2005
Democracy in Asia
On Social Mobility, the Military, and Democratization: Contrasting Evolutions in Korea and Burma. Notes for a Preliminary Inquiry
By: David I. Steinburg
Can the Democractic Peace Permeate the Arab World? The Dangers of Political Idealism
By: Elizabbeth 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: Roxanna Russell
Scholarly Notes
Reflections on a Sabbatical in India: The Tsunamu, Caste, Tribal India, Pilgrimages, Women’s Education, and Intellectual Life.
By: 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 a 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