Guest Editor: Sarah I. Barbour
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Features

• Hope, Despair, and Memory of the Koreans' War
  Spring in My Hometown
  by Minjung Kim and Trenia Walker
  
  

• Exploring East Asian Culture Through Video Clips (PDF Format)
  by Luding Tong and Mark Bagshaw
  
  

• Teaching Pearl Harbor Films, American and Japanese
  by Alan Chalk
  
  

• A Geographic Understanding of South Asian Politics and Culture from the Film Earth
  by Elizabeth Chacko
  
  

• Chinese, Japanese, and Thai Families in Feature Films
  by Merle Wallace
  
  

• Girl (and Boy) Troubles in Animeland
  Exploring Representations of Gender in Japanese Animation Films
  by Kyu Hyun Kim
  
  

Resources and Essays

• Distance Learning and Asian Studies:
  An Experiment at the East-West Center
  by Gordon Patterson
  
  

• Using Videos to Compare K–12 Schooling and Society within Japan
  by Scott Johnston
  
  

• Teaching Traditional Japanese Arts and Literature through Film
  by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
  
  

• Web Gleanings (Website Listings): Asian Film
  by Judith S. Ames
  
  
  . . . plus numerous book and film reviews, and facts about Asia