The senior thesis represents the culmination of the undergraduate curriculum at Princeton. For students in the Department of East Asian Studies, the thesis should be an original contribution to scholarship on East Asia, based at least in part on source materials in the student's language of specialization.
Class of 2023
Author | Title | Adviser |
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Mylz Hahn |
Brian Steininger |
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Alexandra Hong |
Ksenia Chizhova |
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Josephine Kim |
Surveillance and Scapegoating: A Disciplinary Reproduction of the Social Imagination of Contagion |
Steven Chung |
Eric Park |
Keyhole Tumuli in the Southwestern Peripheries of the Korean Peninsula |
Thomas Conlan |
Anne Wen |
Ksenia Chizhova |
Class of 2022
Class of 2021
Author |
Title |
Adviser |
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Madeline Wu |
Erin Huang |
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Sergio Serna |
Xin Wen |
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Louison Sall |
Xin Wen |
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Samuel Choi |
Juingong: Examining Reader-Character Interaction in Korean Webtoons |
Steven Chung |
Reginald Quartey |
Federico Marcon |
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Morgana McGrath |
Steven Chung |
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Alec Leng |
Atsuko Ueda |
Class of 2020
Author |
Title |
Adviser |
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Sofie Kim |
Fashion and Upheaval: Bottom-up Creations of Intimacies in East Asia |
Ksenia Chizhova |
Leanna Nguyen |
Chih-p'ing Chou |
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Cecilia Vergara |
Amy Borovoy |
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Jacob Williams |
Re-Queering Utena: Localized and Global Queerness in the Anime Series Revolutionary Girl Utena |
Brian Steininger |
Seth Paternostro |
Tasting Communism: Comrade Cookery and the Politics of Eating in Mao’s China, 1949-1965 |
He Bian |
Soyeong Park |
Franz Prichard |
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Brandon Mintzer |
An Objective Identity: The Role of the National Palace Museum in the ROC and Taiwanese Narratives |
Guangchen Chen |
Natalie Nagorski |
Anna M. Shields |
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Coby Goldberg |
Paize Keulemans |
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Eunice Kim |
Atsuko Ueda |
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Isabella Chung |
Southeast and East Asian Documentary Films: The Responsibility of Filming Violence |
Erin Huang |
Michael Kamsky |
Sheldon Garon |
Class of 2019
Author |
Title |
Adviser |
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Sophie Wheeler |
(Re)Constructing Tohoku: Iterations of Tabi in Post-March 11th, Tohoku Japan |
Franz Prichard |
Kai Liu |
Paul Nadal, |
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Faith Garcia |
Steven Chung |
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Ashley Berland |
Japan’s Brand of Entrepreneurship: A Contemporary Look at its Development and Modern Manifestation |
Federico Marcon |
Class of 2018
Author |
Title |
Adviser |
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Alisa Fukatsu |
Urban Folk Religions: A Study on Modern Manifestation of Japanese Folk Religion |
Federico Marcon |
Julie Goldstein |
Amy Borovoy |
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Melanie Ho |
Erin Huang |
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Audrey Lee |
Anna M. Shields |
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Elizabeth Maxey |
“They are Our Fellow Countrymen:” Koryo Saram and the Korean Nation |
Ksenia Chizhova |
Julia Selignan |
Martin Kern |
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Guoen Sheng |
Franz Prichard |
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Mathew Troiani |
Yu Xie |
Class of 2017
Author |
Title |
Adviser |
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Andrea Jenkins |
Benjamin Elman |
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Matt Wie |
Yi Chong-jun’s “A Story of Us Worms” (Beolle iyagi): A Translation and Critical Reading |
Ksenia Chizhova |
Murad Mahmudov |
Sheldon Garon |
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Sophia Su |
David Leheny |
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Matt Blazejewski |
Transnational Horror Cinema: Seeing with New Vision in Jian Gui and The Eye |
Pieter Keulemans |
Jiyoon Kim |
Steven Chung |
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Alicia Lamb |
He Bian |
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Sadiki Wiltshire |
Christopher Chyba |
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Sheila Sisimit |
The Politics of Colonial Identity: Collaboration and Development in Yun Ch’i-ho’s Diary |
Ksenia Chizhova |
A.J. Ohiwerei |
Nihon wa nandesu ka: Discerning Okinawa's Place in Modern Japan |
Atsuko Ueda |
Charles Argon |
Inter-Imperial Experts: Administration and Conflict in Ningbo, 1832-1862 |
He Bian |
Class of 2016
Author |
Title |
Adviser |
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Zoe Zhang |
Winter-Worm Summer-Grass: Caterpillar Fungus and the Invention of a Wonder Drug? |
Benjamin Elman |
Briana Christine Teresa Freeman |
Stereotypes Traverse Language: Being "Raced" in English-to-Japanese Translation |
Patrick Caddeau |
Nicholas G. Keeley |
Pieter Keulemans |
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Ross Donovan |
Radical Intimacies in the Queer Public Sphere of Postsocialist China |
Erin Huang |
Bradley Berman |
Pieter Keulemans |
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Joyce Da-Hyun Kim |
Steven Chung |
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Daniel Nicholas Taub |
Dreaming in Chinese: The Politics of China's Entrepreneurship Promotion |
Yu Xie |
Megumi Minaki |
Amy Borovoy |
Class of 2015
Class of 2014
Author |
Title |
Adviser |
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Jennifer Memie Alexis Greene |
“Somehow, Crystal: A Translation of Tanaka Yasuo’s Nantonaku, Kurisutaru” |
Atsuko Ueda |
Alexandra Elizabeth Small |
Janet Chen |
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Emily Hannah Erickson |
Thomas Conlan |
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Cameron Langeluttig White |
A New Kind of Border Town: Spatial Intersection in Tourist Fenghuang |
Everett Zhang |
Mary Kathleen Schulman |
“The King’s Speech: Language and Ritual in the ‘Great Proclamation’ of the Classic of Documents” |
Martin Kern |
Max Batt Behar |
Steven Chung |
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Margaret Kathy Wang |
Everett Zhang |
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Asumi Shibata |
David Leheny |
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Marianne Nichole Nell-Tascon |
David Leheny |
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Leila Arisa Howard |
Steven Chung |
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Ruofan Cheng |
“‘Broad’ Nationalism Among the Young Turk and Chinese Revolutionaries?” |
Willard Peterson |
Nicole Jian Min Hung |
Brian Steininger |