Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2011

      Tibetan Culture in Flux

• Guardians of Tradition, Agents of Change: Laywomen Shaping Faith, Family and Future in Dharamsala's Tibetan Refugee Community

      Chinese and Vietnamese Literature and Art

• The Battered Body and Human Rights Discourse in Vietnamese American Non-Fiction

• Modern Chinese Art in Dialogue with Social Unrest

• Farewell to Gender: A Postmodern Feminist Interpretation of Chen Ran's "Gender-Transcendent Consciousness"

      Chinese in North America

• Not All were Driven Out: The Many Chinese Who Found a Peaceful Haven in late 19th Century California

• Chinese Civilization and the United States: Tea, Ginseng, PorcelainWare and Silk in Colonial America

      Islam in Politics and International Relations

• The Rise and Fall of the Jamaat-e-Islami in the Light of Social Movement Theory

• Evaluation of China's Response to East Turkistan Terrorist Forces

      China and Taiwan

• The Future of Cross-Straight Relations: Democratic Peace or Power Politics

      Scholarly Notes

• Bringing the World to Japan: Reflections on a Year with the Jet Program

• Japanese Intellectuals: Encounters with American Culture, 1954-1955: A Memoir

      Book Reviews

• Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan by George R. Packard
  Reviewed by Lucien Ellington

• Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux

• Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism by Walter A. Skya
  Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux

     Editors Desk

• Dramatic Shift in Power in East Asia as China Replaces Japan as China Replaces Japan as the Region’s Preeminent Economic and Military Power

• The Russians Were Coming! The Russians Were Coming! Their Fascinating Failure at Fort Ross, California

• Japanese Stoicism and Resilience Will Enable Them to Survive This Earthquake Disaster

• How Should the United States Engage Burma?
  
  BRIEF ESSAYS ON OTHER INTERNATIONAL TOPICS OF NOTE

• Rebuilding Haiti: The Impossible Dream

• High Adventure to FDR’s Canadian Hideaway

• Quebec Nationhood Flourishes Without Sovereignty
  Curator Katie Metraux and Angel Island

    Contributors