Dissertations: Publications: East Asian Studies Center: Indiana University

Publications

Dissertations

East Asia-related dissertations since 2001, by department

Anthropology: 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
Other Modernities: Remaking of Bodies, Movement, and Gender in Japanese Dance and Theater (2001)
Business: 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: Jeeyoung Shin
Nationalism, Hybridity, and Globalization in New Korean Cinema (2008); Pei-Chih Chung
Crafting National Identity in Cyberspace: The Formulation of a Taiwan Nation and the Rise of an Alternative Media Culture (2003); Sang-Woo Lee
Theatrical Feature Film Trade and Media Policies in Japan, Korea, and the United States (2002)
Comparative Literature: 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: Sachiho Mori
Task-related Japanese Language Learning Strategies Used by High and Low Achievers at an American University (2009) (dual with Education); Charles Andrews
From Post Station to Post Office: Communications in Tokugawa and Early Meiji Japan (2008); Kyoim Yun
Performing the Sacred: Political Economy and Shamanic Ritual on Cheju Island, South Korea (2008) (dual with Folklore); 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); Mary Miller
Intertextual Strategies in Abutsu ni’s “The Wet Nurse’s Letter” and “Precepts of Our House” (2007); David Nelson
Law and Order in the Making of Early Modern Japan: Seventeenth-Century Kanazawa Castle Town Administration (2007) (dual with History); Shu-wei Hsieh
Celestial Script Tradition 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); Sara Langer
Sentimental Fictions: A Study of Gender Politics in Selected Writings of Hanasanjin (1790-1858) (2003); J. Colleen Berry
Animal Demons as Humans: Sex, Gender, and Boundary Crossings in Six Dynasties Zhiguai Literature (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: Seong-Hyeon Jeon
Policymaker’s Self-interest and Lobbying Strategies of Special Interest Groups (2004); Sunghwan Kim
Essays on the Soft Budget Constraint (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); Wei Wang
China’s Urban Housing Reform: Implications from Wage Determination, Inequality, and Welfare Improvement (2003)
Education: Sachiho Mori
Task-Related Japanese Language Learning Strategies Used by High and Low Achievers at an American University (2009) (dual with East Asian Languages and Cultures); Hyanje Cho
Korean Immigrant Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Homework/Home Work (2008); Chuan Y. Hsu
Teaching and Learning to Read and to Write in English: The Taiwanese Experience (2008); Yi-Ping Huang
Understanding International Graduate Instructors: A Narrative Critical Ethnography (2008); 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); Christopher Joseph Frey
Ainu Schools and Education Policy in Nineteenth-Century Hokkaido, Japan (2007) (dual with History); 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); Wen-Chiang Rita Chen
Exploring Children’s Identity Formation through Their Daily Routines in a Multi-Aged Classroom: Constructing a Valid Self, Meaning Making, and Transformation (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); Taishi Takezawa
Peer-Mediated Social Interaction Intervention for Preschool Children with Autism (2005); Ching-Sze Wang
John Dewey in China: To Teach and to Learn (2005); Tony Chi-Chang Wu
Chinese American Acculturation, Household Income, Parental Education, and Parent-Child Agreement on the Child Behavior Checklist (2005); 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); Gi-Zen Liu
An Instructional Design Theory for Teaching Freshman English in a Hybrid Web-Based Instruction Course in Taiwan (2004); Helen McCabe
State, Society, and Disability: Supporting Families of Children with Autism in the People’s Republic of China (2004); Kwan-Jun Tyan
Diffusion Barriers in E-Learnings in Corporate Taiwan: A Factor Analysis of Practitioners’ Perspectives (2004); Chih-Hung Wang
Students’ Goal Orientation, Self-efficacy, Attribution Style, Interest, and Their Influences on Mathematical Achievement: A Taiwanese Reform Context (2004); 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 (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); 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); Hui-Chen 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); Junko Dosaka
Social Identity Construction: A Case of Anxious Learners of Japanese (2002); Shingjen Jiang
English Academic Writing and Reading: Case Studies of Taiwanese Graduate Students’ Second-Language Research Paper Composing in an American University (2002); 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); 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: Jiang Lu
The Art of Traditional Architectural Ornaments in Northern China (2008); Sang Yeon Sung
The Cinematic Representation of Old Shanghai: Musical Contours, Nostalgia, and Urban Memory (2008); Kyoim Yun
Performing the Sacred: Political Economy and Shamanic Ritual on Cheju Island, South Korea (2008) (dual with East Asian Languages and Cultures); Alfred Yama Kina
Ushuu Guhuukuu (2006); Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung
Music, Discourse, and Identity in South Korea (2002); Miyuki Hirayama
Individual Creativity and Tradition in Japanese Festivals (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 (2005); 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: 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)
Linguistics: Dongmyung Lee
Loanword Tonology of South Kyungsang Korean (2009); Eric Oglesbee
Multidimensional Stop Categorization in English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Canadian French (2008); Han-Yong 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); Byung-jin Lim
Perception, Production, and Orthography in Syllabification in Korean and English (2004); Kwang Chul Park
The Structure of Accentual Phrase in Korean: The Interaction between Segments and Suprasegments in Three Korean dialects (2004); Masanori Deguchi
The Anatomy of Quantifier Scope Interaction (Japan) (2003); Robert Glen
Japanese Lexically Specified Accent: A Word-Level Prominence System with Both Pitch and Loudness as Components (2003)
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); Daniel Quinn
Guitar Music by Japanese Composers (2003)
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures: Anya H. King
The Musk Trade and the Near East in the Early Medieval Period (2007)
Political Science: Sarah Combellick-Bidney
“We Would Not Choose These Terms”: Development Discourses in Mongolia (2008); 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 (2002); Seongji Woo
The Politics of Asymmetrical Triangles: Cooperation and Conflict in Northeast Asia (2001)
Psychology: Hanako Yoshida
Iconicity in Language Learning: The Role of Mimetics in Word Learning Tasks (Japan) (2003)
Religious Studies: W. Clarke Hudson II
Spreading the Dao, Managing Mastership, and Performing Salvation: The Life and Alchemical Teachings of Chen Zhixu (2007); Douglas Morgan Padgett
Religion, Memory, and Imagination in Vietnamese California (2007)
Sociology: Robert Clark
Integration, Mobility, and Development: International Trade and Organization Networks, 1980-2000 (2008); Kathryn Gold Hadley
Asserting Agency: Taiwanese Children Confront Confucian Values in Kindergarten and First-Grade Peer Cultures (2004); Aaron Brooks Culley
Accounting for Power: Population Data and State Building (2002)
School of Public and Environmental Affairs: 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)
Speech and Hearing Sciences: Chris D. Martz
Production of Onset Consonant Clusters/Sequences by Adult Japanese Learners of English (2007)