Dissertations and Theses Titles

Titles of Ph.D. Dissertations in Asian Literature, Religion & Culture

2023-2024 
Hua, LiyuSavouring the Flavour of the Commentarial Ocean: Consistency and Diversity in the Early Buddhist Commentarial Tradition
Shirley, BrunoA Study of Buddhism, Gender, and Politics in Early Second Millennium Sri Lanka 
Siriwan, SirithornBetween Lives: Livingness and Remnants of Rice Ontology in Northern Thailand
Yoon, NariWorlding Korea: (Post)Colonial Aesthetics of the Park Chung Hee Era
2022-2023 
Dharmasinghe, GeethikaThird Wave Politics: Violence and Buddhists in Sri Lanka
 
Sireerat, TinakritLooking North: Hokkaido's Farms, Lanna's Forests, and the Colonial Natures of Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Japan and Siam
2021-2022 
Akepiyapornchai, ManasichaVoices of Self-surrender: Religious Multilingualism in Medieval South India
Awasthi, TarineeThe Possibilities and Impossibility of History: Writing Srividya in the Late Second Millennium
2020-2021 
Harding, AndrewThe Figure of Zainichi: Resident Korean Fiction and Post-Imperial Subjectivity in Japan
McQuade, PaulDepartures: The Work of Tawada Yoko
Park, JahyonWebtoons and Masculinity: Melodrama and Sympathetic Imagination in Contemporary South Korean Digital Media
Tran, Hoai KhaiPoetry and Prophecy of Reclusion: The Life and Writings of Vietnamese Scholar Nguyen Van Dat (A.K.A. Nguyen Binh Khiem), 1491-1586
2019-2020 
Nag Chowdhuri, YagnaAssembling the Figure: Gurus, Seekers and the Pedagogy of Self-Transformation
Thomas, DexterNigger and Japs: Right-wing hip-hop and the black model minority in Japan
2018-2019 
Buyco, RyanIslands of Entanglement: Reading a Transpacific Okinawa in the Philippines and Hawai'i
Kunigami, A. KeijiOf Clouds and Bodies: Film and the Dislocation of Vision in Brazilian and Japanese Interwar Avant-gardes
Lee, I-ZhuenMedicating the Gods: Kokugaku, Nature, and the Body in Mid-Eighteenth Century Japan
Mendoza, AndreaAkarui Uncanny: Race, Sex Work, and Knowledge Under Occupation; Transpacific Nonencounters: Race, Literature, and Thought at the Ends of Area
2017-2018 
Chen, XiangjingThe Untamed Outside: Imagination and Practice of Agrarian Commune in People's Republic of China
Golovkova, AnnaA Goddess for the Second Millennium: Trangression and Transformation in the Hindu Tantric Worship of Tripurasundari
Grillo, TyranCats, Dogs, and Cyborgs: Transcending the Human-Animal Divide in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Kinjo, MasakiInternal Revolution: The Postwar Okinawan Literature of Kiyota Masanobu and Medoruma Shun
Polmuk, ChairatAtmospheric Archives: Post-Cold War Affect and the Buddhist Temporal Imagination in Southeast Asian Literature and Visual Culture
2016-2017 
Mendoza, AndreaAkarui Uncanny: Race, Sex Work, and Knowledge Under Occupation
Vo, Eileen NhoProblematizing the Ambivalent Role of Interpreters and Translation in Colonial Vietnam 1862-1945
Zhang, NingSisterly Same-Sex Sentiment: Non-erotic Female Relationships in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society
2015-2016 
Chen, Pei JeanThe Transnational-Translational Modernity: Language and Sexuality in Colonial Taiwan and Korea
Higgins, CarterSaintly Investments: Pilgrimage Development and Contemporary Hinduism in India
Huang, JunliangThe Politics of "Storytelling": Schemas of Time and Space in Japan's Traveling Imagination of Semi-colonial China and Beyond, 1920s-1980s
Lim, Wah GuanPerforming ‘Chinese-ness’: Articulating Identities-of-Becoming in the Works of Four Sinophone Theatre Director-Playwrights in the 1980s

 

Titles of M.A. Theses in Asian Studies

2023-2024 
Cui, JunkoTemporalizing the Enclave: Desire Smuggling in Chinese Genderswap Fan Fiction
Li, RuiPlayable Love: Otome Games in Japan and China
Robinson, CaseyNāgārjuna and Hegel: A Dialectic Discussion
Shen, JiahuiManifest the Hidden: Wen 文 and Zhi 質 as Conceptual Pair in Early Chinese Thought
Tran, KatherineThe Anatomy of a Fujoshi: Rethinking the Rotten Woman through Media and Mediated Practices
Wiriyapanlert, SompassornSame Same But Different: Chinese Identity Among Ethnic Chinese Indonesian, Malaysian, Singaporean And Thai Former Undergraduate Students in Beijing
Xing, WanhanBuilding Space, Building Identity: Gardens in Luoyang during the Eleventh Century
2022-2023 
Loebell, DanielNepal: The BIT-less Holdout among India’s Belt-and-Road Neighbors
Luo, JiaxinThe Thirty-two Manifestations of Guanyin: A Guide on Meditation
Qu, YingchuanMapping "zheng nengliang": the affective circulation of positive energy on the Chinese Internet 
2021-2022 
Jing, YuanxuePost-Shōjo: Women in Josei Manga after 2010
2020-2021 
Dong, JiachengTranscendence Through Elixir Ingestion: A Comparative Analysis of Du Guangting and Huang Xiufu
Jin, CordeliaFrom Kokugo to Nihongo in the Context of the History of the Japanese Language; Maintaining International World Peace through Racial Hierarchy as determined by English Fluency
Tang, LishuSwallowing an Iron Moon and Eating a Persimmon: Chinese Supaltern Poets in Documentary Films
Xu, YixinFrom Painting to Decorative Art - Chinese Export Wallpaper
2019-2020 
Chen, KeyuThe Effects of Reducing Parent-Child Information Frictions on Students' Academic Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Elliot, ClaireFrom Lanka to Lan Na: Regional Bhikkhuni Identity and Transnational Buddhist Networks
Gong, QingyiThe Wei-Jin Spirit as Exhibited by Women in the Shishuo Xinyu in the Private Family Space
Tritrakarn, OrnwaraNegotiating multiple identities: Becoming and un-becoming "Thai" Muslims
Vongagsorn, KittipongA Study of the Composition, Transmission, and Development of the KASYAPAPARIVARTA
Wang, YuanpingWriting Roads: Worker Storytelling, Karmic Haunting, and the Management of Construction in China
Zhang, XinwenThe Rural Video Influencers in China: On the New Edge of Urbanization
2018-2019 
Chia, Kim ChweeMeasuring Islamisation in Indonesia: The Practice of Islam in Central Java and West Sumatra During Reformasi
Dai, QiaoA Study of Burmese History and Language within the Southwestern Silk Road Regional Sphere
Durand, KatherineHabitual Silence: Absenting (Trans)National Memories in Postwar Japan
Gagrat, JehAn Examination of the Executive Tools used to influence judicial appointments to the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts in the context of the Indian Emergency (1975-77)
Hu, YinyinAncestor worship, supernaturalism, and Gia Long's court: landscape of religious institutions in Gia Dinh at the beginning of the Nguyen Dynasty
Liang, YuanTwo Cases of Chinese Internet Studies
Matsuda, MichaelFear Factor: Food Safety and Visual Media in Post-Fukushima Japan/Revising Tenzo Kyokun
Nott, LavanyaThe RTE Act in Bengaluru: A Study in the Contradictions of Neoliberal Welfare
Wang, AnkeTranslating the Vietnam War: Cultural Networks between China and Vietnam (1964-1966)
2017-2018 
Sajjapala, KritapasThailand-Vietnam Relations in the 1990s
Sun, MengxiRediscovering Cotton Breeding in the Beiyang Era: The Cruciality of Human Capital
Wang, MingxuanConstructing the Chan Tradition: The Two-way Transmission Between Jingschan Temple and Kencho-ji Temple
2016-2017 
Emmanuel, KaitlinLionel Wendt: Between Empire and Nation
Lax, JamesModern Religious Movements of Colonial South Asia: The Origins of Revival and Reform
Seiler, Nils AndrewSilver and Mother-of-Pearl: Some Comments on Perception and Doubt in Pre-Modern South Asia
Suwanto, HarryThe Bald Eagle and the Garuda: A History of American Encounters with the East Indies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Thant, Aye MinChoosing to be LGBT: Gender and Sexuality Activism in Contemporary Myanmar
Weintraub, JonathanFactors Influencing the Movement of Southeast Asian Fighters to Isis: A Comparison of Indonesia and Malaysia
2015-2016 
Akepiyapornchai, ManasichaVedantadesika's Interpretation of Ramanuja's Prapatti: A Study Based on the Nikseparaksa
Croteau, ChantalCompeting Modes of Remembrance: Tsunami Commemoration in Takuapa, Thailand

 

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