Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2014

The 2014 Indian Election

• Deciphering the Indian "Dance of Democracy"

The Legacy of Alberto Fujimori

• Foreigners in Their Own Land: An Interpretation of Alberto Fujimori's Electoral Victory in 1990

Chinese Philosophy and American History

• Confucius in the American Founding: The Founders' Efforts to Use Confucian Moral Philosophy to Create New Virtue for the New Nation

When Things Started to Go Wrong in Vietnam

• A Re-Assessment of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley, 1965: The Role of Airpower, Heroic Soldiers and the Wrong Lessons

Indian Societal Problems

• The Socio-Economic impact of HIV/ AIDS on Indian Women

Contemporary Culture in Asia

• Japanese "Idols" in Trans-Cultural Reception: The Case of AKB48

• Bodies of Conflict: Asian Conceptual Art in China and India in the 1990s

Asian Emigration to the West

• Laotian Emigration: An Untold Story of Searching for a Place to Call Home

Buddhism in Asia

• The Lotus Sūtra and its 'Bodies': Physical Bodies, Spiritual Bodies, Bodies of Knowledge

• Soka Gakkai International: Japanese Buddhism on a Global Scale

Teaching Japanese

• Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language in a Sociocultural Context

The U.S. - Japanese Economic Relationship

• The Role of Culture in the U.S.-Japanese Economic Relationship

Chinese at Home and Abroad

• A Society in Crisis: China's Growing Generation Gap

• Revisiting Frustrated Micro-Regionalism: An Analytical Eclectic Analysis of the Greater Tumen Initiative

• Social-Emotional Adjustment of Chinese Immigrant Children in Western Countries

Essays and Ideas

• Economic Literacy and the Tokugawa Era

• Korea as a "Degenerate State": Then and Now

Book Reviews

• Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss.
  Reviewed by Roderic Owen
  
  Peter Popham, The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
  Reviewed by Shekira Ramdass
  
  David Pilling, Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
  
  Kondo Masaomi, Alfred Deakin: A Scholar Politician Who Founded Australia
  Reviewed by Kazuo Yagami
  
  Robert K. Fitts, Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
  
  Earle Labor, Jack London: An American Life
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux