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Teaching about Myanmar and the Rohingya through One Man's Eyes: A Class Captain from Myanmar

Ann Bayliss and EAA Editorial Office

2023-12-08 Volume 28 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Non-Thematic Issue

Teaching About Asian War Refugees and Diaspora Experiences through Graphic Novels

Peter Braden

2023-12-01 Volume 28 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Non-Thematic Issue

Freedom Swimmer

Clayton D. Brown

2023-11-28 Volume 28 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Non-Thematic Issue

Facts About Asia: The Modi Government and Religious Freedom

Lucien Ellington and Savannah Mason

2023-11-27 Volume 28 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Non-Thematic Issue

Teaching Christopher Harding's The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives in High Schools

Stephen O'Connor

2023-11-19 Volume 28 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Non-Thematic Issue

Understanding Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945

Understanding Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945

Samuel Yamashita

2023-11-19 Volume 28 • Issue 2 • 2023 • Non-Thematic Issue

A Family Separated by the Bamboo Curtain

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

2023-03-30 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Non-thematic Issue

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden in the Classroom

Mark Dodge

2023-03-30 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Non-thematic Issue

Education About Asia Online Resources Supplement for Teaching Asia through Think Tanks

EAA Editorial Office

2023-03-30 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Non-thematic Issue

"Goodbye My Darling, Hello Vietnam"

Edward O'Mahony

2023-03-30 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Non-thematic Issue

Highlights of the 2022 Freeman and South Asia Book Award Winners

EAA Editorial Office

2023-03-30 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Non-thematic Issue

Islam and the Mughal Empire in South Asia: 1526-1857

Mahak Mahajan

2023-03-30 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Non-thematic Issue

The “Child Prodigy” and the “Wandering Mare” Pairing Chōmin’s A Discourse By Three Drunkards On Government (1887), and Abramovitch’s The Mare (1873) in the World History Classroom

David B. Gordon

2023-03-30 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Non-thematic Issue

The Story of a Family Divided by the Communist Revolution in China

Margot E. Landman

2023-03-30 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Non-thematic Issue

Sisters and Enemies: A True Story of Two Sisters

Zhuqing Li

2022-07-13 Volume 27 • Issue 1 • 2022 • Asia in World History: Comparisons, Connections, and Conflicts (Part 2)

A Brief Interview with Udan Fernando

Lucien Ellington and Udan Fernando

2021-11-05 Volume 26 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Engaging Asia: Film, Documentaries, and Television

Have You Seen This Man?

Paul Bach Jr.

2021-11-05 Volume 26 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Engaging Asia: Film, Documentaries, and Television

Why I Made a Virgin Vote

Udan Fernando

2021-11-05 Volume 26 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Engaging Asia: Film, Documentaries, and Television

Teaching about the Comfort Women during World War II and the Use of Personal Stories of the Victims

Beverly Milner (Lee) Bisland, Jimin Kim and Sunghee Shin

2019-12-31 Volume 24 • Issue 3 • 2019 • Asian Literature in the Humanities and the Social Sciences

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Kathleen Krauth

2019-07-07 Volume 6 • Issue 3 • 2001 • Special Section on Teaching Indic Traditions

A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World. Reviewed by Kristin Stapleton

Kristin Stapleton

2018-09-30 Volume 23 • Issue 2 • 2018 • Demographics, Social Policy, and Asia (Part II)

Incarnations, a History of India in Fifty Lives

Tommy Lamont

2018-03-30 Volume 23 • Issue 1 • 2018 • Asian Politics

The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime

William M. Tsutsui

2017-03-30 Volume 22 • Issue 1 • 2017 • Contemporary Postcolonial Asia

Web Gleanings: The Best of Web Gleanings

Judith S. Ames

2017-03-30 Volume 22 • Issue 1 • 2017 • Contemporary Postcolonial Asia

Is There a New India?: A Conversation with Shashi Tharoor

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

2015-12-31 Volume 20 • Issue 3 • 2015 • India: Past, Present, and Future

Mahavira: From Heretic to Fordmaker

Ana Bajželj

2015-12-31 Volume 20 • Issue 3 • 2015 • India: Past, Present, and Future

A Tale of Two Diplomats: Ho Fengshan, Sugihara Chiune, and Jewish Efforts to Flee Nazi Europe

David B. Gordon

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Dōgen: His Life, Religion, and Poetry

Steven Heine

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

D. T. Suzuki: A Biographical Summary

Eric Cunningham

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

From the Nisshin to the Musashi: The Military Career of Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku

Tal Tovy

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Histories of the Self: Women’s Diaries from Japan’s Heian Period (794–1185)

Sonja Arntzen

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Honda Sōichirō and the Rise of Japan’s Postwar Motor Vehicle Industry

Jeffrey W. Alexander

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

I am a Chinese English Teacher

Wang Ping

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Mori Arinori and Japanese Education (1847-1889)

Terumichi Morikawa

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Mountain of Fame: Portraits of Chinese History

Aaron Pickering

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful

David Huebner

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Natsume Sōseki and Modern Japanese Literature

Marvin Marcus

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Shifting Gender Roles in Postwar Japan: The On-Screen Life of Actress Hara Setsuko

Kelly Hansen

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Story of Hiroshima: Life of an Atomic Bomb Survivor

Masaya Nemoto

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Telling Stories About Lives: The Uses of Biography in Teaching Chinese History

John E. Wills Jr.

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Using "Makers of Modern India" to Teach about India

Thomas Lamont

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Web Gleanings: Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Judith S. Ames

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Wu Zhao: Ruler of Tang Dynasty China

Yuen Ting Lee

2015-09-30 Volume 20 • Issue 2 • 2015 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part II

Akhtar Hameed Khan: A Legendary Social Scientist

Nasim Yousaf

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

A Tale of Two Warlords: Republican China During the 1920s

John P. Dunn and Matthew R. Portwood

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

Aung San Suu Kyi: A Leader Born, a Leader Made

Paige Tan

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography: Soong Mei-ling

Hannah Pakula

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

Popo’s World: Youth and College Life

Chow-soon Chuang Ju (Hsin-jen) and Jane C. Ju

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

Review of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography: Volume 1: Xia and Shang Dynasties through the Tang Dynasty

Jeffrey L. Richey

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

Review of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography: Volume 2: Song Dynasty through the Ming Dynasty

James A. Anderson

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

Review of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography: Volume 3: Qing Dynasty through the People's Republic of China (until 1979)

David L. Kenley

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

The Story of An Chunggŭn

Franklin Rausch

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

Vivekananda and Okakura On What East Offers West

David B. Gordon

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

Web Gleanings: Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

Judith S. Ames

2014-12-31 Volume 19 • Issue 3 • 2014 • Asia: Biographies and Personal Stories, Part 1

The Saga of Manjirō

Junji Kitadai

2014-09-30 Volume 19 • Issue 2 • 2014 • Maritime Asia

Indian Youth Culture Reflections on Film: An EAA Interview with Coonoor Kripalani

Lucien Ellington

2008-12-31 Volume 13 • Issue 3 • 2008 • Teaching About Asia through Youth Culture

Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet

Andrew Quintman

2008-03-31 Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Marriage and Family in Asia

Teaching Narrative Analysis with A&E's "Biography"

John H. Sagers

2008-03-31 Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2008 • Marriage and Family in Asia

Helen Foster Snow: An American Woman in Revolutionary China

Diana Marston-Wood

2007-12-31 Volume 12 • Issue 3 • 2007 • Teaching About Asian Governments and Legal Systems

An EAA Interview with Houghton Freeman

Lynn Parisi

2007-09-30 Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2007 • Natural Disasters in Asia: Geography and Environment

Daughter of the Ganges, A Memoir

Fritz Blackwell

2007-09-30 Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2007 • Natural Disasters in Asia: Geography and Environment

Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture

Arthur Barbeau

2007-09-30 Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2007 • Natural Disasters in Asia: Geography and Environment

Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese

Theodore Cook

2007-09-30 Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2007 • Natural Disasters in Asia: Geography and Environment

The Overture (Home Rong)

Lum Chee-Hoo and Patricia Shehan Campbell

2007-09-30 Volume 12 • Issue 2 • 2007 • Natural Disasters in Asia: Geography and Environment

Admiral Yi Sun--Shin, the Turtle Ships, and Modern Asian History

Marc Jason Gilbert

2007-03-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2007 • Asia in World History: 1450-1770

An EAA Interview with Donald Richie

Peter Grilli

2007-03-30 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2007 • Asia in World History: 1450-1770

Asian Travelers’ Visions of Britain and Ireland in the Early Modern Period

Michael H. Fisher

2006-12-31 Volume 11 • Issue 3 • 2006 • Teaching About Asia through Travelers' Tales

A Voice for Southeast Asian Muslims in the High Colonial Era: The Third Baron Stanley of Alderley

Anthony Reid and Helen Reid

2006-12-31 Volume 11 • Issue 3 • 2006 • Teaching About Asia through Travelers' Tales

China 1905–1908: Harrison Sacket Elliott’s Letters and Photographs

Jean Elliott Johnson

2006-12-31 Volume 11 • Issue 3 • 2006 • Teaching About Asia through Travelers' Tales

Crooked Cucumber Comes to America

David Chadwick

2006-12-31 Volume 11 • Issue 3 • 2006 • Teaching About Asia through Travelers' Tales

Travel Matters: An Indian Subaltern’s Passage to China in 1900

Anand A. Yang

2006-12-31 Volume 11 • Issue 3 • 2006 • Teaching About Asia through Travelers' Tales

The Travel Records of Chinese Pilgrims Faxian, Xuanzang, and Yijing: Sources for Cross-Cultural Encounters Between Ancient China and Ancient India

Tansen Sen

2006-12-30 Volume 11 • Issue 3 • 2006 • Teaching About Asia through Travelers' Tales

Mao: The Unknown Story

Charles W. Hayford

2006-09-30 Volume 11 • Issue 2 • 2006 • Rethinking Our Notions of "Asia"

EAA Interview with Herbert P. Bix, 2001 Pulitzer Winner: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Kathleen Krauth

2005-09-30 Volume 10 • Issue 2 • 2005 • Special Section on Teaching Twentieth-Century Asia

EAA Interview with Sharada Nayak

Jonathan Weil and Marilyn Turkovich

2002-09-30 Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2002 • Non-Thematic Issue

EAA Interview with Sharada Nayak

Jonathan Weil and Marilyn Turkovich

2002-09-30 Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 2002 • Non-Thematic Issue

Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader

Michael J. Seth

2002-03-30 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2002 • Teaching About Asia Through Film

The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

Jayne Werner

2001-12-31 Volume 6 • Issue 3 • 2001 • Special Section on Teaching Indic Traditions

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Kathleen Krauth

2001-12-30 Volume 6 • Issue 3 • 2001 • Special Section on Teaching Indic Traditions

Martial Musings: A Portrayal of Martial Arts in the 20th Century

Adam D. Frank

2001-12-30 Volume 6 • Issue 3 • 2001 • Special Section on Teaching Indic Traditions

Options for Teaching Gandhi and King

Fritz Blackwell

2001-12-30 Volume 6 • Issue 3 • 2001 • Special Section on Teaching Indic Traditions

A Malaysian Journey

Sunil Kukreja

2001-09-30 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2001 • Non-Thematic Issue

Famous Koreans: Six Portraits

Mary Connor

2001-09-30 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2001 • Non-Thematic Issue

Bridge to the Sun

Craig Loomis

2001-03-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2001 • Teaching Asian Literatures

Four Ways to Use Literature in Chinese History Courses

Timothy Cheek

2001-03-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2001 • Teaching Asian Literatures

Old Man Thunder: Father of the Bullet Train

George B. Pruden

2001-03-30 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2001 • Teaching Asian Literatures

Grace in China: An American Woman Beyond the Great Wall, 1934-1974

Kelly Ann Long

2000-12-31 Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 2000 • Special Section on Japan in US and World History

EAA Interview with Franklin Buchanan

Lucia Buchanan Pierce

2000-09-30 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2000 • Non-Thematic Issue

Pioneers in Asian Studies Outreach: Teaching about Other Cultures

Elgin Heinz

2000-09-30 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2000 • Non-Thematic Issue

Robert A. F. Thurman on Buddhism

Joan Barnatt

2000-09-30 Volume 5 • Issue 2 • 2000 • Non-Thematic Issue

Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom

Jonathan Goldstein

2000-03-30 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2000 • Teaching About Asian Economies

Seasons of High Adventure: Edgar Snow in China

Barbara Mori

2000-03-30 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2000 • Teaching About Asian Economies

Deng: A Political Biography

Lamont Colucci

1999-12-31 Volume 4 • Issue 3 • 1999 • Non-Thematic Issue

Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother

Mary Connor

1999-12-31 Volume 4 • Issue 3 • 1999 • Non-Thematic Issue

The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing’s Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics

Robert André LaFleur

1999-12-31 Volume 4 • Issue 3 • 1999 • Non-Thematic Issue

Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China

Yawei Liu

1999-12-31 Volume 4 • Issue 3 • 1999 • Non-Thematic Issue

Ama Adhe: The Voice That Remembers

Amy Whitecastle

1999-03-30 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 1999 • Non-Thematic Issue

Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action

Sita Anantha Raman

1999-03-30 Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 1999 • Non-Thematic Issue

Kim's Story: The Road from Vietnam

Marc Jason Gilbert

1998-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 1998 • Special Section on Japan and US/Japan Relations

Regent Redux: A Life of the Statesman-Scholar Ichijo Kaneyoshi

Donald H. Jones

1998-09-30 Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 1998 • Special Section on Japan and US/Japan Relations

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Laurie Baker

1997-09-30 Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 1997 • Non-Thematic Issue

Bridging the Gap Between University and School Asianists: An EAA Interview with Lesley Solomon

Lucien Ellington

1996-09-30 Volume 1 • Issue 2 • 1996 • Non-Thematic Issue

Asia in the Core Curriculum

Theodore de Bary

1996-03-30 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 1996 • Non-Thematic Issue