Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2007

• Contributors

      China Today

• Uyghur Ethnicity and Human Rights Discourse in Post 9/11 China

• "Soft Power" at Sea: Zheng He and China's Maritime Diplomacy

• The Filthy Truth: China's Growing Ecological Crisis and the Danger it Poses for the Rest of the World

• Disparities Among the Orphans of China

      Korean History

• Myth, Memory and Reinvention in Korea: The Case of Tan'gun

      Religion and Politics

• Religious Politics, Japanese Style

      Ramifications of the Pacific War

• Philippines, 1945. Upon Encountering the Pearl of the Orient: My Foretaste of Anthropology

• Konoe and Hull

      Women and Islam

• The Status of Women in Islam: Rights, Respect and the Myth of Oppression

      Philippines and the Environment

• Issues, Concerns, and Challenges in Environmental Adjucation in the Philippine Court System

      Art and National Language and Literature

• Nameless in Murakami Haruki's A Wild Sheep Chase

• Cultural Aspects of Japanese Family Address Terms as Part of Language Learning

• Gendered Chinas and the National Future: Interpreting Lu Yao

• Fathers and the Search for an Ideal Father in Frank Chin's The Chicken Coop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon

• Understanding the Importance of Eclecticism: K. G. Subramanyan and 20th Century Indian Art

• Communal Fields and Individual Graves: The Dichotomy Between Individuals and Community in Seven Samurai

• Slightly Out of Character: Shonen Epics, Doujinshi and Japanese Concepts of Masculinity

      Scholarly Notes

• IPR Infringement and Sino-Japanese Relations

• The Soka Gakkai in Cambodia

• Sex Slavery as a National Threat: A Response to Louise Brown's Sex Slavery: The Trafficking of Women in Asia

      Book Reviews

• Margaret MacMillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World.

• James Kynge, China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future — and the Challenge for America.

• Yuji Ichioka, Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History.

• Xiaolu, Village of Stone.

• Diana L. Ahmad, The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West.

• Peter Pagnamento and Momoko Williams, Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman.

• Fred Bergsten, Bates Gill, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek J. Mitchell, China, the Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know About the Emerging Superpower.

• Edward Friedman and Bruce Gilley, eds., Asia's Giants: Comparing China and India