VOLUME XXVII (2005)
The
Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) is a non-political,
non-profit scholarly organization dedicated to promoting the study of Asia
in the southeastern region of the United States. To that end, SEC/AAS has
held (since 1962) an annual three-day conference featuring scholarly panels,
teacher workshops, and book exhibits. The year 2006 meeting of the SEC/AAS,
sponsored by Georgia State University, will be held at Atlanta, Georgia,
during the weekend of January 20-22.
The
Southeast Review of Asian Studies is a publication of SEC/AAS.
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Copyright (2005) Southeast Conference of the Association of the Association
of Asian Studies. SEC/AAS
Beginning
with Volume XVI (1994), the Southeast Review of Asian Studies (SERAS) (ISSN
1083-074X) replaces the Annals (ISSN 0883-8909), published by SEC/AAS since
1979.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor:
Daniel A. Metraux,
Mary Baldwin College
Associate Editors: William Head,
Robins Air Force Base, History Office
Paul Rodell, Georgia Southern
Tom
Pynn, Kennesaw State University
Production Editor Barbara Wimble
Corse, Staunton, Virginia
Assistant Editor Erin Storey,
Mary Baldwin College
Editorial Committee Joel R. Campbell, Kansai Gaidai University
William Dorrill,
Longwood University
Marc Jason Gilbert,
North Georgia College and State University
Edward Krebs,
China Bridge
Jeffrey Richey, Berea College
Paul Winther, Eastern Kentucky University
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
On
Social Mobility, the Military, and Democratization: Contrasting Evolutions
in Korea and Burma. Notes for a Preliminary Inquiry
David I. Steinberg
Breathing
Disaffection: The Impact of Irish Nationalist Journalism on India’s
Native Press
Susan A. Rosenkranz
President
Hồ Speaks to the Children: Thiếu Sinh Magazine and the New Child in
1945 Revolutionary Vietnam
Christina Firpo
Education
and Autonomy: Muslim Women as Effective Role Models in a Calcutta
Basti
Suchitra Samanta
Wu
Zhao’s Remarkable Aviary
Norman Harry Rothschild
Pham
Duy and Modern Vietnamese History
Eric Henry
The
Hip Hop Impact on Japanese Youth Culture
Xuexin Liu
Implicating
Colonial Memory and the Atomic Bombing: Hayashi Kyoko’s Three Short Stories
Lianying Shan
Mythologies and Miracles: The Saikoku Kannon and Peregrinogenesis
Steven E. Gump
The
Production of Holy Water: The Contribution of Puppeteers to Balinese Life
Cycle Rituals
Farley Richmond and I Nyoman Sedana
Dying
for Love in The Peony Pavilion and Romeo and Juliet
Li Qingjun
SCHOLARLY
NOTES
Japan’s 2002 Educational Reforms: The American Experiment
Lucien Ellington
A Visit to the Centre for Indian Literature in English and Translation
Roderic L. Owen
China: Astonishing but Troubled Rising Star
Daniel A. Metraux
Neo-Leftist Theory, Neo-Liberalist Theory and Neo-Authoritarian Theory:
A Debate in the National Social Science Academy of China
Zhiyuan Chen
BOOK
REVIEWS AND ESSAYS
Gerald Horne. Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the
British Empire
Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux
Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir
Reviewed by Christina Firpo
Karl Meyer, The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian
Heartland
Reviewed by Elizabeth L. Metraux
Sharankumar Limbale, The Outcaste Akkarmashi
Reviewed by Tromila Wheat
Edward Leroy Long, Jr. Facing Terrorism: Responding as Christians
Reviewed by Gordon Bowen
Anchee Min, Empress Orchid: A Novel
Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux
Edward Leroy Long, Jr. Facing Terrorism: Responding as Christians
Reviewed by Gordon Bowen
Susan L. Burns, Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community
in Early Modern Japan
Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux
Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India
Reviewed by Tromila Wheat
Annie R. Wang: Lili: A Novel of Tiananmen
Reviewed by Constance Fletcher Smith
Wu Naing Oo, Hidden Records of Atrocities in Burma’s Prisons
Reviewed by Lin Lin Aung
Susumu Shimazono, From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements
in Modern Japan
Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux
Wu Naing Oo. Hidden Records of Atrocities in Burma’s Prisons
Reviewed by Lin Lin Aung
Robert Whiting, The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Wave from Japan and the
Transformation of our National Pastime
Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux
Akira Yoshimura, One Man’s Justice
Reviewed by Daniel A. Metraux
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE ANNUAL MEETING
Conference Program
Abstracts
of Papers Presented
Minutes
of Annual Business Meeting
CONTRIBUTORS
