Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Spring 2000 (Vol. 73 No. 1)

 

Articles

• Guangdong's Challenges: Organizational Streamlining, Economic Restructuring And Anticorruption (Abstract) , by Joseph Y. S. Cheng

• Peace And Conflict In The Southern Philippines: Why The 1996 Peace Agreement Is Fragile (Abstract) , by Jacques Bertrand

• Control Democracy, Institutional Decay, And The Quest For Eelam: Explaining Ethnic Conflict In Sri Lanka (Abstract) , by Neil Devotta

• U. S. Aid To Nepal In The Cold War Period: Lessons For The Future (Abstract) , by Narayan Khadka

 

Books Reviewed In This Issue

Asia General

• CHINA'S NATIONAL INCOME, 1952-1995.
  Edited By Hsueh Tien-tung And Li Qiang.
  Reviewed by Samuel P. S. Ho

• CHINESE WORKERS: A NEW HISTORY.
  By Jackie Sheehan.
  Reviewed by Greg O'Leary

• THE JEWS OF CHINA: VOLUME ONE: HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES.
  Edited And With An Introduction By Jonathan Goldstein.
  Reviewed by Margo S. Gewurtz

• CHINA'S ROAD TO DISASTER: MAO, CENTRAL POLITICIANS, AND PROVINCIAL LEADERS IN THE UNFOLDING OF THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD, 1955-1959.
  By Frederick C. Teiwes And Warren Sun.
  Reviewed by David Bachman

• OTHER MODERNITIES: GENDERED YEARNINGS IN CHINA AFTER SOCIALISM.
  By Lisa Rofel.
  Reviewed by Ngai Pun

• WRITING WOMEN IN MODERN CHINA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN'S LITERATURE FROM THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
  Edited By Amy D. Dooling And Kristina M. Torgeson.
  Reviewed by Richard King

• IDEOLOGY, POWER, TEXT: SELF-REPRESENTATION AND THE PEASANT "OTHER" IN MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE.
  By Yi-tse Mei Feuerwerker.
  Reviewed by James A. Flath

• ART AND POLITICS IN CHINA 1949-1984.
  By Maria Galikowski.
  Reviewed by Colin Mackerras

Northeast Asia

• JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY: THE EMERGING LOGIC OF MULTILATERALISM.
  By Akiko Fukushima.
  Reviewed by Davis B. Bobrow

• CULTURES OF ANTIMILITARISM: NATIONAL SECURITY IN GERMANY AND JAPAN.
  By Thomas U. Berger.
  Reviewed by Hanns W. Maull

• JAPANESE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: RESTRUCTURING FOR LOW GROWTH AND GLOBALIZATION.
  Edited By Hasegawa Harukiyo And Glenn D. Hook.
  Reviewed by Malcolm Smith

• THE JAPANESE FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET.
  By Beate Reszat.
  Reviewed by Malcolm Smith

• DECIDING THE PUBLIC GOOD: GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN JAPAN.
  Edited By Yamamoto Tadashi.
  Reviewed by David W. Edgington

• THE CROSS IN THE DARK VALLEY: THE CANADIAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE JAPANESE EMPIRE, 1931-1945.
  By A. Hamish Ion.
  Reviewed by Cyril Powles

• THE KAKURE KIRISHITAN OF JAPAN: A STUDY OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT, BELIEFS AND RITUALS TO THE PRESENT DAY.
  By Stephen Turnbull.
  Reviewed by Neil McMullin

• FRENCH POLICY: TOWARDS THE BAKUFU AND MEIJI JAPAN 185495.
  By Richard Sims.
  Reviewed by Harold Bolitho

• TAKARAZUKA: SEXUAL POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE IN MODERN JAPAN.
  By Jennifer Robertson.
  Reviewed by Hiroshi Aoyagi

• HAN UNBOUND: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOUTH KOREA.
  By John Lie.
  Reviewed by Eun Mee Kim

South Asia

• INDIA IN WORLD AFFAIRS: TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY.
  Edited By Usha Thakkar And Mangesh Kulkarni.
  Reviewed by Dinshaw Mistry

• NO AGING IN INDIA: ALZHEIMER'S, THE BAD FAMILY, AND OTHER MODERN THINGS.
  By Lawrence Cohen.
  Reviewed by Barbara D. Miller

• EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD DROUGHT: STORIES FROM INDIA'S POOREST DISTRICTS.
  By P. Sainath.
  Reviewed by Harry Blair

• UNTOUCHABLE PASTS: RELIGION, IDENTITY, AND POWER AMONG A CENTRAL INDIAN COMMUNITY, 1780-1950.
  By Saurabh Dube.
  Reviewed by Owen M. Lynch

• RIOTS AND VICTIMS: VIOLENCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNAL IDENTITY AMONG BENGALI MUSLIMS, 1905-1947.
  By Patricia A. Gossman.
  Reviewed by Archana Daya Shankar

• AFGHANISTAN: MULLAH, MARX, AND MUJAHID.
  By Ralph H. Magnus And Eden Naby.
  Reviewed by William Maley

Southeast Asia

• WEAK AND STRONG STATES IN ASIA-PACIFIC SOCIETIES.
  Edited By Peter Dauvergne.
  Reviewed by R. S. Milne

• DANCE OF LIFE: POPULAR MUSIC AND POLITICS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.
  By Craig A. Lockard.
  Reviewed by John A. Lent

• WITHOUT HONOUR: DEFEAT IN VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA.
  By Arnold R. Isaacs.
  Reviewed by Mark W. McLeod

• LES MISSIONNAIRES FRANCAIS AU TONKIN ET AU SIAM, XVIIE-XVIIIE SIECLES. VOLUME 1.
  By Alain Forest.
  Reviewed by Alexander Woodside

• LES MISSIONNAIRES FRANCAIS AU TONKIN ET AU SIAM, XVIIE-XVIIIE SIECLES. VOLUME 2.
  By Alain Forest.
  Reviewed by Alexander Woodside

• LES MISSIONNAIRES FRANCAIS AU TONKIN ET AU SIAM, XVIIE-XVIIIE SIECLES. VOLUME 3.
  By Alain Forest.
  Reviewed by Alexander Woodside

• DEFORESTATION IN VIETNAM.
  By Rodolphe De Koninck.
  Reviewed by Gordon Brent Ingram

• THE RIDDLE OF MALAYSIAN CAPITALISM: RENT-SEEKERS OR REAL CAPITALISTS?.
  By Peter Searle.
  Reviewed by Edmund Terence Gomez

• POPULATION AND HISTORY: THE DEMOGRAPHIC ORIGINS OF THE MODERN PHILIPPINES.
  Edited By Daniel F. Doeppers And Peter Xenos.
  Reviewed by John A. Larkin

• RISING SUN OVER BORNEO: THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF SARAWAK, 1941-1945.
  By Ooi Keat Gin.
  Reviewed by Bill Sewell

• KAYAN RELIGION: RITUAL LIFE AND RELIGIOUS REFORM IN CENTRAL BORNEO.
  By Jérôme Rousseau.
  Reviewed by David Hicks

Australasia and the South Pacific

• CUSTOMARY MARINE TENURE IN AUSTRALIA.
  Edited By Nicholas Peterson And Bruce Rigsby.
  Reviewed by Hartmut Holzknecht

• JAPAN'S AID DIPLOMACY AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.
  By Sandra Tarte.
  Reviewed by Alan Rix

• CITIZENSHIP AND INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS: CHANGING CONCEPTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES.
  Edited By Nicolas Peterson And Will Sanders.
  Reviewed by Sue Sifa

• HISTORICAL VINES: ENGA NETWORKS OF EXCHANGE, RITUAL, AND WARFARE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
  By Polly Wiessner And Akii Tumu. Translated By Nitze Pupu.
  Reviewed by Mary N. MacDonald

• TIMES ENMESHED: GENDER, SPACE, AND HISTORY.
  By Gabriele Sturzenhofecker.
  Reviewed by Sandra Bamford

• ANOTHER WAY: THE POLITICS OF CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN POST-COUP FIJI.
  By Brij V. Lal.
  Reviewed by Michael R. Ogden

• AN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN MELANESIA: A. B. LEWIS AND THE JOSEPH N. FIELD SOUTH PACIC EXPEDITION 1909-1913, VOLUME I: FIELD DIARIES.
  Edited And Annotated By Robert L. Welsch.
  Reviewed by Carol E. Mayer

• AN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN MELANESIA: A. B. LEWIS AND THE JOSEPH N. FIELD SOUTH PACIC EXPEDITION 1909-1913, VOLUME II: APPENDIXES.
  Edited And Annotated By Robert L. Welsch.
  Reviewed by Carol E. Mayer

• IMPERIAL BENEVOLENCE: MAKING BRITISH AUTHORITY IN THE PACIC ISLANDS.
  By Jane Samson.
  Reviewed by Bronwen Douglas