Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2005

• Contents, Contributors

      Democracy in Asia

• On Social Mobility, the Military, and Democratization: Contrasting Evolutions in Korea and Burma. Notes for a Preliminary Inquiry

• Can the Democratic Peace Permeate the Arab World? The Dangers of Political Idealism

• The Emerging Urban Grassroots Democracy: A Case Study of Community Building and Neighborhood Activism in Shanghai

      Conflict in Asia

• Trying to Avoid a Japanese-American War: America's "Japan Connection" in 1937 and 1941

• Israel is Necessary: An Affirmation to the Question "Is Israel Necessary"

• Japan's Deployment of Self-Defense Forces to Iraq 2004

• Towards a Win-Win Model for the Kashmir Conflict

• An American Soldier's Iraq Diary

      Margaret Mead's Images of Asia

• Margaret Mead's Uses of Imagery

      Perspectives on Chinese and Japanese Religion and Philosophy

• Can One be Both Chinese and Christian?

• The Wonder of Tao: Entering the Primordial Source of Creativity

• Two Approaches toward the Understanding of Japanese Religions

• Whose Reality: The Challenge of Realism in the Work of Mao Dun

      South Asian Political and Economic Affairs

• Microenterprises in the Kingdom of Nepal: On the Path to Economic Development

• A Conviction to Dissent: Reinterpreting Mass Conversion at Meenakshipuram

      Indian Cultural Affairs

• The Interplay between Marriage, Ritual and Art in Mithila

• The Distance Traveled: Little Clay Cart in Athens, Georgia

      Suicide in Japan

• Understanding Japanese Suicide in Terms of the Interaction of Multiple Variables

      Scholarly Notes

• Reflections on a Sabbatical in India: The Tsunami, Caste, Tribal India, Pilgrimages, Women's Education, and Intellectual Life

• Teaching Children English in China

• China: Astonishing But Troubled Rising Star, Can Turkey Remain a Secular Society? Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation, Birth of New Hope, Acoma: Native American Sky Culture

      Book Reviews

• Gerald Horne. Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire.

• Karl Meyer, The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland.

• Sharankumar Limbale, The Outcaste Akkarmashi

• Anchee Min, Empress Orchid: A Novel

• Edward Leroy Long, Jr., Facing Terrorism: Responding as Christians

• Susan L. Burns, Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan

• Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India.

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

• Susumu Shimazono, From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan.

• Robert Whiting, The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Weave from Japan and the Transformation of our National Pastime.

• Akira Yoshimura, One Man's Justice.