Colleagues:

I am pleased to report that the Association for Asian Studies will be mailing the Fall 2006 (Vol. 11, No. 2) issue of Education About Asia in the next few days. This issue includes a special section titled “Rethinking Our Notions of Asia.” My sincere thanks go to all who contributed in any way to this issue. If don’t subscribe to EAA, please consider supporting us. You may subscribe online by going to our website, http://www.aasianst.org/eaa-toc.htm.

Cordially,
Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia


EAA TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features
Rethinking Our Notions of India:
An EAA Interview with Frank Conlon

Rethinking Early East Asian History
By Charles Holcombe

Asia in the ReMaking of the Modern World
By Robert B. Marks

Zheng He Goes Traveling––Again
By James R. Holmes

Americanization of East Asia
By Warren I. Cohen

Japanese Education: Truths and Half Truths in a Changing Context
By Gary DeCoker

Christianity in Modern Korea
By Donald N. Clark

Oral History as a Teaching and Learning Tool
By Mary L. Hanneman

Facts about Asia

Resource Essays
Pointers, Practicalities, and Pitfalls of Directing a Field Course in Asia
By Jennifer and George Pomeroy

Teaching Katakana to Social Studies Students
By Susan Gogue

NCTA Lesson Plan
The “Opening” of the East: Differing Perspectives
By Laura Delmore Lay

Curriculum Materials
Learning from Asian Art: Korea
By Mary Connor

Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable
Reviewed by Jim Deitrick

Web Gleanings
By Judith S. Ames

Book Essays
Mao: The Unknown Story
Popular History and the Scholars
Reviewed by Charles Hayford

The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative
Reviewed by Adrian Carton

The Genesis of East Asia: 221 B.C.–A.D. 907
Reviewed by James Anderson

Book Reviews
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame
Reviewed by Phyllis Natalie Parker

China’s Generation Y: Understanding the Future Leaders of the World’s Next Superpower
Reviewed by Mary Cingcade

China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition (5th edition)
Reviewed by Arthur Barbeau

A History of Modern Indonesia
Reviewed by Florence Lamoureux

Film Essay Review
Con/texts for Viewing Geisha
By Joan Ericson

Film Reviews
The Clash of Traditional Chinese Culture My View on The Day the Sun Turned Cold
Reviewed by Jinghao Zhou

EAA Interview with John Williams, Director of Firefly Dreams
Interviewed by Paul Mason and Paul Tanner

Firefly Dreams
Reviewed by Melinda Varner