CONTEMPORARY CHINA

• Taiwan's 2004 Presidential Election: Implications for Taiwan's Politics
  Elizabeth F. Larus
• New Historical Thinking in China's Reform Era (1979-Present): Background on Establishment Historians
  Edward S. Krebs

POLITICS AND RELIGION IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

• Conflict in Kashmir: A Study in State-Society Breakdown
  Gerald Meyerle
• Walking through the Indigenous Religious Field: A Field Report on Malaysian Borneo
  Wei Zhang
• Interview with Vaclav Havel on Burma: "Without inner freedom you can achieve nothing"
  Min Zin

ESSAYS ON BUDDHISM AND BUDDHIST HISTORY

• A Critical Analysis of Brian Victoria's Perspectives on Modern Japanese Buddhist History
  Daniel A. Metraux
• Three Essays on Contemporary Buddhism
  Jennifer Manlowe
  • Revolutionary Women on the Edge of Change: Buddhism in Cuba
  • Not Relying on Signs: Wisdom Lessons on Bodhisattva Values from the Diamond Sutra
  • The Trouble with Emptiness
• Self, Selfnessness and Liberation
  Ornuma Wawsri

THE MIDDLE EAST, ISLAM AND JUDAISM

• The United Nations and the Contemporary World Crisis
  Gordon Bowen
• The Burden of Freedom: Misconceptions of Liberty in the Arab Street: Case Study: Palestine
  Elizabeth Saylor
• Jihad: Faith, Fanaticism and the Circles of the Soul
  Ruth Rowe
• Auschwitz and Jewish Krakow
  Daniel A. Metraux

• John Nathan, Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose.
         Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux
• Andrew Marshall, The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire.
         Reviewed by Khin Oo
• James L. Huffman, A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House.
          Reviewed by Daniel Metraux
• Takkatho Nay Win, Biographical Sketches of General Aung San.
          Reviewed by Khin Oo