| Role | Student Author | Thesis Title | Defense Date | Prize
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| Chair | Megan Loria | An Analysis of Ethnic Stratification and Determinants of Gender Inequalities in the Chinese Education System | 2012 TBD
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| Chair | Evan Akin | Taxing the Bubble: China's experiment in residential property taxation in Shanghai and Chongqing | 2012 TBD
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| Chair | Jennings Treutel | Confucianism and the Modern East Asian | 2011-05-06
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| Reader | Erin Singleton | Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? An Analysis of China's Increasing Gini Coefficient from 1980-2006 | 2011-05-04
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| Chair | Alyssa W. Yuen | Chinese Popular Opinion Towards the One Child Policy | 2011-05-03
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| Chair | Matthew Archer | Maintaining Growth, Reducing Emissions: An Econometric Analysis Of Industrial Sulfur Dioxide Emissions And Economic Growth In China | 2011-04-27
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| Reader | Ryan Parsons | The Urbanization of Chinese Citizenship: A Case Study of Shanghai and Suzhou | 2011-04-27 | Terasawa
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| Reader | Cooper Rimmer | The Role of the Supreme People's Court within the P.R.C.: Judicial Interpretation and Judicial Review | 2010-04-27 | Terasawa
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| Chair | Brewer, Jessica | Breaking through the Bamboo Ceiling: The Struggle for Gender Parity in High-Level Politics within the Chinese Communist Party | 2010-04-27
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| Chair | Livingston, Christopher | The Straw which May Break the Dragon's Back:
Perception of Local Cadre Corruption and Its Effects on a Population's Willingness to Participate in Social Unrest in Rural China | 2010-04-27
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| Reader | Erin Callahan | Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in China: A Study of Han Nationalism as Reflected through Uighur-Han Relations | 2010-04-26
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| Chair | Richard Whitehouse | Small States and Big Powers: Strategic Behavior of Thailand, Vietnam, and Singapore | 2010-04-26
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| Chair | Sarasin, Tatiana | The Motivational Forces Behind China's Foreign Policy in Africa: An Historical Comparison Between the 1960's and Today | 2009-05-01
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| Chair | Alecia Waite | The Olympics as a Catalyst for Chinese Environmental Regulation: A Theory with Three Case Studies from Beijing | 2009-04-30 | Best East Asian
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| Chair | Katie Swain | China's Role in the Darfur Crisis: An Inquiry into Global Ethics | 2009-04-29 | Best Interregional
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| Chair | Kennedy Horton | Holding China Back: How the Household Registration System and Education System are Hindering Economic Development in China | 2009-04-28
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| Reader | Susan Lawrence | The Beginning of the End: A First Look at Textile and Apparel Trade after the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) | 2009-04-23
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| Chair | Anthony Yuen | Mainland Chinese Attitudes Toward the United States | 2008-05-02 | Terasawa
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| Chair | Leatherman, Vaughan | Going Places: The Shift of the Textile Industry in China | 2008-04-30
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| Chair | Hedglin, Daniel | Military Reforms with Chinese Characteristics: Informal Decentralization in the Chinese Government and Its Effect on Party-Military Relations | 2008-04-29
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| Chair | Megan Rogers | At the Roots of Faith: A Comparative Analysis of the History and Appeal of Buddhism and Christianity in Contemporary China | 2008-04-28 | Best East Asian
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| Chair | Flemming, Michael | The Historical Transformation of Chinese-U.S. Student Migration | 2006-05-16
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| Chair | Kristin Balthazar | Japan's Software and Video Game Industries: International Weakness and International Strength | 2006-04-24
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| Chair | Anderw Piletz | China's Growing Unemployment Problems: Past, Present, and Future | 2006-04-20 | Best East Asian
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| Reader | Gordon Fellows | | 2006-04-17
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| Chair | Travis Pierce | | 2006-01-13
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| Chair | Martin Penman | Addressing the 'Other China': Establishing Political Logic as a Reason for Economic Relations across the Taiwan Straits | 2005-05-12
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| Chair | John Waters | Buying Democracy? The Effect of Foreign Investment on Taiwan's Democratic Transition | 2005-05-10
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| Chair | Sulakshana Rana | Democracy and Economics: the Influence of Economic Growth on Democratic Values of Chinese People | 2003-09-10
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