Asian Studies

Past Senior Thesis Titles

A History of Xenophobia: The Latent Anti-Chinese Sentiments Galvanizing the Tibet Movement in America (2011)
Effective Methods of Teaching Mandarin to American Students (2011)
The Liminal Half: On Space and Identity Formation in Half-Japanese Youth in Japan (2011)

Discovering Chinese in Chinese American Cinema: Addressing the Complexities of Hybrid Identities (2010)
Kecak, Tourism and New Creation in Balinese Performing Arts (2010)
Sex, Luxury Goods, and Kabuki: Conspicuous Display in the Textile Arts of Genroku Japan (2010)
Occidentalism: Japanese Perspectives of America, 1860-1871 (2010)
Gays in Japan: Changing Concepts of Sexual Behavior and Identity (2010)

China's Sport Ethos: Understanding the Role of Sport in China in the 20th Century (2009)
Understanding Sacred Space: Religion and Landscapes of Tibet and Colorado
Nihon no Tabemono: A Study of Japanese Food Culture from 1868 to Present Day (2009)

Reforming Japan: The Evolution of Economic and Social Practices in the Heisei Era (2008)
China's Hydroelectric Dam Development on the Lancang River (2008)
The Socio-Political Implications of Homosexuality in Modern Day China (2008)
Metal Musical Subcultures in Nepal and Southeast Asia (2008)
Someday My Prince Will Come: The Scholar's Role in the Chinese Cinderella Story (2008)
Narco-Terrorists or Ethnic Nationalist Parties? Investigations into Ethnic Insurgency in Burma's Golden Triangle (2008)

The Importance of Martial Arts in China as seen through the Eyes of the Yihe Quan during the Boxer Rebellion, 1896-1901 (2007)
Yasukuni and its Impact on Japanese Foreign Relations (2007)
The Long Road to Rapprochement: Twenty Years of Sino-Japanese Economic Diplomacy (2007)

Peking Opera (2005)
Guquin: The Modern Usage of an Ancient Instrument (2005)
The Effects of China's New Environmental Management: Hydroelectric Dams of the Past and Present (2005)
Guqin: The Modern Usage of an Ancient Instrument (2005)

Secrets of Shiato's Success: Transcending Conventions, Engaging Traditions (2004)
Political Culture: An Issue Facing Nepalese Democracy (2004)
The Relationship Between Tibetan Education and Ethnic Identity (2004)
Big Mac Attacked: Exploring the Social and Cultural Meanings of the Japanese Favorite, Ramen (2004)
Japanese Annexation and Assimilation of Ezo and the Role of the Cartographic Enterprise (2004)

Changing the Meaning of Motherhood: An Investigation of the One Child Policy in China Through Urban Only-Child Daughters Themselves (2003)
Idealizing Expectations: American Policies Towards China In The Last 20 Years (2003)

Stories of Difference: An Examination of Japanese Shoojo manga and the Relationship between Gay Men and Straight Women (2002)
Political Divergence and Economic Integration: The Interdependence of China and Taiwan (2002)
Sex, Drugs, and Women Who Roll Their "R's": A Study of the Women of Japanese Independent Rock (2002)
Marketized Medicine in Rural China: The Shift to a Socialist Market Economy and the Effects on the Accessibility of Affordable Medical Care (2002)
BILING-ILAW: A Non-Western Discourse on the Socio-Economic and Cultural Deterioration of the Philippines Leading to the Prostitution Epidemic (2002)

What makes Japan's convenience stores successful?: Contribution to society (2001)
The Effects of toys and spatial mapping skills in a blind child's development: a cross-cultural study (2001)
Reform Japanese Health Care: A Study of Cultural and Economic Problems Facing the Japanese Nation in the 21st Century (2001)
A comparison between education in Tibet and Tibetan education in exile in Dharamsala, India (2001)
US firms participating within the Japanese economy: commitment and adaptation (2001)

I am: Identity and Twentieth century Chinese art (2000)
Chinese women of the Tang and Song (2000)
Lu Xun and Montesquieu: a madman's diary, a harem revolt, and the role of the writer in revolution (2000)
Starbucks vs. Godzilla: changes in coffee culture in Japan (2000)
The Menopause Experience: a cross cultural study between Japan and the United States (2000)
The modern reformation of Zen Buddhist monastic life in America (2000)

Government use of media and masses to overtake native lands: a comparison of the Han Chinese takeover of Tibet and the United States takeover of Native American lands (1999)
An intellectual property rights case study: the American sound recording company in China (1999)
Must the lesser mirror the greater? : a look into the downturn of the Japanese economy (1999)
Power and energy in China: a coming environmental crisis (1999)

American psychology's transcendental pretense of a globally constructed discipline and its effects on the Japanese participant (1998)
Digesting Japan: obento: a cultural window into understanding Japanese mother-child relationships and societal expectations for motherhood (1998)

Lords and law in ancient Asia: concept of law and rule in India and China (1996)
Ru Shi, Chu Shi: Chinese philosophy as seen through the life and poetry of Wang Wei (1996)
Nationalism and the cultural revolution in Hong Kong (1996)

Reconciling sustainability and development in mountain regions: a journey on the development paths of two rural villages in Nepal (1994)

The social history and modern function of the Japanese work ethic (1993)
Development, conservation, and tourism in developing countries: two case studies of Thailand (1993)

The liberalization of the Japanese rice market (1991)
The modernization of the Chinese people's liberation army's military doctrine (1991)
The cultural rape of Okinawa (1991)

The many faces of Zhou Yang: Zhou Yang's life and literary career from 1929 to 1942 (1989)

Tibet real/ideal: an analysis of the political and cultural importance of Tibet (1980)
Evaluation of the orangutan rehabilitation process at Sepilok Rehabilitation Center in Malaysia (1980)

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