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
284 2014 SHINDO, Jessica Umami: Defining the Japanese Flavor in a Global Setting Japan Miyako Inoue Anthropology
257 2013 ARNETT, Samuel M. Understanding the U.S.- Japan- ROK Triangle: The Case of the 1965 Normalization of Relations East Asia Daniel Sneider Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
268 2014 CHO, Mu-Jung Understanding the Understanding of Democracy in Asia East Asia Larry Diamond Political Science
275 2014 WONG, Kar Yan Violet Urban-Migrant Income Inequality and Returns of Education in China: Data from 2002 China Household Income Project China John Roberts Graduate School of Business
311 2015 CHUNG, Wookyung US Policy toward North Korea's Nuclear Program Korea David Straub Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
239 2013 ELMORE, Andrew Variance and Standardization: De-unifying Chinese Character Simplification in the Republican Period China Thomas Mullaney History
184 2010 GOUZOULES, Alexander Vicious Cycle: The Challenges of ROC Diplomacy, 1948-1950 China Alice Lyman Miller Hoover Institution, Political Science
319 2015 SHEN, Wenqiang Vietnam's Approach and Management of South China Sea Maritime Disputes During Hostile Sino-Vietnamese Relations (1975-1991) East Asia Thomas Fingar Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
227 2012 OH, Youna Views and Interests of the U.S. and China on Korean Unification Korea Alice Lyman Miller Hoover Institution, Political Science
238 2013 CHUNG, Meeyung Visual Culture in Colonial Korea: The Colonial Government's Aesthetic and Ideological Management of the Expo and Film Industry (1910-1945) Korea Yumi Moon History
195 2011 GUO, Xinran Visual Representation of the Other in the Images of the Boxer Rebellion: Images of Chinese in Western Media China Richard Vinograd Art and Art History
68 2003 MAHAKIAN, Russell Wenzhou Migrant Networks: Chinese Internal Migration and the Birth of Zhejiang Village China Jean C. Oi Political Science
377 2017 TIAN, Ziyao What Makes a Danwei Employee More Willing to Join a Protest? The Impact of China's Danwei Reforms on Individual Protest Propensity from 2003 to 2013 China Andrew Walder Sociology
386 2018 KIM, Nicole What Makes Korean Software Engineers Continue to Stay in Silicon Valley? Korea Gi-Wook Shin Sociology
325 2015 TAN, Erin What Shapes Affordable Housing Policies? A Comparative Study of Singapore, United States, and China China Jean C. Oi Political Science
273 2014 RO, Michael What's on Your Mind? Cultural Differences between Asian Americans and European Americans in the Use of Social Networking Sites East Asia Hazel Markus Psychology
387 2018 MORGAN, Marcus Whither the 2015 US-Japan Defense Cooperation Guidelines: Expectation vs. Reality Japan Daniel Sneider Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
374 2017 LIMÓN, Daniel Why American Tech Companies Fail in China: Groupon's Waterloo and Lessons for Facebook, Airbnb, and Others China Edison Tse Management Science and Engineering
272 2014 NAKAGAWA, Tomohiro Why Is the Foundation No Longer Working? An Analysis of Current Sino-Japanese Tensions Through a Re-evaluation of Sino-Japanese Normalization East Asia Phillip Lipscy Political Science
41 2001 FONG, Gloria Wing Nga Will ASEAN form an economic union similar to that of the EU? Why, or why not? East Asia Lawrence Lau Economics