Virginia Review of Asian Studies X

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	VIRGINIA REVIEW OF ASIAN STUDIES Vol. XI: 2008 Published by the Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies TABLE OF CONTENTS Contributors About VCAS WORLD WAR II AND JAPAN “Preparing the Flight of the Phoenix: Nippon Stories:” The Very First Days of the Occupation of Japan (1) By: Wilton S. Dillon Konoe and Hull : The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: An Act of Benevolence or Imperialism? (23) By: Kazuo Yagami CHINESE CULTURE, HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS Li Zhishan’s Feminist Activism in Tianjin in the 1920s (35) By: Yuxin Ma Social Motivations for the Revival of Address Terms in China (51) By: Xuexin Liu Transgression-Obsessed: A Cross-Cultural Reading of Judou and Curse of the Golden Flower (63) By: Li Zeng China’s Social Policy: Meeting the Needs of China ’s Orphaned and Disabled Children (73) By: James W. Yoxall CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA Looking Westward: China ’s Changing Relations with Central Asia (107) By: Jonathan Z. Ludwig Educating Xinjiang’s Uyghurs: Achieving Success or Creating Unrest? (117) By: Timothy A. Grose INDIA : CULTURE AND CURRENT AFFAIRS What’s A Kiss: The Unchaste Chastity of Bollywood (137) By: Devon Burke India Looks Seaward: The case of the Proliferation Security Initiative (151) By: James R. Holmes Time Traveling in India: How Much and How Little has Changed in Only a Generation (165) By: Jane Pietrowski JAPAN : HISTORY AND CULTURE Tokyo’s Dr. Phil (167) By: Benjamin Dorman “In the Way of the Samurai:” Difference and Connection in Samurai Champloo (171) By: Amy Fitzgerald FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK (185) By: 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? 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

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