Chinese Ph.D.

Areas of concentration

Chinese

Japanese

Recent Theses and Dissertations
Chinese M.A.
Chinese Ph.D.
Japanese M.A.
Japanese Ph.D.

Roster: Name, (Advisor), Year of Completion, Dissertation Title

2000's
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