Chinese M.A.

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, Thesis Title

2000's

Meng, Nan (Prof. Galal Walker) 2007

Designing PK-4 Chinese Language Curriculum Based on Observations of Children Interacting with Their Families

Zhong, Xi (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2007

The Gendered Tiyu Discourse in Modern China: A Comparative Reading of Chinese Sport Films

Thurston, Timothy (Prof. Mark Bender) 2007

Tricksters and Outcasts in Modern Tibetan Literature: An Examination of Folkloric Character Types in Alai’s Novels

Southerland, Abigail (Prof. Galal Walker) 2007

Zhong Guo Da Xue Sheng Dui Mei Guo Da Xue Sheng Han Yu Fa Yin De Jie Du Fen Xi—Liu Ge Ge An De Yan Jiu

Starr, Julie (Prof. Galal Walker) 2007

Mongmin Gong Zinu Jiaoyu Wenti---Yi Nanjing Wei Li Issues in Educating the Children of Migrant Workers: Focus on Nanjing, China

Yang, Jia (Prof. Galal Walker) 2007

How to Say "No" in Chinese: A Pedagogy of Refusal for Chinese as a Foreign Language

Wang, Xiao (Prof. Jianqi Wang) 2006

The Analysis of Formal Chinese Oral Narratives

Qin, Xizhen (Prof. Galal Walker) 2006

Hierarchical Context Model for Teaching Chinese Vocabulary

Wu, Xiaonan (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2006

Family History in Fang Fang’s Works: Narrative Technique, Father-Son Bond and History

Gilliland, Joshua (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2006.

Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Shanghai, China.

Xu, Wang (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2006.

A Comparison of Chinese and Taiwan Sign Languages: Towards a New Model for Sign Language Comparison.

Riha, Helena (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2006.

Typology and Structure of Roman Letter Words in Mandarin Chinese.

Tao, Jeanne (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2005

Breaking with the Past: Memory, Mourning, and Hope in Lu Xun’s Writing

Wang, Yang (Prof. Galal Walker) 2005

A Pedagogy of Leave-Taking in Chinese

Kang, Hana (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2004.

Heritage language maintenance, Acculturation, and identity: Chinese and Korean 1.5 generation immigrants in New Jersey.

Davis, Junko (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2004.

A Prosodic Study of the "Inverted Sentence" in Beijing Mandarin.

McAloon, Patrick (Prof. Galal Walker) 2003

The Evolution of Institutional Definitions of Advanced Skills in Chinese Language Pedagogy

Sung, Hoyeon (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2003

A Comparative Study of Saho Xunmei's Poetry

Yang, Yan (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2003

Ne in the Novel Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chambers): Gender, Social Status and a Sentence-Final Particle

Zhang, Yongfang (Prof. Galal Walker) 2003

Experimental Justification for Using Computers in Chinese Composition Courses for Foreign Learners - An Investigation of the Perspective of Readers

Zhang, Yunxin (Prof. Galal Walker) 2003

Constructing Memory: A Case for Using Video in the Chinese Language Classroom

Lee, Peace Bakwon (Prof. Mark Bender) 2002

A Performance Analysis of Chaoxianzu Oral Traditions in Yanbian, China

Chan, Thomas (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2001

Orthographic Change: Yue (Cantonese) Chinese Dialect Characters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Lee, Ok-Joo (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2000

The Pragmatics and Intonation of ma-Particle Questions in Mandarin

1990's

Quitter, Donald (Prof. Galal Walker) 1999

Traditional Rhetoric in a Modern Chinese Talk Show: Metaphorical Devices in Chinese Media, Talk Show and Idiom

Seung, Shauna (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 1998

Toward Accuracy in Chinese Tonal Production: Seven Case Studies

Shepherd, Eric (Prof. Galal Walker) 1998

Playing Their Game: Banqueting in Shandong

Sun, Chuan (Prof. Patricia Sieber) 1998

Shared Sphere: A Study of Xiang Bao in the Reform Movement in 1898 Hunan

Miller, Mark (Prof. Kirk Denton) 1997

The Yusi Society And The Literary Field Of Early Twentieth-Century China

Peterka, Alan (Prof. Galal Walker) 1997

The Autonomous Learner of Chinese and the Individualized Instruction Program

Shen, Haibing (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 1997

Gender and Conversational Interaction in Mandarin Chinese: A Corpus-Based Study of Radio Talk Shows

Yu, Li (Prof. Galal Walker) 1997

Toward a Pedagogical Model of Learning to Read Chinese as a Foreign Language

Barrett, Tracy (Profs. Xiaomei Chen and Hao Chang) 1996

Images in a Broken Mirror: Meminism, Iconoclasm, and Salvation

Bi, Zhiwei (Prof. Yan-shuan Lao) 1996

Xuxiu Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao: An Analysis of the Sequel to the Annotated Bibliography of the Four Treasures

Foster, Timothy (Prof. Yan-shuan Lao) 1996

Zengzi's Pivotal Role in the Evolution of Filial Piety: From the Analects to the Book of Filial Piety

Trowbridge, John L. (Profs. Thomas Kasulis and Yan-shuan Lao) 1996

The Relationship Between Skepticism and Epistemological Relativism in the "Qi Wu Lun" Chapter of the Zhuang Zi

Shi, Tong (Prof. Galal Walker) 1995

Toward Constructing a Memory Model for Building a Chinese Mental Lexicon

Tutatchikova, Olga (Prof. Galal Walker) 1995

Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation by Foreign Learners: The Role of Memory in Learning and Teaching

Wang, Jing (Prof. Xiaomei Chen) 1995

Representations of the Mother-Daughter Dynamics in the Works of Feng Yuanjun and Xie Bingxin

Wu, Sue-mei (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1994

Instrumentality in Classical Chinese: A Study of the Function Word Yi with Special Reference to The Confucian Analects

Zhou, Lieting (Prof. James Tai) 1994

Locative Implications of Chinese Nouns and Occurrence Conditions of Localizers

Bae, Jaesuk (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1993

The Development of the Syllable Initial System in Chinese and in Sino-Korean

Whitlock, Margaret (Prof. Galal Walker) 1993

Toward a Cross-Cultural Comparison of Chinese and American Narrative

Cox, Susan (Prof. Galal Walker) 1991

Wang Yangming's System of Knowledge as Presented in the Chuanxi Lu

Butler, Craig (Prof. Robert Sanders) 1990

An Examination of "dao PLACE," "dao PLACE qu," and "qu PLACE" in Mandarin Chinese

Christensen, Matthew (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 1990

The Punctual Aspect in Chinese: A Study of the Perfective and Inchoative Aspect Markers in Mandarin and Cantonese

Lidaka, Sherry (Prof. Kirk Denton) 1990

A Comparative Study of Zhang Ailing's 'Jinsuo Ji' and Yuan Nu: A Feminist Appraisal

1980's

Bender, Mark (Prof. Timothy Wong) 1989

Suzhou Tanci: Keys to Performance

Hor, Annie Yuen-mun (Prof. Timothy Wong) 1988

The Stone -- An Interpretation of the Supernatural in the Honglou Meng

Liu, Ch'eng-hui (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1988

An Analytical Study of the Lingbao Dialect

Bourgerie, Dana Scott (Prof. Timothy Light) 1987

Particles of Uncertainty: A Discourse Approach to the Cantonese Final Particle

Knicely, Steven (Prof. David Ch'en) 1987

The Xing in Shijing Poetics: Toward a Satisfactory Definition

Miracle, Charles (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1987

Chinese/English Code Switching: a Preliminary Inquiry

Schopick, Philip (Prof. Galal Walker) 1987

An Examination of the History of Drill and Its Application in Foreign Language Education with Special Emphasis on Its Use in Mandarin Chinese

Wang, Lianqing (Prof. Frank Hsueh) 1987

The Vietnamese Sound System and Its Typological Relation to Chinese

Shan, Shiang (Prof. David Ch'en) 1986

A Study of Dream Poems in Chuan Tang Shih

Tang, Yanfang (Prof. David Ch'en) 1986

Imagery: A Comparative Study of Chinese Nature Poetry, English Romantic Poetry, and American Imagist Poetry

He, Baozhang (Prof. Timothy Light) 1985

The Two Constructions NP + VP and VP +de + NP in Chinese

Jian, Xiaobin (Prof. Galal Walker) 1985

The Metaphoric Fields of the Dao in the Laozi

Tindall, Bradley Lewis (Prof. Yan-shuan Lao) 1985

Shih Hui-Yuan (334-417 AD) and Early Chinese Speculation on the Dharmakaya as Contained in the Ta-Ch'eng Ta-I Chang

Zhang, Zhanyi (Prof. Timothy Light) 1985

Individualized Instruction in Chinese

Alt, Wayne Edward (Prof. Yan-shuan Lao) 1984

The Dispute Prior to the Cultural Revolution "Two Form Into One" and "One Divides Into Two"

Chang, Mei-Rong Lee (Prof. Yan-shuan Lao) 1984

The Art of Liu Tsung-Yuan's Fables

Chiang, Mien-Hwa (Prof. Timothy Light) 1984

Three Common Reduplicated Coordinate Conjunctions in Chinese

Dean, Henry (Prof. Timothy Light) 1983

Rules for Mandarin Le Deletion

Gu, Liping (Prof. Tien-Yi Li) 1983

Three Female Characters of Hong Lou Meng

1970's

Chang, Yeh-min (Prof. David Ch'en) 1977

Hsiao Tung's Contributions to Chinese Literature

Stalberg, Roberta (Prof. David Ch'en) 1977

Poems of the Han-shan Collection

Dan, William Bertram (Prof. David Chen) 1975

Social Criticism in Yuan Drama: a Translation and Study of Kung T'ien-t'ing's Fan Chang Chi-Shu

Lloyd, Alicia (Prof. David Ch'en) 1974

A Rhetorical Analysis of the Tao-Te-Ching: Some Taoist Figures of Speech

Fang, Ning-ning (Prof. Eugene Ching) 1971

A Study of the 1956 Scheme for Simplifying Chinese Characters