MA in East Asian Studies

Degree Requirements

Student Services

Certificate in EA Studies

Joint JD/East Asian MA

Undergraduate Studies

Fall 2008 Courses

Courses with
East Asian Content

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Past Capstone Topics
 

EAS Alumni Capstone topics

Alumni

Graduation Year

Advisor

Capstone Topics

Ahuja, Bideesha

May 2003

Sucheta Mazumdar

Role of Human Capital in Development - A Chinese Perspective

Bae, Bumjoon

May 2000

Margaret McKean

Movement in the Periphery: Japanese Emigration to Brazil 1924-1934

Boniface, Elizabeth

December 2004

Steve Levine

Extant Culture: A Culture Equation that Explores Decisions to Enter the Korean War

Bowles, Lynnsie

December 2005

Anne Allison

Sex, Desire, and Men with Other Men: A Study of American Yaoi Fans

Chandler , Zachary Earle

December 2002

Anne Allison

Challenges to Japanese Pacifism in Postwar Popular Culture

Chi, Ellen Juin

May 2002

TJ Shi

Township Electoral Procedure Promoting Direct Elections in China

Choi, Seong-il

May 2005

Sucheta Mazumdar

Civil-Military Relations in South Korea and its Perspective in Light of Experiences of U.S. Civil-Military Relations

Collgreen, Stephanie

September 2001

Peter Nickerson

The Transformation of the Candidates for Immortality in the 13 Yuan Dynasty Daoist "enlightenment" musical comedies

Feistel, Amy Lanette

December 2001

Nan Lin

Nation-States, Global Cities: The Question of Identity Formation

Hick, Daniel

May 2005

Margaret McKean

An Evaluation of Recent Reforms of Japan's Legal Education and Lawyer Qualification Process

Hirayama, Nagatomi

May 2005

Sucheta Mazumdar

The Third Parties: The Democratic League and Chinese Party Politics 1920s - 1950s

 

Huggins, Heather

May 2004

Zeng Yi

Labor Unrest in China and State-Society Relations

Kataoka, Rie

May 2004

TJ Shi

Township and Village Enterprises and Rural Development in China

Kempf, Kathryn

December 2005

Leo Ching

Economic and Social Impacts in the Fast Lane: A Survey of the Global Automobile Industry

Martineau, Thomas

May 2004

Naomi Quinn

Educating and Raising Children: What the Discourse on this Topic of Mixed, Chinese, and Chinese-Americans Tells Us about American and Chinese Perspectives of a Child's Nature

Oh, Sangaun

May 2004

Zeng Yi

Comparative Analysis of Son Preference in China and South Korea

Ranieri, Michael

December 2003

Margaret McKean

Japanese Banking Reform

Snow, Corey

May 2004

Margaret McKean

Japan and E-Commerce: An Investigation into the Apparent Late Arrival of the Internet in Japan

Song, Yoonjin

December 2001

Sucheta Mazumdar

Internationalization of the Issue of Japanese Sexual Slavery: A Case Study of the Republic of Korea

Szablesicz, Marcella

December 2004

Ralph Litzinger

A Space to be Your (Virtual) Self: An Introduction to the World of Internet Gaming in the Urban Chinese Wangba

Wat, Janice

May 2003

Nan Lin

Hong Kong Migration Trends: Causes and Consequences

Wu, Jui-Hua

September 2002

Karen Wigen

The "Modern Girl" in Taisho Journalism and Fiction (focusing on Tanizaki's Naomi)

Yang, Dennis

May 2005

Steve Levine

U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Cross-Strait Relations: An Examination of the Bush Administration 2000-2004

 

Yoo, Sue

May 2004

Sucheta Mazumdar

Korean-American Youths of North Carolina : Discovering Identity

 

 
       
 

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