MA Students

- Korea
U.S.-R.O.K. Relations During the Cold War; U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula; Inter-Korean Relations

- China
Concepts and self-understanding of identity amongst East Asian immigrants to the United States; formation of early immigrant diaspora communities


- Japan
Contemporary Japanese society; Japanese culture; Japanese popular culture; Japanese film and fiction; modern Japan politics; Japan in international relations; education; sports; gender inequality


- East Asia
Comparative studies between Korea and Japan; cultural diplomacy; digital media; visual arts; contemporary political relations

- China
International reception of ink art under the influence of China’s post-1970s pursuit of soft power; cultural diplomacy; ink art as a philosophy, practice, and phenomenon; political impetus and leverage behind cultural activities in China

- China
Chinese politics and foreign policy; Chinese society and China's social problems; Japan-China relations and US-China relations; East Asian Security

- China
Chinese political economy; East Asian technology trade; US-China relations, Civil Society and Social Movements in East Asia

- East Asia
Modern Japanese history; transnational history of China and Japan; historical and contemporary Sino-Japanese relations, especially Mongolian-Japanese relations; wartime memories in East Asia

- China
Daoist philosophy and cosmology; Sino-Japanese history, historiography, and linguistic anthropology; Multiculturalism and transculturalism in East Asia and diaspora communities

- China
Venture capital; Macro social theory; Transformation of contemporary China's social, political, and economic landscape; Interrelation between capital market and modern state building

- China
Different choices modern Chinese intellectuals made and their respective outcomes in the early period of People's Republic of China

- China
Social, cultural and intellectual history of Early Modern China; Ethnicity and identity in the so-called "China proper" during late imperial period and their relations to late imperial Chinese politics in both central and local level; Local history of Huabei (North China); Minority literature in China; Imperial Studies

- China
US national security strategy in East Asia, strategic interstate competition, Chinese domestic politics, democratic backsliding, US-Taiwan relations, and China-Taiwan relations

- Korea
Inequality and discrimination against “others” as a result of hypernationalism or nativism in South Korea; the effects of damunhwa (multiculturalism); postcolonial traumas; Korean diaspora; gender studies

- China
Chinese financial markets; Party-state capitalism in China; US-China relations; China-South Korea relations; Geopolitical and economic implication of new cold war between US and China; Chinese housing market

- Japan
Foreign labor policy and immigration issues in Japan. Working culture and development in Japan

- East Asia
Political communication; International relations of East Asia and US; Political behavior; Peace studies.

- East Asia
Climate change and sustainability in East Asia; food and water security; international relations, policy, and security; women's economic empowerment; startups and technology; cross-strait relations; nationalism and legitimacy.


- East Asia
Comparative institutional study of China and Japan's cultural policy and public diplomacy; intersection of culture, politics and ICT in China; national image and identity

- China
The formation and change of public opinions in China; social stratification and inequality; the development of new media and its impact on modern China society; China's national image and soft power.

- China
Late Qing and modern Chinese history; history of China in Inner Asia; imperialism in East Asia; Japanese imperialism; Sino-Japanese relations; Chinese diaspora

- China
US-China relations; Chinese engagement in Africa; the objectives and impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative

- Korea
U.S.-R.O.K. Relations; U.S. military; Neocolonialism; Political Theory; U.S. Foreign Policy; South Korean Public Opinion; Korean Politics

- China
Chinese documentaries and reality television; depictions of rural life in popular media; China's entertainment industry



- China
Chinese political economy; East Asian technology trade; Chinese economy and financial system

- Japan
History of Buddhism and Shinto in Japan; religions in East Asia; history of the Japanese Empire; nationalism and colonialism in East Asia; US-China relations; Sino-Japanese relations

- China
Contemporary Chinese politics; social and economic conditions in China before the Cultural Revolution


- China
Chinese history, politics, and foreign policy; particularly how history and tradition is used by Chinese leaders to shape the language, legitimacy, and framing of both domestic and foreign engagement.

- China
Chinese bureaucracy and government administrative systems; Chinese organizations and their institutional changes

- East Asia
China, Japan, United States; politics and foreign policy; international security; alliance politics

- Japan
Modern Japanese culture, especially Japanese literature during bubble economy time period

- China
Authoritarian politics; Alliance politics; Cold War history of East Asia; Chinese politics and foreign policy


- East Asia
Research historical and contemporary relationships between China and the Arab World, and the implications of the Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement (留法勤工儉學運動), which brought Chinese leaders to France.

- China
National infrastructure in post-pandemic China; urban studies; East Asian religions

- China
Chinese art and religion; Buddhist visual culture; particularly the role of art in religion and society and the relationship between religious texts/doctrine and visual representations

- China
US-China relations and technological decoupling; Chinese cyber law, policy and governance; Political economy; International policy; Geopolitics