Resources

COLUMNS

2 Editor’s Message 57 Facts About Asia: Teaching Asia through Think Tanks by Alexander Scott and Lucien Ellington

EAA INTERVIEW

60 An EAA Interview with Lauren McKee, Author of Japanese Government and Politics, an AAS Key Issues in Asian Studies Publication

TEACHING RESOURCES ESSAY

64 Teaching About North Korean Defectors

BOOK REVIEWS

70 Highlights of the 2022 Freeman and South Asia Book Award Winners

O N L I N E S U P P L E M E N T

www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa Links and Supplemental Graphics for “Teaching Asia through Think Tanks” Front Cover: Votive tablets featuring Sugawara no Michizane, “the Kami of Education,” and prayers for educational success. Yushima Tenjin, Tokyo, Japan. Source: © Shutterstock. Photo by TK Kurikawa.

F E AT U R E S

The Problem That Has No Name                                                          5 By Anonymous Teaching Confucian Practice                                                                8 Kit Kats as Confucian Ritual for Education Success By Greg Wilkinson The “Child Prodigy” and the “Wandering Mare”                 14 Pairing Chōmin’s A Discourse By Three Drunkards On Government (1887) and Abramovich's The Mare (1873) in the World History Classroom By David B. Gordon A Symposium on Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden:    20 Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War by Zhuqing Li By Margot E. Landman, Mark Dodge, and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham “Goodbye My Darling, Hello Vietnam”: Country Music and the Vietnam War                                                                       28 By Edward O’Mahony Islam and the Mughal Empire in South Asia: 1526–1857         37 By Mahak Mahajan The Belt and Road Initiative                                                           47 An Integrative Subject for Interdisciplinary Studies about China By Nancy Sowers and Jianfen Wang