2003
Issues in Japanese Politics and Economics
Japan: The Nation Without Nationalism
By: Michael Smitka
Democracy on Trial in South and Southeast Asia
Battle for the Soul of Modern India: The Bharaiya Janata Party, Harbinger of Indian Fascism
By: Lewis Fickett Jr.
The General Election in Thailand 2001: Will the Voters Continue to Buy What Thaksin is Selling?
By: William R. Harker
Nineteenth Century Critics of Western Bourgeois Society: East and West
Vivekananda and Nietzsche as Critics of Western Bourgeois Civilization
By: Narasingha P. Sil
Buddhism: National and Global Dimensions
Waves of Fear: A New Religion Stirs Controversy in Japan
By: Benjamin Dorman
Burmese Buddhism and its Impact on Social Change
By: Min Zin
Globalizing Japanese Religion: The Soka Gakkai in Australia
By: Daniel A. Metraux
Approaching the Dhammacakka Sutta and Mahaparinirvana Sutta Through Six Modes
By: Willa Baker
Asian Art: Traditional and Modern
Between Narrative and Expressive, Fantasy and Melodrama in Bombay Film
By: Wendy F. Hsu
Kim Tae-Song–Korea’s Michelangelo
By: Marilyn Goldstein
Centennial of a Major Pacific Scholar: Alfred Metraux (1902-63)
Mysteries of Easter Island
By: Alfred Matraux
Research Notes and Commentary
The Palestine-Israel Conflict from Within the West Bank
By: Elizabeth Saylor
Did China Have a Jewish President?: Tracing the Liu Shaoqi Saga
By: Jonathan Goldstein
The US-led Burma Charge
By: Min Zin
The Non-Profit Sector and International Giving in Japan: The Work of Project Hope Japan
By: Kumiko Omura
Reflections on Australia
By: Dave Cary
Media Report: Japan’s Battle of the Weekly Magazines
By: Benjamin Dorman
Review Essay
Out on the Rim: Four Korean American Poets
By: Robert Grotjohn
Book Reviews
Claudia Devaux and George Bernard Wong,S.J.,Bamboo Swaying in the Wind: A Survior’s Story of Faith and Imprisonment in Communist China
By: Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
Annie R. Wang,Lili: A Novel of Tiananmen
By: Constance Fletcher Smith
Anchee Min, Wild Ginger: A Novel
By: Daniel A. Metraux
Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, Zen at War
By: Daniel A. Metraux
Christopher Benfey, The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics and the Opening of Old Japan
By: Daniel A. Metraux
Biographical Essay
Sidney Gulick’s 1905 The White Peril in the Far East: An Interpretation of the Significance of the Russo-Japanese War
By: Daniel A. Metraux