VIRGINIA REVIEW OF ASIAN STUDIES
Vol. X: 2007 Published by the Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contributors
About VCAS
CHINA TODAY
Uyghur Ethnicity and Human Rights Discourse in Post 9/11 China
By Richard Rice
“Soft Power” at Sea: Zheng He and China’s Maritime Diplomacy
By James R. Holmes
The Filthy Truth: China’s Growing Ecological Crisis and the Danger it Poses for the Rest of the World
By Daniel A. Métraux
Disparities Among the Orphans of China
By James Wolf Yoxall
KOREAN HISTORY
Myth, Memory and Reinvention in Korea: The Case of Tan’gun
By Michael J. Seth
RELIGION AND POLITICS
Religious Politics, Japanese Style
By Benjamin Dorman
RAMIFICATIONS OF THE PACIFIC WAR
Philippines, 1945. Upon Encountering the Pearl of the Orient: My Foretaste of Anthropology
By Wilton S. Dillon
Konoe and Hull
By Kazuo Yagami
WOMEN AND ISLAM
The Status of Women in Islam: Rights, Respect and the Myth of Oppression
By Elizabeth L. Métraux
PHILIPPINES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Issues, Concerns, and Challenges in Environmental Adjucation in the Philippine Court System
By Dominic Nardi
ART AND NATIONAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Nameless in Murakami Haruki’s A Wild Sheep Chase
By Elizabeth Carter
Cultural Aspects of Japanese Family Address Terms as Part of Language Learning
By Xuexin Liu
Gendered Chinas and the National Future: Interpreting Lu Yao
By Yuan Gao
Fathers and the Search for an Ideal Father in Frank Chin’s The Chicken Coop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon
By Xiaoling Shi
Understanding the Importance of Eclecticism: K. G. Subramanyan and 20th Century Indian Art
By Margaret Richardson
Communal Fields and Individual Graves: The Dichotomy Between Individuals and Community in Seven Samurai
By Amy Phifer
Slightly Out of Character: Shônen Epics, Doujinshi and Japanese Concepts of Masculinity
By Megan Harrell
SCHOLARLY NOTES
The Sôka Gakkai in Cambodia
By Daniel A. Métraux
Sex Slavery as a National Threat: A Response to Louise Brown’s Sex Slavery: The Trafficking of Women in Asia
By Aye Mon Htut
BOOK REVIEWS
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. Edited by Gordon H. Chang and Eiichiro Azuma.
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 (The Center for Strategic and International Studies and Institute for International Economics), 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