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JULY 2003 ISSUE Contributors

ISSUES IN JAPANESE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

Japan: The Nation Without Nationalism PDF version
          By Michael Smitka

DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL IN SOUTH AND SE ASIA

Battle for the Soul of Modern India: The Bharaiya Janata Party, Harbinger of Indian Fascism PDF version
          By Lewis Fickett Jr.

The General Election in Thailand 2001: Will The Voters Continue to Buy What Thaksin Is Selling? PDF version
          By William R. Harker

NINETEENTH CENTURY CRITICS OF WESTERN BOURGEOIS SOCIETY: EAST AND WEST

Vivekananda and Nietzsche as Critics of Western Bourgeois Civilization PDF version
          By Narasingha P. Sil

BUDDHISM: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL DIMENSIONS

Waves of Fear: A New Religion Stirs Controversy in Japan PDF version
          By Benjamin Dorman

Burmese Buddhism and its Impact on Social Change PDF version
          By Min Zin

Globalizing Japanese Religion: The Soka Gakkai in Australia PDF version
          By Daniel A. Metraux

Approaching the Dhammacakka Sutta and Mahaparinirvana Sutta through Six Modes PDF version
          By Willa Baker

ASIAN ART: TRADITIONAL AND MODERN

Between Narrative and Expressive, Fantasy and Melodrama in Bombay Film PDF version
          By Wendy F. Hsu

Kim Tae-Song -- Korea's Michelangelo PDF version
          By Marilyn Goldstein

CENTENNIAL OF A MAJOR PACIFIC SCHOLAR: Alfred Metraux (1902-63)

Mysteries of Easter Island PDF version
          By Alfred Metraux

RESEARCH NOTES AND COMMENTARY:

The Palestine-Israel Conflict from within the West Bank PDF version
          By Elizabeth Saylor

Did China Have a Jewish President?: Tracing the Liu Shaoqi Saga PDF version
          By Jonathan Goldstein

The US-led Burma Charge PDF version
          By Min Zin

The Non-Profit Sector and International Giving in Japan: The Work of Project Hope Japan PDF version
          By Kumiko Omura

Reflections on Australia PDF version
          By Dave Cary

Media Report: Japan's Battle of the Weekly Magazines PDF version
          By Benjamin Dorman

REVIEW ESSAY

Out on the Rim: Four Korean American Poets PDF version
          By Robert Grotjohn

BOOK REVIEWS

Claudia Devaux and George Bernard Wong, S.J., Bamboo Swaying in the Wind: A Survivor's Story of Faith and Imprisonment in Communist China. PDF version
          Reviewed by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

Annie R. Wang: Lili: A Novel of Tiananmen. PDF version
          Reviewed by Constance Fletcher Smith

Anchee Min, Wild Ginger: A Novel PDF version
          Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux

Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, Zen at War. PDF version
          Reviewed By Daniel A. Metraux

Christopher Benfey, The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics and the Opening of Old Japan. PDF version
          Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux

BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

Sidney Gulick's 1905 The White Peril in the Far East: An Interpretation of the Significance of the Russo-Japanese War PDF version
          Reviewed By Daniel A. Metraux