Research

Dissertation Project

“Face Culture in East Asian International Relations”

Primary Working Papers

These are working papers related to my primary research project

1. “Face Culture and its Effects in China-Southeast Asia Relations”

2. “Regional Differences in Status Effects”

3. “It is not what you say but how you say it: Experimental Results in Cultural Psychology, Face Culture and International Relaions”

Other Working Papers

These are prototype or early-stage working papers which are not part of my main project, but that I will nevertheless be revisiting in the future because they either have interesting concepts or yielded interesting results

1. Naming and Shaming: Regional Divides (Early analysis completed)

2. Applications of Machine Translation for Asian Language Sources: Comparing MTL with Gold Standard Translations for Analytical Purposes (Research design completed)

Past Projects

1. Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Culture and Status Seeking: The Impact of Mianzi on Bilateral Relations with China

   • Winner of the Tan Sing Meng Prize for Outstanding Capstone Project in China Studies at Yale-NUS College