Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2018

• Confucian Educational Principles: The Origin Of Thomas Jefferson’s Transformation Of The American Educational System

• America’s Search For Tactical Success In Vietnam: Operations Masher/White Wing & Double Eagle

• Continuing Ethnic Strife In Xinjiang: China’s Struggle With Uyghur Identity Politics

• Civil And Military Relations In Pakistan: Looking Through A Rearview Mirror At The Major Impediments To Democracy

• The Nagayama Criteria For Assessing The Death Penalty In Japan: Reflections Of A Case Suspect

• Studying The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS): Its Location, History, People, Environment And Economy

• Communicating “Chan Si” Or “Chan Yi”: Zen Buddhism And Chinese Landscape Painting

• Portrait Of The 16th Century Zen Buddhist Nun Shun’oku Soei Daiji-in Temple Kyoto: A Tale Of Collaboration And Discovery

• Rescuing, Relocating, And Reconstructing Meiji Architecture In Postwar Japan: A Brief History Of Museum Meiji Mura

• Reimagining The Kafkaesque: The Individual And The Collective Consciousness In Murakami’s “Kafka On The Shore”

Essays

• Chinese Cultures And World History: Prosperity, Rhetoric And Institutions

• An Opinion About A Diplomatic Process That Could Help To Negotiate With Kim Jong Un On The Korean Nuclear Issue

• How Journalist’s Bias Can Distort The Truth: A Case Study Of Japan S Military Seizure Of Korea In 1904-1905

Book Reviews

• Rebecca Suter, Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century In Modern Japanese Fiction
  
  David Odo, The Journey Of “A Good Type”: From Artistry To Ethnography In Early Japanese Photographss
  
  Ana Cristina O. Lopes, Tibetan Buddhism In Diaspora: Cultural Re Signification In Practice And Institutions