Chinese Ph.D.
Roster: Name, (Advisor),
Year of Completion, Dissertation Title
2000's
Bao, Ying (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2008
In Search of Laughter in Maoist China: Chinese Comedy Film 1949-1966
Yan, Jing (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2008
Social Variation of Vernacular Written Cantonese in Guangzhou (Canton City), China
McAloon Patrick (Galal Walker) 2008
Chinese at Work: Evaluating Advanced Language Use in China-Related Careers
Shepherd, Eric (Prof. Galal Walker) 2007
A Pedagogy of Culture Based on a Chinese Storytelling Tradition
Lee, Ok Joo (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2005.
The Prosody of Questions in Beijing Mandarin.
Lin, Huey Hannah (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2005.
Contextualizing linguistic politeness in Chinese -- A aocio-pragmatic approach with examples from persuasive sales talks in Taiwan Mandarin.
Noble, Jonathan (Prof. Xiaomei Chen) 2003
Cultural Performances in China: Beyond Resistance in the 1990s
Yu, Li (Prof. Galal Walker) 2003
A History of Reading in Late Imperial China, 1000-1800
Fung, Roxana Suk Yee (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2000
Final Particles in Standard Cantonese: Semantic Extension and Pragmatic Inference
Wang, Jing (Prof. Xiaomei Chen) Summer, 2000
Strategies of Modern Chinese Women Writers' Autobiography
1990's
Yu, Hongyuan (Prof. Kirk Denton and Patricia Sieber) 1999
Xiaoshuo as Cultural discourse: The
Shuihu zhuan and its Commentaries
Chao, Fang-yi (Profs. Yan-shuan Lao and Frank Hsueh) Summer 1998
The Sound System of the Qieyun: A Phonemic Interpretation
Kaldis, Nicholas (Prof. Kirk Denton) 1998
The Prose Poem and Aesthetic Insight: Lu Xun's 'Yecao'
Bai, Di (Prof. Kirk Denton) 1997
A Feminist Brave New World: The Cultural Revolution
Model Theater Revisited
He, Dajiang (Prof. Yan-Shuan Lao) 1997
Su Shi: Pluralistic View of Values and 'Making Poetry Out of Prose'
Rouzer, John (Jack) (Prof. James Tai) 1997
Ontological Metaphor in Chinese Syntax
Wu, Sue-mei (Profs. Yan-Shuan Lao and Frank Hsueh) 1997
The Coverbs In Classical Chinese
Foster, Paul Brendan (Prof. Kirk Denton) 1996
Lu Xun, Ah Q, 'The True Story of Ah Q' and the
National Character Discourse in Modern China
Li, Minru (Prof. David Ch'en) 1996
A Classical Chinese Perspective of Literature: Liu Xie's Theory of "Wenxin"
Tang, Jian (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 1996
Prototypes in Lesser Seal Scripts (China, ca. 221 BC - AD 220)
Wu, Xiaoqi (Prof. James Tai) 1996
Zai, Dao, and Gei Constructions -- A Study of Chinese Word Order
Bender, Mark (Prof. Timothy Wong) 1995
Zaisheng Yuan and Meng Lijun: Performance, Context,
and Form of Two Tanci
Chen, Chun-Chi (Prof. Yan-Shuan Lao) 1995
Politics and the Novel: A Study of Liang Ch'i-Chao's
Future of New China and His Views on Fiction
Hu, Wenze (Prof. James Tai) 1995
Functional Perspectives and Chinese Word Order
Jin, Shunde ((Prof. Marjorie Chan) 1996
An Acoustic Study of Sentence Stress in Mandarin Chinese
Xu, Gang (Prof. Yan-shuan Lao) 1995
The Past is Eternal: Chinese Pan-Historicism as Manifested in Poetry on History
Christensen, Matthew Bruce (Prof. James Tai) 1994
Variation in Spoken and Written Mandarin Narrative Discourse
Liao, Rongrong (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 1994
Pitch Contour Formation in Mandarin Chinese: A Study of Tone and Intonation
Lidaka, Sherry (Prof. Yan-Shuan Lao) 1994
Gentleman's Perscriptions for Women's Lives: Liu Hsiang's the Biographies of Women and Its Influence on the "Biographies of Women" Chapters in Early Chinese Dynastic Histories
Shi, Jianguo (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1994
The Shuyang Dialect: A Study in its Historical Evolution
Wang, Lianqing (Prof. James Tai) 1994
Origin and Development of Classifiers in Chinese
Tang, Yanfang (Prof. David Ch'en) 1993
Mind and Manifestation: The Intuitive Art (Miaomu) of Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics
Chiang, Mien-Hwa (Prof. James Tai) 1992
A Study of Anaphora in Chinese Recipe Discourse
He, Baozhang (Prof. James Tai) 1992
Situation Types and Aspectual Classes of Verbs in
Mandarin Chinese
Jian, Xiaobin (Prof. Timothy Wong) 1992
Spatialization in the Shiji
Chen, Ai-Li (Prof. Tien-Yi Li) 1991
The Search for Cultural Identity: Taiwan
"Hsiang-T'u" Literature in the Seventies
Han, Yuan (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1991
The Language of Newspaper Advertising in Chinese
Liu, Ch'eng-hui (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1991
Nouns, Nominalization and Denominalization in Classical Chinese: A Study Based on Mencius and Zuozhuan
Matthews, Josephine A. (Prof. Tien-yi Li) 1991
Artistry and Authenticity: Zhao Shuli and His
Fictional World
Miracle, Charles (Prof. James Tai) 1991
Discourse Markers in Mandarin Chinese
Bourgerie, Dana (Prof. James Tai) 1990
A Quantitative Study of Socialinguistic Variation in Cantonese
McGinnis, Scott Gary (Prof. James Tai) 1990
A Pragmatic Analysis of Mandarin Interrogatives: Data from Modern Taiwan Drama
1980's
Kim, Youngman (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1989
Middle Mandarin Phonology: A Study Based on Korean Data
Sergent, Wallace (Prof. James Tai) 1989
A Study of the Oral Reading Strategies of Advanced
and Highly Advanced Second Language Readers of Chinese
Chou, Shizhen (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1988
Hongwu Zhengyun: Its Relation to the Nanjing Dialect
and Its Impact on Standard Mandarin
Jagacinski, Ngampit (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1987
Tai Lue of Xishuanebanna in China's Yunnan Province: Description and a Study of the OV Order in the Pau Construction
King, Brian (Prof. James Tai) 1987
The Structure of Emotional Experience in Chinese
Hsu, Wan-hua W. Tung (Prof. Tien-yi Li) 1984
A Study of Four Historical Pien-Wen Stories
Tung, Wan-Hua ((Prof. Tien-Yi Li) 1984
A Study of Four Historical Pien-Wen Stories
1970's
Adkins, Curtis (Prof. David Ch'en) 1976
The Supernatural in T'ang Ch'uan-Ch'i Tales: An Archetypal View
Wong, Wai-leung (Prof. David Ch'en) 1976
Chinese Impressionistic Criticism: A Study of the Poetry-Talk (Shih-Hua Tz'u-Hua) Tradition
Chin, Chen-Oi (Prof. Tien-Yi Li) 1974
Evalution of the Theme of Tou E Yuan
Lloyd, Alicia (Prof. David Ch'en) 1974
A Rhetorical Analysis of the Tao-Te-Ching: Some Taoist Figures of Speech
Liang, I-cheng (Prof. Tien-yi Li) 1973
Hsu Wei (1521-1593): His Life and Literary Works
Chan, Ping-leung (Prof. Tien-Yi Li) 1972
Ch'u Tz'u and Shamanism in Ancient China
