Sample Dissertation Titles

Grad. Date	Student	Faculty Advisor	Dissertation Title
2010
11-Feb-10	Thompson, Mathew	Shirane, Haruo	The Tales of Yoshitsune: A Study of Genre, Narrative Paradigms, and Cultural Memory in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
2009
11-Feb-09	Han, Eric	Carol Gluck	Narrating community in Yokohama Chinatown : 1894-1972Â
21-Oct-09	Jaundrill, Colin	Carol Gluck
20-May-09	Moore, Hayes	Shang, Wei	Transfixing Forms : the culture of Chinese poetry and poetics in modern Chinese literary history
20-May-09	Shimazaki, Satoko	Shirane, Haruo	Shadows of Jealousy: Nanboku’s Yotsuya kaidan and the Tradition of Female Ghosts in Japanese Culture
11-Feb-09	Yasar, Kerim	Anderer, Paul	Electrified voices : media technology and discourse in modern Japan
2008
21-May-08	Takeuchi, Akiko	Shirane, Haruo	Ritual, Storytelling, and Zeami's Reformation of Noh Drama: Issues in Representation and Performance
21-May-08	Rea, Christopher	Wang, David	A history of laughter : comic culture in early twentieth-century China
21-May-08	Hill, Michael	Shang, Wei	Lin Shu, Inc. translation, print culture, and the making of an icon in modern China
Oct-15-08	Feng, Linda	Shang, Wei
Oct-15-08	Oh, Se-Mi	Haboush, Ja Hyun	Consuming the Modern : the everyday in colonial Seoul, 1915-1937
21-May-08	Davis, Timothy	Shang, Wei	Potent stone : entombed epigraphy and memorial culture in early medieval China
2007
17-Oct-07	Zhang, Enhua	Wang, David	Cartographies of Revolution : space, politics, and cultural representation in modern China (1919-1969)
17-Oct-07	Marcon, Federico	Gluck, Carol	The Names of nature : the development of natural history in Japan, 1600-1900Â
17-Oct-07	Kim, Charles R.	Armstrong, Charles	Unlikely revolutionaries : South Korea's first generation and the student protests of 1960
17-Oct-07	Emmerich, Michael David	Shirane, Haruo	Replacing the text : translation, canonization, and the Tale of Genji
17-May-07	Cook, Alexander C.	Zelin, Madeleine	Unsettling accounts : the trial of the gang of four : narratives of justice and humanity in the aftermath of China's Cultural Revolution
16-May-07	Wang, Xiaojue	Wang, David	Crossing 1949 : the politics of schizophrenia in literature, history, and society of cold war China
16-May-07	Lineberger, Scott Alexander	Shirane, Haruo	The Genesis of Haikai : transforming the Japanese poetic tradition through parodyÂ
7-Feb-07	Frost, Dennis J.	Pflugfelder, Gregory	Seeing Stars : sports celebrity, identity, and body culture in modern Japan
2006
18-Oct-06	Ross, Kerry	Smith, Henry	Between art and industry : hobby photography and middle-class life in early twentieth-century Japan
18-Oct-06	Tackett, Nicholas	Hymes, Robert	The transformation of medieval Chinese elites, 850-1000 C.E.
18-Oct-06	Wu, I-Hsien	Shang, Wei	The journey of The Stone : experience, writing, and enlightenment
17-May-06	Kim, Bonnie	Ledyard, Gari	"Closed" Encounters : the arrival of the West in nineteenth-century Korea
17-May-06	Koh, Khee Heong	Hymes, Robert	East of the river and beyond : a study of Xue Xuan (Xue Xuan,1389-1464) and the Hedong School
17-May-06	Song, Weijie	Wang, David	Mapping modern Beijing : a literary and cultural topography, 1900s-1950s
17-May-06	Stoneman, Jack	Shirane, Haruo	Constructing Saigyō̄ : poetry, biography, and medieval receptionÂ
8-Feb-06	Kallander, George	Ledyard, Gari	Finding the heavenly way : Ch'oe Che-u, Tonghak and religion in late Chosŏn Korea
2005
19-Oct-05	Newhard, Jamie	Shirane, Haruo	Genre, secrecy and the book : a history of late medieval and early modern literary scholarship on Ise monogatari
19-Oct-05	Saito, Satoru	Suzuki, Tomi	Allegories of detective fiction : confession, social mobility, and the modern Japanese novel, 1880-1930
19-Oct-05	Song, Mingwei	Wang, David	Long live youth : national rejuvenation and the Chinese Bildungsroman, 1900-1958
18-May-05	Duthie, Torquil	Shirane, Haruo	Poetry and kingship in ancient JapanÂ
18-May-05	Laffin, Christina	Shirane, Haruo	Women, travel, and cultural production in Kamakura Japan : a socio-literary ananlysis of Izayoi nikki and TowazugatariÂ
2004
20-Oct-04	Berry, Michael	Wang, David	A history of pain : literary and cinematic mapping of violence in modern ChinaÂ
20-Oct-04	Kim, Joy	Haboush, Ja Hyun	Representing slavery : Class and status in late Chosŏn Korea
20-Oct-04	Lanza, Fabio	Zelin, Madeleine	Learning politics locating student activism in Beijing 1917-1923
20-Oct-04	Mickey, Georgia	Zelin, Madeleine	Politics and reform : the Bank of China and its shareholders, 1904-1919
20-Oct-04	Scanlon, Michael	Shirane, Haruo	Literary evolution in the country of eight islands : towards a Darwinian understanding of later Japanese narrative
20-Oct-04	Schonebaum, Andrew	Shang, Wei	Fictional medicine : diseases, doctors and the curative properties of Chinese fictionÂ
20-Oct-04	Skabelund, Aaron	Pflugfelder, Gregory	Loyalty and civilization : a canine history of Japan, 1850-2000
19-May-04	Poole, Janet	Anderer, Paul	Colonial interiors : modernist fiction of Korea
2003
15-Oct-03	D'Argenio, Linda	Shang, Wei	Bureaucrats, gentlemen, poets : the role of poetry in the literati culture of tenth-eleventh century China, 960-1022
21-May-03	Commons, Anne	Shirane, Haruo	The Canonization of Hitomaro : paradigm of the poet as GodÂ
21-May-03	Flueckiger, Peter	Shirane, Haruo	Poetry, culture, and social harmony in eigtheenth-century Japanese literary thought : the Sorai school and its critics
21-May-03	O'Brien, Suzanne	Gluck, Carol	"Custom-izing" daily life in Meiji Japan
21-May-03	Tsai, Earl	Shang, Wei
2002
13-Feb-02	Levine, Ari	Hymes, Robert	A house in darkness : the politics of history and the language of politics in the late Northern Song, 1068-1104
16-Oct-02	Weinstein, John	Wang, David	Directing laughter : modes of modern Chinese comedy, 1907-1997
22-May-02	Weisfogel, Jaret	Hymes, Robert	Confucians, the Shih class, and the Ming imperium : uses of canonical and dynastic authority in Kuan Chih-tao's , 1536-1608 proposals for following the men of former times to safeguard custons, Ts'ung-hsien wei-su i
22-May-02	Xu, Gang	Wang, David	The sentimental education of Chinese modernity : Qing in Chinese fiction from the late Ming to the turn of the millennium
16-Oct-02	Zwicker, Jonathan	Anderer, Paul	Tears of blood : melodrama, the novel, and the social imaginary in nineteenth-century Japan
2001
14-Feb-01	Chen, Lingchei	Wang, David	The right to copy and the copyright : cultural identity, hybridity, and authenticity
14-Feb-01	Crowley, Cheryl	Shirane, Haruo	Haikai poet Yosa Buson, 1716-1783, and the back to Bashô movement
16-May-01	Field, Andrew	Zelin, Madeleine	A night in Shanghai : nightlife and modernity in semicolonical China, 1919-1937
17-Oct-01	Flaherty, Darryl	Gluck, Carol	Organizing for influence : lawyers associations and Japanese politics, 1868-1945Â
16-May-01	Fukumori, Naomi	Shirane, Haruo	The politics of amusement :|b reading Sei Shônagon's Makura no sôshi (The pillow book) in historical perspective
16-May-01	Jones, Mark	Gluck, Carol	Children as treasures : childhood and the middle class in early twentieth century Japan
17-Oct-01	Khu, Josephine	Zelin, Madeleine	The making of a frontier : the Qing military in Taiwan, 1684-1783
14-Feb-01	Levy, Indra	Anderer, Paul	Sirens of the Western shore : Westernesque women and translation on modern Japanese literature
16-May-01	Lurie, David	Shirane, Haruo	The origins of writing in early Japan : from the 1st to the 8th century
17-Oct-01	Miller, Harrison	Zelin, Madeleine	State versus society in late imperial China, 1572-1644
2000
17-May-00	Heldt, Gustav	Shirane, Haruo	Composing courtiers : Ki no Tsurayuki's poetic visions of gender, writing, and ritual at the Heian court
17-May-00	Huss, Ann	Wang, David	Old tales retold : contemporary Chinese fiction and the classical traditions
17-May-00	Kang, Xiaofei	Hymes, Robert	Power on the margins : the cult of the fox in late imperial ChinaÂ
18-Oct-00	Rojas, Carlos	David Wang	Flowers in the mirror : vision, gender, and reflections on Chinese modernity
17-May-00	Vincent, James	Anderer, Paul	Writing sexuality : heteronormativity, homophobia and the homosocial subject in modern Japan
18-Oct-00	Visser, Robin	Wang, David	The urban subject in the literary imagination of twentieth century China
1999
10-Feb-99	Cartelli, Mary Anne	Hymes, Robert	The poetry of Mount Wutai : Chinese Buddhist verse from Dunhuang
10-Feb-99	Huang, Martha Elizabeth	Hsia, Chih-Tsing	Thresholds of modernity : preface to the May Fourth magazines and the modern Chinese literary canonÂ
19-May-99	Eddinger, Pammy Yue	Anderer, Paul	From obsession to deliverance : the evolving landscape of the feminine psyche in the works of Enchi Fumiko
19-May-99	Richter, Giles Martial	Smith II, Henry	Marketing the word : publishing entrepreneurs in Meiji Japan, 1870-1912
20-Oct-99	Hill, Christopher Laing	Anderer, Paul	National history and the world of nations : writing Japan, France, the United States, 1870-1900
20-Oct-99	Stevenson, Miwha Lee	Ledyard, Gari	Webs of signification : representation as social transformation in the mural tombs of Koguryo
1998
11-Feb-98	Liu, Jianmei	Wang, David
21-Oct-98	Dooling, Amy D.	Wang, David	Feminism and narrative strategies in early twentieth-century Chinese women's writing
1997
12-Feb-97	Bialock, David Theodore	Shirane, Haruo	Peripheries of power : voice, history, and the construction of imperial and sacred space in the tale of the Heike and other medieval and Heian historical texts
12-Feb-97	Carpenter, John Thomas	Ruch, Barbara	Fujiwara no Yukinari and the development of Heian court calligraphy
12-Feb-97	Lippit, Seiji Mizuta	Anderer, Paul	Japanese modernism and the destruction of literary form : the writings of Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, and Kawabata
12-Feb-97	Zimmerman, Eve Kathleen	Anderer, Paul	A language of rebellion : myth, violence and identity in the fiction of Nakagami KenjiÂ
15-Oct-97	Collins, Kevin Ke.	Shirane, Haruo	Seizing spirits : the chinkon ritual and early Japanese literature
15-Oct-97	de Pee, Christian	Hymes, Robert	Negotiating marriage : weddings, text, and ritual in Song and Yuan dynasty China, 10th through 14th century
15-Oct-97	Harris, Kristine Marie	Zelin, Madeleine	Silent speech : envisioning the Nation in early Shanghai cinemaÂ
1996
14-Feb-96	Schmid, Andre H.	Gari Ledyard	Constructing independence : Nation and identity in Korea, 1895-1910Â
15-May-96	Laughlin, Charles Andrew	David Wang	Narrating the nation : the aesthetics of historical experience in Chinese reportage literature, 1919-1966
15-May-96	Oberst, Zhihong Liang	Hymes, Robert	Chinese economic statecraft and economic ideas in the Song period, 960-1279
16-Oct-96	Liu, Hsiang-Kwang	Hymes, Robert	Education and society : the development of public and private institutions in Hui-chou, 960-1800Â
1995
1994
19-May-94	Cipris, Ljubomir R.	Donald Keene	Radiant carnage : Japanese writers on the war against ChinaÂ
19-May-94	Hamill Sato, Barbara B.	Carol Gluck
19-May-94	Qiu, Peipei	Haruo Shirane	Poetics of the natural : a study of Taoist influence on Bashō
19-May-94	Shu, Yunzhong	David Wang	Buglers on the home front : the literary practice of the Qiyue SchoolÂ
19-May-94	Tanner, Harold Miles	Madeline Zelin	Crime and punishment in China, 1979-1989
19-May-94	Wakui, Takashi	Paul Anderer	Prosody, diction, and lyricism in modern Japanese poetry
19-Oct-94	Guarino Osterman, Marie	WT de Bary
19-Oct-94	Tung, Jowen Rouphan	David Wang
1993
10-Feb-93	Neskar, Ellen Gail	Hymes, Robert	The cult of worthies: a study of shrines honoring local Confucian worthies in the Sung dynasty (960-1279)
10-Feb-93	Sukhu, Gopal	Paul Rouzer	Attraction, reversal and repulsion : prolegomena to the Li Sao
19-May-93	Ericson, Joan Elain	Paul Anderer	Hayashi Fumiko and Japanese Women’s Literature
20-Oct-93	Dodd, Stephen Howard	Paul Anderer	An embracing vision : representations of the countryside in early twentieth-century Japanese literature
20-Oct-93	Ng, Janet Mui-Fong	David Wang	Autobiography in modern Chinese literature (1911-1950) [microform] : forms of literary expression of the self in society

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