Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Fall 2000 (Vol. 73 No. 3)

 

Articles

• Mahathir And The Markets: Globalisation And The Pursuit Of Economic Autonomy In Malaysia (Abstract) , by Mark Beeson

• Taiwan In Japan's Relations With China And The United States After The Cold War (Abstract) , by Qingxin Ken Wang

• India's Aborted Liberalization — 1966 (Abstract) , by Rahul Mukherji

• Ethnic Tourism In Hokkaido And The Shaping Of Ainu Identity (Abstract) , by Lisa Hiwasaki

 

Books Reviewed In This Issue

Asia General

• THE ARMED FORCES OF THE USA IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION.
  By Stanley B. Weeks And Charles A. Meconis.
  Reviewed by Robin Ramcharan

• THE RISE OF ASIA: Economics, Society And Politics In Contemporary Asia.
  By Frank B. Tipton.
  Reviewed by Bill Sewell

• POLICY AND HEALTH: Implications For Development In Asia.
  By John W. Peabody, Et Al.
  Reviewed by Simon Barraclough

• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COOPERATION IN THE PACIFIC BASIN: Trade, Investment, & Environmental Issues.
  Edited By Hiro Lee And David W. Roland-Holst.
  Reviewed by Stephen Levine

• THE EAST ASIAN WELFARE MODEL: Welfare Orientalism And The State.
  Edited By Roger Goodman, Gordon White And Huck-ju Kwon.
  Reviewed by Linda Wong

• JAPAN AND SINGAPORE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY: Japan's Economic Advance Into Singapore 1870?1965.
  By Hiroshi Shimizu And Hitoshi Hirakawa.
  Reviewed by Bernard Saint-Jacques

China and Inner Asia

• IN THE RED : On Contemporary Chinese Culture.
  By Geremie R. Barmé.
  Reviewed by Charles W. Hayford

• TRANSITION FROM COMMUNISM IN CHINA : Institutional And Comparative Analyses.
  Edited By Edwin A. Winckler.
  Reviewed by Dorothy J. Solinger

• GUIDE TO WOMEN'S STUDIES IN CHINA.
  Compiled And Edited By Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, Susan Mann, And Lisa Rofel.
  Reviewed by Carol C. Fan

• WOMEN IN REPUBLICAN CHINA: A Sourcebook.
  Edited By Hua R. Lan And Vanessa L. Fong.
  Reviewed by Carol C. Fan

• PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC REFORM IN CHINA.
  Edited By Jean C. Oi And Andrew G. Walder.
  Reviewed by Paul Bowles

• STRIKE HARD: Anti-Crime Campaigns And Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979-1985.
  By Harold M. Tanner.
  Reviewed by Michael W. Dowdle

• THE CULTURE OF POWER: The Lin Biao Incident In The Cultural Revolution.
  By Jin Qiu.
  Reviewed by Keith Forster

• BEYOND THE NEON LIGHTS: Everyday Shanghai In The Early Twentieth Century.
  By Hanchao Lu.
  Reviewed by Wang Gungwu

• THE PHILOSOPHY OF WU CH'ENG: A Neo-COnfucian Of The Yuan Dynasty.
  By David Gedalecia.
  Reviewed by Daniel L. Overmyer

• POLITICS IN TAIWAN: Voting For Democracy.
  By Shelley Rigger.
  Reviewed by Cal Clark

• COOPERATION OR CONFLICT IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT.
  By Ralph N. Clough.
  Reviewed by André Laliberté

• ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE CHINESE OVERSEAS.
  Edited By Lynn Pan.
  Reviewed by Yen Ching-hwang

Northeast Asia

• GREEN POLITICS IN JAPAN.
  By Peng-Er Lam.
  Reviewed by David W. Edgington

• MANAGING DECLINE: Japan's Coal Industry Restructuring And Community Response.
  By Suzanne Culter.
  Reviewed by Philip Shapira

• EMBRACING DEFEAT: Japan In The Wake Of World War II.
  By John W. Dower.
  Reviewed by John Price

• TRANS-PACIFIC RACISMS: And The U.S. Occupation Of Japan.
  By Yukiko Koshiro.
  Reviewed by E. Patricia Tsurumi

• HIROSHIMA TRACES: Time, Space, And The Dialectics Of Memory.
  By Lisa Yoneyama.
  Reviewed by Millie Creighton

• THE NANJING MASSACRE: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame.
  By Honda Katsuichi.
  Reviewed by Millie Creighton

• BICYCLE CITIZENS: The Political World Of The Japanese Housewife.
  By Robin M. LeBlanc.
  Reviewed by Richard C. Kagan

• GENDER IS FAIR GAME: (Re)Thinking The (Fe)Male In The Works Of Ôba Minako.
  By Michiko Niikuni Wilson.
  Reviewed by Joan E. Ericson

• DANGEROUS WOMEN, DEADLY WORDS: Phallic Fantasy And Modernity In Three Japanese Writers.
  By Nina Cornyetz.
  Reviewed by Margherita Long

• A SHEEP'S SONG: A Writer's Reminiscences Of Japan And The World.
  By Kato Shuichi Chia-ning Chang.
  Reviewed by Takao Hagiwara

• JAPAN'S COMPETING MODERNITIES: Issues In Culture And Democracy 1900?1930.
  Edited By Sharon A. Minichiello.
  Reviewed by Hiroshi Aoyagi

• LAND AND LORDSHIP: In Early Modern Japan.
  By Mark Ravina.
  Reviewed by David Moreton

• OSAKA: The Merchants' Capital Of Early Modern Japan.
  Edited By James L. McClain And Wakita Osamu.
  Reviewed by Carl Mosk

• KAEMPFER'S JAPAN: Tokugawa Culture Observed.
  By Engelbert Kaempfer.
  Reviewed by David Moreton

• TRACES OF DREAMS: Landscape, Cultural Memory, And The Poetry Of Bashô.
  By Haruo Shirane.
  Reviewed by Sonja Arntzen

• KOREA: The Search For Sovereignty.
  By Geoff Simons.
  Reviewed by Ingyu Oh

South Asia

• INDIA'S NUCLEAR BOMB: The Impact On Global Proliferation.
  Collected And Translated By George Perkovich.
  Reviewed by Robert Anderson

• THE WORLD OF MUSLIM WOMEN IN COLONIAL BENGAL, 1876?1939: (Social, Economic And Political Studies Of The Middle East And Asia, Volume 55).
  By Sonia Nishat Amin.
  Reviewed by Barbara D. Metcalf

• ANTHROPOLOGICAL JOURNEYS: Reflections On Fieldwork.
  Edited By Meenakshi Thapan.
  Reviewed by Shubhra Gururani

Southeast Asia

• WHY VIETNAM INVADED CAMBODIA: Political Culture And The Causes Of War.
  By Stephen J. Morris.
  Reviewed by Ross Marlay

• THE LIMITS OF EMPIRE: The United States And Southeast Asia Since World War II.
  By Robert J. McMahon.
  Reviewed by Belinda A. Aquino

• THAILAND AND THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN NETWORKS OF THE VIETNAMESE REVOLUTION, 1885?1954.
  By Christopher E. Goscha.
  Reviewed by William J. Duiker

• SHIFTING LANGUAGES: Interaction And Identity In Javanese Indonesia.
  By J. Joseph Errington.
  Reviewed by Gregory Forth

Australasia and the South Pacific

• AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS: Looking Toward The Next Century.
  Edited By William T. Tow.
  Reviewed by Roger Dingman

• STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Experiences From The Pacific.
  Edited By John Overton And Regina Scheyvans.
  Reviewed by Penelope Schoeffel

• RADIO HAPPY ISLES: Media And Politics At Play In The Pacific.
  By Robert Seward.
  Reviewed by Michael Goldsmith

• INSIDE OUT: Literature, Cultural Politics, And Identity In The New Pacific.
  Edited By Vilsoni Hereniko And Rob Wilson.
  Reviewed by David Welchman Gegeo

• CRITICAL ESSAYS: Cultural Perspectives From The South Seas.
  By I. F. Helu.
  Reviewed by Giovanni Bennardo

• BAD COLONISTS: The South Seas Letters Of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke.
  By Nicholas Thomas And Richard Eves.
  Reviewed by Eric Venbrux

• BIG WOK: Storian Blong Wol Wo Tu Long Vanuatu.
  Edited By Lamont Lindstrom And James Gwero.
  Reviewed by Nicholas Thieberger

• VOYAGES AND BEACHES: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840.
  Edited By Alex Calder.
  Reviewed by Miriam Kahn

• FROM A NATIVE DAUGHTER: Colonialism And Sovereignty In Hawaii.
  Revised Edition. By Haunani-Kay Trask.
  Reviewed by Felicia Beardsley

• KHMER AMERICAN: Identity And Moral Education In A Diasporic Community.
  By Nancy J. Smith-Hefner.
  Reviewed by Carol A. Mortland