Table of Contents:
WORLD WAR II AND JAPAN
“Preparing the Flight of the Pheonix:
Nippon Stories:” The Very First Days of the Occupation of Japan (1)
Wilton S. Dillon
Konoe and Hull: The Greater
East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: An Act of Benevolence or Imperialism? (23)
Kazuo Yagami
CHINESE CULTURE, HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
Li Zhishan’s Feminist Activism
in Tianjin in the 1920s (35)
Yuxin Ma
Social Motivations for the Revival
of Address Terms in China (51)
Xuexin Liu
Transgression-Obsessed: A Cross-Cultural Reading of Judou and Curse
of the Golden Flower (63)
Li Zeng
China’s Social Policy:
Meeting the Needs of China’s Orphaned and Disabled Children (73)
James W. Yoxall
CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA
Looking Westward:
China’s Changing Relations with Central Asia (107)
Jonathan Z. Ludwig
Educating Xinjiang’s Uyghurs:
Achieving Success or Creating Unrest? (117)
Timothy A. Grose
INDIA: CULTURE AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
What’s A Kiss: The Unchaste Chastity of
Bollywood (137)
Devon Burke
India Looks Seaward: The case of the Proliferation
Security Initiative (151)
James R. Holmes
Time Traveling in India: How Much and
How Little has Changed in Only a Generation (165)
Jane Pietrowski
JAPAN: HISTORY AND CULTURE
Tokyo’s Dr. Phil (167)
Benjamin Dorman
“In the Way of the Samurai:” Difference and Connection in Samurai
Champloo (171)
Amy Fitzgerald
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK (185)
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- 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?
BOOK REVIEWS (195)
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