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