Sample Articles

Sample articles from each published issue of Education About Asia.

The Twentieth Century: Asia Returns to the Sea (PDF)
by James R. Holmes, from Volume 14, Number 3, Winter 2009

Tibetan-Chinese Relations: An Interview with A. Tom Grunfeld (PDF)
from Volume 14, Number 2, Fall 2009

Jack London and the Yellow Peril (PDF)
by Daniel A. Métraux, from Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2009

Charting Their Own Course: Resources for Teaching about China's Youth (PDF)
by Mary Cingcade, from Volume 13, Number 3, Winter 2008

The Late Qing Empire in Global History (PDF)
by Pamela Kyle Crossley, from Volume 13, Number 2, Fall 2008

Entrepreneurial Families in Viet Nam: Controversial Symbols of Moral Dilemmas in Changing Times (PDF)
by Ann Marie Lashkowich, from Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2008
Study Questions to accompany this article.

India's Democracy: Illusion or Reality? (PDF)
by Philip Oldenburg, from Volume 12, Number 3, Winter 2007

Catfish, Super Frog, and the End of the World: Earthquakes (and Natural Disasters)
in the Japanese Cultural Imagination
(PDF)
by Alex Bates, from Volume 12, Number 2, Fall 2007

India in the World: The World in India, 1450–1770 (PDF)
by Howard Spodek and Michele Langford Louro, from Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2007

EAA Interview with 2006 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize Winners: Martin Amster and Morris Rossabi (PDF)
Interview by Lucien Ellington, from Volume 11, Number 3, Winter 2006

From Silk to Oil: Cross-Cultural Connections along the Silk Roads (PDF)
Reviewed by Eric Martone, from Volume 11, Number 3, Winter 2006

Christianity in Modern Korea (PDF)
by Donald N. Clark, from Volume 11, Number 2, Fall 2006

EAA Interview with John Dower (PDF)
Interviewed by Lynn Parisi, from Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2006

The Heart of History: The Tale of Genji (PDF)
by Sonja Arntzen, from Volume 10, Number 3, Winter 2005

EAA Interview with Marcus Noland (PDF)
Interview by Lucien Ellington, from Volume 10, Number 2, Fall 2005

Teaching Islam as an Asian Religion (PDF)
by Vernon James Schubel, from Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2005

Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time (PDF)
by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
from Volume 9, Number 3, Winter 2004

Hindu Beginnings: Assessing the Period 1000 BCE to 300 CE (PDF)
by Guy Welbon, from Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2004

Ainu-e: Instructional Resources for the Study of Japan's Other People (PDF)
by Chisato O. Dubreuil, from Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2004

EAA Interview with Yu Hua, Author of To Live (PDF)
by Helen Finken, from Volume 8, Number 3, Winter 2003

Review of To Live: A Novel (PDF)
by James A. Winship, from Volume 8, Number 3, Winter 2003

The Japanese Family Faces Twenty-First Century Challenges (PDF)
by Anne E. Imamura, from Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2003

EAA Interview with James L. Watson on Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia
and Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia: Food and Culture in the Classroom
(PDF)
by John Carroll and Sheila Onuska, from Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2003

Top Ten Things to Know about Korea in the 21st Cetury (PDF)
by Edward J. Shultz, from Volume 7, Number 3, Winter 2002

Using Chinese Folktales in the Classroom (PDF)
by Howard Giskin, from Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2002

Exploring East Asian Culture Through Video Clips (PDF)
by Luding Tong and Mark Bagshaw, from Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2002

Reading Across the Curriculum: Using the Fiction of the Indian Subcontinent in Social Science Classes
by Andrea Caron Kempf, from Volume 6, Number 3, Winter 2001

Famous Koreans: Six Portraits
by Mary Connor, from Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2001

Stories of Crime and Detection: Using the Mystery Formula as an Introduction to Asian Literatures and Cultures
by Joan Cook Wilson, from Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2001

HER: An Indonesian Short Story
by Titis Basino. Translated by Florence Lamoureux, from Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2001

Qianlong Meets Macartney: Collision of Two World Views
A One Act Play by John R. Watt, from Volume 5, Number 3, Winter 2000

Teaching/Learning Through Confucius: Navigating Our Way Through The Analects
by David Jones, from Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 2000

Suggestions for Comparing The Life of an Amorous Woman, Moll Flanders, and Memoirs of a Geisha
by Nancy Traubitz, from Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 2000

EAA Interview with Edward J. Lincoln
from Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 2000

Identifying Buddhist Images in Japanese Painting and Sculpture
by Douglas P. Sjoquist, from Volume 4, Number 3, Winter 1999

Web Gleanings (Websites): Asia for Elementary Students and Teachers
by Judith S. Ames, from Volume 4, Number 3, Winter 1999

Understanding the Geographies of China: An Assemblage of Pieces
by Robert W. McColl, from Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 1999

History As Literature, Literature As History: An Interview with Lost Names Author, Richard E. Kim
by Kathleen Woods Masalski, from Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 1999

The Silk Roads: An Educational Resource
by Morris Rossabi, from Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1999

What's So Bad about The Good Earth
by Charles W. Hayford, from Volume 3, Number 3, Winter 1998

Education in Asian Languages
by Linda Chance, from Volume 3, Number 3, Winter 1998

Top Ten Things to Know About Japan in the Late 1990s
by Carol Gluck, from Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 1998

Geographic Dimensions of Indonesia’s Importance in the World
by Chris Drake, from Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 1998

School-Museum Collaboration: A Passage to Asian Study
by Joseph Piro, from Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 1997

A Symposium on Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha
from Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1997

Incorporating Asia in the General Education Curriculum
by Thomas Kennedy, Fritz Blackwell, Roger Chan, and Theodore Nitz, from Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1996

Bringing China to the High Schools: A Case Study
by Diana Marston Wood, from Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1996