Topics
The following list shows the range of topics researched by recent SEAS postgraduate students and grouped according to the school's four research clusters.
Business, Political Economy and Development
| Name | Degree awarded | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Yongjiang Wang | 1996 | Changing Patterns of Finance for Education Under the Socialist Market Economy in the People's Republic of China |
| Judith Cherry | 1999 | Korean Consumer Electronics Investment in Europe: A Case of Involuntary Internationalization? |
| Carlos Noronha | 2000 | An empirical study of cultural values in total quality managment: A Chinese - culture specific model |
| Siew Huat Kong | 2001 | Exploring organisational culture in Mainland China through selected firms in Guangdong Province |
| Wei Zhang | 2001 | The Applicability of East Asian Pattern of Industry Policy to China-Comparative Study of Industrial Science and Technology Policies in East Asia |
| Hiroko Takeda | 2002 | The political economy of reproduction in Japan: Between nation-state and everyday life |
| Yanbing Zhang | 2006 | Liberal and Socialist Visions in Post-Deng China: Neo-authoritarianism and Its Critics |
| Hong Yu | 2008 | Regional Inequality in Guangdong Province |
| Kerstin Lehr | 2009 | Educational 'Success' in China? An Evaluation of Educational Policy in the People's Republic Since 1996 |
| Christopher Bond | 2012 | Foreign Direct Investment in the City of Qingdao: Experiences of Chinese Workers in Foreign-Invested Enterprises. 1996 to 2009 |
East Asian Identities and Cultures
| Name | Degree awarded | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Sung Soo Kim | 1998 | An Examination of the Life and Legacy of a Korean Quaker, Ham Sokhon (1901-1989): Voice of the People and Pioneer of Religious Pluralism in Twentieth Century Korea |
| Kathryn Allen | 2000 | Learning Strategies for Kanji and Reading Skills in UK Japanese Classrooms |
| Daniella Ferreira De Carvalho | 2000 | Nikkeijin: Lineage and Identity |
| James A. Foley | 2000 | Korea's Divided Families |
| Angela Coutts | 2001 | Gender and national identity in the works of Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951) |
| Sung Hee Kirk | 2001 | Translation-oriented text analysis of Korean texts translated from English |
| Andrea Vasishth | 2001 | The Chinese in Japan: Japanese attitudes and policies towards Chinese residents, 1859-1924 |
| Darren Ashmore | 2005 | An Uncommon Folk. Negotiating Social Reality within the Revival of Japanese Folk Puppet Theatre |
| Joanna Elfving-Hwang | 2006 | Literary Subversions of Femininity? An Irigarayan Reading of 1990s South Korean Women's Literature |
| Simon Forth | 2006 | The Extraction, Introduction, transfer, Diffusion and Integration of Loanwords in Japan: Loanwords in a Literate Society |
| Mark Irwin | 2006 | Mora Obstruent Allomorpgy In Sino-Japanese Morphemes In Final - /KI/ : A Case Of Lexical Diffusion In Modern Japanese |
| Seung-Hoon Shin | 2008 | State and Market in Korea: Host Country Barganing Power and FDI Policy |
| Richard Campbell | 2009 | The Changing Social Context of Marriage in Japan and South Korea |
| Scott Koga-Browes | 2009 | Reading News Images in Japan: Visual Semiosis in the Context of Television Representation |
| Florian Schneider | 2009 | Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series |
| Kevin Cawley | 2010 | From Matteo Ricci to Tasan (Chong Yagyong): Deconstructing Christianity in a Neo-Confucian Context |
| Julian Manning | 2011 | Brazilians in Japan: Cultural Identity and the (Re)creation of Social Space |
| Paola Cavaliere | 2012 | Women's Identity Formation and Transformation in Contemporary Japan: A Gendered Approach to Faith-Based Volunteering |
| Kamila Szczepanska | 2012 | The Politics of War Memory in Japan 1990 - 2010: Progresive Civil Society Groups and Contestation of Memory of the Asia-Pacific War (1931 - 1945) |
| Thomas Bannister | 2013 | Heirs of Lei Feng or Re-Organised Independance? A Study of Individualisation in Chinese Civil Society Volunteers |
| Mark McLeister | 2013 | Negotiating Policy and Practise: A Micro-Level Analysis of Three-Self Churches in a Coastal Chinese City |
Social Change and Transition in East Asia
| Name | Degree awarded | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Hood | 1997 | Nakasone Yasuhiro and Japanese Education Reform: A Revisionist View |
| Beverley Yamamoto | 2000 | A Feminist Analysis of the Teenage Pregnancy "Problem" in Japan: Pushing the Limits of "Good Girl" Behaviour |
| Neil Evans | 2001 | Community planning in Japan: The case of Mano, and its experience in the Hanshin earthquake |
| Peter Matanle | 2001 | A study of the nature of capitalist modernity in contemporary Japan. Man and company under restructuring and globalisation |
| Kuniko Ishiguro | 2008 | Generating Equal Employment Opportunities: Work and Life of Female Managers in Japanese Companies |
| Raymond Yeap | 2008 | The Theory of Transition in China: The Thought of Liu Shaoqi |
| Sven Matthiessen | 2012 | Going to the Philippines is like coming Home - Japanese pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Meiji Era to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere |
Regionalisation and Globalisation
| Name | Degree awarded | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Julie Gilson | 1997 | The Institution of Political Dialogue Between Japan and the European Union |
| Christopher Hughes | 1997 | Japanese Economic Power and Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: A Case Study of Japan-North Korea Security Relations |
| Jonathan Lewis | 1998 | Japanese Policymaking for International Big Science Projects |
| Hugo Dobson | 1998 | Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping: Foreign Policy Formulation in the Post-Cold War World |
| James Malcolm | 1999 | The Political Economy of Financial Globalisation: Does Japan's "Big-Bang" Herald Convergence? |
| Shaohua Pan | 1999 | Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation and Regionalism in the World of Globalisation and Regionalisation - Theories and Practices in Development Policy Perspective |
| Li Kai Hsiao | 2000 | Taiwan's Foreign Policy in the 1990s: The "Pre-Theory" Approach |
| Jae-Hoon Hyun | 2001 | Korean automotive FDI in Europe: The effects of economic intergration on motivations and patterns of FDI and industrial location |
| Sung-Hyoung Kim | 2003 | Negotiations between United States and North Korea: Two-level Games |
| Petra Gebetsberger | 2004 | East Asian Regionalism: Japan's Role in the Project of Region Building and Identity Construction |
| Key-young Son | 2005 | South Korean Identities in Strategies of Engagement with North Korea: A Case Study of President Kim Dae-Jing's Sunshine Policy |
| Chang Gun Park | 2005 | The Significance of Japan's Collaborative Leadership Role in Promoting Regional Integration in East Asia: Towards an East Asian Integration Regime (EAIR) |
| Lindsay Black | 2006 | All at Sea? Japan's Response to the Contemporary Maritime Security Threats Posed by Infidels, Pirates and Barbarians |
| Utpal Vyas | 2006 | Soft Power in International Relations: Japan's State, Sub-State and Non-state Relations with China |
| Shintaro Hamanaka | 2007 | Japan and East Asian Regionalism |
| Young-mi Kim | 2007 | Minority Coalition Government and Governability in South Korea: the Case of Kim Dau-jung Administration (1998-2003) |
| Yukiko Miyagi | 2007 | Japan's Middle East Security Policy:International Relations Theory and Japanese policy-making |
| Rebecca Nadin | 2007 | China and the Shanghai 5 / Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: 1996-2006 A Decade on a New Diplomatic Frontier |
| Bhubhindar Singh | 2007 | Crisis and Japanese Post-Cold War Security Policy |
| Philip Shetler-Jones | 2010 | The Impact of Globalisation on the Concept of Japanese Security |
| Hui-Chi Yeh | 2010 | Norms and their Implications for the Making of China's Foreign Aid Policy Since 1949: Case Studies of South-East Asia, Africa and Latin America |
| Piers Williamson | 2011 | Issues generated as a Discourse on the Recalibration of Risk Through Militarization: Internal Legitimacy External Threat Maintenance and the Burden of Bilateralism |
| Ra Mason | 2012 | Japan's recalibration of risk: The framing of North Korea |
| Paul O'Shea | 2012 | Playing the Sovereignty Game: Understanding Japan's Territorial Disputes |