Virginia Review of Asian Studies papers are available as pdf files; click to download.
VRAS 2006 CONTENTS
Virginia Review of Asian Studies papers are available as pdf files; click to download.
| Asia: The Politics of Conflict | |||
| Creating a Counterterrorism Policy: Why Has Japan Had a Weak Response? |
Carol Walker | Linebacker Operations and U.S. Strategic Bombing at the End of the Second Indochina War |
William Head |
| Revisiting the Pyramid: Militant Islamism as a revolutionary movement |
Gordon Bowen | ||
| Cambodia Today: The Slow Road Back from the Inferno and Killing Fields Revisited |
Daniel A. Métraux | ||
| Democracy in Okinawa: U.S.-Okinawan Relations in the Cold war |
Chizuru Saeki | ||
| Beyond Yi and Yu: The Quest for Understanding Japan's 1592-1598 Invasion of Korea |
Jeff Bolander | ||
| Religion and Politics | |||
| Ramakrishna: A Model of Historical Renewal Through Incarnational Consciousness and Role Playing |
Hal French | ||
| Kicking the Dog: Korea's Bureaucratic Resistance to Globalization in Reaction to Democratization |
Dongryul Kim | ||
| The Green Buddha: An Analysis of the Role of Buddhist Civil Society in Environmental Conservation in Burma |
Dominic Nardi | ||
| Shades of Hopi Amelioration: Food Changes in Japanese Culture – A 1949 Retrospective on SCAP's Trying to Wean the Japanese away from White to Brown Rice and Corn |
Wilton Dillon | ||
| China | |||
| Private Equity in China |
Richard Bethune | ||
| Conflicts Surrounding Rural Education Reforms in China |
Jim Yoxall | ||
| Research Notes and Commentary | |||
| My Life as a Muslim Woman |
Laila Nasser Daher | ||
| Avian Flu: Impact and Consequences for the Chinese Market |
Randi Huo | ||
| Teaching Asian American Studies in a Liberal Arts College: One Asianist's Reflections |
Roselee Bundy | ||
| Reflections on Life in the Peace Corps in Mauritania |
Cathryn A. Brieske | ||
| Japan's Spectacular Hikone Castle |
Daniel A. Métraux | ||
| Views of Suicide in Modern Japanese Literature: A Positive Portrayal in Nami no Tou |
Roxanne Russell | ||
| Book Reviews all reviews are in one pdf file |
Reviewed by | ||
| J.S. Eades, Roger Goodman and Yumiko Hada, eds., The 'Big Bang' in Japanese Higher Education: The 2004 Reforms and the Dynamics of Change. |
Lucien Ellington | ||
| Louise Brown, Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia. |
Daniel A. Métraux | ||
| Peter D. Hershock. Chan Buddhism. |
Tom Pynn | ||
| Elizabeth Freund Larus, Economic Reform in China, 1979-2003: The Marketization of Labor and State Enterprises. | Daniel A. Métraux | ||
| R. Keith Schoppa, Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History. |
Chizuru Saeki | ||
| Theodore C Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff and Victoria Lyon Bestor, eds. Doing Fieldwork in Japan. |
Steven E. Gump | ||
| James T. Gillam, War in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, 1968-1970: An Historian's Experience. |
Daniel A. Métraux | ||
| Nancy E. Sato, Inside Japanese Classrooms: The Heart of Education. |
Steven E. Gump | ||
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Michael Ashkenazi & Jeanne Jacob. Food Culture in Japan.
Jacqueline M. Newman, Food Culture in China. Colleen Taylor Sen, Food Culture in India. |
Steven E. Gump | ||
| Timon Screech, Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. |
William Fleming | ||
| Book Reviews in Brief all brief reviews are in one pdf file |
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| Evan Gottesman, Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge. |
Daniel Métraux | ||
| Anne Best. The Monk, the Farmer, The Merchant, The Mother: Survival Stories of Rural Cambodia. |
Daniel Métraux | ||
| Paul L. Swanson and Clark Chilson, Eds., Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions. |
Daniel Métraux | ||
| Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, A History of Thailand. |
Daniel Métraux | ||
| Contributors | |||