VOLUME XXVIII (2006)
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, was held at Atlanta, Georgia,
during the weekend of January 20-22. The year 2007 meeting, sponsored
by Belmont University, will be held at Nashville, Tennessee during the week-end
of January 12-14, 2007.
The
Southeast Review of Asian Studies is a publication of SEC/AAS.
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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 Editor: Steven E. Gump, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Associate Editors
for Manuscripts: William
Head, Robins Air Force Base, History Office
Paul Rodell, Georgia Southern
Tom
Pynn, Kennesaw State University
Paul Winther, Eastern Kentucky
University
Production Editor: Barbara Wimble
Corse, Staunton, Virginia
Webmaster: Kenneth
W. Berger, Durham, NC
CONTENTS
Editor's
Note
ARTICLES
Ainu Submergence
and Emergence: Human Rights Discourse and
The Expression of Ethnicity in Japan (amended January 2008)
Richard Rice
Urbanism
and Post-Mao Chinese Cinema
Harry Kuoshu
The
Green Buddha: An Analysis of the Role of Buddhist Civil
Society in Environmental Conservation in Burma
Dominick Nardi
Vivekananda
and His Western Followers: Patterns of Relationships
Hal French
Representing
Islam: September 11 and the Japanese Mainstream
Press
Alice Allan
“Soft
Power” at Sea: Zheng He and China’s Maritime Diplomacy
James R. Holmes
Reflections
on the Han View of Truth and Historicity with a Translation
Of Ban Biao’s “Essay on Historiography”
Anthony E. Clark
Cyber Writing as Urban Fashion: The Case of Anni Baobei
Xin Yang
A
Small Subset? Measuring Social Support for Islamist Terrorism
in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia
Gordon L. Bowen
Interpreting
Power in the Political Poster
Andrew Bozio
SCHOLARLY NOTES
Inside
the Brain of a Public Japanese Junior High School
Steven E. Gump
Cambodia
Today: The Slow Road Back from the Inferno and
Killing Fields Revisited
Daniel A. Métraux
Teaching
Asian American Studies in a Liberal Arts College: One
Asianist’s Reflections
Roselee Bundy
China
Bridge
Edward S. Krebs
Views
of Suicide in Modern Japanese Literature: A Positive Portrayal
in Nami no Tou
Roxanne Russell
The
“English” Colonization of India: Pedagogical Strategies of
Appropriation
Dorothy Figueira
What
Can Euro-American Parents Learn From Asian Parents?
Thomas W. Taylor
Shades
of Hopi Amelioration: Food Changes in Japanese Culture—A 1949 Retrospective
on SCAP’s Trying to Wean the Japanese away from White to Brown Rice and
Corn
Wilton Dillon
BOOK
REVIEWS AND ESSAYS
J.S. Eades,
Roger Goodman and Yumiko Hada, Eds., The ‘Big Bang’ in Japanese Higher
Education: The 2004 Reforms and the Dynamics of Change
Reviewed by Lucien Ellington
Louise Brown, Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
Daniel V. Botsman, Punishment and
Power in the Making of Modern Japan
Reviewed by Christopher M. Mayo
Peter D.Hershock, Chan Buddhism
Reviewed by Tom Pynn
Elizabeth Freund Larus, Economic Reform in China, 1979-2003:
The Marketization of Labor and State Enterprises
Reviewed By Daniel A. Métraux
R. Keith Schoppa, Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change
in Modern Chinese History
Reviewed by Chizuru Saeki
Theodore C Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, & Victoria Lyon Bestor, Eds.,
Doing
Fieldwork in Japan
Reviewed by Steven E. Gump
James T. Gillam, War in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, 1968-
1970: An Historian’s Experience
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
Nancy E. Sato, Inside Japanese Classrooms: The Heart of Education
Reviewed by Steven E. Gump
Michael Ashkenazi & Jeanne Jacob,. Food Culture in Japan
Reviewed by Steven E. Gump
Jacqueline M. Newman, Food Culture in China
Reviewed by Steven E. Gump
Colleen Taylor Sen, Food Culture in India
Reviewed by Steven E. Gump
Timon Screech, Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan,
1779–1822
Reviewed by William Fleming
Book Reviews in Brief: Daniel Métraux
Evan Gottesman,
Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge.
Anne Best, The
Monk, the Farmer, The Merchant, The Mother: Survival Stories of Rural Cambodia.
Paul L. Swanson and
Clark Chilson, Eds., Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions.
Chris Baker and Pasuk
Phongpaichit, A History of Thailand.
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