Dissertations: Publications: East Asian Studies Center: Indiana University

Publications

Dissertations

East Asia-related dissertations since 2001, by department

Anthropology: Pearl Chan
Chinese-Canadian Community Organizing and the Pursuit of Multiculturalism, Unity, and Diversity (2010); Sue-Je Lee Gage
Pure Mixed Blood: The Multiple Identities of Amerasians in South Korea (2007) (dual with East Asian Languages and Cultures); Kazuko Yamazaki
Nihon Buyo: Classical Dance of Modern Japan (2001)
Business: Yan Zhang
Three Essays in Cross-Listings and Corporate Governance (2009)

In Hyeock Ian Lee
Three Essays on Entrepreneurship, Multinationals, and Location Strategies (2007); Chang Hoon Oh
Three Essays on Market Penetration by Multinational Enterprises (2007); Jing Li
Real Options and the Instability of International Joint Ventures (2004)
Communication and Culture: Lori H. Morimoto
Some of Us are Looking at the Stars: Japanese Women, Hong Kong Films, and Transcultural Fandom (2011)

Jeeyoung Shin
Negotiating Local, Regional, and Global: Nationalism, Hybridity, and Transnationalism in New Korean Cinema (2008)

Xianguang Peter Zhang
Entrepreneurial Culture in Transition-Period China: A Rhetorical Critique (2008); Pei-Chi Chung
Crafting National Identity in Cyberspace: The Formulation of a Taiwan Nation and the Rise of an Alternative Media Culture (2002); Sang-Woo Lee
Theatrical Feature Film Trade and Media Policies in Japan, Korea, and the United States (2002)
Comparative Literature: Joanne Quimby
Narratives of Sexuality and Embodiment: Performative Identities and Abject Agency in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Japanese Women Writers (2010) (dual with East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Hanwei Tan
Chinese Visual Poetry (2009)

Chia-Li Kao
Imperialist Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Japanese and Taiwanese Literature, 1895-1945 (2008); Aiko Okamoto MacPhail
Imagining Modernity: European Japonism and Japanese Westernism (2001)
East Asian Languages and Cultures: Joanne Quimby
Narratives of Sexuality and Embodiment: Performative Identities and Abject Agency in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Japanese Women Writers (2010) (dual with Comparative Literature)

Liora Sarfati
Objects of Worship: Material Culture in the Production of Shamanic Rituals in South Korea (2010) (dual with Folklore and Ethnomusicology)

Gregory Johnson
Mobilizing the “Junior Nation”: The Mass Evacuation of School Children in Wartime Japan (2009); Charles Andrews
From Post Station to Post Office: Communications in Tokugawa and Early Meiji Japan (2008)

Sachiho Mori
Task-related Japanese Language Learning Strategies Used by High and Low Achievers at an American University (2008) (dual with Education); Sue-Je Lee Gage
Pure Mixed Blood: The Multiple Identities of Amerasians in South Korea (2007) (dual with Anthropology); Hong-Yue Guo
Rebirth and Karmic Retribution in Fifth-Century China: A Study of the Teachings of the Buddhist Monk Lu Shan Huiyuan (2007); David Nelson
Law and Order in the Making of Early Modern Japan: Seventeenth-Century Kanazawa Castle Town Administration (2007) (dual with History)

Kyoim Yun
Performing the Sacred: Political Economy and Shamanic Ritual on Cheju Island, South Korea (2007) (dual with Folklore)

Mary Miller
Intertextual Strategies in Abutsu ni’s “The Wet Nurse’s Letter” and “Precepts of Our House” (2006); Shu-wei Hsieh
Writing from Heaven: Celestial Writing in Six Dynasties Daoism (2005); Margaret S. Key
In Pursuit of a New Realism: Detection and Documentary in Abe Kobo (2005); Daniel H. Kim
The Literature of the Bittersweet: Kim Sung-ok and 1960s Korea (2004); Todd S. Munson
Imperialism and Infomedia in Bakumatsu Japan: The View from Treaty-port Yokohama (2004); Gil Raz
Creation of Tradition: The Five Talismans of the Numinous Treasure and the Formation of Early Daoism (2004); Harue Tsutsumi
Kabuki Encounters the West: Morita Kan’ya’s Shintomi-za Productions, 1878-1879 (2004); J. Colleen Berry
Animal Demons as Humans: Sex, Gender, and Boundary Crossings in Six Dynasties Zhiguai Literature (2002)

Sara Langer
Sentimental Fictions: A Study of Gender Politics in Selected Writings of Hanasanjin (1790-1858) (2002); Paola Voci
Visual Dissent in Twentieth-Century China: A Study of the Exhibitionist Mode of Representation in Cinema, Literature, and Media (2002); Paul Richard Manfredi
Decadence in Modern Chinese Poetry: Problems and Solutions (2001); Sarah Elizabeth Stevens
Making Female Sexuality in Republican China: Women’s Bodies in the Discourses of Hygiene, Education, and Literature (2001)
Economics: Jialu Liu
Three Essays on Human Capital, Migration and Rural Development in Developing Countries (2010); Seong-Hyeon Jeon
Policymaker’s Self-interest and Lobbying Strategies of Special Interest Groups (2004); Junghee Park
Three Essays on Bank Passivity and Bargaining (2004); Jianjun Wei
Alternative Approaches to the Monetary Unification of Hong Kong and Mainland China (2004)

Sunghwan Kim
Essays on the Soft Budget Constraint (2003); Wei Wang
China’s Urban Housing Reform: Implications from Wage Determination, Inequality, and Welfare Improvement (2002)
Education: Jianfei Chen
"Doing toward Becoming": A Critical Inquiry into the Self-Identification Process of a Culture Teacher in a Chinese-as-a-foreign-language Classroom (2011)

Seonmin Huh
I Do Not Know What It Would Be Like to Be Poor: Learning about Privileged Korean 6th Graders’ Understanding of Poverty (2010)

Mun Woo Lee
Between Two Languages and Two Worlds: Identity of Korean Early Study-abroad Undergraduates in the U.S. (2010)

Yu-Hsiu Hugo Lee
Exploring Biliteracy Developments among Women in Diasporas: The Case of Taiwan (2010); Jingjing Lou
The School Wall Crumbles: Pollution, Townization, and the Changing Ecology of Rural Schooling in Northwest China (2010)

Hong Pu
Global Pedagogy, Local Meanings: Toward the Glocalization of Communicative Language Teaching in the Classrooms of Western-Trained Chinese EFL Teachers (2009)

Ran Zhang
Confrontation or Cooperation: Spaces of Action for Student Grievance in Chinese Universities (2009)

Bong Joo Hwang
A Study of Counseling Process Using Critical Qualitative Methods: A Focus on Caring in a Cross-Cultural Dyad between a White Male Therapist and a Korean National Female Client (2008)

Eun Mee Lim
A Descriptive Study on Young Children’s Social Interaction with Peers at the Computer Area in a Korean Public Kindergarten Classroom (2008)

Sachiho Mori
Task-related Japanese Language Learning Strategies Used by High and Low Achievers at an American University (2008) (dual with East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Yun-Fang Sun
Motivation to Speak: Perception and Attitude of Non-English Major Students in Taiwan (2008)

Hyangje Cho
Korean Immigrant Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Homework/Home Work (2007)

Yoonhwa Cho
Mental Health Values, Culture, and the Therapeutic Process: A Systematic Investigation of Value-related Discourse between a White American Counselor and a Korean Client (2007)

Christopher Joseph Frey
Ainu Schools and Education Policy in Nineteenth-Century Hokkaido, Japan (2007) (dual with History); Yi-Ping Huang
Understanding International Graduate Instructors: A Narrative Critical Ethnography (2007); Young-Ok Kim
Middle School Mathematics Teachers’ Subject Matter Knowledge for Teaching in China and Korea (2007); Hsiang-Ni Sunny Lee
Investigating EFL Adult Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading Picture Books (2007); Ji-Eun Lee
Design of Blended Training for Transfer (2007); Karen Yeok-Hwa Ngeow
“If I Don’t Do, I Lose”: A Grounded Theory Study of Chinese Adult Learners’ Writing Motivation (2007); Jinkyu Park
Korean Parents in “English Fever” and their “Early Study-Abroad” Children in the United States: Parental Beliefs and Practices concerning First Language Peers (2007); Stephanie Cayot Serriere
Seeing Masculinities through the Eyes of the Boys: The “Play Curriculum” in Two Multinational Preschools in Japan and the United States (2007); Jan K. Buckwalter
Emergent Biscriptal Biliteracy: Preschoolers Hypothesize about Writing in Chinese and English (2006); Ming-Fang Hsieh
“My Mom Makes Me to Learn English”: Power, System, Instruction, and Quality of Early Childhood English Language Education in Taiwan (2006); Shao-Ting Hung
Alternative EFL Assessment: Integrating Electronic Portfolios into the Classroom (China) (2006); Myonghee Kim
An Ethnographic Study of the Culture of a Third-Grade ESL Class: ESL Education for Whole Child Development (2006); Jun-Min Kuo
Collaborative Action Research on Critical Literacy: Investigating an English Conversation Class in Taiwan (2006); R. Lena Lee
“Becoming an American Princess?”: The Interpretations of American Popular Culture by Young Korean Girls Living in the United States (2006); Mei-Ya Liang
Interaction in EFL Online Classes: How Web-Facilitated Instruction Influences EFL University Students’ Reading and Learning (China) (2006); Mei-Yu Lu
“When You Write ‘Four’ in Chinese, You Will Find Two J’s In It”: A Case Study of Four Children Learning to Be Literate in Alphabetic and Non-Alphabetic Print (2006); Yunjoo Park
Sojourner Families’ Perceptions of Bilingual/Bicultural Development in School-Age Children: An Exploration of the Experiences of Korean Graduate Student Families while Residing in the United States (2006); Atsuko Sajiki
Intellectual Empathy as a Tool of Cross-Cultural Learning: U.S. College Students in a Study Abroad Program in Japan (2006); Hohsung Choe
Negotiation of Status of Korean Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers (2005); Ping-Yun Sun
Drama in Education: The Process of Self-discovery and Transformative Learning (2005)

Ching-Sze Wang
John Dewey in China: To Teach and to Learn (2005)

Junko Dosaka
Social Identity Construction in the University Classroom: A Case of Anxious Learners of Japanese (2004); Miyuki Fukai
Bringing the Standards for Foreign Language Learning to Life through an Internet-Based Newspaper Project (Japan) (2004); Tak-Joon Jung
A Study of Justice as a Key Concept in Moral Education: The Meaning of Justice in Korean and United States Social Studies Textbooks (2004); Teresa Jeong-ah Lee
The Relationship between Language Proficiency and Metalinguistic Ability among Korean-English Bilingual Children (2004); Chia-Hui Lin
Taiwanese Early Childhood Teachers’ Beliefs about Curriculum (2004)

Helen McCabe
State, Society, and Disability: Supporting Families of Children with Autism in the People’s Republic of China (2004)

Taishi Takezawa
Peer-Mediated Social Interaction Intervention for Preschool Children with Autism (2004)

Kwan-Jun Tyan
Diffusion Barriers in E-Learnings in Corporate Taiwan: A Factor Analysis of Practitioners’ Perspectives (2004); Tony Chi-Chang Wu
Chinese American Acculturation, Household Income, Parental Education, and Parent-Child Agreement on the Child Behavior Checklist (2004)

Shih-Hsien Yang
Being, Doing, and Becoming: Language Learning and Teaching in a Cross-Cultural Setting (2004)

Anne Therese Falkenstein
Critical Literacy in an EFL context (2003); Sun-Mi Lee
Korean Early Childhood Educators’ Beliefs and Best Practices: The Impact of Education, Experience, and Teaching Context (2003); Gwo-Jen Lin
Leadership Development of College Students in Taiwan (2003); Gi-Zen Liu
An Instructional Design Theory for Teaching Freshman English in a Hybrid Web-Based Instruction Course in Taiwan (2003)

Yi-Hsuan Gloria Lo
“It’s Like Two Different Worlds,” A Journey from Learning to Teach in the United States to Learning to Teach in Taiwan (2003); Chih-Hung Wang
Students’ Goal Orientation, Self-efficacy, Attribution Style, Interest, and Their Influences on Mathematical Achievement: A Taiwanese Reform Context (2003); Xuehui Xie
A Comparison of the Characteristics of Curriculum Design and Instruction as Reflected in National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and Chinese Ministry of Education Mathematics Standards as well as the Theoretical and Philosophical Underpinnings of these Characteristics (2003); Hui-Chin Vicky Yeh
The Productive Power of Shared Learning: Emergence of a Model for the Professional Development of English as a Foreign Language (2003); Senem Yildiz
Exploring Factors Influencing EFL-Speaking International Graduate Students’ Forum Participation and Social Presence in Two Web-based Graduate Courses in the United States (2003); Shih-Fan Kao
The Pedagogical Context and the Theoretical Bases of EFL Writing Instruction in a Public High School in Taiwan (2002); Youngsang Kim
Construction of a Theoretical Model of Foreign Language Anxiety and Development of a Measure of the Construct: Korean University EFL Learners’ Case (2002); Show-Mann Liou
The Effect of “We the People...Project Citizen” on the Civic Skills and Dispositions of Taiwanese Adolescent Students (2002); Junko Tanaka
Academic Difficulties among East Asian International Graduates: Influences of Perceived English Language Proficiency and Native Educational/Socio-Cultural Background (2002); Ching-Huang Peter Wang
Self-guided Bibliotherapeutic Experiences Related to Identity Issues: Case Studies of Taiwanese Graduate Students in American University Settings (2002); Jiyoon Yoon
Feasibility and Effects of Science Education for Parents through the Internet in Korea (2002)

Shingjen Jiang
English Academic Writing and Reading: Case Studies of Taiwanese Graduate Students’ Second-Language Research Paper Composing in an American University (2001); Wei Tu
Cultural Identity in Chinese-born Children Adopted by White American Parents: Chinese inside Their Hearts (2001); Junko Ueno
Grammar Instruction and Learning Style: A Case of Teaching the Japanese Te-iru Construction (2001)
Folklore and Ethnomusicology: Curtis Ashton
Interpretive Policy Analysis in Beijing’s Ethnographic Museums: Implementing Cultural Policy for the 2008 “People’s Olympics” (2010)

Yoonhee Chang
Kugagui Segyehwa: Contemporary ‘Traditional’ Music and Globalization in South Korea (2010)

Liora Sarfati
Objects of Worship: Material Culture in the Production of Shamanic Rituals in South Korea (2010) (dual with East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Jessica Anderson Turner
Cultural Performances in the Guangxi Tourism Commons: A Study of Music, Place, and Ethnicity in Southern China (2010)

Midori Ichikawa
American Missionaries in Contemporary Japan: Their Shared Expressive Practices (2009); Sang-Yeon Sung
Globalization and the Regional Flow of Popular Music: The Role of the Korean Wave (Hanliu) in the Construction of Taiwanese Identities and Asian Values (2008); Kyoim Yun
Performing the Sacred: Political Economy and Shamanic Ritual on Cheju Island, South Korea (2008) (dual with East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Jiang Lu
The Art of Traditional Architectural Ornaments in Northern China (2007); Alfred Yama Kina
Ushuu Guhuukuu (2006); Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung
Uri Saenghwal Ŭ Mak: Music, Discourse, and Identity in South Korea (2002); Miyuki Hirayama
Matsuri in Shimomura: Experience, Performance, and History in a Japanese Festival (2001)
French and Italian: Joyce M. Janca-Aji
To the Other Shore: Reading Buddhism in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar (2004)
Geography: Zhigang Tang
The Urban Housing Market in a Transitional Economy: Shanghai as a Case Study (2006)
History: Prangtip Kongridhisuksakorn
Community Development in Historical Perspectives: Tianjin from the Qing to the People’s Republic of China (2008); Christopher Joseph Frey
Ainu Schools and Education Policy in Nineteenth-Century Hokkaido, Japan (2007) (dual with Education); David Nelson
Law and Order in the Making of Early Modern Japan: Seventeenth-Century Kanazawa Castle Town Administration (2007) (dual with East Asian Languages and Cultures); Terrence Jackson
Socialized Intellect: The Cultural Network of “Rangaku” in Late Tokugawa Japan (2004); Kathryn Jean Edgerton
The Semiotics of Starvation in Late-Qing China: Cultural Responses to the “Incredible Famine” of 1876-1879 (2002); David Andrew Nordmann
Idealism, Immigration, and Imperialism: Durham Stevens and the Rise and Fall of United States Diplomacy with Japan and Korea, 1873-1908 (2002)
Health, Physical Education, and Recreation: Li-Ju Chen
An Investigation of International Volunteer Tourists’ Motivation (2009)

Juan Zhang
Related Trends in Energy Intake, Energy Expenditure, and Body Mass Index among Chinese School Children and Adolescents from 1991-2004 (2009)

Shang Min Ma
Relationships among Psychological Well-being, Leisure Negotiation, and Leisure Participation (2008); Naoko Yamada
Understanding Interpretive Audiences for Effective Adult Learning: A Case Study of a Japanese National Park (2007); Hyun-Kyoung Oh
The Emotional Reactions to Challenging Behavior Scale: Modification and Validation (2006); Ju-Tse Tsai
The Identification of the Components for an Outdoor Education Curriculum in Taiwan (2006)
Journalism: Jacob Groshek
Freedom and “New” Media: Examining the Relationship between Communication Technologies and Democracy Cross-Nationally from 1946 to 2003 (2008); Lisa Walls Holstein
Framing the Enemy: Changing United States Media Images of China and the U.S.S.R. at the End of the Cold War (2002)
Law: James Richard Cohee
East Asian Law and Political Economy (2001)
Library and Information Science: Bi Yun Huang
Analyzing a Social Movement’s Use of Internet: Resource Mobilization, New Social Movement Theories and the Case of Falun Gong (2009)
Linguistics: Dongmyung Lee
Loanword Tonology of South Kyungsang Korean (2009); Eric Oglesbee
Multidimensional Stop Categorization in English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Canadian French (2008); Hanyong Park
Phonological Information and Linguistic Experience in Foreign Accent Detection (2008); Deborah Burleson
Training Segmental Productions for Second Language Intelligibility (2007); Kyoko Nagao
Cross-Language Study of Age Perception (2006)

Masanori Deguchi
The Anatomy of Quantifier Scope Interaction (Japan) (2003); Byung-jin Lim
Perception, Production, and Orthography in Syllabification in Korean and English (2003); Kwang Chul Park
The Structure of Accentual Phrase in Korean: The Interaction between Segments and Suprasegments in Three Korean Dialects (2003); Robert Glen
Japanese Lexically Specified Accent: A Word-Level Prominence System with Both Pitch and Loudness as Components (2002)
Music: Eva Kwan
Secondary Choral Music Education in Hong Kong: Relations among Motivation to Music, Meaning of the Choral Experience, and Selected Demographic Variables (2007); Cathleen M. Cameron
“China” as Theatrical Locus: Performances at the Swedish Court, 1753-1770 (2005); Min-Ho Yeh
Four Late Twentieth-Century Clarinet Works by Chinese Composers Living in North America (2004)
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures: Anya H. King
The Musk Trade and the Near East in the Early Medieval Period (2007)
Political Science: Natsuyo Ishibashi
Diverging Allies of the Super Power: Alliance Security Dilemmas and the German and Japanese Responses to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 2001-2003 (2010)

Sarah Combellick-Bidney
Contesting Development and Globalization in Mongolia (2009); Jianxun Wang
Political Economy of Village Governance in Contemporary China (2006); Sangbum Shin
From Red to Green: Economic Globalization and Environmental Protection in China (2004); George Christopher Ehrhardt
Engagement and Alliances in Northeast Asia: The Role of Security Consultation (2002); Bum Suk Kim
Divergent Paths of Democratization: Comparative Study of Taiwan and South Korea (2001); Seongji Woo
The Politics of Asymmetrical Triangles: Cooperation and Conflict in Northeast Asia (2001)
Psychology: Yi-Ping Hsieh
Parenting Styles and Peer Relations across Early Childhood through Early Adolescence in Taiwan (2009)

Hanako Yoshida
Iconicity in Language Learning: The Role of Mimetics in Word Learning Tasks (Japan) (2003)
Public and Environmental Affairs: Jeongseok Lee
Knowledge Management in Preserving Ecosystems: The Case of Seoul (2009)

Hanjun Park
Pubic Management Innovation Theory and Practice: Bureaucratic Attitudes toward ICT in South Korean Government (2009)

Suk Tae Hwang
Explaining Environmental Performance of Korean Firms: Why Some Do Better Than Others (2008); Kiwhan Kim
Measurement of Water Quality at Work: Looking for Policy Implications of Contingent Valuation Method for Water Management (2002)
Religious Studies: Erik J. Hammerstrom
Buddhists Discuss Science in Modern China (1895-1949) (2010)

Cuong T. Mai
Visualization Apocrypha and the Making of Buddhist Deity Cults in Early Medieval China: With Special Reference to the Cults of Amitabha, Maitreya, and Samantabhadra (2009)

W. Clarke Hudson II
Spreading the Dao, Managing Mastership, and Performing Salvation: The Life and Alchemical Teachings of Chen Zhixu (2008)
Sociology: Kathryn Gold Hadley
Asserting Agency: Taiwanese Children Confront Confucian Values in Kindergarten and First-Grade Peer Cultures (2003); Aaron Brooks Culley
Accounting for Power: Population Data and State Building (2002)
Speech and Hearing Sciences: Wen-Hui Su
An Acoustic Study of the Singer’s Formant: The Comparison between Western Classical and Traditional Chinese Opera Singing Techniques (2009)

Chris D. Martz
Production of Onset Consonant Clusters/Sequences by Adult Japanese Learners of English (2007)
Telecommunications: Xiaofei Wang
Technological Change and Production Location in the Movie Industry: A Study of Genre Trends in 7 Countries (2009)