Chinese Ph.D. Dissertations
2025
Lee, Jaehyuk (Prof. Meow Hui Goh) 2025
Memory, Text, and Power: The Three Kingdoms in the Court Politics of Premodern China and Korea
Wang, Qian (Prof. Zhiguo Xie) 2025
A Unified Analysis of Comparative and Positive Semantics in Chinese
Yao, Hui (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2025
The Art of Director Fei Mu: Intermedial Cinema, Cinematized Theater, and the Poetics of Remediation, 1920s-1940s
Nunes, Jennifer (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2025
“A Language Like Calluses”: Poetics, Affect, Community, and Embodied Translation with Women Migrant Worker Poets in China and Taiwan
Zhou, Wei William (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2025
Effects of Domain-General Auditory Processing and Proficiency in the Perception of Mandarin Chinese Prosody by Second Language Learners
Ye, Jinwei (Prof. Zhiguo Xie) 2025
The Expressivity of Cantonese Gwai2 and Profanities
2024
Klie, Hunter (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2024
From Bodily Performance to Embodied Experience: The Training of Performers in Chinese Theatrical Tradition and The Pedagogy of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Wang, Erxin (Prof. Patricia Sieber) 2024
The Theatrical Turn: Theater, Genre Repertoire, and Literati’s Quotidian Life in the Wanli Period, 1570s-1620s.
Wang, Ke (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2024
Creating Shared Experiences: Integrating Cognitive and Emotive Aspects in the Learning of Chinese as a Foreign Language through Music.
2023
Li, Yawei (Prof. Galal Walker) 2023
Socializing in Another Culture: Collaborative Improvisation in Evolving Contexts in East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Wang, Mengling (Prof. Meow Hui Goh) 2023
Medieval Anthologies in China: A Literary Network Analysis
Lin, Qingyang (Prof. Galal Walker) 2023
Domain Presentations in CFL: An Audience-oriented Approach.
Yang, Seo-Jin (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2023
Language, Gender, and Identity: The Case of Sajiao Communication Style.
2022
The Confucian Revival as “Bloodline Memory”: Transmitting a Lineage Tradition in Contemporary Huizhou, China.
2021
Shao, Wenyuan (Prof. Mark Bender) 2021
Unheard Voices and Alternative Pasts: Deciphering Chronicles of Southwest Yi and Its Layered Ranges of Significations.
De Grandis, Mario (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2021
Marking the Ethnic: The Sinophone Hui Literary Field in Post-1949 China.
2020
Shi, Jia (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2020
Staying Connected: Border-Crossing Experimentation and Transmission in Contemporary Chinese Poetry.
Cornelius, Crista (Prof. Galal Walker) 2020
Preparing Teachers of Chinese as a Foreign Language for Emerging Education Markets
Wu, Zeyuan (Prof. Meow Hui Goh) 2020
Becoming Sages: Qin Song and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China.
2010s
Li, Cong (Prof. Galal Walker) 2018
Gamification in Foreign Language Education: Fundamentals for a Gamified Design of Institutional Programs for Chinese as a Foreign Language
Mu, Bing (Prof. Xiaobin Jian) 2018
Constructing Intentions Across Cultures: Reframing CFL Learners’ Communication in Chinese
Anoop, Yun (Prof. Patricia Sieber) 2017
Modernity, Genre, and Narrative Experimentation in Yueyue xiaoshuo Short Stories, 1906-1909
Tan, Yutian (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2017
Classifying Siyi Cantonese Using Quantitative Approaches
Jia, Junqing (Prof. Galal Walker) 2017
Motivating Experiences in an Extended Chinese as a Foreign Language Learning Career: Identifying what sustains learners to advanced-skill levels
Fife, Kurt (Prof. Galal Walker) 2017
Military in Communication with China: The Role of Chinese Language Training Programs in Shaping Future Capabilities
Wayne, Rachel (Prof. Galal Walker) 2017
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Through the Strategic Use of Visualization: Exploring Neuroscience and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research to Guide Change in Chinese Language Education
Chai, Donglin (Prof. Galal Walker) 2017
Paradigms of CFL in America, Concepts of Knowing East and West, and their Implications for Teacher Training at the College-Level
Zhang, Xin (Prof. Galal Walker) 2016
Four-Character Idioms in Advanced Spoken Chinese: Perception and Reaction of Native Speakers and A Pedagogy of C2 Expectations
Yang, Qiong (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2016
Mr. Science Goes Popular: Science as Imagined in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Culture
Qin, Chen (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2016
The Others: Desire, Anxiety, and the Politics of Chinese Horror Cinema (1989-2015)
Chen, Litong (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2016
Dapeng Dialect: An Undocumented Cantonese-Hakka Mixed Language in Southern China
Wang, Jianfen (Prof. Galal Walker) 2016
An Ecology of Literacy: A Context-based Multi-disciplinary Curriculum for Chinese as a Foreign Language
Thurston, Timothy (Prof. Mark Bender) 2015
Laughter on the Grassland: A Diachronic Study of an Mdo Tibetan Comedy and the Public Intellectual in Western China
Zeng, Zhini (Prof. Galal Walker) 2015
Demonstrate and Evaluate Expertise in Communicating in Chinese as a Foreign Language
Liu, Ying (Prof. Galal Walker) 2015
Understanding Readership: American Students’ Perceptions of Evidence in Chinese Persuasive Composition
Wiener, Seth (Prof. Marjorie Chan) 2015
The Representation, Organization, and Access of Lexical Tone by Native and Nonnative Mandarin Speakers
He, Man (Prof. Kirk Denton) 2015
Chinese Play-Making: Cosmopolitan Intellectuals, Transnational Stages, and Modern Drama, 1910s-1940s
You, Ziying (Prof. Mark Bender) 2015
Competing Traditions: Village Temple Rivalries, Social Actors, and Contested Narratives in Contemporary China
Li, Mengjun (Prof. Patrica Sieber) 2014
In the Name of A Love Story: Scholar-Beauty Novel and the Writing of Genre Fiction in Qing China (1644-1911)
Yang, Jia (prof. Galal Walker) 2014
Towards a Pedagogy of Conventional Expressions in Chinese Culture
Gibbs, Levi (Prof. Mark Bender) 2013
Song King: Tradition, Social Change, and the Contemporary Art of a Northern Shaanxi Folksinger
Liao, Haohsiang (Prof. Galal Walker) 2013
“Face” as Cultural Performance in China: Cases of Requesting and Declining.
Chinese Cultural Themes and Cultural Development: From a Family Pedagogy to a Performance-based Pedagogy of a Foreign Language and Culture