Recent Graduates & Thesis Projects

Jiaying He— "The Art of Camouflage: Stand-up comedy, gender, and public sphere in China"
Yongkang Chen—"Silence of Victimhood: Violence and Counterviolence in Contemporary Okinawan Literature of Medoruma Shun and Sakiyama Tami"
Qiwen Li—"Intersecting Narratives Beyond Governmental and Religious Institutions: Daily Tibetan Discourse in Pema Tseden’s The Silent Holy Stones, Tharlo and Balloon"
Xiaodan Wang— "Breaking Free from Beauty's Captivity? — “Anti-Beauty Duty” Influencer Culture"

Danni Xu—"Boundary between Virtuality and Reality: Comprehending VTubing Phenomenon through Posthuman"
Chenyan Wang—"Fall of the Father: On Literary Influence of Chen Yingzhen’s Early Writing (1959-1965) from Lu Xun to Wang Anyi"
Tianyi Liu—"Toward a Socialist Soundscape: The Making of an Auditory Authority in Post-1949 China"
Yi-Ning Wong—"Imperial Ambitions and Colonial Spectacles: Examining Fascist Elements and Space Politics in the 1935 Taiwan Exposition"
Yishu Wu—Affect, Violence, and Sovereignty: Reading Collective Isolation in Post-Catastrophic Trauma Writings"
Yu Fan—"Residing in Yesterday's Tomorrow: Domestic Spaces in 21st Century Chinese-Language Documentary Films"
Yuting Gong—"In Search of Self-Narratives: (Re) Imagining Intimacy and Diasporic Identities in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet and Alice Wu's Saving Face"
Yuezhou Wang—"Echoes of Logos and Dao: "'Yellow Earth' and the Question Concerning Technology, Language, and Cross-Cultural Dialogue"

Yumeng Yang—"A Feminized Diaspora: Precarity, Gendered labor and Cultural Politics of Teaching Chinese in America"
Yidan Wang— “In Between the Closet and the Wild: Queer Animality in Contemporary China”
Yufei Sun— “Studies in Chinese Harry Potter Danmei Tongren Fiction and Fandom"
Huanqiu Hu—"Narrating the Covid-19 Cyber-Memoryscape in China: from the Social Media Infodemic to the Politicisation of Pandemic"
Suchen Ding—"(Self)Representation of Migrant Workers in Chinese Smaller-Screen Visual Practices: From DV-made Documentaries to Short Videos"
Xuanye He—"Virtuality and Vulnerability: the Queer Performances of Chinese VTubers."
Sihao Huang—"Embodied Fate: the Character Economy and the Precarious Subjectivity in Gacha Games"

George Cai—"Tree-Burning: Yu Hua and Can Xue as Writers of the Rhizome"
Qionlin Lou—"An Invisible Conundrum: Visualizing 'Queer Immobility' in the Contemporary PRC"
Jinyi Li— “Feminists without Feminism: Women’s Online Movement in Contemporary China”
Jingyi Liu—"American literary reportage about China during the Sino-Japanese war"
Son Truong—"Minor Mobilities: A Historical Analysis of Little Saigon through Oral History"
Yuan Tian— “Falling in Love With Virtual Boyfriends: Otome Games in Japan and Mainland China”

Fangefei Wang—"Imagining China: Reading Li Ziqi and Fangfang from a Nationalist Perspective”
Huiqi Zhang— “The Cartogfraphy of Hong Kong Urban Space: Living and Walking in the Cinematice Cityscapes of Fruit Chan and Ann Hui”
Jing Long Wee— “Reading for Cosmotechnics: Dissipation, Enflaming and the Contemporary”
Muyun Zhou— “Art is to Sacrifice One’s Death”: the aesthetic and ethic of the Chinese Diasporic Artist Mu Xin”
Xiaoxu Huang— “The Ideology of Feminine Beauty in 21^st Century China”

Ruoyi Bian—"The Female Figures in Aesthetic Literature in Early Twentieth-Century China and Japan—Yu Dafu and Tanizaki Junichiro as Examples"
Zhuyuan Han— "Gentility in Drinking: Chinese Intellectuals and Tea/Coffee Culture in Republican Shanghai (1920s-1930s)"
Anisa Fatima Khalifa—"Visualizing the Fractured Nation: Narratives of (Un)belonging in 21st-century Indian and South Korean Media"
Ziyang Liu— "The Voice as A Transcending Power: The Female Singer, Body, and Political Discourse in 1930s Shanghai"
Chuxu Lu— "Narrating Cats and Cat Lovers in Modern China: Animality, Subjectivity, and Media Space"
Andrew Tran— "The Street Must Be Defended: Towards a Theory of Assembly on Hong Kong’s Avenida de la Revolución"
Xinran Wang—"Culinary Nostalgia and Fantasy: Dip the Post-socialist China in Hot Pot"
Luming Zhang— "Politicizing art in Mao and post-Mao era"
Wenxian Zhang— "The Gaze of “Chaos”: Temporal-Spatial Migration and Power Dynamics in a Globalizing Post-Socialist China"

Zihan Feng—"Travels in and out of the Peach Blossom Spring: Diasporic Utopian Imaginations in Contemporary China"
Tojiro Kataya— "Covering, Localizing, and Retracing: Japanese Popular Songs’ Cover Versions in Taiwan and PRC"
Nian Liu—"A Transition from "Vulgar" to "Polite" Nationalism in China? Roles played by females and popular culture"
Xiaoning Lu— "Who’s the Murderer: Why is this detective reality show so popular?"
Dingding Wang—"Cyberpunk in China: The (Trans)Forming of a Genre, Discourse and Aesthetics"
Yatong Wang— "Detecting the Post-Fukushima Anxieties in Forensic Crime Fiction: Genre, Discourse, and a Case Study on Unnatural"
Kaiyang Xu— "Documenting the Rural Space in Postsocialist China: State Power, Rural People, and Filmmaker in Spatialized Power Dialectics"

Chu Deng— "Filming the Fighting Bodies: A Study on the Xu Haofeng’s Martial Arts Movies"
Xinglu Jiang— "Running Away from Homelessness: Xiao Hong and Her Literary Practice of “Home” at the Time of National Transformation"
Chuanhui Meng—"The Politics and Aesthetics of Cinematic Motions in Left-Wing Film Productions and Discourses in 1930s China"
Yi Sun—"The Autobiographical Animal: On Human’s Biological and National Identities"
Keyun Tian— "A Questionable Shape: Queer Spectrality in Contemporary Taiwanese Literature"
Ningxin Xu— "Extinction as Equivocation: Inquiry in Political Ontology"
Yumin Yang— "Ambivalent Subjectivities: Gender, Multiethnic intimacies and Colonialism in Japanese Writers’ Manchurian Literature"
Fei Yuan—"Site for Resistance: CSR infrastructure in Kyaukpyau Special Economic Zone"
Haoyue Zhang — "Growing Sideways: A discussion on the Figure of Child in China"

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies