Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2003

• Contributors

      Issues in Japanese Politics and Economics

• Japan: The Nation Without Nationalism

      Democracy on Trial in South and Southeast Asia

• Battle for the Soul of Modern India: The Bharaiya Janata Party, Harbinger of Indian Fascism

• The General Election in Thailand 2001: Will The Voters Continue to Buy What Thaksin Is Selling?

      Nineteenth Century Critics of Western Bourgeois Society: East and West

• Vivekananda and Nietzsche as Critics of Western Bourgeois Civilization

      Buddhism: National and Global Dimensions

• Waves of Fear: A New Religion Stirs Controversy in Japan

• Burmese Buddhism and its Impact on Social Change

• Globalizing Japanese Religion: The Soka Gakkai in Australia

• Approaching the Dhammacakka Sutta and Mahaparinirvana Sutta through Six Modes

      Asian Art: Traditional and Modern

• Between Narrative and Expressive, Fantasy and Melodrama in Bombay Film

• Kim Tae-Song, Korea's Michelangelo

      Centennial of a Major Pacific Scholar: Alfred Metraux (1902-63)

• Mysteries of Easter Island

      Research Notes and Commentary

• The Palestine-Israel Conflict from within the West Bank

• Did China Have a Jewish President?: Tracing the Liu Shaoqi Saga

• The U.S.-led Burma Charge

• The Non-Profit Sector and International Giving in Japan: The Work of Project Hope Japan

• Reflections on Australia

• Media Report: Japan's Battle of the Weekly Magazines

      Review Essay

• Out on the Rim: Four Korean American Poets

      Book Reviews

• Claudia Devaux and George Bernard Wong, S.J., Bamboo Swaying in the Wind: A Survivor's Story of Faith and Imprisonment in Communist China.

• Annie R. Wang: Lili: A Novel of Tiananmen.

• Anchee Min, Wild Ginger: A Novel PDF version

• Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, Zen at War.

• Christopher Benfey, The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics and the Opening of Old Japan.

      Biographical Essay

• Sidney Gulick's 1905 The White Peril in the Far East: An Interpretation of the Significance of the Russo-Japanese War