Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Fall 1999 (Vol. 72 No. 3)

 

Articles

• The "Haze" Over Southeast Asia: Challenging The Asean Mode Of Regional Engagement (Abstract) , by James Cotton

• The Politics Of Child Labour In Indonesia: Global Trends And Domestic Policy (Abstract) , by Sharon Bessell

• The Noumea Accord: Decolonization Without Independence In New Caledonia? (Abstract) , by David A. Chappell

• The Political Economy Of Environmental Regulation In India (Abstract) , by David Stuligross

 

Books Reviewed In This Issue

Asia General

• THE ASIAN CRISIS: Is There A Way Out?
  By Max Corden.
  Reviewed by Robert L. Curry, Jr.

• SOUTHEAST ASIA'S ECONOMIC CRISIS : Origins, Lessons, And The Way Forward.
  Edited By H.W. Arndt And Hal Hill.
  Reviewed by Robert L. Curry, Jr.

• THE ASIAN CRISIS TURNS GLOBAL.
  By Manuel F. Montes And Vladimir V. Popov.
  Reviewed by Robert L. Curry, Jr.

• MARKET CULTURES : Society And Morality In The New Asian Capitalisms.
  Edited By Robert W. Hefner.
  Reviewed by Danny Unger

• GLOBALISATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOUR LAW IN PACIFIC ASIA .
  By Anthony Woodiwiss.
  Reviewed by Mark Cammack

• MAKING MAJORITIES : Constituting The Nation In Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, And The United States.
  Edited By Dru C. Gladney.
  Reviewed by Don Baker

China and Inner Asia

• INDUSTRIAL CHANGE IN CHINA : Economic Restructuring And Conflicting Interests.
  By Kate Hannan.
  Reviewed by Dali L. Yang

• NEW PERSPECTIVES ON STATE SOCIALISM IN CHINA .
  Edited By Timothy Cheek And Tony Saich.
  Reviewed by David Bachman

• THEATRE AND SOCIETY : An Anthology Of Contemporary Chinese Drama.
  Edited By Haiping Yan.
  Reviewed by Rosemary Haddon

• MARXIST INTELLECTUALS AND THE CHINESE LABOR MOVEMENT : A Study Of Deng Zhongxia 1894-1933.
  By Daniel Y.K. Kwan.
  Reviewed by Ming K. Chan

• BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CHINESE WOMEN : The Qing Period, 1644-1911.
  Edited By Lily Xiao Hong Lee, A. D. Stefanowska And Clara Wing-chung Ho (The Qing Period Editor).
  Reviewed by Norman Smith

• PRECIOUS RECORDS : Women In China's Long Eighteenth Century.
  By Susan Mann.
  Reviewed by Harriet T. Zurndorfer

• THE POETICS OF DECADENCE : Chinese Poetry Of The Southern Dynasties And Late Tang Periods.
  By Fusheng Wu.
  Reviewed by J. D. Schmidt

• RED FLAG OVER HONG KONG .
  By Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, David Newman And Alvin Rabushka.
  Reviewed by Jean-Marc F. Blanchard

Northeast Asia

• JAPAN: THE SYSTEM THAT SOURED : The Rise And Fall Of The Japanese Economic Miracle.
  By Richard Katz.
  Reviewed by Mark Beeson

• BARGAINING WITH JAPAN : What American Pressure Can And Cannot Do.
  By Leonard J. Schoppa.
  Reviewed by Javed Maswood

• UNDER THE SHADOW OF NATIONALISM : Politics And Poetics Of Rural Japanese Women.
  By Mariko Asano Tamanoi.
  Reviewed by E. Patricia Tsurumi

• ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN JAPAN : Networks Of Power And Protest.
  By Jeffrey Broadbent.
  Reviewed by David W. Edgington

• JAPANESE MORAL EDUCATION : Past And Present.
  By Yoshimitsu Khan.
  Reviewed by Edward R.Beauchamp

• JAPANESE LANDSCAPES : Where Land & Culture Merge.
  By Cotton Mather, P. P. Karan And Shigeru Iijima.
  Reviewed by Roman Cybriwsky

• SILK AND INSIGHT: A NOVEL .
  Edited By Frank Gibney. Translated By Hiroaki Sato.
  Reviewed by Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel

• NARRATIVE AS COUNTER-MEMORY : A Half-Century Of Postwar Writing In Germany And Japan.
  By Reiko Tachibana.
  Reviewed by Gregory Polakoff

• THE JAPANESE DISCOVERY OF VICTORIAN BRITAIN : Early Travel Encounters In The Far West.
  By Andrew Cobbing.
  Reviewed by Bill Sewell

• MERCANTILISM IN A JAPANESE DOMAIN : The Merchant Origins Of Economic Nationalism In 18th-Century Tosa.
  By Luke S. Roberts.
  Reviewed by Sydney Crawcour

• THE PATH OF FLOWERING THORN : The Life And Poetry Of Yosa Buson.
  By Makoto Ueda.
  Reviewed by Jennifer M. Scott

• TREACHEROUS WOMEN OF IMPERIAL JAPAN : Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies.
  By Helene Bowen Raddeker.
  Reviewed by Barbara Hartley

• THE CHRYSANTHEMUM THRONE : A History Of The Emperors Of Japan.
  By Peter Martin.
  Reviewed by John S. Brownlee

• NORTH KOREA AFTER KIM IL SUNG .
  Edited By Dae-Sook Suh And Chae-Jin Lee.
  Reviewed by Young Whan Kihl

• KOREA'S GROWTH AND INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION .
  By Haeran Lim.
  Reviewed by Ingyu Oh

• RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN CONTEMPORARY KOREA .
  Edited By Lewis R. Lancaster And Richard K. Payne.
  Reviewed by Chai-sik Chung

South Asia

• INDIA'S DEFENCE AND SECURITY : Intra-regional Dimension.
  By B. M. Jain.
  Reviewed by A. Z. Hilali

• LEGACY OF A DIVIDED NATION : India's Muslims Since Independence.
  By Mushirul Hasan.
  Reviewed by Theodore P. Wright, Jr.

• DEVELOPMENT, ETHNICITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOUTH ASIA .
  By Ross Mallick.
  Reviewed by Barbara R. Joshi

• INDIA PAKISTAN : The History Of Unsolved Conflicts. Volume I: The Historical Part.
  By Lars Blinkenberg.
  Reviewed by Robert G. Wirsing

• INDIA PAKISTAN : The History Of Unsolved Conflicts. Volume II: An Analysis Of Some Structural Factors.
  By Lars Blinkenberg.
  Reviewed by Robert G. Wirsing

• THE FOUNDING OF PAKISTAN : An Annotated Bibliography.
  By Roger D. Long.
  Reviewed by Nicholas E. Omelusik

• PAKISTAN: 1997 .
  Edited By Craig Baxter And Charles Kennedy.
  Reviewed by Lawrence Ziring

• KERALA'S DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION : Determinants And Consequences.
  Edited By K. C. Zachariah And S. Irudaya Rajan.
  Reviewed by John C. Caldwell

Southeast Asia

• ASEAN AND EU : Forging New Linkages And Strategic Alliances.
  Edited By Chia Siow Yue And Joseph L.H. Tan.
  Reviewed by Christopher Dent

• PROFIT AND POVERTY IN RURAL VIETNAM : Winners And Losers Of A Dismantled Revolution.
  By Rita Liljestrom, Eva Lindskog, Nguyen Van Ang And Vuong Xuan Tinh.
  Reviewed by Ben Kerkvliet

• INCOME INEQUALITY AND POVERTY IN MALAYSIA .
  By Shireen Mardziah Hashim.
  Reviewed by Donald R. Snodgrass

• IN SERVICE AND SERVITUDE : Foreign Female Domestic Workers And The Malaysian "Modernity" Project.
  By Christine B. N. Chin.
  Reviewed by Judith Nagata

• A MOMENT OF ANGUISH : Singapore In Malaysia And The Politics Of Disengagement.
  By Albert Lau.
  Reviewed by Gordon P. Means

• LOOTED : The Philippines After The Bases.
  By Donald Kirk.
  Reviewed by Benjamin N. Muego

• WOMEN, POWER AND KINSHIP POLITICS : Female Power In Post-War Philippines.
  By Mina Roces.
  Reviewed by Proserpina Domingo-Tapales

• MUSLIM RULERS AND REBELS : Everyday Politics And Armed Separatism In The Southern Philippines.
  By Thomas M. McKenna.
  Reviewed by Lela Garner Noble

• PAPER LANDSCAPES : Explorations In The Environmental History Of Indonesia.
  Edited By Peter Boomgaard, Freek Colombijn And David Henley.
  Reviewed by Greg Bankoff Australasia and the South Pacific

• TO CONSTITUTE A NATION : A Cultural History Of Australia's Constitution.
  By Helen Irving.
  Reviewed by Don Aitkin

• CHIEFS TODAY : Traditional Pacific Leadership And The Postcolonial State.
  Edited By Geoffrey M. White And Lamont Lindstrom.
  Reviewed by Edward LiPuma

• MY GUN, MY BROTHER : The World Of The Papua New Guinea Colonial Police, 1920-1960.
  By August Ibrum Kituai.
  Reviewed by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi

• AN ETHNOLOGY OF THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDERS : The Alfred Buhler Collection, Museum Der Kulturen, Basel.
  By Sylvia Ohnemus.
  Reviewed by Michael O'Hanlon

• "GONE NATIVE" IN POLYNESIA : Captivity Narratives And Experiences From The South Pacific.
  By I. C. Campbell.
  Reviewed by Helen Morton

Pacific North America

• TALK AND LOG : Wilderness Politics In British Columbia.
  By Jeremy Wilson.
  Reviewed by Gordon Brent Ingram