Theses & Dissertations
Many OSU masters theses and doctoral dissertations related to East Asia are available electronically through the OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertation Center—a free, online database of theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. The ETD center contains the abstract and full text (if it was submitted) for all included theses and dissertations. Since the 2002-2003 academic year, all new OSU dissertations are automatically posted at OhioLINK. Full-text versions of many earlier OSU dissertations are available through Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses). All theses and dissertations from other programs published prior to 2010 can be searched for at OhioLink or Proquest.
EAS MA Theses
Channing Baker, Modern Women, Chinese Nation: Expectations for the “Republican Lady’s” Wartime Role in Chongqing’s United Pictorial (Lianhe huabao 聯合畫報), 1942-45, 2025
Chad Berry, "Looking for a Friend: Sino-U.S. Relations and Ulysses S. Grant’s Mediation in the Ryukyu/Liuqiu 琉球 Dispute of 1879," 2014
Bruno Biagini, Hōjōki: Building for the Self, Building the Self, 2021
Pengyuan Cao, An Existential-Phenomenological Analysis of The Mind-Thing Relation in Wang Yangming’s Philosophy, 2016
Makayla Cherry, On Constructing 'Our Home': North Korean Cinema and Symbolism, 2022
Keegan Cothern, Bracing Japan: Earthquakes, Nature, Planning, and the (Re)Construction of Japan, 1923-1995, 2016
Paula Curtis, Purveyors of Power: Artisans and Political Relations in Japan‘s Late Medieval Age, 2011
Francesco DiMarco, Reframing Yuan Shikai: The Institutional, Rhetorical, and Religious Foundations of the Monarchical Attempt, 1915-1916, 2017
Deidryn Duncan, "High Heels and Rouge:Crafting the New Woman through Consumption in Linglong Women’s PictorialMagazine (Linglong funü tuhua zazhi)《玲瓏婦女圖畫雜誌》, 1931-1936," 2013
Savanna Eggens, Sentence-Final Particles and Gender Expression in Geling Yan’s White Snake, 2025
Yufan Fang, A Preliminary Study of a Tang Dynasty Diamond Sutra Manuscript in the Bliss M. and Mildred A. Wiant Collection, 2016
Justine Franklin, The Lie of Modern Chinese Socialism: the Case of Xinjiang and the Belt and Road Initiative, 2023
Jasmine Kim, Portrayal of Mother Figures and the Rhetoric of Giri and Ninjō in Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s The Woman-Killer and the Hell of Oil, 2024
Katelynn Klemm, The Contestation of Koreanness: A Comparative Study of North Korean Refugee Socio-Political Belonging, 2025
Adam Gerval, Seeking Autonomy: Comparative Analysis of the Japanese & South Korean Defense Sectors, 2020
Skylor Gomes, Chinese Government Response to the 2019 Hong Kong Protests:A Corpus-Based Lexical Study, 2010
Angela Haugen, Mounded Tomb Cultures of Three Kingdoms Period Korea and Yamato Japan: A Study of Golden Regalia and Cultural Interactions, 2019
Joseph Henares, Reluctant Complicity in a Fascist Age: Nishida Kitarō’s The Problem of Japanese Culture and Iwanami Culture, 1938-1941, 2019
Joshua Hubbard, Troubling the "New Woman:” Femininity and Feminism in The Ladies' Journal (Funü zazhi) 《婦女雜誌》, 1915-1931, 2012
Alexander Jania, Beyond Mitigation: The Emotional Functions of Natural Disaster Folklore in Japan, 2015
Seth Josolowitz, Work Smart: Information Technology and Productivity in Japan, 2021
Karen Mancl, Environmental Technology Transfer to Rural China, 2010
Ian McNally, Internal Cultivation or External Strength?: Claiming Martial Arts in the Qing Period, 2019
Stephanie Metzger, "Good Wives, Wise Mothers, and Their Working Men: Gender Perspectives on Nihonjinron," 2012
Jennifer Nunes, “Afternoon, a Fall”: Relationality, Accountability, and Failure as a Queer-Feminist Approach to Translating the Poetry of Yu Xiuhua, 2017
Erin Odor, Re-versing the Eighth Genius: Invoking Partnerships and Poetics to Translate the Huajian ji 《花箋記》, 2014
Laura Pearce, Recording the West: Central Asia in Xuanzang’s Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions, 2018
Jane Powell, Environmental and Economic Impacts of Chemical Fertilizer Use: A Case Study of the North China Plain, 2018
Kassandra Prakopdee, On Love, Hope, and Heartbreak : the Changing Meaning of "Arirang" in the 21st Century, 2023
Sheng Qu, Cinematic History and Multi-Subcultural Analysis:The Representation of Youth Dreams in Chinese Cinema, 2014
William Sheets, Mythology in 21st Century Japan: A Study of Ame no Uzume no Mikoto, 2017
Gregory Shonk, Vision and Presence: Seeing The Buddha In The Early Buddhist and Pure Land Traditions, 2012
Jason Smith, Takuan: Master Tropes in the Buddhist Metaphorization of Violence at the Nexus of Historical Change, 2021
Spencer Steward, "Chinese Agricultural Extension and Uneven Economic Growth, 1903-1937:A CaseStudy of Shandong Province," 2015
Katy Straily, Simmering Strife: Mt. Paektu and Sino-Korean Relations, 2018
Logan Ward, Colonial Connections: Interpreting and Representing Korea through Art and Material Culture at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1914 – 1945), 2021
Yongfei Yi, Sakaguchi Ango’s Conceptualizations of the Function of Literature in the Postwar Era, 2011
Xiyue Zhang, Adaptation of First-Person Narrative Literature: Revisiting Kazoku gēmu (1981) and The Family Game (1983), 2019
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