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Rising out of the Yellow Sea

Timothy Webster (Whittier): Insular Minorities: International Law's Challenge to Japan's Ethnic Homogeneity. Minglian Han (Jinan): The Appeal of Marshall McLuhan in Contemporary China. From the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, a special issue on the state and religion in China. From The Atlantic, Alan Taylor goes inside North Korea; and just after Tunisia and Egypt erupted, China quelled its own "Jasmine" protests; is the Chinese public less satisfied — and more combustible — than it appears? (and more) Will crisis help Japan get out of its longstanding slump? The Long Goodbye: Robert D. Kaplan and Abraham M. Denmark on the future North Korea. Zen, Japan and the art of democracy: Foreign observers have long been baffled by Japan’s self-discipline in the face of multiple disasters, from earthquakes and tsunamis to the financial crash — yet this fatalism has its dangers. From Boston Review, despite recent crackdowns on dissidents, revolutionary political changes are afoot in China: A forum. A review of Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea by Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland. China's Manhattan knock-off: On a peninsula southeast of Beijing, developer Vincent Lee wants to copy New York City — literally. C.D. Alexander Evans on the future of the Japanese labor movement. Rising out of the Yellow Sea like a modern day Atlantis, Songdo International Business District (IBD) is not just South Korea’s urban utopia, it is the country’s bridge to the world, and to the future. Chollywood: Mitch Moxley goes behind the scenes of China’s booming film industry. The terrorist threat we're ignoring: How the high-tech software we import from China is setting us up for potential cyberattacks. Asia’s threesome turns four.