Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2007

FRONTISPIECE (pdf link)
CONTRIBUTORS (pdf link)
CHINA TODAY
Uyghur Ethnicity and Human Rights Discourse in Post 9/11 China (pdf link) Richard Rice
"Soft Power" at Sea: Zheng He and China's Maritime Diplomacy (pdf link) James R. Holmes
The Filthy Truth: China's Growing Ecological Crisis and the Danger it Poses for the Rest of the World (pdf link) Daniel A. Metraux
Disparities Among the Orphans of China (pdf link) James Wolf Yoxall
KOREAN HISTORY
Myth, Memory and Reinvention in Korea: The Case of Tan'gun (pdf link) Michael J. Seth
RELIGION AND POLITICS
Religious Politics, Japanese Style (pdf link) Benjamin Dorman
RAMIFICATIONS OF THE PACIFIC WAR
Philippines, 1945. Upon Encountering the Pearl of the Orient: My Foretaste of Anthropology (pdf link) Wilton S. Dillon
Konoe and Hull (pdf link) Kazuo Yagami
WOMEN AND ISLAM
The Status of Women in Islam: Rights, Respect and the Myth of Oppression (pdf link) Elizabeth L. Metraux
PHILIPPINES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Issues, Concerns, and Challenges in Environmental Adjucation in the Philippine Court System (pdf link) Dominic Nardi
ART AND NATIONAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Nameless in Murakami Haruki's A Wild Sheep Chase (pdf link) Elizabeth Carter
Cultural Aspects of Japanese Family Address Terms as Part of Language Learning (pdf link) Xuexin Liu
Gendered Chinas and the National Future: Interpreting Lu Yao (pdf link) Yuan Gao
Fathers and the Search for an Ideal Father in Frank Chin's The Chicken Coop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon (pdf link) Xiaoling Shi
Understanding the Importance of Eclecticism: K. G. Subramanyan and 20th Century Indian Art (pdf link) Margaret Richardson
Communal Fields and Individual Graves: The Dichotomy Between Individuals and Community in Seven Samurai (pdf link) Amy Phifer
Slightly Out of Character: Shonen Epics, Doujinshi and Japanese Concepts of Masculinity (pdf link) Megan Harrell
SCHOLARLY NOTES
IPR Infringement and Sino-Japanese Relations (pdf link) Weiyin Shi
The Soka Gakkai in CambodiaDaniel A. Metraux
Sex Slavery as a National Threat: A Response to Louise Brown's Sex Slavery: The Trafficking of Women in Asia (pdf link) Aye Mon Htut
BOOK REVIEWS (pdf link) Daniel A. Metraux
Margaret MacMillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World. James Kynge, China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future — and the Challenge for America.
Yuji Ichioka, Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History.
Xiaolu, Village of Stone.
Diana L. Ahmad, The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West.
Peter Pagnamento and Momoko Williams, Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman.
Fred Bergsten, Bates Gill, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek J. Mitchell, China, the Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know About the Emerging Superpower.
Edward Friedman and Bruce Gilley, eds., Asia's Giants: Comparing China and India.

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