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Honours theses

2007

The Making of Masako: Contested Representations of Japan's Crown Princess (Pamela Murrie)

Maintaining Political Legitimacy In Singapore (Stephen Fitzpatrick)

Private Authority, Nongovernmental Organisations and the Question of Accountability: the Case of Post-tsunami Aceh (Kieren Haslam)

Papua New Guines and Indonesia's Evolving Relationship (Sally Johnston)

Inequality in Urban China (Sharom Mak)

2006

Adelescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Indonesia: Investing in the Future? (Claire Harding)

Identity of Young ‘Korean Japanese’ (Joyce Ong)

Protest in Contemporary China: A Review of the Political and Socio-Economic Consequences (Jayce Ng)

2005

Eager to Leave: China and the Transnational Flow of People (Stephanie Cooke)

Questioning the Benevolence of Civil Society: A Case Study of Civil society and Exclusion in the Arab Gulf (Sarah Mills)

Australia’s Involvement in Peace Operations in Southeat Asia: Interests, Contributions and Potential (Emily Chapman)

Perceptions of Marginalisation: Issues surrounding the Islamisation of the Malay/Muslim Community of Singapore (Jaylani Haisu)

Japanese Corporate Change: The Challengers of Employers and Employees from the Miracle, to the Recession, and now the Current Day (Francis Kopinsky)

Mendicancy with Chinese Characteristics
An Image Problem? A Threat to Social Stability? or Symptomatic of Something Else? (Thao Ngyuen)

‘Mahathirism’ in Austrralia-Malaysia Relations (Natalie Sambhi)

Natural Resources and Conflict: a case study of Aceh (Elfie-Luise Shiosaki)

After Hyphenation Chinese Indetity in Australia:
A study of First Generation Chinese Migrants aged 18 – 28 (Yue Lin Sun)

2004

The State, Society and the Shifting Notions of Masculinity in China 1840-1949 (Gerard Chan)

A Community Online? – Overseas Visual Kei Fans (Shu-Ming Koh)

Lifestyle Magazines in Contemporary Japan (Linda Lee)

Constructing Gender through Language: Contemporary Femininities in Contemporary Japanese (Sarah McCoy)

Japan’s Indigenous Ainu and the Impact of Tourism (Peter Brennan)

The Inter-relationship of Sport and Hegemonic Cultural Ideals in Japan (Elizabeth Charlesworth)

Delineating “Japanese-ness”: The Popularity of Nihonjinron and Shifting Notions of National Identity (Victoria Lowe)

The Changing Nature of Political Legitimacy for the Communist Party of China: Why the CPC has succeeded where others have failed (Scott Williams)

2003

Peasant Resistance, Rural Migration and Contesting Citizenship: Why China Can’t Ignore the Plight of its Rural Majority (Russell Harwood)

The Construction of National Identity and Ethnic and Cultural Minority Groups in Japan
(Marilyn Longwood)

Perceptions of the Japanese Bar Hostess and Notions of Prostitution in Japan and the West (Vincci Chan)

Mass Mobilisation Campaigns and Authoritarian Government: Social Control and Coercion in post-1949 China (Suzannah Williams)

2002

Marriage Predicaments and the Marginality of the ‘Less-Educated’ Male: A Case Study of ‘Meritocracy’ in Singapore (Alicia Quek)

No Longer Untouchable! The Increasing Social and Political Activism of India’s Dalits (Faria Mohsin)

China and Australia: A Century of Paradox (Darren Chan)
The Ambivalent Identity of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia (CY Hoon)

A Changing Gerontoscape The ‘Chinese’ aging experience in Singapore (Gladys Low)

Listening to the Voices of Disadvantaged Women in Indonesia:
The representation of Poor Women in the Indonesian Women’s Movement (Rasita Purba)

2001

Managing the Spread of Charismatic Christianity in Multi-Religious Singapore (Ivy Pang)

China’s Rise: It’s Impact on Singapore’s “Chineseness”, Regional Relations and the Policy of Multiracialism (Sharon Tham)

2000

The Role of Mandarin in the Reimagining of Hong Kong’s Geopolitical Space ( Sonal Srivastava)

Symbol or Substance? The Political Leadership of Megawait Soekarnoputri (John McKinley)

Cabut Dwifungsi!: Prospects for Demilitarisation of Indonesian Politics in the Post-Soeharto Era (Claire Elias)

China and the South China Sea Dispute: Where to Now? (Charlotte Woodhill)

The Indonesian response to Australia’s actions regarding the territory of East Timor in 1999 (Matthew Stephenson)

1999

The Politics of ‘East’ and ‘West’: Difference(s), ‘Asian Values’ and the Asian Economic Crisis (Fauzi Ahmad)

The Nibutani Dam Case - A Study of the Development of Policy Towards the Hokkaido Ainu in Japan (Karen Boden)

Perspectives of Domestic Violence in Japan (Laura Dales)

Sex and Sexism in Japanese Erotic Comics: The Fantasy of Violence and Dominance as Proof of Masculinity (Evelyn Ho)

Constructing Australian Nationalism: The Reproduction of Racism in the Australian Media (Therea Herbert)

Indonesian Muslim Women in the 1990s (Rhonda Haskell)

Reformasi Total: Towards a New Understanding of the Politics of Amien Rais in the Context of his Social and Political Writing (Carol Holmes)

The Timor Gap and Australia’s foreign Policy on East Timor; principled versus pragmatic policy (Tania Lawrence)

Constructing the Good Citizen: Moral Education in Singaporean Primary Schools (Louisa Pragasam)

1998

Unsurprising Singapore: The Role of the Singapore Tourist Board as Image-Moulders of Singapore (Gavin Ang)

Chinese Youth in the post-Mao era: A Challenge to the Chinese State (Jeanette Chua)

Television, the Audience and Soap Opera in Indonesia:’Activated’ Audiences Vs State Control (Cate Salom)

Questioning Javanese Traditions in New Order Indonesia (Renee Winata)

Death by Culture: Dowry-Related Domestic Violence in India (Christina Zaccheus)

1997

State Hegemony and Women’s Political Participation (Anthony Goh)

Australia’s Japan: From Threat to Saviour and Beyond (Jane Harrison)

Narratives of Malaysian-Chinese Identities in Multicultural Australia (Sharon Lim)

Power, the Indonesian State and Family Planning (Genevieve Mackenzie)

1996

Discrimination Against the Buraku People of Japan (Leanne Kai)

Priorities of Japanese Education: Human Growth or National Growth? (Susanna Chan)

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