Recent PhD thesis topics
Recently completed PhD theses in Asian Studies.
- Yu-Wen Chih - The cultural representation of Taiwaneseness and Taiwanese nationalism in Li Qiao’s Wintry Night Trilogy
- Patrick Flamm - Korea's growing role(s) on the world stage – South Korean identity and global foreign policy in the early 21st century
- Jihye Kim - Ethnicity and opportunity: Korean entrepreneurship in the Argentine garment industry
- Marie Kim - Ochikobore Seishun Shōsetsu: The Portrayal of Teenage Rebellion in Japanese Adolescent Literature
- Amy Newland - Shaping the present, crafting the past: Imaging self-narrative in the life and work of Toyohara Kunichika (1835 - 1900)
- Bingyu Wang - Becoming cosmopolitan?: Roots, emotions, and everyday diversity encounters amongst new Chinese migrants in New Zealand
- Jingzhi Zhu - The Effect of Musical Aptitude: Perceiving and Producing Mandarin Lexical Tones By Non-Native Speakers of Chinese
- Jocelyn Chambers - Self, text and sisterhood: Shi Pingmei's strategic deployment of autobiographicality in the Wild Rose Weekly (Qiangwei Zhoukan)
- Ruicai Kong - Performing the Revolution: Socialist Realism and Its Heterogeneity in the Model Performances
- Yihua Hong - Korean Chinese in multicultural South Korea: Identity challenges and Korean nation-building
- Wei Li - A virtual Chinatown: The diasporic mediasphere of Chinese migrants in New Zealand
- Ting Luo - Post-realism as an alternative aesthetics in contemporary Chinese cinema
- Hang Yin - Chinese-language cyberspace: Overseas Chinese cyber nationalism and migrant identity
- Lanyin Chao - The February 28 Incident in fiction from a postcolonial perspective
- Jun Nakamura - Cognitive semantics of the qualitative suffix in the Japaense spatial demonstratives koko, soko, and asoko: SPACE, THING, and TIME
- Jing Shen - Masculinity and the nation: Film narratives of the nation In 1930s and 1980s China
- Tonghong Cai - Redefining a new cinema: A textual study of Chinese new-generation films
- Liangni Liu - Homeland on the move: New Chinese immigrants of New Zealand and crossing-border transnationals
- Howard Gilbert - Wrestling with globalisation: Amateur sumo as a nascent global sport
- Shan Xu - Forging private enterprises in Jilin: The political economy of institutional change
- Phoebe H Li - A virtual Chinatown: The diasporic mediasphere of Chinese migrants in New Zealand
- Hong-yu Gong - Missionaries, reformers, and the beginnings of western music in late imperial China (1839-1911)
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Subjects in our School
- Academic English Studies
- Academic English Studies and Linguistics
- Applied Linguistics
- Asian Studies
- Chinese
- Comparative Literature
- English Writing
- European Studies
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Language Teaching and Learning
- Languages and Literature
- Latin American Studies
- Linguistics
- Russian
- Spanish
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- Translation Studies
