Food, Culture, and Asia

Winter 2011: Volume 16, Number 3

FEATURES

WHO’S AFRAID OF CHOP SUEY? by Charles W. Hayford

CUISINE AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN by Theodore C. Bestor and Victoria Lyon Bestor

PIZZA IN JAPAN by Rossella Ceccarini

NORTH KOREA’S 1990S FAMINE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE by Michael J. Seth

CULINARY CONTROVERSIES: Shark Fin Soup and Sea Creatures in the Asian Studies Curriculum by Tami Blumenfield

GLOBALIZING ASIAN CUISINES: From Eating for Strength to Culinary Cosmopolitanism—A Long History of Culinary Globalization by James Farrer

EXPLORING INDIAN CULTURE THROUGH FOOD by Tulasi Srinivas

MAKING SENSE OF VIETNAMESE CUISINE by Nir Avieli

THE POLITICS OF THE THAI TABLE Food, Manners, Values by Michael Herzfeld

EAA 16:3

ONLINE SUPPLEMENT

USING FOOD TO TEACH ABOUT CHINESE CULTURE by Kandice Hauf

UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ASIA THROUGH FOOD by Eriberto P. Lozada

POHA—KRISHNA’S FAVORITE by Aparna Heroor

HELPING STUDENTS OVERCOME FEAR OF "FOREIGNESS" IN TEACHING ASIAN RELIGIONS by Robert Steed

FOCUS ON JAPANESE DEMOCRACY—PART 2

DEMOCRATIC JAPAN The Rise of Local Women Politicians by Sherry L. Martin

GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN JAPAN by Robert Pekkanen

NOTIONS OF RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN by Jonathan D. Marshall

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION IN JAPAN’S FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICYMAKING by Andrew L. Oros

WILL JAPAN CHANGE? by Peter K. Frost

Web Resources

Web Gleanings: FOOD, CULTURE, AND ASIA by Judith S. Ames

Resources

An EAA Interview with 2011 Franklin R. Buchanan Co-Prize Winner Peter Perdue. Interviewed by Lucien Ellington

Review Essay

China in the World: The Rise and Fall of the Canton System by Jeffrey R. Johnson

Essays

THREE NEW "KEY ISSUES IN ASIAN STUDIES" VOLUMES:

"Traditional China in Asian and World History" by Tansen Sen and Victor H. Mair

"Korea in World History" by Donald N. Clark

"Zen Past and Present" by Eric Cunningham

Book Review Essay

East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute. Reviewed by Thomas P. Dolan

Book Review Essay

"Central Asia in World History." Reviewed by Reuel R. Hanks

"Bamboo People." Reviewed by Sara Van Fleet

Website Review

"Homeland Afghanistan." Reviewed by Howard Faber