CIAO DATE: 02/04

Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Fall 2003 (Vol. 76 No. 3)

 

Articles

• China and the North Korean Crisis: Facing Test and Transition
  Ming Liu

• India and Russia: Reassuring the "Time-Tested" Ties
  B.M. Jain

• The Discourse of Unequal Treaties in Modern China
  Dong Wang

• Sustainable Forestry in Thailand: The Effect of Agenda 21 on Forest-Related Non-Governmental Organizations
  Matthew J. Mohlenkamp

Books Reviewed in this Issue

Asia General

• Pollution Control in East Asia: Lessons from Newly Industrializing Economies. By Michael T. Rock.
  Reviewed By Miranda A. Schreurs

• Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific: Corporations and Environmental Managements. By Peter Dauvergne.
  Reviewed By Greg Ringer

• Development Economics: Nature and Significance. By Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi.
  Reviewed By Hideki Esho

• Competing for Integration: Japan, Europe, Latin America, and their Strategic Partners. Edited by Kurt W. Radtke and Marianna Wiesebron.
  Reviewed By Martin A. Andresen

• The Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1972-1989. Edited by Ezra F. Vogel, Yuan Ming, and Tanake Akikhiko.
  Reviewed By Ming Wan

• Political Business in East Asia. Edited by Edmund Terence Gomez.
  Reviewed By Yves Tiberghien

• The Genesis of East Asia: 221 B.C. A.D. 907. By Charles Holcombe.
  Reviewd By Allen Haaheim

China and Inner Asia

• The Transformation of Rural China. By Jonathon Unger.
  Reviewed By David Zweig

• China's Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition. Edited by Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, and Li Shi.
  Reviewed By Chaoguang Wang

• Financial Markets and Foreign Direct Investment in Greater China. Edited by Hung-Gay Fung and Kevin H. Zhang.
  Reviewed By Vibha Kapuria-Foreman

• Russian Politics in Exile: The Northeast Asian Balance of Power, 1924-1931. By Felix Patrikeeff.
  Reviewed By Bill Sewell

• Mao: A Reinterpretation. By Lee Feigon.
  Reviewed By Barrett L. McCormick

• Notes of a Blissful Ghost. By Yang Lian. Translated by Brian Holton.
  Reviewed By Silvia Marijinissen

Northeast Asia

• Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Hapanese Presence in Asia, Europe, and America. Edited by Harumi Befu and Sylvia Guichard-Anguis.
  Reviewed By Hyung Gu Lynn

• Press Images, National Identity, and Foreign Policy: A Case Study of US-Japan Relations from 1955-1995. By Catherine A. Luther.
  Reviewed By Michael Schaller

• The New Japan: Debunking Seven Cutural Steteotypes. By David Matsumoto.
  Reviewed By Bernard Saint-Jacques

• Japan and China: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict. Edited by Hanns Günther Hilpert and René Haak.
  Reviewed By David W. Edgington

• The Challenges of the US-Japan Military Arrangement Competing Security transitions in a Changing International Environment. By Anthony DiFilippo.
  Reviewed By Yasuhiro Izumikawa

• The Hapanese Industrial Economy; Late Development and Cultural Causation. By Ian Inkster.
  Reviewed By W. Miles Fletcher III

• Case Studies in Japanese Negotiating Behavior. By Michael Blaker, Paul Giarra, and Ezra F. Vogel.
  Reviewed By Takashi Inoguchi

• Distribution in Japan. Edited by Yoshiro Miwa, Kiyohiko G. Nishimura and J. Mark Ramseyer.
  Reviewed By Keizo Nagatani

• Memoir of a Trustbuster: A Lifelong Adventure with Japan. By Eleanor M. Hadley with Patricia Hagan Kuwayama.
  Reviewed By Peter N. Davies

• Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and its Legacy. By Takemae Eiji.
  Reviewed By Yoichi Nakano

• Embarcing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry. By Janine Beichman.
  Reviewed by Jennifer Scott

• Hiratsuka: Modern Master. By Helen Merritt and Bernd Jesse.
  Reviewed by Monika Dix

• Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919. By Andre Schmid.
  Reviewed by Christine J. Kim

• Unbroken Spirits: Nineteen Years in South Korea's Gulag. BY Suh Sung, with a foreword by James B. Palais and translated by Jean Inglis.
  Reviewed by Jai P. Ryu

South Asia

• India's National Security Dilemma: The Pakistan Factor and India's Policy Response. BY Rajpal Budania.
  Reviewed By Dinshaw Mistry

• Kargil: The Tables Turned. Edit by Maj. Gen. Ashok Krishna, AVSM (Retd) and P.R. Chari.
  Reviewed By Dinshaw Mistry

• India and the United States in a Changing World. Edit by Ashok Kapur, Y.K. Malik, Harold A. Gould, and Arthur G. Rubinoff.
  Reviewed By Julian Schofield

• Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Making of the Indian Capitalist Class, 1920-1947. By Aditya Mukherjee
  Reviewed by Stanley A. Kochanek

• NGOs in India: A Cross-Sectional Study. By R. Sooryamoorthy and K.D. Gangrade.
  Reviewed by Mathew Zazhariah

• Women in Post-Independence Sri Lanka. Edited by Swarna Jayaweera.
  Reviewed by Michele Ruth Gamburd

• Imperialism and the British Labour Movement: 1914-1964. By Partha Sarathi Gupta.
  Reviewed by Edward C. Moulton

Southeast Asia

• Regionalism and Globalism in Southeast Asia. By Eero Palmujoki.
  Reviewed By Jonathon Rigg

• Law and the Chinese in Southeast Asia. Edited by M. Barry Hooker.
  Reviewed Edgar Wickberg

• Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics in Malaysia. By Michael G. Peletz.
  Reviewed by Judith Nagata

• When Elephants Fight, A Memoir: A Family's Survival in the Face of Murderous Intent. By Vannary Imam.
  Reviewed by Milton Osbourne

• A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary Vietnam, 1945-1956. By Kim N.B. Ninh.
  Reviewed by Van Nguyen-Marshall

• Thailand's New Politics: KPI Yearbook 2001. Edited by Michael H. Nelson.
  Reviewed By John Girling

• Lord of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarch's Modern Image. By Maurizio Peleggi.
  Reviewed By Fred R. Von der Mehden

• Tribes of the North Thailand Frontier. By Jane Richardson Hanks and Lucien Mason Hanks, with a foreword by Nicola Tannenbaum.
  Reviewed By Janet C. Sturgeon

• Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon. By Sandra Cate.
  Reviewed By Astri Wright

• The Chinese Vegetarian Festival in Phuket: Religion, Ethnicity, and Tourism on a Southern Thai Island. By Erik Cohen.
  Reviewed By Mark L. Wisniewski

• Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines. By John T. Sidel.
  Reviewed By Paul D. Hutchcroft

• Bitter Dawn: East Timor, A People's Story. By Irena Cristalis.
  Reviewed by Tanja Hohe

Australasia and the Pacific Region

• Changing Histories: Australia and Japan. Edited by Paul Jones and Pam Oliver.
  Reviewed By Lawrence T. Woods

• Cultur in Australia: Policies, Publics, and Programs. Edited by Tony Bennett and David Carter.
  Reviewed By Graham Maddox

• Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia, and Grief in Post-War Australia. By Joy Damousi.
  Reviewed By Deborah Montgomerie

• A Foxhole View: Personal Accounts of Hawaii's Korean War Veterans. Edited by Louis Baldovi.
  Reviewed By James I. Matray

• Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, Their Community and Stories of their Lives. By Jianli Zhao.
  Reviewed by Timy Engles