#  2021 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Thesis Awards  

 





May 31, 2021

 

 

 **2021 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Awards**

 This annual award was established in 1985 in honor of the late Joseph Fletcher, Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History and a past chairman of the RSEA Committee.

 This award is given to a student or students in the RSEA program for a research thesis which demonstrates the high standard of excellence encouraged by Professor Fletcher.

 **Fletcher Prize Winners:**

Sort    Jeonghun Choi

 

  *"Popularization of Historical Knowledge in Meiji Japan: Writers of Hakubunkan and Bankoku Senshi (Universal History of Wars)"*

 

  Andy Gordon

 

    Yuchan Kim

 

  *“The Deadly Art of Survival: Elite Purges in North Korea”*

 

  Sung-Yoon Lee

 

    Yi Zhang

 

   *"Myriad Images: Illustrated Books and Media Ecologies in the Late Ming”*

 

  Tom Kelly

 

 



 **Honorable Mentions**

Sort    Latifa Al Saud

 

  *"North Korea in the Arab World: Opportunity, Diplomacy, and Denial"*

 

  John Park

 

    John Goodwin

 

  *"China’s Military Civil Fusion Project: Transferring Emerging Technology to Defense Applications"*

 

  Iain Johnston

 

    Benjamin Landauer

 

  *"Abstruse Poetry, Fluctuating Ink: Emotive Intent and Early Medieval Writing Media in Ruan Ji (210-263)"*

 

  Xiaofei Tian

 

    Masaki Naito

 

  *“Addressing Setbacks: Restoring Public Confidence in the US-Japan Alliance”*

 

  Susan Pharr

 

    Teresa Ng

 

  *"Knowledge Production and the Construction of the “Other” in the Context of the BRI"*

 

  Meg Rithmire

 

    Bridget Nicholas

 

  *"Attachment to Places, Attachment to Causes: Transnational Identity and Political Engagement among U.S.-Based Chinese International Students"*

 

  Ya-wen Lei

 

    Quade Robinson

 

  *"Hostile Translation in Japanese Wartime Fiction"*

 

  Karen Thornber

 

    Jiyoung Sohn

 

  *“Lowering ironclad glass ceilings: Insider views of work environments that elevate women to managerial roles in South Korea”*

 

  Mary Brinton

 

    Liza Tarbell

 

  *"Dianchi Transformed: Energy, Technology, Consumption, and (In)justice at a Lake in Kunming, China, 1970-2020"*

 

  Arunabh Ghosh

 

    Will Taylor

 

  *““Sesame seeds between tectonic plates”: Huawei, ZTE and 5-geopolitics”*

 

  Meg Rithmire

 

    Yuyan Zhang

 

  *“Roaming Deity of Night: Suspense and Transmedia Divinity in the State of Emergency”*

 

  David Wang

 

 





 

 

 



 

 

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