VIRGINIA REVIEW OF ASIAN STUDIES
Vol. VIII: Fall 2005 Published by the Virginia Consortium of Asian
Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contributors
About
VCAS
DEMOCRACY IN ASIA
On Social Mobility,
the Military, and Democratization: Contrasting Evolutions in Korea
and Burma. Notes for a Preliminary Inquiry
By David I. Steinberg
Can the Democratic
Peace Permeate the Arab World? The Dangers of Political Idealism
By Elizabeth L. Metraux
The
Emerging Urban Grassroots Democracy: A Case Study of Community
Building and Neighborhood Activism in Shanghai
By Chunrong Liu
CONFLICT IN ASIA
Trying to Avoid a Japanese-American
War: America's "Japan Connection" in 1937 and 1941
By Barney J. Rickman III
Israel is Necessary:
An Affirmation to the Question "Is Israel Necessary"
By Gordon Bowen
Japan's
Deployment of Self-Defense Forces to Iraq 2004
By Cristina Brayton
Towards
a Win-Win Model for the Kashmir Conflict
By Jen Yi Lee
An American
Soldier's Iraq Diary
By Jay Christenson
MARGARET MEAD'S IMAGES OF ASIA
Margaret Mead's Uses of Imagery
By Wilton S. Dillon
PERSPECTIVES ON CHINESE AND JAPANESE RELIGION
AND PHILOSOPHY
Can
One be Both Chinese and Christian?
By John S. Peale
The Wonder of
Tao: Entering the Primordial Source of Creativity
By Tom Pynn
Japanese Faith Outside
of Shinto, Buddhism and Christianity
By Hideo Watanabe
Whose Reality: The Challenge
of Realism in the Work of Mao Dun
By Joana Carlson Avila
SOUTH ASIAN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Microenterprises
in the Kingdom of Nepal: On the Path to Economic Development
By Douglas Fugate, Kirk C. Heriot and Raja Bhattacharya
A Conviction to Dissent: Reinterpreting
Mass Conversion at Meenakshipuram
By Gavin Irby
INDIAN CULTURAL AFFAIRS
The Interplay between
Marriage, Ritual and Art in Mithila
By Punam Madhok
The Distance Traveled:
Little Clay Cart in Athens, Georgia
By Lauren Hobbs Sexton
SUICIDE IN JAPAN
Understanding Japanese Suicide
in Terms of the Interaction of Multiple Variables
By Roxanne Russell
SCHOLARLY NOTES
Reflections on a Sabbatical in India:
The Tsunami, Caste, Tribal India, Pilgrimages, Women's Education,
and Intellectual Life.
Roderic Owen
Teaching Children English
in China
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
By Daniel A. Metraux
BOOK REVIEWS
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