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Project Ideas for Doctor of Philosophy in East Asian Languages and Cultures

Interdisciplinary inquiry into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts, media, and societies.

🏛 Introduction

UC’s PhD in East Asian Languages & Cultures advances cutting-edge scholarship on language, literature, visual culture, and history across East Asia’s dynamic past and present.

💡 Suggested Project Titles

TEI-encoded digital edition of Ming-era women’s tanci fiction with multimedia glosses

Ethnography of K-drama subtitle fandoms and transnational vernacular creation

GIS map of Meiji-period travel diaries visualizing modernization routes

Machine-learning classifier detecting self-censorship in contemporary Chinese social media

VR reconstruction of Heian court poetry competitions at the imperial palace

Comparative study of Okinawan anti-base protest songs and Korean minjung music

Policy brief on heritage-language preservation among second-generation Chinese Americans

Digital archive of Manchu language stele inscriptions with 3-D scans

Critical essay on eco-Buddhism in post-Fukushima Japanese literature

Interactive timeline of LGBTQ+ activism in Taiwan’s literary journals (1970-present)

Corpus linguistics analysis of politeness particles in Korean livestream commerce

Oral-history podcast on Cultural-Revolution underground reading circles

Crowdsourced translation project for late Qing feminist periodicals

White paper on open-access East Asian cinema subtitling standards

Symposium on AI ethics and automated Chinese-to-English literary translation

Digital game localizing Tang-dynasty city life for high-school curricula

Study of Zen aesthetics in contemporary Korean webcomics

Multi-modal exhibition pairing Edo ukiyo-e prints with modern manga adaptations

Metaphor analysis of climate discourse in official Chinese government speeches

Workshop training teachers in inclusive romanization practices across East Asian languages

University of California – PhD in East Asian Languages & Cultures

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