Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2008

• Contributors

      World War II and Japan

• "Preparing the Flight of the Phonenix: Nippon Stories:" The Very First Days of the Occupation of Japan

• Konoe and Hull: The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: An Act of Benevolence or Imperialism?

      Chinese Culture, History and Contemporary Affairs

• Li Zhishan's Feminist Activism in Tianjin in the 1920s

• Social Motivations for the Revival of Address Terms in China

• Transgression-Obsessed: A Cross-Cultural Reading of Judou and Curse of the Golden Flower

• China's Social Policy: Meeting the Needs of China's Orphaned and Disabled Children

      China and Central Asia

• Looking Westward: China's Changing Relations with Central Asia

• Educatioin Xinjiang's Uyghurs: Achieving Success or Creating Unrest?

      India: Culture and Current Affairs

• What's A Kiss: The Unchaste Chastity of Bollywood

• India Looks Seaward: The case of the Proliferation Security Initiative

• Time Traveling in India: How Much and How Little has Changed in Only a Generation

      Japan: History and Culture

• Tokyo's Dr. Phil

• "In the Way of the Samurai:" Difference and Connection in Samurai Champloo

      From The Editors Desk By Daniel Metraux

• 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 American War Effort

• Who Plays Better Baseball: The United States of Japan?

      Book Reviews

      Reviewed by Gordon Bowen

• John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed.Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims REALLY THINK.

• Mansoor Moaddel, Ed., Values and Perceptions of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Publics

      Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux

• Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, Will the Boat Sink the Water:The Life of China's Peasants

• Charles K. Armstrong,The Koreas

• Hideaki Matsuoka,Japanese Prayer Below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity

• Amy Docksert Marcus, Jerusalem 1913

• Kozaburo Nagatsu, Hisao Suzuki, and Toshio Yamamoto, Eds. Against Nuclear Weapons: A Collection of Poems by 181 Poets

      Reviewed by Eric Strange

• Gi Wook Shin and Kyung Moon Hwang, Eds. Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea's Past and Present