Academic Works

The following essays were written as academic assignments. The files are in .pdf form. Please contact me if you have any questions about the content of these works.

Essays Written in English

The Great Leap Forward: The History of Death - My Comprehensive Exercise, or "comps", Carleton's version of a senior thesis. Written about The Great Leap Forward with a focus on the various methods of recounting death historically. (2005)

The Changing Role of Women During the Rise of Neo-Confucianism - A final essay written for Imperial Chinese History at Carleton. (2005)

Exploring Japanese-ness - A mid-term essay on defining and exploring "Japanese-ness" for the Anthropology of Japan course I took junior year at Carleton. (2004)

Multimedia in ESL and EFL Teaching - My final project for and EFL/ESL education course I took at Carleton. In this paper I talk about various media used for teaching ESL/EFL and give examples for possible lessons. (2004)

A Clash of the Classes in a Classless Society - An essay on the relations between the classes in early modern Chinese history, written for Modern Chinese History. (2003)

The Power and Influence of Buddhism in Early China and Japan - This was my final essay for a history course called Bureaucracy, Law, and Religion in East Asia. It deals with the influence Buddhism, specifically Buddhist monks had over social and political issues in early China and Japan. (2002)

Comfort Women - This is a selection from a longer paper on Japanese war crimes, written as a term paper for History of Japan after 1868, my first history class at Carleton. (This selection is missing its bibliography, please contact me if you are interested in the sources used for this paper.) (2001)

Chinese Essays

大跃进：农业问题 - This is a speech about the impact of the Great Leap Forward on the peasant population of China during the Great Leap Forward. It was written for Advanced Modern Chinese at the University of Minnesota, but the research came from my work on my comps paper for Carleton. (2006)

北京烤鸭！ - This essay, written for my the last Chinese class I took while at Carleton, is a true account of an event during my off-campus studies program in China. This essay was later published in Carleton's multi-lingual journal The Polyglot (2002)