List of MA Projects
| 2020-2021 |
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| 1. Decision-making and Judgment in Selected Jane Austen’s Novels |
| 2. The Double-Consciousness in Tara Westover’s Educated |
| 3. The Female’s Dilemma in Cho Nam-Joo’s Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 and Scarlet Curtis’s Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies |
| 4. Rebellion and Play Spirit in Post WWII European Children’s Literature: Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking, Michael Ende’s Momo and Roald Dahl’s Matilda |
| 5. Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl as Female Power Fantasy |
| 6. White/Black Girlhood: The Tomboy Image of Jo in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Annie in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John |
| 2019-2020 |
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| 1. The Empowerment of Taiwanese Identity and The TV Industry |
| 2. The Dialectic of the “Foreign” in Modern Chinese Fiction: A Comparative Study of the Three-Body Problem and City of Cats |
| 3. Androgyny and Homoeroticism in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and E.M Forster’s Maurice |
| 4. Different Adaptations of Turandot and the Representation of Women |
| 5. Virginia Woolf Yesterday and Today |
| 6. Orientalism, Race and Gender in Tai-Pan, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing and The World of Suzie Wong |
| 7. An Absurdist Study of Lu Xun: “Upstairs in the Tavern” and “The Loner” |
| 8. What Does Your Revolution Look Like? V for Vendetta and its Impact on Contemporary Anarchism |
| 2018-2019 |
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| 1. Intersectional Feminism in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You |
| 2. Black Trauma: William Faulkner’s Light in August and Jackie Kay’s Trumpet |
| 3. The Afterlife of the Borgia Family in 21st Century Television and Videogames |
| 4. Ted Hughes’s Crow Poems and Ecocriticism (1970) |
| 5. Female Objects and Feminist Consciousness: A Comparative Analysis of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Anne Sexton’s Transformations |
| 6. Posthuman Bildungsroman? Education in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go |
| 2017-2018 |
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| 1. The Modern and the Primitive in Contemporary Chinese-Malaysian Fiction |
| 2. Between Cosmopolitanism and Ethno-nationalism: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Perception of Loss in When We Were Orphans and The Buried Giant |
| 3. Paradoxical Identity: Orientalism in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You |
| 4. Disciplining Madness: Reconstructing Foucault’s Madness, Power, and Government |
| 5. Searching for a Hong Kong Identity: Historical Colonialism and Global Capitalism in Dung Kai Cheung’s Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City and Chan Koon Chung’s The Fat Years |
| 2016-2017 |
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| 1. Reducing Site of Violence to Sight of Violence: Susan Sontag’s Critique on Rendering Suffering into Entertainment |
| 2. Reading the Zhuangzi in American Poetry of the 1960s-70s: A Comparative Analysis Between Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island and James Wright’s The Branch Will not Break |
| 3. Between Cosmopolitan Men: Queer Space and Identity in John Rechy’s City of Night and Pai Hsien-Yung’s Crystal Boys |
| 4. Rewriting Nanjing: John Rabe’s The Good Man of Nanking and Ha Jin’s Nanjing Requiem |
| 2015-2016 |
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| 1. Self Awakenings: Black Women in Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Kathryn Stockett |
| 2. Crisis, Construction, Acceptance: Self and Other in Selected William Faulkner |
| 3. A Game of Anti-Essentialism: A Comparative Study of Parody in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and Donald Barthelme’s Snow White |
| 4. Women’s Success in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming and Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls |
| 2014-2015 |
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| 1. Viewing through the Veil: A Comparative Study of John Donne’s Selected Allegorical Poetry and the concepts of Yin (隱) and Xiu (秀) in Wenxin Diaolong |
| 2. Poetry and Pro-Democracy Movement: A Study of Liu Xiaobo and Meng Lang |
| 3. Through the Lens of the Sixties : Memory and History in Jiang Wen’s In the Heat of the Sun and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers |
| 4. A Semiotic Study of Gay Identities in E.M. Forster’s Maurice and Pai Hsien-Yung’s Crystal Boys |
| 5. The Revival of the Spirit of the Avant-Garde in Yu Hua’s Writings |
| 6. A Comparative Study of Henry V in Shakespeare’s Henriad and the BBC’s The Hollow Crown |
| 7. The Paradox of Love: The Body’s Existence and Absence in Sarah Kane’s Cleansed and Crave |
| 2013-2014 |
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| 1. The Influence of Dada on Chinese and Japanese poetry, 1910-1930 |
| 2. Literature and Culture: Matthew Arnold’s influence on Wu Mi |
| 3. The Feminist Imaginary in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake |
| 4. Traumatic Shadows, Traumatic Echoes: Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Joyce Carol Oates’ We Were the Mulvaneys |
| 5. Consumerism and Freedom in Selected Works by F. S. Fitzgerald and Don DeLillo |
| 6. Memoirs of a Globalized Geisha |