Thesis Database

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CEAS M.A. Theses

All CEAS M.A. students are required to submit a final thesis as part of the degree requirements. Prior to 2017, all theses were submitted via hard copy and those hard copy theses are located for review in the CEAS offices- Knight Building, 1st floor. We ask that hard copy theses are reviewed in the office and are not taken from the Knight Building. Beginning in 2017, CEAS M.A. theses are now submitted electronically to the Stanford Digital Repository and links to these documents are located in the thesis database.

Catalogue Number	Graduation Year	Authors	Title	Region	Adviser	Adviser's Department
541	2025	ZHOU, Xinbei	Gender, Space, and Self-Fashioning in Liu Rushi’s Landscape with Figures	China	Richard Vinograd	Art History
540	2025	SUN, Chao	Proactive Elite Alignment Theory (PEAT): Understanding Private Tech-Elite Realignment in Xi Jinping’s New Era of Governance	China	Andrew Walder	Sociology
539	2025	IM, Timothy	U.S. Intelligence, Industrial Policy, and Korea’s Industrial Economy: 1942-1950	Korea	Gi-wook Shin	Sociology
538	2025	HO, Minru	Retracing BYD's Success from Battery Maker to New Energy Vehicle Industry Leader: The Importance of Local Governments and Access to the State	China	Andrew Walder	Sociology
537	2025	HAN, Steven	From South China Sea to the Yellow Sea: China’s Gray Zone Tactics and Strategic Lessons for South Korea	Korea	Larry Diamond	Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
536	2025	EDWARDS, Zackery	Raciolinguistic Cacophony and Linguistic Abundance: An Ethnography of Uchinaaguchi Language Socialization at Two After-school Care Programs	Japan	Yoshiko Matsumoto	East Asian Languages and Cultures
535	2025	ZHENG, Yiguo	The Digital Transformation and Virtual Celebrity Industries in East Asia	East Asia	Dafna Zur	East Asian Languages and Cultures
534	2025	ZHANG, Irene	Delegating Implementation: How Firms Supply Video Surveillance to Chinese Local Governments	China	Andrew Walder	Sociology
533	2025	ZHANG, Angela	Moral Power: Just Warfare in Qin's Unification of China	China	Ronald Egan	East Asian Languages and Cultures
532	2025	ZANDER, Majesty	Between Fact and Fiction: Gyaru Subculture & Media Representation	Japan	Miyako Inoue	Anthropology
531	2025	XIAO, Mengmeng	Painless Patients and Painful Bodies: Birth Control under Biopolitical Care in China	China	Matthew Kohrman	Anthropology
530	2025	SUGITA, Sana	Democracy in the Digital Age:‬‭ Media Trust and Civic Perception‬‭ in Japan and South Korea	East Asia	Gi-wook Shin	Sociology
529	2025	SOHN, Seungpo	Beyond the Peninsula: Evolving Strategic Logic of United States Forces Korea	Korea	Oriana Mastro	Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
528	2025	SEONG, Jihui	A Truce Built on Tension: The Korean War Armistice Negotiations and the Strategic Divergence Between Allies	Korea	Daniel Sneider	East Asian Studies
527	2025	REYNOLDS, Christopher Louis	Feminist Discourses in Low-Fertility Japan: Motherhood in Cultural Criticism and Fiction	Japan	Indra Levy	East Asian Languages and Culture
526	2025	REN, Yian	Visualizing Divine Childhood: Mañjuśrī's Iconographic Transformation in Medieval Japan	Japan	Michaela Mross	Religious Studies
525	2025	LEIBSON, Sarah	South Korea’s Renewable Energy Transition: Challenges and Opportunities	Korea	Richard Dasher	East Asian Studies
524	2025	LEE, Seo Jin Jenny	An Analysis of the Labor Force Impact of Japan's Highly Skilled Foreign Professional Visa System	Japan	Richard Dasher	East Asian Studies
523	2025	KLEIN, Adam	Toward Extrapoetics: Nanao Sakaki's Presentational Poetics	Japan	David Palumbo-Liu	Comparative Literature
522	2025	JIN, Yinuo	Active Cooperation and Legitimate Transgression: Yan Yonghua’s Interactions with the Couple’s Retreat Garden	China	Ronald Egan	East Asian Languages and Cultures