MA Students
Min Jae Choi
Inter-Korean relations and the influences of neighboring countries on this issue.
Yichao Cui
Chinese urban and female literature in the 20th century; Cultural studies of gender
Jeremy Gardinier
Chinese foreign policy; East Asian security; Modern & classical Chinese literature
Zoe Gioja
Korea in the colonial period; gender history; contacts with Christian missionaries in Korea and East Asia; history and memory
Nancy Hamilton
Premodern Japanese language and literature; classical Japanese poetry, linked verse, and poetic tales; poetic allusion in art and traditional practices
ShanShan Jiang
The impact of 20th Century Chinese political history on contemporary Chinese society and foreign policies, and especially how state society relationships and international relations are portrayed through cinematic representations
Xinyue Jiang
Pre-modern Chinese Art History, particularly the literati circle in Jiangnan region during Ming-Qing periods
Eunhye Jung
Korean unification, Korean foreign policy, international relations among Northeast Asian countries
Fenghua Li
Interconnectedness of East Asian language, culture, religion, and art; application of East Asian philosophy to modern and global contexts; Buddhism and Buddhist art in East Asia; culture and perspective.
Xinke Liu
Examining historical, economical, and political factors contributing to the growing socio-economical disparities and the intensifying social stratification in China
Yingzhi Lu
Japanese post-war literature, Japanese nationalism, Japanese sub-culture, Japanese post-war society
Sijia Mao
Social Stratification in Contemporary China; Media and Society; Comparative Gender Studies in East Asia; LGBT Studies
Olivia Mason
Modern Chinese history; Chinese visual culture: film, fashion, and photography; comparative materials culture in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China
Jie Min
Comparative historical political economy, state capacity and state-building, authoritarian politics, experimental methods, Chinese and Japanese politics
Yuchen Qian
Cultural modernization of Japan and China, and the (re-)construction of ethnic identities and aesthetics; Contemporary Chinese (sub)culture; Transcultural communication between East and West in art and visual culture.
Toshiyuki Shichino
Exploring the Comprehensive Joint Childcare Model suitable to Japanese regional traits
Ruthanne Soh
Chinese Foreign Policy; Impacts of the Rise of China on Supranational Bodies; Sino-ASEAN Relations
Adam Stagg
Republican Chinese History; Late Imperial Chinese-Japanese Intellectual Exchange; The roots of Chinese nationalism
Grace Sum
Chinese foreign policy, East Asian security and economics, US-East Asia relations, China-Southeast Asia relations
Shunya Tamaki
Comparative study of the open innovation management system between the US and Japan; the impact of flow of people, talent and technology in organizations.
Yawen Tan
’85 New Wave Movement; Art and politics in and after Mao’s China; Modern and contemporary Chinese art.
Zhi Ping Teo
Public Policy; International Relations; Political Economy: US-China-ASEAN Relations
Kai-Wen Tung
Comparative Politics, Democratization in East Asia, Cross-Strait Relations, Modern Chinese History
Mari Uchima
Security in Northeast Asia, US-Japan alliance and Okinawa, Futenma relocation issue, Political leadership
Benjamin Villar
I intend to study Zainichi Koreans, a Korean minority residing in Japan, and focus on identity studies, how they struggle with that identity, and how they manifest through social media outlets and the struggles they face online and in daily life from others/Japanese society.
Xiaoyong Wang
Digital humanities; Cultural Studies of Modern China with the interdisciplinary tools of visual analysis and media; Modern Buddhism in the making and its relations with Chinese society
Xinyi Wang
Economic history of modern China; Income inequality in China (the urban-rural divide); East Asian Buddhist art.
Shi Rui Wong
Social and political thought; Chinese governance; Social control; Chinese foreign policy
Anqi Xu
Contemporary Chinese and global art; international trade with a Chinese and digital focus; the emergence of artificial culture on digital channels; health industry (fitness and nutrition); Interdisciplinary methodology
Fengyi Xu
Economic and geopolitical competition between China and Japan focused on high-speed railway diplomacy in East Asia; International political economy in East Asia; Chinese foreign policy.
Zhiheng Xu
US-China Relations; Intercultural communication and public diplomacy; China's market reform; Media, technology and Chinese society
Tiffany Ellen Yang
The political symbolisation of female heads of state in East Asia, especially South Korea and Taiwan; the role of media in political symbol-making; symbolic disputes
Ang Yu
State-society relations in China, Intergenerational social mobility in contemporary China, Chinese higher education system
Xun Yuan
Filial piety in Chinese culture; persistence and challenges to the practice of filial piety in contemporary Chinese societies; attitudes to aging and expectations for filial piety in China
Wanqian Zhang
International Relations; U.S.- Japan Relations; Sino-Japanese Relations; Korea in the colonial period; Japanese intellectual history; Pacific Rim economics
Li Zhao
Gender, kinship and family in late imperial China; translated novels and their influences on genre development
Tingyu Zheng
My academic interest is in comparative literature and culture on topics related to 20th century China, where huge political and social transformation as well as unspeakable havoc have taken place (the “Great Leap Forward,” the “Cultural Revolution,” and other catastrophic social engineering). I want to study how literature as an agency of collective memory plays a role, not only in preserving but in actively constructing these cultural traumas as well as mending them, and how it continues to be of critical importance to contemporary Chinese society, which is also witnessing waves of metamorphosis and the rise of nationalism and populism.
