2015 Ph.D.s

Saving Deities for the Community: Religion and the Transformation of Associational Life in Southern Zhejiang, 1949-2014

Xuanzang’s Journey to the East: Picto-textual Efficacy in the Genjō Sanzō emaki

The Careers of the Blind in Tokugawa Japan, 1603-1886

Re-viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Japan, 1925-1945

Roots and Branches: Woodland Institutions in South China, 800-1600

The Manchu Transformation of Li: Ritual, Politics, and Law in the Making of Qing China, 1631-1690

Southern Capital: Staging Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou

The Joy of the Dharma: Esoteric Buddhism and the Early Medieval Transformation of Japanese Literature

Ideas in Practice: The Political Economy of Chinese State Intervention during the New Policies Period (1068-1085)