CONTENTS: Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2008
WORLD WAR II AND JAPAN
Wilton S. Dillon
Konoe and Hull: The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: An Act of Benevolence or Imperialism?
Kazuo Yagami
CHINESE CULTURE, HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
Li Zhishan’s Feminist Activism in Tianjin in the 1920s
Yuxin Ma
Social Motivations for the Revival of Address Terms in China
Xuexin Liu
Transgression-Obsessed: A Cross-Cultural Reading of Judou and Curse of the Golden Flower
Li Zeng
China’s Social Policy: Meeting the Needs of China’s Orphaned and Disabled Children
James W. Yoxall
CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA
Looking Westward: China’s Changing Relations with Central Asia
Jonathan Z. Ludwig
Educating Xinjiang’s Uyghurs: Achieving Success or Creating Unrest?
Timothy A. Grose
INDIA: CULTURE AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
What’s A Kiss: The Unchaste Chastity of Bollywood
Devon Burke
India Looks Seaward: The case of the Proliferation Security Initiative
James R. Holmes
Time Traveling in India: How Much and How Little has Changed in Only a Generation
Jane Pietrowski
JAPAN: HISTORY AND CULTURE
Benjamin Dorman
“In the Way of the Samurai:” Difference and Connection in Samurai Champloo
Amy Fitzgerald
Daniel A. Métraux
A Conversation with Japan’s Senior Vice-Minister of Finance Provides a Bleak Picture of His Nation’s Future
The Ghosts of Chinese Camp California
Benazir Bhutto’s Assassination and Pakistan’s Ultimate Failure as a Nation
How Recent Turkish Invasions of northern Iraq could ruin the Amrican War effort
Who Plays Better Baseball: The United States or Japan?
John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Mulsims REALLY THINK.
Mansoor Moaddel, Ed., Values and Perceptions of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Publics
Reviewed by Gordon Bowen
Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, Will the Boat Sink the Water: The Life of China’s Peasants
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
Gi Wook Shin and Kyung Moon Hwang, Eds. Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea’s Past and Present.
Reviewed by Eric Strange
Charles K. Armstrong, The Koreas
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
Hideaki Matsuoka, Japanese Prayer Below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity
Reviewed By Daniel A. Métraux
Amy Docksert Marcus, Jerusalem 1913.
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux.
Kozaburo Nagatsu, Hisao Suzuki, and Toshio Yamamoto, Eds, Against Nuclear Weapons: A Collection of Poems by 181 Poets.
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux