marshall
“In Search of Place: Colonial Korean and Taiwanese Identity Formation during Kominka’s National Language Movement and Military Volunteer Programs, 1937-1945”
Charlotte Sœsanto
"It's a Butoh-ful Life"
2008
Lauren Kocher
“Japanese Feminisms and the ‘Gender-Free’ Controversy”
David Pisano
“People and Emperor: Reform in the Japanese Imperial Household”
John Thompson
“Tears that Flutter and Fade: Emo, Authenticity, and the Market in Beijing”
2007
Mike Yong
“Beyond Fragmentation: Yokmitsu Riichi’s ‘The Machine’”
2006
Michael Monteleone
“Knocking from Within: Contemporary Social Unrest and its Consequences for a Stable China”
Marianne Tarcov
“Beautiful Shadows of Ugly Things: Translations of Kuroda Saburo”
2005
Adam Bronson
“Japanese Folklore Studies and History: Pre-War and Post-War Inflections”
Dan Cadwell
“Land of the Kami, Ruler of Realm”
Mehan Jayasuriya
“Overcoming Postmodernity: Commodity, Femininity and Subjectivity in the Literature of Haruki Murakami”
Juliane Jones
“Musical Chinoiserie: Turandot and the Assertion of Ambiguity”
Matt Jong
“The Philosophy of Psychology in Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s Naomi”
Pui Hoon Ong
“To Leave or Not to Leave, That’s Not the Question: An Examination of Ba Jin’s ‘Families’”
Julie Parks
“American Prostitutes in Colonial Shanghai: The American Girl Image and its Power”
