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Description:: Abstract of ThesisEducation and Challenges for North Korean Defector Youth in South KoreaDespite the South Korean government’s North Korean defector resettlement support system that aims to provide for a smooth transition into a new society, North Korean defectors fail to successfully adjust and...
Author:: O, Suzie
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GW Unit:: Asian Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: McHale, Shawn and Arrington, Celeste
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This thesis analyzes the evolution of the Sino-Japanese conflict over ownership of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands since the end of the Cold War. It argues that the 2012-2013 confrontation following the nationalization of the islands by Japan is the result of a process of conflict escalation that...
Author:: Roth, Antoine
Keyword:: Senkaku/Diaoyu, China, Perceptions, Territorial Dispute, Japan, and Conflict
GW Unit:: Asian Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Mochizuki, Mike M
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: A growing enthusiasm about the Protestant Christian church in China among outside observers has, unfortunately, failed to be paired with an adequately increasing and improving insight into that church. Rhetoric is passionate but uninformed; action is with zeal but without understanding. As...
Author:: Vrieland, Heather
Keyword:: Chinese church, church-state relations, Christianity in China, and missions
GW Unit:: Asian Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Dickson, Bruce
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This thesis examines one aspect of the information revolution's impact on international relations by studying the securitization of cyberspace through the structural realist set of optics. The first of the two main questions addressed in this study asks whether or not structural realism, and...
Author:: Mitsutomi, Yuichiro
Keyword:: Information Technology, Realism, International Security, Cyberspace, Cyber, and Complexity
GW Unit:: Asian Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Mochizuki, Mike M
Committee Member(s):: Fuerth, Leon
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This Master’s thesis seeks to understand the future of the organization of Chongryon, the North Korean homeland oriented organization in Japan, and their influence in the Zainichi community of Japan. Chongryon dominated as the main civil society group of the Korean community in Japan during the...
Author:: Sertic, Kylie M.
Keyword:: North Korea, Zainichi, Chongryon, Japan, and Chosen Soren
GW Unit:: Asian Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Kim, Jisoo and Yang, Daqing
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: For the first few decades since the dispute over the Senkaku Islands first became issue between Japan and China in the late 1960s, China had taken a moderate policy, emphasizing on shelving the dispute and focusing on joint development. After the end of the Cold War, however, China has taken more...
Author:: Idomoto, Yuji
Keyword:: Neoclassical Realism, Senkaku/DIaoyu Dispute, Sino-Japanese Relations, and Chinese Foreign Policy
GW Unit:: Asian Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Sutter, Robert G
Committee Member(s):: Mochizuki, Mike
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Millennia ago, a vital trade route connected the thriving civilizations of ancient Greece, Persia, and China. Through the ancient Silk Road, China was able to influence societies far beyond its national borders. And now, in the twenty-first century, it seeks to do the same. This paper will...
Author:: Zhang, Yizhi Jing Jing
Keyword:: OBOR, Nation Building, One Belt One Road, China, and Chinese Communist Party
GW Unit:: Asian Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Roberts, Sean and Dickson, Bruce
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The Gokoku Jinja 護国神社 or “Defense of Country Shrines” are an often misunderstood variety of shrines and memorials that has remained woefully underrepresented within English language scholarship on a variety of subjects. Most texts elect only to mention Gokoku Jinja in passing or simply as a...
Author:: Long, Zachary Taylor
Keyword:: Modern History of Japan, Gokoku Jinja, Allied Occupation of Japan, Shokonsha, Shrines for the War Dead, and Defense of Country Shrines
GW Unit:: Asian Studies
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Yang, Daqing
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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