2011 Ph.D.s

Reading for the Moral: Exemplarity and Heroism in Xingshi yan (1632) and the “Fiction of Moral Duty”

The Politics of the Past in Early China

The Power of Ritual: An Integrated History of Medieval Kôfukuji

Patronage, Politics, and the Emergence of Rock-Cut Tombs in Early Han China

Preserving Manchu Traditions with Chinese Culture: The Banner People’s Kinship Organizations (1644-1911)

Serving Your Master: The Kashindan Retainer Corps and the Socio-Economic Transformation of Warring States: Japan

The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism

Gender and Voice in Early Modern Chinese Poetry

The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Chūryō and the Development of Late Edo Fiction

Insatiable Women and Transgressive Authority: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China