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Contents of Volume XXVI
Editor's Note 5
  Trying to Avoid a Japanese-American War: America's "Japan Connection" in 1937 and 1941
 Barney J. Rickman
 7
  Taiwan's 2004 Presidential Election: Implications for Taiwan's Politics and Relations with Mainland China
 Elizabeth F. Laurus
 27
  The New Look of Urban China: Public Squares as Symbols of Modernity
Edward Krebs 39
  "Some Unseen Power:" Observations of Hinduism in the Poety of Percy Bysshe Shelley
 Monica Piotter
 51
  Narrative and Peace
 Tom Pynn
 61

Politeness as a Social Strategy in Japanese Culture
 Xuexin Liu
 71

Refusing to Serve: Five Korean American Poets
 Robert Grotjohn
 91

Origins in Religious Ritual of Asian Puppet Theatre Forms and the Marginalization of Theatre Artists
 Emily Paige Ballou
 103
Book Reviews and Essays:    

John Nathan:  Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose
 Daniel A. Metraux
 121

Andrew Marshall: The Trouser People: A Story for Burma in the Shadow of the Empire
 Lin Lin Aung
 124

Chia Lin Sien, Editor: Southeast Asia Tranformed: A Geography of Change
 Ingelise Lanman
 129

James L. Huffman: A Yankee iun Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House
 Daniel A. Metraux 131
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting:

  Conference Program   135
  Abstracts of Papers Presented   145
  Minutes of Annual Business Meeting   161
Cumulative Author Index (Volumes I-XXV)   165
Contributors
172