Virginia Review of Asian Studies 2019

Japanese History

• Shibusawa Eiichi as Confucian Capitalist Pioneer: A Pedagogical Essay

• The End of the Pacific War and the Tragic Fate of Konoe Fumimaro

• Wakamatsu Farm and the Creation of Japanese America

Vietnam War

• Bernard Fall: The Western Conscience in Indochina

Contemporary Chinese Affairs and History

• Big Brother Speaks Mandarin: Ethnic Eradication in Xinjiang

• China and its Paradigm Shift in the Post-American World

• The U.S. Founders and the Great Wall of China: Tracing the Origins of “American Wall” Mindset

North Korean Affairs

• While the Hanoi Summit Failed, His Part in it Might Have Sparked an Inflection Point in Kim’s Thinking

India and Pakistan Commentary

• Extraordinary Growth, Immense Challenges: Higher Education in India Today

• Understanding the Spirit of Democracy: A Pakistani Perspective

Unpublished Essays by Margaret Mead from the 1960s

• Margaret Mead’s 1966 Call for Universal National Service and a Guaranteed Income for All Mead on the Troubled Future of an Independent New Guinea (1964)

Book Review Essay

• Commentary on Two Asian Development Bank Books that Focus on Women’s Roles in Asia-Pacific Economic Growth and Development

Book Reviews

• Rebecca Suter, Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction
  
  James L. Huffman, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan
  Levi McLaughlin, Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan
  
  Elaine Zorbas, Banished & Embraced: The Chinese in Fiddletown and the Mother Lode
  
  Kazuo Yagami, The US-Japan Relation in Culture and Diplomacy: Japanese Perspective. Reviewed by Sofiia Shutko