FROM THE EDITORS
Vol. III: Call for Submissions
We are pleased to announce our call for submissions to Volume III of the Emory Journal of Asian Studies. Submissions will be...
Letter from the Editors
It is our pleasure to introduce the inaugural issue of the Emory Journal
of Asian Studies, a new multidisciplinary academic journal published
by undergraduates attending Emory University.
FEATURED
Heavenly Horses of Bactria: The Creation of the Silk Road
Tao argues that the Silk Road stemmed primarily from the combined result of a Han Chinese military gambit to obtain Central Asian horses, and a Bactrian strategy to align commercial interests with political expediency during a period of dynastic decline. Evidence of those motivations can be sourced to both ancient literary texts and sculptural, osteological, and genetic research on Chinese
horses.
Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Refugee Mothers: Vietnamese Women of Little Saigon
Nguyen analyzes motherhood and labor practices in a well-known Vietnamese enclave forged from a series of distinct migration waves beginning in the 1970s. Within Little Saigon, thousands of Vietnamese women made great sacrifices, forgoing their personal education, career, and time to raise their children and to uphold centuries-old Vietnamese ideals of motherhood.
The Cultural Legacy of Metabolism: From Local to Global
From 1960 to the early 1970s, the five core Metabolists—Kiyonori Kikutake, Noboru Kawazoe, Fumihiko Maki, Masato Ohtaka, and Kisho Kurokawa – theorized a new urban order that analogized a city with living organisms. Nakamachi theorizes that Metabolism’s legacy is not demonstrated in the movement’s initial fixation with the Japanese context, but rather in the theories’ adaptability to the rapidly changing global environment.
