Virginia Review of Asian Studies
Volume 16 (2014)
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THE VIRGINIA REVIEW OF ASIAN STUDIES
VOLUME 16 (2014)
The Virginia Review of Asian Studies (VRAS) is an annual on-line publication of the Virginia Consortium for Asian Studies (VCAS) and the Department of Asian Studies at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton Virginia. VRAS (ISSN 2169-6306) replaces the Occasional Papers of the Virginia Consortium for Asian Studies that was published from time to time from 1984 through 1988.
VRAS is designed to promote quality scholarship on Asia in Virginia and the Southeast, but potential articles and reviews from outside the region are welcome as well. The editors of VRAS invite material on any aspect of Asia Studies for review by the Editor and selected readers. Because VCAS especially encourages research and study on Asia in the class-room, high quality work from graduate students and advanced undergraduates is very welcome. Faculty are invited to submit exceptional scholarly work by advanced students.
VRAS is indexed at Asia-Studies.com
Editorial and business matters should be addressed to the Editor:
Dr. Daniel A. Métraux, Dept. of Asian Studies Mary Baldwin College Staunton, VA 24401
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Please submit all material for editorial consideration for the 2015 issue of the VRAS no later than 15 May 2015.
All rights reserved. No part of the VRAS may be produced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing by the editor. © 2014 by the Virginia Review of Asian Studies
Editors and Editorial Consultants:
Editor: Daniel A. Métraux, Mary Baldwin College Associate Editor: James W. Yoxall, Mary Baldwin College Production Editor: Dustin Yoxall
Editorial Board of Advisors: Wilton Dillon, Smithsonian Institution; Margaret Richardson, Christopher Newport University; TriveniMathur, Fulbright-Nehru Scholar (2013-2014); Roderic Owen, Mary Baldwin College; Amy Miller, Mary Baldwin College; Nasreen Akhtar, International Islamic University, Pakistan
CONTENTS
THE 2014 INDIAN ELECTION
Deciphering the Indian “Dance of Democracy”
TriveniGoswamiMathur (i)
THE LEGACY OF ALBERTO FUJIMORI
Foreigners in Their Own Land: An Interpretation of Alberto Fujimori’s Electoral Victory in 1990 Ivy Arbulu (1)
Foreword and Update by Jorge Secada
CHINESE PHILOSOPHY AND AMERICAN HISTORY
Confucius in the American Founding: The Founders’ Efforts to Use Confucian Moral Philosophy to Create New Virtue for the New Nation
Dave Wang (11)
WHEN THINGS STARTED TO GO WRONG IN VIETNAM
A Re-Assessment of the Battle of IaDrang Valley, 1965: The Role of Airpower, Heroic Soldiers and the Wrong Lessons
William Head (27)
INDIAN SOCIETAL PROBLEMS
The Socio-Economic impact of HIV/ AIDS on Indian Women
ShekiraRamdass (56)
CONTEMPORARY CULTURE IN ASIA
Japanese “Idols” in Trans-Cultural Reception: The Case of AKB48
Wendy Xie (74)
Bodies of Conflict: Asian Conceptual Art in China and India in the 1990s
Margaret Richardson (102)
ASIAN EMIGRATION TO THE WEST
Laotian Emigration: An Untold Story of Searching for a Place to Call Home
Sabrina Phansa(116)
BUDDHISM IN ASIA
The Lotus Sūtraand its ‘Bodies’: Physical Bodies, Spiritual Bodies, Bodies of Knowledge
John M. Thompson, Susan Degnan, Caitlin Graney, Ryan McCann and Charles McCracken (131)
SokaGakkai International: Japanese Buddhism on a Global Scale
Daniel A. Métraux (167)
TEACHING JAPANESE
Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language in a Sociocultural Context
Xuexin Liu (184)
THE U.S. – JAPANESE ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP
The Role of Culture in the U.S.-Japanese Economic Relationship
Kazuo Yagami (193)
CHINESE AT HOME AND ABROAD
A Society in Crisis: China’s Growing Generation Gap
Kelly Donovan (202)
Revisiting Frustrated Micro-Regionalism: An Analytical Eclectic Analysis of the Greater Tumen Initiative
Tony Tai-Ting Liu (217)
Social-Emotional Adjustment of Chinese Immigrant Children in Western Countries
Yonggand Ren and Shirley Wyver (231)
ESSAYS & IDEAS
Economic Literacy and the Tokugawa Era
Lucien Ellington (242)
Korea as a “Degenerate State”: Then and Now
Daniel A. Métraux (251)
BOOK REVIEWS (258)
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss.
Reviewed by Roderic Owen
Peter Popham, The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
Reviewed by ShekiraRamdass
David Pilling, Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
Kondo Masaomi, Alfred Deakin: A Scholar Politician Who Founded Australia
Reviewed by Kazuo Yagami
Robert K. Fitts, Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
Earle Labor, Jack London: An American Life
Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux
FROM THE EDITOR’s DESK (268)
Tourism Reigns at the DMZ While North Korean and South Korean Vessels Actively Shell Each Other
Korean Youths Demand International Recognition of Dokdo Island As Belonging to Korea and Plead for an Apology from Japan for WW II Crimes
How This Writer Accidentally Stumbled on Jack London’s Deep Interest In Asia and His Advocacy of the Concept of the Pacific Rim
Long Lost First-Hand Report on the Kennedy Assassination Details Death Scene at the White House on 22 November 1963
No Penny For Your Thoughts in Canada
CONTRIBUTORS (280)