Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2013, No.2

Chinese Politics: Domestic And External

• China's Angry River: Are The Subaltern Speaking?

• China's Rising Influence: Impacts On U.S.-Chinese Relations And The America In Asia

Russo-Japanese War

• Jack London's Coverage Of The Russo-Japanese War And His Futile Battle With Japanese Censorship

Vietnam War

• Bloodshed And Bitterness: The Battle For Khe Sanh, Biversion Or A Second Dien Bien Phu?

Japanese Society

• I Want To Lose Weight: Japanese And American Responses To Obesity

Chinese Culture

• Sexuality, Politics And Sorrow: Reading The Rear Courtyard (Huo Ting) In Jin Ping Mei (The Plum In The Golden Vase)

• To Sell A National Trauma: Aftershock And The Transformation Of The Chinese Film Industry

• The Untrammeled Brushwork: Huang Binhong's Late Landscape Paintings

• Jing Hua Yuan And Its Equal But Separate Sexual Ideology

• After 2014: American Policy, The Taliban And Other Stakeholders

Music East And West

• East/ West Confluence In Isang Yun’s Glissées Pour Violoncelle Seul

India: Culture And SocietyIndia: Culture And Society

• Dancing Bhagvathi: A Study Of Ritual Female Performance And The Feminine Exclusion

• Indian Women Through The Media Lens

Book Reviews

• Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger.
  Neeraj Chhibba, Zero-Percentile-2.0.
  Bharati Mukherjee, Miss New India.
  
  Reviewed By Roderic Owen

Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2013, No. 1

• Taiwan in the Classroom: Economic Freedom, Political Freedom, International Pariah

• Last Struggle of the Chinese Civil War: The Battles on Quemoy and Dengbu, 1949

• Friend or Foe: The Dual Images of China’s Diplomatic Profile: Calculations and Constraints

• Ha Jin: The Writer as Migrant

• Pakistani Women: Religion, State and Society

• Dangerous Women: Gender Performativity in Japan and the Takarazuka Review

• Theory of Human Trafficking Applied to the Case of Japan

• Schooling for Democracy: Michigan State University and Cold War Education in American-Occupied Okinawa in the 1950s

• The Globalization of Popular Culture: The Korean Wave in Japan

• LafadioHearn'sKwaidan: What Does It All Mean?

• Jack London: The Adventurer-Writer Whop Chronicled Asian Wars, Confronted Racism and Saw the Future

• Jack London's Sympathetic Portrait of Korea

      Book Reviews

• Richard G. Wang, Ming Erotic Novellas: Genre, Consumption, and Religiosity in Cultural Practice
  Reviewed by Qing Ye

• Paul French, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux

• Ha Jin, Nanjing Requiem: A Novel.
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux

• Robin M. LeBlanc, The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 229 pp. ISBN: 978-0-520-25917-1
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux

• Douglas E. Clark, Eisenhower in Command at Columbia. Lanham MD and New York: Lexington Books, 2013. 118 pp. Foreword by Mary Beth Gasman
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux