Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "East Asia"
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The Achievement Gap, Revisited: An Empirical Assessment of What We Can Learn from East Asian Education
(2012-10-23)International mathematics assessments have established students in East Asia as among the best in the world and their U.S. counterparts as mediocre. What is not clear is why this “achievement gap” exists. The last major ... -
Finding Patterns in Nature: Asa Gray's Plant Geography and Collecting Networks (1830s-1860s)
(2013-10-18)It is well known that American botanist Asa Gray's 1859 paper on the floristic similarities between Japan and the United States was among the earliest applications of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory in plant geography. ... -
Identity and Security: Identity Distance Theory and Regional Affairs in Northeast and Southeast Asia
(2013-01-02)The dissertation explores the relationship between identity and international security, and tests the effect of the former on the latter by analyzing a set of puzzling phenomena in East Asia—the emergence of mutual threat ... -
The Rural Developmental State: Modernization Campaigns and Peasant Politics in China, Taiwan and South Korea
(2012-10-25)This dissertation analyzes the causes of rural development in East Asia, as well as the relative success or failure of rural development policies among East Asian countries, providing detailed case studies of China, Taiwan, ... -
Scutellinia (Pezizales) In Korea, With A New Species and Eight New Records
(Schweizerbart Science Publishers, 2012)Eleven species of the genus Scutellinia (Pyronemataceae, Pezizales) are recognized in Korea by analysis of macro- and micro-morphological characteristics, substrates and geographical distributions. Eight species are recorded ...