CIAO DATE: 07/03

Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Spring 2003 (Vol. 76 No. 1)

 

Articles

• Democratization in South Korea and Inter-Korean Relations
  Chien-peng Chung

• The Dispute Over the Kurile Islands Between Russia and Japan in the 1990s
  Yutaka Okuyama

• From Monopoly to Competition: Party Politics in the Bangladesh Parliament
  Nizam Ahmed

• Disquiet on the Southwestern Front: Studies of the Minorities of Southwest China
  James Wilkerson

Books Reviewed in this Issue

Asia General

• Implementing Human Rights Through Administrative Law Reforms: The Potential in China and Vietnam. By Karin Buhmann.
  Reviewed By Pitman B. Potter

• APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism. By John Ravenhill.
  Reviewed By Paul M. Evans

• Education and Political Transition: Themes and Experiences in East Asia. Edited by Mark Bray and W.O. Lee.
  Reviewed By Takashi Yoshida

• Contending with Contradictions: China's Policy toward Soviet Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Sino-Soviet Split, 1953-1960. By Mercy A. Kuo.
  Reviewed By Alexei Zagorsky

• Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States. Edited by Laura Hern and Mark Selden.
  Reviewed By Mark Wisniewski

• Japan and Greater China: Political Economy and Military Power in the Asian Century. By Greg Austin and Stuart Harris.
  Reviewed By Daqing Yang

China and Inner Asia

• China's Economic Challenge: Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl. By Neil C. Hughes.
  Reviewed By Jih-Un Kim

• China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era. By Thomas G. Moore.
  Reviewed By Jongchul Lee

• China's Economic Growth: The Impacts on Regions, Migration and the Environment. Edited by Terry Cannon.
  Reviewed By David W. Edgington

• Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China. By Stevan Harrell.
  Reviewed By Koen Wellens

• Grassroots Charisma: Four Local Leaders in China. By Stephan Feuchtwang and Wang Mingming.
  Reviewed By Peter J. Seybolt

• Radicalism and its Demise: The Chinese Nationalist Party, Factionalism, and Local Elites in Jiangsu Province, 1924-1931. By Bradley K. Geisert.
  Reviewed By Zwia Lipkin

• Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception. Edited by David Faure and Tao Tao Liu. Reviewed R. Keith Schoppa Civil Government in Warlord China: Tradition, Modernization and Manchuria. By Ronald Suleski.
  Reviewed By Diana Lary

• Code, Custom, and Legal Practice in China: The Qing and the Republic Compared. By Philip C.C. Huang.
  Reviewed By Norman Smith

• Modern China and Opium: A Reader. Edited by Alan Baumler.
  Reviewed by M. Emdad-ul Haq

• Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming, Second Edition. By Philip J. Ivanhoe.
  Reviewed by Rene Goldman

Northeast Asia

• Yen Bloc: Toward Economic Integration in Asia. By C.H. Kwan.
  Reviewed By Mark Beeson

• The Web of Power: Japanese and German Development Cooperation Policy. By Kozo Kato.
  Reviewed By Julian Dierkes

• Japan's Contested Constitution: Documents and Analysis. By Glenn D. Hook and Gavan McCormack.
  Reviewed By Bill Sewell

• Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform. By Edward J. Lincoln.
  Reviewed By Benoit Leduc

• Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan. By Tom Gill.
  Reviewed By Gary D. Allinson

• Japanese Sports: A History. By Allen Guttmann and Lee Thompson.
  Reviewed By Colin Noble

• Japan at Play: The Ludic and the Logic of Power. Edited by Joy Hendry and Massimo Raveri.
  Reviewed By David C. Moreton

• Nostalgic Journeys: Literary Pilgrimages Between Japan and the West. Edited by Susan Fisher.
  Reviewed By Sonja Arntzen

• Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan. By J. Scott Miller.
  Reviewed By Roger Dingman

• Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th Century Japanese Diplomacy. By Reinier H. Hesselink.
  Reviewed By Adam L. Kern

• Korea in the Cross Currents: A Century of Struggle and the Crisis of Reunification. By Robert J. Myers.
  Reviewed By Young Whan Kihl

• Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State. Edited by Charles K. Armstrong.
  Reviewed By Seungsook Moon

• Modern Education, Textbooks and the Image of the Nation: Politics of Modernization and Nationalism in Korean Education, 1880-1910. By Yoonmi Lee.
  Reviewed By Christine J. Kim

• Laying Claim to the Memory Of May: A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. By Linda S. Lewis.
  Reviewed By Don Baker

South Asia

• The Roots of Rhetoric: Politics of Nuclear Weapons in India and Pakistan. By Haider K. Nizamani.
  Reviewed By James A. Boutilier

• Public Health and the Poverty of Reforms: The South Asian Predicament. Edited by Imrana Qadeer, Kasturi Sen and K.R. Nayar.
  Reviewed By Karina Kielmann

• Women Development Workers: Implementing Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh. By Anne Marie Goetz.
  Reviewed By Habiba Zaman

• Social Power and Everyday Class Relations: Agrarian Transformation in North Bihar. By Anand Chakravarti.
  Reviewed By Kalpana Wilson

• War and Diplomacy in Kashmir: 1947-48. By C. Dasgupta.
  Reviewed By Ian Copland

• Public Support for Food Security: The Public Distribution System in India. Suriya Ashok and Edited by N. Krishnaji and T.N. Krishnan.
  Reviewed By Barbara Harriss-White

Southeast Asia

• Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia. By Michael L. Ross.
  Reviewed By Fadzilah Majid Cooke

• The Role of Presidential Advisory Systems in US Foreign Policy-making: The Case of the National Security Council and Vietnam, 1953-1961. By Pasi Tuunainen.
  Reviewed By James I. Matray

• Modern Dreams: An Inquiry into Power, Cultural Production, and the Cityscape in Contemporary Penang, Malaysia. By Beng-Lan Goh. in Southeast Asia. Edited by John Funston.
  Reviewed By Michael Leaf

• Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, Cultural and Social Perspectives. Edited by Geoffrey Benjamin and Cynthia Chou.
  Reviewed By Judith Nagata

• Pacific Affairs: Volume 76, No. 1 Spring 2003 Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony. By Rudolph Mrazek.
  Reviewed By Tineke Hellwig

• The Politics of Economic Liberalisation in Indonesia: State, Market and Power. By Andrew Rosser.
  Reviewed By Vedi R. Hadiz

Australasia and the Pacific Region

• Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan, and the Institute of Pacific Relations in War and Peace, 1919-1945. By Tomoko Akamai.
  Reviewed By Hyung Gu Lynn

• Urbanisation in the Island Pacific: Towards Sustainable Development. By John Connell and John Lea.
  Reviewed By Charles J. Stevens

• Pacific Forest: A History of Resource Control and Contest in Solomon Islands, c. 1800-1997. By Judith A. Bennett.
  Reviewed By Edvard Hviding

• Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia. By Edward LiPuma.
  Reviewed By Eric Hirsch

• In-house in Papua New Guinea with Anthony Siaguru: The Great Game in PNG. By Anthony Siaguru.
  Reviewed By Philip Gibbs

• The ANZUS Treaty 1951: Documents on Australian Foreign Policy. Edited by Roger Holdich, Vivianne Johnson, and Pamela Andre.
  Reviewed By David Capie

• Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000. By James Belich.
  Reviewed By Bruce Harding

• Dogside Story. By Patricia Grace.
  Reviewed By Sian Upton