Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2016

CONTEMPORARY CHINA AND HONG KONG

• Cultural Framing in Social Movements: Explaining the Emergence of the Occupy Central Movement in Hong Kong

RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINA, JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES IMMEDIATELY AFTER WORLD WAR II AND AT THE PRESENT

• Understanding the Anthropology of the Occupation and Japanese Attitudes Under MacArthur: An Interview with Wilton S. Dillon. Tributes to the Memory of Dr. Dillon

• China Remembered: Accounts of Three American Marines Stationed in Northern China After the Japanese Surrender in 1945

• Language Learning and Communicating Interculturally: Forging New Relations in a Diverse Japan

ASPECT OF KOREAN CULTURE PAST AND PRESENT

• Not So Monstrous: Images of Wonder Woman in K-Pop Music Videos

• Jack London’s Koreans as “People of the Abyss”

INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS

• Impediments to Peace Between India and Pakistan: Problems and Prospects

THE ROLE OF AIR POWER IN AMERICA'S RECENT WARS IN ASIA

• The Battles of Al-Fallujah: Urban Warfare and the Growing Roles of Air Power

• Traditions of Bloodshed: The Battles of Karbala and the Role of Air Power

CHINESE CULTURE PAST AND PRESENT

• The Eight Virtue System in Late Northern Sung China

• Across Boundaries: Cultural Clocality in Ang Lee’s Film Production

• Ideas from the East: American Founders and Chinese Wisdoms

• The Sadder the Better: Yue Opera and the Tactics of Tears

INDIAN ART

• “A Polymorphic Legacy:” An Introduction to the Philosophy and Art of K. G. Subramanyan

SCHOLARLY NOTES AND EDITORIAL ANALYSIS

• India: Testing the Resilience and Strength in a Democracy

• Cloudy with a Chance of Terror: An American Confronts Ever-Present Fear in France

• The Boston MFA and Asian Art in the New World in the Colonial Era

• The Spectacular Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia

BOOK REVIEWS

• Mei Fong,
  One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment
  
  Yeon Mi Park,
  In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
  
  Paul B. Trescott,
  From Frenzy to Friendship: The History of the US-China Peoples Friendship Association
  
  Renaud Egreteau and Larry Jagan,
  Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma: Under-standing the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State
  
  Brief Review Notes
  
  Margaret Richardson,
  Between Reality and Dream: The Aesthetic Vision of K. G. Subramanyan.
  
  Janice P. Nimura,
  Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back.