Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2009

      The New India

• Hope or Hype in the "New India?" Poverty, Affluence, Democracy and Ennui

      A New Iraq

• Democracy or Economic Liberty: Which Matters More for Iraq?

      Asia in American History

• Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Chinese Civilization

      Japanese Politics and History

• The Soka Gakkai, Human Security and the Question of Article Nine

• Japan's Challenge to the Status Quo: The Rise and Fall of the Prewar Washingtion Treaty System

• Hiraga Gennai: Tokugawa Japan's Creative Genius as Author

      Indian Traditions

• The Genesis in Thought and Ideas Behind the Design of the Mughal Gardens in India

• Pilgrimage in Your Own Backyard: The Panchavati Replanted

      Asian Sex Slavery

• The Lost Girls: Human Trafficking as a Consequence of the One-Child Policy

      Chinese-Japanese Language

• Chinese Characters Through Simplification os a Japanese Strategy

      Contemporary China

• Counter Memory in Post-Socialist China: Cyber-Literature and Yi in Cool Evil

      From The Editors Desk

• Short essays on Asian Affairs by Daniel A. Métraux

• The Powerful Beauty of Jack London's "Beauty Ranch" with Commentary on the Author's Writing on Asia

• Visiting Angel Island's Sad Immigration Station

• The Critical Role of the Chinese-American Relationship

• Henry Adams' 1886 Sojourn to Japan in Search of Nirvana

• Asia: The New Powerhouse of Baseball

      Commentary

• The Legacy of Samuel P. Huntington: His Contributions to International and Area Studies

      Book Reviews

• Richard J. Samuels, Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux Takeshi Matsuda' Soft Power and Its Perils: U.S. Cultural Policy in Early Postwar Japan and Permanent Dependency
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux Madeleine Yue Dong. _Republican Beijing: The City and its Histories
  Reviewed By: Yuxin Ma Perry Garfinkel, Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning Happiness and the Man Who Found Them All
  Reviewed by Rachel Evans Miche Hockx. Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937.
  Reviewed by Yuxin Ma J. Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Japanese Navy 1868-1922.
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux