Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Spring 2001 (Vol. 74 No. 1)

 

Articles

• Is A Free Trade Zone Emerging In Northeast Asia In The Wake Of The Asian Financial Crisis?(Abstract) , by Kevin Cai

• ASEM And The 'Cinderella Complex' Of Eu? East Asia Economic Relations (Abstract) , by Christopher M. Dent

• The Evolution Of Shareholding Enterprise Reform In Rural China: A Manager Empowerment Thesis. (Abstract) , by Ray Yep

• Three Years On A Path To Nowhere: The Hashimoto Initiative in Russian-Japanese Relations (Abstract) , by Alexei V. Zagorsky

 

Books Reviewed In This Issue

Asia General

• Environmental Philosophy And Ethics In Buddhism
  Foreword by Alastair S. Gunn
  Reviewed by Bruce Matthews

• Globalisation And The Asia-Pacific
  Contested Territories. Edited by Kris Olds, Peter Dicken, Philip F. Kelly, Lily Kong and Henry Wai-chung Yeung
  Reviewed by Clare Mochrie

China and Inner Asia

• CHINA AND THE MIDDLE EAST:The Quest for Influence
  Edited by P.R. Kumaraswamy Lillian
  Reviewed by Craig Harris

• EXPLAINING CHINESE DEMOCRATIZATION
  By Shaohua Hu
  Reviewed by Baogang He

• CHINA, THE UNITED NATIONS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: The Limits of Compliance
  By Ann Kent
  Reviewed by Maurice Copithorne

• THE JEWS OF CHINA: Volume Two, A Sourcebook and Research Guide
  Edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Goldstein with Bibliography
  By Frank Joseph Shulman
  Reviewed by Rene Goldman

• WOMEN IN THE CHINESE ENLIGHTENMENT: Oral and Textual Histories
  By Wang Zheng
  Reviewed by Tina Chen

• NOTABLE WOMEN OF CHINA: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century
  Edited by Barbara Bennett Peterson et al.
  Reviewed by Susan Mann

• DANGEROUS WOMEN: Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming
  By Victoria Cass
  Reviewed by Susan Mann

• IMPERFECT CONCEPTIONS: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China. By Frank Dikotter
  Reviewed by Dominic Lee

• ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT: Mainland China, Taiwan, and the 1995-1996 Crisis
  Edited by Suisheng Zhao
  Reviewed by Gerald Chan

Northeast Asia

• COLLECTIVE ACTION IN EAST ASIA: How Ruling Parties Shape Industrial Policy
  By Gregory W. Noble
  Reviewed by Mark Beeson

• THE MIT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE JAPANESE ECONOMY: Second Edition
  By Robert C. Hsu
  Reviewed by David W. Edgington

• CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
  By Duncan McCargo
  Reviewed by David W. Edgington

• REMEMBERING AIZU: The Testament of Shiba Goro. Edited by Ishimitsu Mahito
  Reviewed by Gregory Polakoff

• LIVES IN MOTION: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan. Edited by Susan Orpett Long
  Reviewed by Hiroshi Aoyagi

• PROPHETS OF PEACE: Pacifism and Cultural Identity in Japan's New Religions
  By Robert Kisala
  Reviewed by Cyril Powles

• JAPAN'S ECONOMIC POWER AND SECURITY: Japan and North Korea
  By Christopher W. Hughes
  Reviewed by Robert E. Bedeski

South Asia

• INDIA BRIEFING
  A Transformative Fifty Years
  Edited by Marshall Bouton and Phillip Oldenburg
  Reviewed by Robin Jeffrey

• DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN INDIA: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the National Electorate
  By Subrata K. Mitra and V. B. Singh G.
  Reviewed by Bingham Powell, Jr.

• WOMEN, DEMOCRACY AND THE MEDIA: Cultural and Political Representation in the Indian Press
  By Sonia Bathla Archana
  Reviewed by Daya Shankar

• INDIA'S NEWSPAPER REVOLUTION: Capitalism, Politics and the Indian-Language Press, 1977-99
  By Robin Jeffrey
  Reviewed By Milton Israel

• HOME AND HEGEMONY: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia
  Edited by Kathleen M. Adams and Sara Dickey
  Reviewed by Leonora C. Angeles

• THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN BOAT: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma
  By Andrew Walker
  Reviewed by Huub de Jonge

• HONOR BOUND: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973
  By Stuart I. Rochester and Frederick Kiley
  Reviewed by Douglas Pike

• MOTHER'S BELOVED: Stories from Laos
  By Outhine Bounyavong. Edited by Bounheng Inversin and Daniel Duffy, with an introduction by Peter Koret
  Reviewed by Gerald W. Fry

• FUELLING THE WAR: Revealing an Oil Company's Role in Vietnam
  By Louis Wesseling
  Reviewed by Robert K. Brigham

• SOCIOECONOMIC RENOVATION IN VIETNAM: The Origin, Evolution, and Impact of Doi Moi
  Edited By Peter Boothroyd And Pham Xuan Nam
  Reviewed by Robert L. Curry, Jr.

• INDONESIA AND CHINA: The Politics of a Troubled Relationship
  By Rizal Sukma
  Reviewed by Stewart Sutley

• SUCCESSION POLITICS IN INDONESIA: The 1998 Presidential Elections and the Fall of Suharto
  By Bilveer Singh
  Reviewed by Damien Kingsbury

• EAST TIMOR: The Price of Freedom
  By John G. Taylor
  Reviewed by David Webster

Australasia and the Pacific Region

• OBLIGED TO BE DIFFICULT: Nugget Coombs' Legacy in Indigenous Affairs
  By Tim Rowse
  Reviewed by Laurent Dousset

• GENDER AND INSTITUTIONS: Welfare, Work and Citizenship
  Edited by Moira Gatens and Alison MacKinnon
  Reviewed Nancy J. Pollock

• THE GERMAN EMPIRE AND BRITAIN'S PACIFIC DOMINIONS, 1871-1919: Essays on the role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism
  Edited by John A. Moses and Christopher Pugsley
  Reviewed by John S. Conway

• DILEMMAS OF DEVELOPMENT: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine, 1989-1994
  Edited By Colin Filer
  Reviewed by Patricia K. Townsend

• PACIFIC EMPIRES: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams
  Edited by Alan Frost and Jane Samson
  Reviewed by Sheree Ronaasen

• WEAVERS OF SONG: Polynesian Music and Dance
  By Mervyn McLean
  Reviewed by Janet Dixon Keller

• AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY IN MICRONESIA: An Assessment
  Edited by Robert C. Kiste and Mac Marshall
  Reviewed Karla Saari Kitalong

• WHAT DID THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS MEAN?
  Selected and Introduced by Alice Yang Murray
  Reviewed by Inagi Hiraishi

• FORBIDDEN WORKERS: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor
  By Peter Kwong
  Reviewed by Wing Chung Ng

• THE CHINESE IN VANCOUVER, 1945-80: The Pursuit of Identity and Power
  By Wing Chung Ng
  Reviewed by Wang Gungwu

• A STUBBLE-JUMPER IN STRIPED PANTS: Memoirs of a Prairie Diplomat
  By Earl G. Drake
  Reviewed by Lawrence T. Woods