Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2010

      Politics and Social Change in Contemporary Japan

• Ainu Recognition and the Shiretoko Natural Heritage Designation

• Domestic and International Dimensions of the Yasukuni Shrine Controversy

• Hikikomania: Existential Horror or National Malaise

• Chalmers Johnson and the Role of the Japanese Bureaucracy in the Economy

      Literature and Culture

• Is the "Post-" in Postwar the "Post-" in Postmodern? Rethinking Japan's Modernity in the Works of Murakami Haruki?

• Feminist Reinvention of the Chinese Traditional Genre of Chuanqi—A Study of Zhang Ailing's Chuanqi

• Hidden In The Heat of the Sun: Mimesis, Sacrilege and Aporia----Reading Jiang Wen's Filmic Recreation of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

      Chinese History and Politics

• Reconstructing Time: Calendrical Reform in China, 1911-Present

• The Emerging Power: How International and Civilian Organizations Define Chinese Policy

• Economic Integration Across the Taiwan Strait: A Case Study of Cultural Identity Transformation and Contested National Sovereignty in a Globalization Context

      East Asia in North American History

• Creating a More Perfect Society: The Japanese Association of America's Response to the West Coast Anti-Japanese "Yellow Peril" Phenomenon, 1908-1924

• How China Helped to Shape American Culture: The Founding Fathers and Chinese Civilization

• Global Soka Gakkai: SGI in Canada

      Arts of India

• Synthesis and Symbiosis: Akbar's Aesthetic Vision for India

      Japanese Buddhism

• Buried Alive: The Forgotten Practice of Self-Mummification

      Scholarly Notes

• The House of Wisdom: The Arab Empire’s Greatest Gift to Humanity

• Indian Women: Their Desire to be Light Skinned

• E. Warren Clark’s Important Role at the Peace Treaty of Portsmouth

      Book Reviews by Daniel Métraux

• Jean Pfaelzer, Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
  Veronica Chambers, Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women are Changing Their Nation
  Dean King, Unbound: A True Story of War, Love and Survival
  Patrick Radden Keefe, The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream.

     From the Editors Desk

• Japanese Politics: An Interview with Veteran Komeito Dietman Endo Otohiko
  America's China Dilemma
  A Tale of Two Cities and Two Countries Going Different Directions: Seoul and Tokyo
  The Ghosts of Chinese Camp and Bodie California

    Contributors