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Golden Gate Girls
Ke Li
Mrs. Judo
Allison Alexy
Spilled Water
Xiaoqi Yu and Vilma Seeberg
Reviews by Title
1428
France Pepper
A2-B-C
Roderick Wilson
A Grandpa From Brazil
Cindi L. SturtzSreetharan
Afghan Chronicles
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Beijing Besieged By Waste
France Pepper
Bored In Heaven
Jonathan H. X. Lee, PhD
Bön: Mustang to Menri
Per Kværne
Buddhism After the Tsunami
Michael Abele
Burma VJ
Robert E. Gutsche Jr.
Can't Go Native
Anne Prescott
Children of Hangzhou
Karen Kane
China: Empire of Art?
France Pepper
Citizen Dog
Ellen Boccuzzi
Conversations In Mizusawa
Anne Prescott
Dancing with the Goddess: Ras-Garba Traditions of Gujarat
Gordon R. Thompson
Diary of an Ethnologist in China
Ryoko Sakurada
Die for Japan
Taylor Atkins
Dishonored
Keera Allendorf, PhD
Don't Think I've Forgotten
Ellen Prusinski
Down: Indie Rock in the PRC
Madeline
Wilcox
Eating the Scorpion
Anne Prescott
Embrace (Huaibao)
Howard Y. F. Choy
Fall of Womenland, The
Tami Blumenfield
Families of the Philippines
Roger Bresnahan
Family Victim: The “Bad Coconut” of a Javanese Family
Robert McKinley
From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Cantonese Contemporary Art in the 1980s
France Pepper
Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film, The
Angela Selena Williams
Follow Your Heart: China's New Youth Movement
Robert L. Moore
Golden Gate Girls
Ke Li
Gone to Pat and Surviving Chau
Robert S. Petersen
Hafu: The Mixed Race Experience in Japan
Elizabeth Oyler
He defied the Tide of Time
Christine Beresniova
Honor and Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story
Louis G. Perez
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
Hosu Kim
Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands, The
Donald Rubinstein
In the Grey Zone
Roderick Wilson
Jeepney
Mark Sanchez
Japanland
Dr. Nancy Jervis
Journey of a Red Fridge
Mary Arends-Kuenning
Laos: So You Think The War Is Over
Susan Norris
Last Train Home
Sue Gronewold
Lessons of the Loess Plateau
James Mills
Light Up Nippon
Cindi Textor
Light Up Nippon
Ethan Segal
Live Your Dream: The Taylor Anderson Story
Dawn Grimes-MacLellan
Making Mao
Shelley W. Chan
ManDove
Constance Rodgers
Memory of Forgotten War
Sangsook Lee-Chung
Mongolia: Thirty Years Later
Shao Dan & Dr. Nancy Jervis
More About Mizusawa
Anne Prescott
The Mosuo Sisters
Wenrui Chen
Mrs. Judo
Allison Alexy
Mumbai: Traffic
Kelly D. Alley
Nuclear Nation
Ethan Segal
Old Dog (Khyi rgan/Lao gou)
Howard Y. F. Choy
Out of the Poison Tree
Judy Ledgerwood
Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard
Anne Prescott
Planet of Snail
Doyhe Kim
Play, The
Angela Williams
Pray for Japan
Ethan Segal
Resilience
Hosu Kim
Revolutionary, The
Matthew D. Johnson
Search, The
Hilary Brady Morris
Shielding the Mountains
Tracy H. Allen, PhD
Shipbreakers
Dr. Ritu Saksena
Shugendō Now
Kevin Taylor
Song Of Tibet
Mark Frank
Somewhere Between
Gehui Zhang
Spilled Water
Xiaoqi Yu and Vilma Seeberg
SUBVERSES China in Mozambique
Howard Y. F. Choy
Summer Pasture
Mark Frank
Sweetest Embrace: Return to Afghanistan, The
Morris Rossabi
This Is A Music! Reclaiming an Untouchable Dream
Susan S. Wadley
Though I Am Gone
Weili Ye, PhD
To Tell the Truth: The Liu Binyan Story
John A. Rapp
To the Light
Shelley W. Chan
Trash Trade: Selling Trash to China, The
W. Chad Futrell
Transnational Tradeswomen
Miriam Sharma
Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, The
Ethan Segal
Unmistaken Child
Richard Nance
Warriors of Qiugang
Judith Shapiro
The Water Cries
Gregory Veeck
When China Met Africa
Howard Y. F. Choy
Who Killed Chea Vichea?
Robert McKinley
Woman Rebel
Timothy Lubin
Essay: Teaching Chinese History in the Women of Chinese Cinema
Catherine Gomes
Reviews by Author
Abele, Michael
Buddhism After the Tsunami
Alexy, Allyson
Mrs. Judo
Allen, Tracy H.
Shielding the Mountains
Allendorf, Keera
Dishonored
Alley, Kelly D.
Mumbai: Traffic
Arends-Kuenning, Mary
Journey of a Red Fridge
Atkins, Taylor
Die for Japan
Beresniova, Christine
He defied the Tide of Time
Blumenfield, Tami
The Fall of Womenland
Boccuzzi, Ellen
Citizen Dog
Bresnahan, Roger
Families of the Philippines
Chen, Wenrui
The Mosuo Sisters
Chan, Shelley W.
Making Mao
To the Light
Choy, Howard Y. F.
Embrace (Huaibao)
Old Dog (Khyi rgan/Lao gou)
Two Films On Chinese Business in Africa
- When China Met Africa
- SUBVERSES China in Mozambique
Dan, Shao & Jervis, Nancy
Mongolia: Thirty Years Later
Frank, Mark
Song Of Tibet
Summer Pasture
Futrell, W. Chad
The Trash Trade: Selling Trash to China
Gomes, Catherine
Essay: Teaching Chinese History in the Women of Chinese Cinema
Grimes-MacLellan, Dawn
Live Your Dream: The Taylor Anderson Story
Gronewold, Sue
Last Train Home
Gutsche Jr. , Robert E.
Burma VJ
Hanifi, Shah Mahmoud
Afghan Chronicles
Jervis, Dr. Nancy
Japanland
Jervis , Nancy & Dan, Shao
Mongolia: Thirty Years Later
Johnson, Matthew D.
The Revolutionary
Kane, Karen
Children of Hangzhou
Kim, Hosu
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
Resilience
Kim, Doyhe
Planet of Snail
Kværne, Per
Bön: Mustang to Menri
Lee, Jonathan H. X.
Bored In Heaven
Lee-Chung, Sangsook
Memory of Forgotten War
Ledgerwood, Judy
Out of the Poison Tree
Li, Ke
Golden Gate Girls
Lubin, Timothy
Woman Rebel
McKinley, Robert
Who Killed Chea Vichea?
Family Victim: The “Bad Coconut” of a Javanese Family
Mills, James
Lessons of the Loess Plateau
Moore, Robert L.
Follow Your Heart: China's New Youth Movement
Morris, Hilary Brady
The Search
Nance, Richard
Unmistaken Child
Norris, Susan
Laos: So You Think The War Is Over
Oyler, Elizabeth
Hafu: The Mixed Race Experience in Japan
Pepper, France
1428
Beijing Besieged By Waste
Two Films on Chinese Contemporary Art
- China: Empire of Art?
- From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Cantonese Contemporary Art in the 1980s
Perez, Louis G.
Honor and Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story
Petersen, Robert S.
Gone to Pat and Surviving Chau
Prescott, Anne
Can't Go Native; Conversations In Mizusawa;More About Mizusawa
Eating the Scorpion
Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard
Prusinski, Ellen
Don't Think I've Forgotten
Rapp, John A.
To Tell the Truth: The Liu Binyan Story
Rodgers, Constance
ManDove
Rossabi, Morris
The Sweetest Embrace: Return to Afghanistan
Rubinstein, Donald
The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands
Saksena, Ritu
Shipbreakers
Sakurada, Ryoko
Diary of an Ethnologist in China
Sanchez, Mark
Jeepney
Seeberg, Vilma and Yu, Xiaoqi
Spilled Water
Segal, Ethan
Light Up Nippon
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Pray for Japan
Nuclear Nation
Shapiro, Judith
Warriors of Qiugang
Sharma, Miriam
Transnational Tradeswomen
SturtzSreetharan, Cindi L.
A Grandpa From Brazil
Taylor, Kevin
Shugendō Now
Textor, Cindi
Light Up Nippon
Thompson, Gordon R.
Dancing with the Goddess: Ras-Garba Traditions of Gujarat
Wadley, Susan S.
This Is A Music! Reclaiming an Untouchable Dream
Wilcox, Madeleine
Down: Indie Rock in the PRC
Williams, Angela Selena
The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film
The Play
Wilson, Roderick
In the Grey Zone
A2-B-C
Veeck, Gregory
The Water Cries
Ye, Weili
Though I Am Gone
Zhang, Gehui
Somewhere Between
Reviews by Newsletter Issue
Summer 2015
Golden Gate Girls
Ke Li
Mrs. Judo
Allyson Alexi
Spilled Water
Xiaoqi Yu and Vilma Seeberg
Spring 2015
The Play
Angela Williams
Jeepney
Mark Sanchez
Don't Think I've Forgotten
Ellen Prusinski
Winter 2015
Planet of Snail
Doyhe Kim
Memory of Forgotten War
Sangsook Lee-Chung
He defied the Tide of Time
Christine Beresniova
Fall 2014
Afghan Chronicles
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Buddhism After the Tsunami
Michael Abele
Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard
Anne Prescott
Summer 2014
Hafu: The Mixed Race Experience in Japan
Elizabeth Oyler
The Mosuo Sisters
Wenrui Chen
Somewhere Between
Gehui Zhang
Spring 2014
Live Your Dream: The Taylor Anderson Story
Dawn Grimes-MacLellan
Post-Disaster Japan:
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Light Up Nippon, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom,
Pray for Japan, and Nuclear Nation
Ethan Segal
Documenting Disaster:
- In the Grey Zone and A2-B-C
Roderick Wilson
Winter 2014
Down: Indie Rock in the PRC
Madeline
Wilcox
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
Hosu Kim
Resilience
Hosu Kim
To the Light
Shelley W. Chan
Summer/Fall 2013
Embrace (Huaibao) & Old Dog (Khyi rgan/Lao gou)
Howard Y. F. Choy
Honor and Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story
Louis G. Perez
ManDove
Constance Rodgers
The Revolutionary
Matthew D. Johnson
This Is A Music! Reclaiming an Untouchable Dream
Susan S. Wadley
Spring/Summer 2013
Warriors of Qiugang
Judith Shapiro
Who Killed Chea Vichea?
Robert McKinley
Family Victim: The “Bad Coconut” of a Javanese Family
Robert McKinley
Mumbai: Traffic
Kelly D. Alley
Winter 2013
Bön: Mustang to Menri
Per Kværne
Diary of an Ethnologist in China
Ryoko Sakurada
Families of the Philippines
Roger Bresnahan
Woman Rebel
Timothy Lubin
Fall 2012
Dancing with the Goddess: Ras-Garba Traditions of Gujarat
Gordon R. Thompson
The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands
Donald Rubinstein
Follow Your Heart: China's New Youth Movement
Robert L. Moore
Summer 2012
A Grandpa From Brazil
Cindi L. SturtzSreetharan
Die for Japan
Taylor Atkins
Making Mao
Shelley W. Chan
Spring 2012
Light Up Nippon
Cindi Textor
The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film
Angela Selena Williams
Two Films On Chinese Business in Africa
- When China Met Africa
- SUBVERSES China in Mozambique
Howard Y. F. Choy
Beijing Besieged By Waste
France Pepper
Winter 2012
Shielding the Mountains
Tracy H. Allen, PhD
Lessons of the Loess Plateau
James Mills
Can't Go Native
Conversations In Mizusawa
More About Mizusawa
Anne Prescott
Bored In Heaven
Jonathan H. X. Lee, PhD
Fall 2011
Though I Am Gone
Weili Ye, PhD
Children of Hangzhou
Karen Kane
The Water Cries
Gregory Veeck
Summer 2011
Shugendō Now
Kevin Taylor
The Fall of Womenland
Tami Blumenfield
April 2011
The Sweetest Embrace: Return to Afghanistan
Morris Rossabi
Laos: So You Think The War Is Over
Susan Norris
March 2011
Dishonored
Keera Allendorf, PhD
Two Films on Chinese Contemporary Art
- China: Empire of Art?
- From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Cantonese Contemporary Art in the 1980s
France Pepper
February 2011
Last Train Home
Sue Gronewold
Mongolia: Thirty Years Later
Shao Dan & Dr. Nancy Jervis
December 2010
Burma VJ
Robert E. Gutsche Jr.
Japanland
Dr. Nancy Jervis
November 2010
Asian Film Festival 2010: Visualizing Tibet
Song Of Tibet
Mark Frank
The Search
Hilary Brady Morris
Summer Pasture
Mark Frank
Unmistaken Child
Richard Nance
October 2010
1428
France Pepper
Shipbreakers
Dr. Ritu Saksena
September 2010
Journey of a Red Fridge
Mary Arends-Kuenning
To Tell the Truth: The Liu Binyan Story
John A. Rapp
Last Updated: July 8, 2015
