Table of Contents, Virginia Review of Asian Studies, 2005

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Democracy In Asia

On Social Mobility, the Military, and Democratization: Contrasting Evolutions in Korea and Burma. Notes for a Preliminary Inquiry PDF version
          By David I. Steinberg

Can the Democratic Peace Permeate the Arab World? The Dangers of Political Idealism PDF version
          By Elizabeth L. (nee Saylor) Metraux

The Emerging Urban Grassroots Democracy: A Case Study of Community Building and Neighborhood Activism in Shanghai PDF version
          By Chunrong Liu

Conflict In Asia

Trying to Avoid a Japanese-American War: America's "Japan Connection" in 1937 and 1941 PDF version
          By Barney J. Rickman III

Israel is Necessary: An Affirmation to the Question "Is Israel Necessary" PDF version
          By Gordon Bowen

Japan's Deployment of Self-Defense Forces to Iraq 2004 PDF version
          By Cristina Brayton

Towards a Win-Win Model for the Kashmir Conflict PDF version
          By Jen Yi Lee

An American Soldier's Iraq Diary PDF version
          By Jay Christenson

Margaret Mead's Images Of Asia

Margaret Mead's Uses of Imagery PDF version
          By Wilton S. Dillon

Perspectives On Chinese And Japanese Religion And Philosophy

Can One be Both Chinese and Christian? PDF version
          By John S. Peale

The Wonder of Tao: Entering the Primordial Source of Creativity PDF version
          By Tom Pynn

Two Approaches toward the Understanding of Japanese Religions PDF version
          By Hideo Watanabe

Whose Reality: The Challenge of Realism in the Work of Mao Dun PDF version
          By Joana Carlson Avila

South Asian Political And Economic Affairs

Microenterprises in the Kingdom of Nepal: On the Path to Economic Development PDF version
          By Douglas Fugate, Kirk C. Heriot and Raja Bhattacharya

A Conviction to Dissent: Reinterpreting Mass Conversion at Meenakshipuram PDF version
          By Gavin Irby

Indian Cultural Affairs

The Interplay between Marriage, Ritual and Art in Mithila PDF version
          By Punam Madhok

The Distance Traveled: Little Clay Cart in Athens, Georgia PDF version
          By Lauren Hobbs Sexton

Suicide In Japan

Understanding Japanese Suicide in Terms of the Interaction of Multiple Variables PDF version
          By Roxanne Russell

Scholarly Notes

Reflections on a Sabbatical in India: The Tsunami, Caste, Tribal India, Pilgrimages, Women's Education, and Intellectual Life. PDF version
          Roderic Owen

Teaching Children English in China PDF version
          By Allison Smith

China: Astonishing But Troubled Rising Star
Can Turkey Remain a Secular Society?
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation, Birth of New Hope
Acoma: Native American Sky Culture
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          By Daniel A. Metraux

Book Reviews

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Gerald Horne. Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire.
          Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux

Karl Meyer, The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland.
          Reviewed by Elizabeth L. Metraux

Sharankumar Limbale, The Outcaste Akkarmashi
          Reviewed by Tromila Wheat

Anchee Min, Empress Orchid: A Novel
          Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux

Edward Leroy Long, Jr., Facing Terrorism: Responding as Christians
          Reviewed by Gordon Bowen

Susan L. Burns, Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan
          Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux

Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India.
          Reviewed by Tromila Wheat

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

Susumu Shimazono, From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan
          Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux

Robert Whiting, The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Weave from Japan and the Transformation of our National Pastime
          Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux

Akira Yoshimura, One Man's Justice.
          Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux

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