2019
JAPANESE HISTORY
Shibusawa Eiichi as Confucian Capitalist Pioneer: A Pedagogical Essay
Lucien Ellington (1-11)
The End of the Pacific War and the Tragic Fate of Konoe Fumimaro
Kazuo Yagami (12-20)
Wakamatsu Farm and the Creation of Japanese America
Daniel A. Metraux (21-33)
VIETNAM WAR
Bernard Fall: The Western Conscience in Indochina
William Head (34-45)
CONTEMPORARY CHINESE AFFAIRS AND HISTORY
Big Brother Speaks Mandarin: Ethnic Eradication in Xinjiang
Richard Rice (46-53)
China and its Paradigm Shift in the Post-American World
Tsai Tung Chieh and Tony Tai-Ting Liu (54-69)
The U.S. Founders and the Great Wall of China: Tracing the Origins of “American Wall” Mindset
Dave Wang (70-79)
NORTH KOREAN AFFAIRS
While the Hanoi Summit Failed, His Part in it Might Have Sparked an Inflection Point in Kim’s Thinking
Robert Curry, Jr. (80-88)
INDIA AND PAKISTAN COMMENTARY
Extraordinary Growth, Immense Challenges: Higher Education in India Today
Roderic Owen (89-94)
Understanding the Spirit of Democracy: A Pakistani Perspective
Nasreen Akhtar (95-97)
UNPUBLISHED ESSAYS BY MARGARET MEAD FROM THE 1960s
Margaret Mead’s 1966 Call for Universal National Service and a Guaranteed Income for All
Mead on the Troubled Future of an Independent New Guinea (1964) (98-101)
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BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Commentary on Two Asian Development Bank Books that Focus on Women’s Roles in Asia-Pacific Economic Growth and Development
Robert Curry, Jr. (102-109)
BOOK REVIEWS
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Rebecca Suter, Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction.
James L. Huffman, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan
Levi McLaughlin, Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan.
Elaine Zorbas, Banished & Embraced: The Chinese in Fiddletown and the Mother Lode.
Kazuo Yagami, The US-Japan Relation in Culture and Diplomacy: Japanese Perspective. Reviewed by Sofiia Shutko