Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2004

• Contributors

      Contemporary China

• Taiwan's 2004 Presidential Election: Implications for Taiwan's Politics

• New Historical Thinking in China's Reform Era (1979-Present): Background on Establishment Historians

      Politics and Religion in South and Southeast Asia

• Conflict Escalation in Kashmir: A Study in State-Society Breakdown

• Walking through the Indigenous Religious Field: A Field Report on Malaysian Borneo

• Interview with Vaclav Havel on Burma: "Without inner freedom you can achieve nothing"

      Essay on Buddhism and Buddhist History

• A Critical Analysis of Brian Victoria's Perspectives on Modern Japanese Buddhist History

• Revolutionary Women on the Edge of Change: Buddhism in Cuba

• Not Relying on Signs: Wisdom Lessons on Bodhisattva Values from the Diamond Sutra

• The Trouble with Emptiness

• Self, Selflessness and Liberation

      The Middle East, Islam and Judaism

• The United Nations and the Contemporary World Crisis

• The Burden of Freedom: Misconceptions of Liberty in the Arab Street: Case Study: Palestine

• Jihad: Faith, Fanaticism and the Circles of the Soul

• Auschwitz and Jewish Krakow

      Book Reviews

• John Nathan, Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose.

• Andrew Marshall, The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire.

• James L. Huffman, A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House.

• Takkatho Nay Win, Biographical Sketches of General Aung San.

Special Issue of The Virginia Review Of Asian Studies 2004: Burma's Modern Tragedy

• Contributors

• Editors' Introduction

• Introduction: Burma's Modern Tragedy

      History: The Evolution of Military Rule

• Burmese Military Government: Crony Capitalists in Uniform

• Inge Sargent: Her Life as a Shan Princess

      Buddhism and Politics

• Religion and Magic: Disappearing Jewels and Poltergeists

• Burmese Buddhism and its Impact on Social Change

      Politics and the Economy

• Burma's Potential Political Transition: An Analysis of Ethnic Conflicts and Mobilization

• Burma's National Convention: "Then and the Future"

• Burma: Black Markets, Economic Growth and Freedom

      Foreign Affairs

• The U.S.-led Burma Charge

• "Without inner freedom you can achieve nothing." An Interview with Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic

      Educating Young Burmese for the Nation's Future

• Light for Dark Burmese Days

• Prospect Burma: Keeping the Flame of Education Alive

      Book Reviews

• Christina Fink: Living Silence & Shelby Tucker: Burma: The Curse of Independence

• Aung Sang Suu Kyi: Aung San of Burma: A Biographical Portrait by his Daughter & Win Naing Oo, Hidden Records of Atrocities in Burma's Prisons