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
517	2024	SPENCER, Stephen	Reawakening the Bushido Code: Japan’s Push for Military Deterrence	Japan	Dan Sneider	East Asian Studies
516	2024	KIM, Sang Woo (William)	Applying the Talent Portfolio Theory: A Cross- National Historical Comparison of Japan and Korea	East Asia	Gi-Wook Shin	Sociology
515	2024	XU, Yifan	Deterrence, Alliance, and Regime Type: Does Democratization Make East Asia a Safer Place?	East Asia	Kharis Templeman	East Asian Studies
514	2024	XU, Junliang	Legitimacy and Social Movement Steering: Mechanisms of the Central Cultural Revolution Group’s Steering in Beijing Red Guard Movements, 1966-1968	China	Andrew Walder	Sociology
513	2024	SUEN, Eric	Equestrian Empire: Japan’s Horse Improvement Projects in Korea and Manchuria	Japan	Jun Uchida	History
512	2024	FU, Wanning	Liangbi’s Restless World: Devastation and Salvation towards the Path of Republic in Late Qing	China	Matthew Sommer	History
511	2024	BIRDWELL, Jake	The Bedrock Overhead: A Satellite Resilience Roadmap for a Taiwan Conflict	East Asia	Larry Diamond	Political Science
510	2024	ZHANG, Yujing	China's Growing Influence in the Persian Gulf Arab Monarchies: A Case Study	China	Abbas Milani	Global Studies
509	2024	Zhang, Chengyang	Assessing Loyalty: State Mobilization and Political Campaigns in Early 1950s China	China	Andrew Walder	Sociology
508	2024	SHORE, Robert Allan	State Supported Silicon: Reconceptualizing China’s Semiconductor Industrial Policy	China	Jean C. Oi	Political Science
507	2024	SHIN, Jiyeon Jessie	Fandom Politics in South Korea and the Impact on Democracy	Korea	Kiyoteru Tsutsui	Sociology
506	2024	SHIMADA, Yasuyuki	The Urban-Rural Divide in China’s Long-Term Care Insurance	China	Francis Fukuyama	Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
505	2024	ON, Alice Zhou	Longing for the Rural: Situating Countryside Lifestyle Media in China's Rural Revitalization Project	China	Haiyan Lee	East Asian Languages and Cultures
504	2024	LI, Rebecca	So Long, Sanyu: Modernism as Hope, Anxiety, and Global Meanders	China	Alexander Nemerov	Art and Art History
503	2024	Lee, Myung Hoon Leo	Accessing the Threat: Chinese and South Korean Memory Chip Sector	East Asia	Hongbin Li	Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
502	2024	GONG, Zeen	The Rise and Realignment of Alibaba: Navigating the Changing Contours of State-Private Interactions in China's Digital Economy	China	Richard Dasher	East Asian Studies
501	2024	CHU, Nancy Yushan	Reimagining Landscapes: Ecocritical Narratives in 21st-Century Chinese Lens-Based Art	China	Richard Vinograd	Art and Art History
500	2024	CHONG, Wooju Jenna	The Babiniku: Gendered Desires, (dis)Embodiment in Virtual Reality, and the Aesthetics of Cuteness	Japan	Miyako Inoue	Anthropology
499	2024	CHEN, Kimball	Passing Voice to the Voiceless: An Assessment of Wenzhounese Endangerment Level and a Text-to-Speech System for Language Preservation	China	Hongbin Li	Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
498	2024	BARBER, Rachel	Improving Access to Care in Rural China: A Policy Approach Focused on Providing Incentives to Primary Care Physicians (PCPs)	China	Karen Eggleston	Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies