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
349 2016 MEIXSEL, Pearly Ties That Bind: An Examination of Contemporary Japanese Official Development Assistance Japan Richard Dasher Electrical Engineering
329 2016 CHICHIBU, Katsuhiro The Xi Leadership's Foreign Policy Discourse: Change or Continuity? China Alice Lyman Miller East Asian Studies
364 2017 WONG, Daniel Bruce The World Opens Up to China: How China's Outbound Tourism Policy Developed through Institutional Cooperation China Xueguang Zhou Sociology
476 2022 VILLAR, Benjamin The world of Ito Junji: Social criticisms and the reflections of horror within Japanese society Japan James Reichert East Asian Languages and Cultures
437 2020 GIOJA, Zoe The Women's Bureau: Women's International Organizing in South Korea, 1945-48 Korea Yumi Moon History
209 2011 TOH, Weiqi Samantha The Woman Question in Republican Chinese Literature: Ding Ling and Her Contemporaries China Ban Wang East Asian Languages and Cultures
261 2013 XU, Qingyuan Cathy The US-China Trade Relations and the Likelihood of Establishing an FTA China Nicholas Hope Center for International Development
77 2004 BRYANT, Madika The Travels and Subsequent Cult of Culturalism in the Novels of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Japan James Reichert East Asian Languages and Cultures
408 2019 HONG, Margaret The Transnational and National across Twitter: the #MeToo Movement in the United States and the Republic of Korea Korea Gi-Wook Shin Sociology
302 2015 LOHR, Heidi The Transcendent Fox: A Cultural Analysis of the Fox Spirit in Pu Songling's "Liaozhai zhiyi" China Ronald Egan East Asian Languages and Cultures
193 2011 YAHATA, Hironori The Tokugawa Embassy for Arbitration in the Conflict Between Korea and the West: The Attempt to Connect the Traditionlal Asian Tributary System to the Western Sovereignty System Japan Karen Wigen History
381 2017 MCGURK, Stewart The Three Warfares: China's Political Warfare Doctrine China Michael McFaul Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
62 2003 CHIA, Edna The Suzhou Industrial Park: Why it never completely took off China Alice Lyman Miller Hoover Institution, Political Science
121 2006 SHAO, Lige The Starbucks in the Forbidden City: Staging Modernity, Restaging Heritage, and Upstaging Authenticity China Paulla Ebron, Miyako Inoue Anthropology
152 2009 CIDRE, Lance Curtis The Sino-American Relationship of the Early 20th Century and its Effect on China's Socialist Transformation China Thomas Mullaney History
115 2006 GIBSON, Julie M. The Significance of Sleeves: Clothing and Textiles in Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Performance Japan Indra Levy East Asian Languages and Cultures
105 2005 LICATA, Elizabeth The Show Must Go On: "Shini-e", Fandom, and Performative Space after Death Japan Melinda Takeuchi Art and Art History
104 2005 DOODY, James The Senkaku/Diaoyutai Island Disputes: Historical Interpretation and Implications for Japanese Foreign Policy in the 21st Century Japan Daniel Okimoto Political Science
39 2001 BRUNETTE, Rachel The San Francisco Peace Treaty: The Cold War and the Peace Process (with contributions by Greg Francis, Maria Kehn, and Gary Mukai) Japan Unknown Political Science
256 2013 YUN, Jiyoung The San Francisco Peace Treaty and the China Question China Gordon Chang History