Sociology Dissertations
East Asia
2011 Tian, Xiaoli
Relocating Science: Medical Missions and Western Medicine in 19th-Century China
2011 Yu, Zhiyuan (Grace)
The Rise and Growth of AIDS NGOs in China
2010 Li, Helen JanYee
The Women's Movement and the Gendering of Taiwanese Democracy, 1949-1999
2010 Sun, Yanfei
Religions in Sociopolitical Context: The Reconfiguration of Religious Ecology in Post-Mao China
2010 Yang, Hongxing
Diversities in Unity: Engine of China’s Economic Development
2009 Liu, Sida
The Logic of Fragmentation: An Ecological Analysis of the Chinese Legal Services Market
2009 Yoshimura, Harumasa
The Formation of Social Work Professions in Japan
2008 Lin, Fen
Turning Gray: Transition of Political Communication in China 1978-2008
2007 Ma, Dali
One Academy, Two Systems: Conflict between Science and Market in the Creation of Chinese Academic Entrepreneurship
2007 Obukhova, Elena
The Rise of China's Silicon Valley: High-Skilled Migrants and Technological Development
2007 Ren, Xuefei
Building Globalization: Transnational Architectural Production in Urban China
2006 Chang, Fengbin
Gender Differences in Becoming Self-Employed in Taiwan and Korea
2005 Chen, Wan-Chi
Does Social Origin Weigh More When a Society Gets Richer? Over-Time Analysis of Social Origin's Influence on Educational Attainment in Postwar Taiwan
2004 Ng, Kwai Hang
The Common Law in Two Voices: Language and Law in Postcolonial Hong Kong
2004 Chen, Lijun
Building Local State Capacity in China
2004 Wang, Tianfu
The Space of Marriage: Power, Bargaining, and Conflicts in Urban Chinese Households
2004 Akiyoshi, Mito
Unmediating Community: The Non-Diffusion of the Internet in Japan, 1985-2002
2003 Michelson, Ethan Charles
Unhooking from the State: Chinese Lawyers in Transition
2002 Chong, Kelly Haesung
Agony in Prosperity: Evangelicalism, Women, and the Politics of Gender in South Korea
2000 Koo, Hearan Joo
The Division of a Professional Service Market: The Case of Legal Professions in Korea
2000 Lau, Estelle Tsui
Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration and Chinese Exclusion
1999 Ono, Hiroshi
For What It's Worth: The Value of College Education in Japan
1999 Wang, Horng-luen
In Want of a Nation: State, Institutions and Globalization in Taiwan
1999 Yu, Wei-hsin
Unequal Employment, Diverse Career Paths: Gender Stratification in Japan and Taiwan
1999 Chang, Dukjin
Privately Owned Social Structures: Institutionalization-Network Contingency in the Korean Chaebol
1998 Farrer, James Curtis
Opening Up: Sex and the Market in Shanghai
1998 Luk, Tak-chuen
The Bureaucratization and Informalization of Working Class Lives: A Case Study of South Wind in State Socialist China, 1949-1996
1998 Vejjajiva, Witchu
Beyond Free Markets and Strong States: The Institutional Bases of Petrochemical Development in Thailand
1998 Choi, Yong Sok
War, State and Big Business in Modern Japan: The Intercorporate Structure and Diversification of Mitsui and Mitsubishi, 1868-1945
1998 Suh, Doowon
From Individual Welfare to Social Change: The Expanding Goals of Korean White-Collar Labor Unions, 1987-1995
1997 Lee, Sunhwa
Elite Education for Career or Marriage?: The Case of Female University Graduates in South Korea
1997 Li, Fang
The Social Organization of Entrepreneurship: The Rise of Private Firms in China
1997 Wang, Fang
Support for a New Welfare State in Taiwan: Social Change, Political Dynamics and Public Opinion
1996 Jang, Wonho
The New Political Culture and Political Change in Japan
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