The Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS) first published AEMS News and Reviews in 1998.  For most of its lifespan, AEMS News and Reviews was published three times a year as an eight-page, full-color newsletter with film reviews and essays on teaching and learning about Asia.  Each newsletter was distributed to 4,000 individuals and organizations. 

 

Winter 2015 (Memory of Forgotten War | He defied the Tide of Time | Planet of Snail)

Fall 2015 (Agrarian Utopia | Bitter Seeds | Cotton Road)

Summer 2015 (Golden Gate Girls | Mrs. Judo | Spilled Water)

Spring 2015 (Don't Think I've Forgotten | Jeepney | The Play)

 Winter 2014 (To the Light | Down: Indie Rock in the PRC)

Fall Fall 2014 (Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard  | Afghan Chronicles  | Buddhism after the Tsunami)

Summer 2014 (Hafu | The Mosuo Sisters | Somewhere Between)

Spring 2014 (In the Grey Zone | A2-B-C | Live Your Dream: The Taylor Anderson Story | Light Up Nippon | The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom | Pray for Japan | Nuclear Nation)

Winter 2013 (Families of the Philippines | Bon: Mustang to Menri | Woman Rebel | Diary of an Ethnologist in China)

Summer / Fall 2013 (The Revolutionary | ManDove | Embrace | Old Dog | This Is A Music! Reclaiming An Untouchable Dream | Honor and Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story

Spring / Summer 2013 (Who Killed Chea Vichea? | Family Victim: The "Bad Coconut" of a Javanese Family | Mumbai: Traffic | Warriors of Qiugang)

Winter 2012 (Bored in Heaven | Lessons of the Loess Plateau | Shielding the Mountains | Can't Go Native?)

Fall 2012 (Dancing with the Goddess: Ras-Garba Traditions of Gujarat | The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands | Follow Your Heart: China's New Youth Movement)

Summer 2012 (Making Mao | Die for Japan | A Grandpa from Brazil)

Spring 2012 (Light Up Nippon | China’s Business in Africa | Fruit of Our Labor | Beijing Besieged By Waste)

Fall 2011 (Though I Am Gone | Children of Hangzhou | The Water Cries)

Summer 2011 (The Fall of Womenland | Shugendō Now)

April 2011 (Laos: So You Think the War Is Over | The Sweetest Embrace: Return to Afghanistan)

March 2011 (Dishonored | China: The Empire of Art? | From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Cantonese Contemporary Art in the 1980s)

February 2011 (Last Train Home | Mongolia: Thirty Years Later)

December 2010 (Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country | Japanland)

November 2010 (Unmistaken Child | Summer Pasture | The Search | Song of Tibet)

October 2010 (1428 | Shipbreakers)

September 2010 (Journey of a Red Fridge | To Tell the Truth: The Liu Binyan Story)

Winter 2009 (Wings of Defeat | Josee, the Tiger and the Fish | The Taste of Tea | Train Man)

Fall 2009 (Vanaja | Larry Reed DVDs | The Great Happiness Space | Up the Yangtze)

Summer 2009 (Making Peace with Vietnam | Two Million Minutes | Seoul Train | Children of the Secret State | Sumo East and West)

Winter 2008 (China Blue | Punam | Good For Her | Vagina Monologues: Stories from China | Campaign)

Fall 2008 (The Flute Player | Monkey Dance | Kabul Transit | The Blood of Yingzhou District | Wuhan Classroom)

Spring 2008 (Golden Venture | Arirang | All Points of the Compass | The Last Ghost of War)

Winter 2007 (Amongst White Clouds | B.A.T.A.M. | The Men Who Would Conquer China | Preaching from Pictures: A Japanese Mandala)

Fall 2007 (Kokoyakyu | Children in China series | Going to School in India | Buffalo Boy | Resources for Bunraku)

Summer 2007 (The Unforgiven | Please Teach Me English | Empress Chung)

Winter 2006 (A Dream in Hanoi | The Year of the Yao | Rice Rhapsody | The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks | Tsunami: The Wave that Shook the World | Tsunami: Wave of Destruction)

Fall 2006 (Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War | Deacon of Death: Looking for Justice in Today’s Cambodia | For a Place Under the Heavens | Silent Waters (Khamosh Pani)

Spring 2006 (Mardi Gras: Made in China | Thirty Years of Sisterhood | Bride & Prejudice | I Have Found It (Kandukondain Kandukondain) | Spirits of the State | Don’t Fence Me In)

Fall 2005 (Pandemic: Facing AIDS | Global Villages: The Globalization of Ethnic Display | Nuclear Nightmare: Understanding North Korea | City Life: The Long March)

Spring 2005 (The Worlds of Mei Lanfang | From Opium to Chrysanthemums | Drug Story | Lost Treasures of Tibet | Nostalgia for the Countryside | Dream Trackers: Yapa Art and Knowledge of the Australian Desert)

Winter 2004 (Transports of Delight: The Ricksha Arts of Bangladesh | Musume Dojoji | Indonesia: The New Order and Beyond | Randai: Folk Theater, Dance and Martial Arts of Sumatra | Ritual Traditions of Eastern Indonesia | Music of Bunraku and Shinto Festival Music | JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance: South Asia | Mercy [Med-dah])

Fall 2004 (Morning Sun | Robert Fortune: A Tea Thief | Children of the Seven-Headed Snake: The Sacred Waters of Cambodia | The Wild East: Portrait of an Urban Nomad | At Home with Master Musicians of Madras: Volume 1, T.N. Krishnan)

Spring/Summer 2004 (From Africa to India: Sidi Music in the Indian Ocean Diaspora | Night Girl | Wedding Through Camera Eyes: A Trilogy of Wedding Photography in Korea | Follow Jade! | Friends in High Places)

Winter 2003 (War and Peace | Chain of Love | Gao Rang (Grilled Rice) | Vietnam: The Last Battle | Kurosawa | Cultural Adventures with Jan Reynolds | The Crossing)

Fall 2003 (Women in Japan | Transports of Delight: The Ricksha Arts of Bangladesh | Mai’s America | Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community | India News Stories)

Winter 2002 (Japanese and Korean Pottery | Doing Time, Doing Vipassana | Sadako’s Legacy | Swing in Beijing | I Love You—Hope for the Year 2000 | Kamala and Raji)

Fall 2002 (Hana-Bi | Kikujiro | HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien | King of Masks | Chunhyang | Shower | The Cup | Lagaan | The Circle)

Spring/Summer 2002 (Jazz in Japan | Being Hmong Means Being Free | The Turandot Project | Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution | No Silence in this Court | StarFestival | The Fourth Dimension)

Winter 2001 (Circles and Cycles: Kathak Dance | Passing Through | Mao’s New Suit | In Search of China | Okinawa Omnibus | India: Environment and Industry | The Tradition of Performing Arts in Japan | Botchan)

Fall 2001 (Islam: Mosque, The Faith of Islam, My Journey, My Islam | Judaism in India: Salaam Shalom: The Jews of India | Japanese Zen Buddhism: One Precept, The Principles and Practice of Zen | Shinto: Nature, Gods, and Man in Japan, Religions of the World: Shinto | Hinduism & Buddhism: The Wisdom of Faith with Huston Smith | Chinese Religion: Taoism: A Question of Balance, Believing | Sikhism on the Internet)

Summer 2001 (Through the Consul’s Eye | Life in Pakistan Today | Not One Less | Yangtze: New China and the Old River | Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness | Contemporary Chinese Societies)

Spring 2001 (Treasure the Treasures Series | The Heroin Wars Trilogy | Smuggling | Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China | Gaea Girls | Maharajah Burger | Fishing in the Sea of Greed)

Fall 2000 (Makiko and That Triangle | Story of Noriko | The Modern Moso: The Ladies of the Lake: A Matriarchal Society | Visitors of the Night | Community | Made in Thailand | Dadi’s Family | Rising Above: Women of Vietnam | Women in China | Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women | Habitual Sadness: Korean Comfort Women Today)

Summer 2000 (Gagaku | Three Seasons | Old Japan, New Media: Memories of Japan 1859–1875, Japanese Photography in Dutch Collections and Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period | Sight Unseen | Ajit | China: Beyond the Clouds | China Yellow, China Blue)

Fall 1999 (Eternal Seed | The Women Outside and Camp Arirang | Sprouts of Capitalism in China | Japan 2000 | Bangkok: Rim Nam, Rim Khlong | Trav’s Travels China | Ancestors in the Americas, Parts I and II | Spirits Rising | Homes Apart | Religion in Indonesia: The Way of the Ancestors)

Spring 1999 (Heart of the Country | Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village | Eyes of the Storm: The Return of Hong Kong to China | The Story of Puttinan | Cambodia: Land of Beauty but Uncertainty | We Are Not Your Monkeys | Occupation: Millworker | Electric Shadows | When Cultures Collide: China and the U.S. in the 21st Century | Japan: The Tarnished Miracle | The Effect of TV on Culture in India | Pyongyang Diaries)

Fall 1998 (Hello! From Around the World!: Bali | Japanese: The Spoken Language | Fish is Our Life! | The Confucian Tradition | China: The PBS Series | On Common Ground: World Religions in America | Between Two Worlds: A Japanese Pilgrimage | Inside Burma: Land of Fear)

Spring 1998 (The Spirit of Hiroshima | Silk and Steel: New Roles for Indonesian Women | China News Stories | Occupied Japan: An Experiment in Democracy| The Gate of Heavenly Peace | Hello Photo | Puja: Hindu Expressions of Devotion | Ōsaka Story | Pins and Noodles)