Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2017

• “Ferrets” and “Rats” To the Rescue: A Reexamination Of Operation Crimp During The Vietnam War

• A Journey of Adopting the Confucian Merit System: From Benjamin Franklin to the Pendleton Act of 1883

• Avalokiteshvara, The All-Includive One: Amalgamation of Imagery and Attributes

• APEC as a Platform for Asia-Pacific Leaders to Engage with North Korea’s Government

• A Note on the South China Sea Conflict: The Trump Administration, China and ASEAN

• Baseball in Japan and the United States: History, Culture and Future Prospects

• Korean Comfort Women in the Eyes of the Manga and Net Generation

• Konoe Fumimaro: His Rise and the Stormy Era of the 1930s

• The Taiwan Strait in the Months Prior to the Korean War

• Uphill Political Struggle: Joseph Trumpeldor in Japan and Manchuria, 1904-1906

• Migration and Identity: Gender Dynamics And Religious Participation Among Sikh Women in North Carolina

Essays and Scholarly Notes

• Reflections on Teaching at a Chinese University

• Bernard S. Cohn: Understanding 20th Century India and Beyond

• Publishing in AAS: Education About Asia, Key Issues in Asian Studies

• The Women Before Me: Binding Family Ties Stretching from Shogunal Japan to Germany and the U.S.

• South Korea's Giant Step Towards Democracy

• Toward Developing An Indian Ethos of Excellence in Internationalization

Book Reviews by Daniel A. Métraux

• Mark Ravina, The Great Courses Audio: Understanding Japan: A Cultural History
  
  Mark Mullins and Koichi Nakano, Eds., Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious and Sociocultural Responses
  
  Phyllis Birnbaum, Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army.
  
  Mark J. Hudson, Anne-Elise Lewallen, and Mark K. Watson, Eds., Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives.
  
  Jonathan Stockdale, Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature and Cults.