The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to announce the release of the latest volume of the Colorado Journal for Asian Studies (CJAS). Every year, seniors in Asian Studies complete a research project under the guidance of a faculty advisor. In the spring, they present their work in a public forum, and a number of theses are then published in CJAS.
This year's journal includes work by Christopher Wicoff, "Hatsune Miku: The Reality of a Fake Pop Star," which examines the phenomenon of Hatsune Miku, a graphically-designed character who has become a major pop star. Jonathan Campbell's thesis, "Swinging for the Kaki: Major League Baseball and Japan," looks at the development of major league baseball in Japan.
Elizabeth Chavez took a transnational approach to the dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in her thesis entitled "Breaking Out of the Single Store: The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute from a Transnational, Multilateral Perspective.
Dashiell H. Nathanson and Emma Rafaelof聽both did research聽on China. Nathanson聽studied reform in rural China in the 1980s by looking at village elections and how they inform us about the Communist Party and Chinese society as a whole. Rafaelof聽examines the one-child policy by looking at Chinese women's status in the present, changes in family construction, and trends in reproduction and offers suggestions for how to approach the issue of family planning in the future.
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