CIAO DATE: 12/02

Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Spring 2002 (Vol. 75 No. 1)

 

Articles

• The William L. Holland Prize Announcement 7

• Can Confucianism Survive in an Age of Universalism and Globalization?, by Gilbert Rozman

• The Socio-Economic Dimension in Singapore's Quest For Security and Stability, by Husin Mutalib

• Legacies of the Authoritarian Past: Religious Violence in Indonesia's Moluccan Islands, by Jacques Bertrand

 

Books Reviewed In This Issue

Asia General

• Changing Values in Asia: Their Impact on Governance and Development
  Edited by Han Sung Joo
  Reviewed By Kuan Hsin-chi

• Losing Control: Freedom of the Press in Asia
  Edited by Louise Williams and Roland Rich
  Reviewed By Mary E. McCoy

China and Inner Asia

• China's Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy
  By Anita Chan
  Reviewed By Pat Howard

• China's Export Miracle: Origins, Results and Prospects
  By Thomas Chan, Noel Tracy and Zhu Wenhui
  Reviewed By Kevin G. Cai

• Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy in Institutional Change
  By Susan H. Whiting
  Reviewed By Marc Blecher

• China in the Post-utopian Age
  By Christopher J. Smith
  Reviewed By George C.S. Lin

• Feeding China's Little Emperors: Food, Children, and Social Change
  Edited by Jun Jing
  Reviewed By Stanley Rosen

• China's Spatial Economic Development: Restless Landscapes in the Lower Yangzi Delta
  By Andrew M. Marton
  Reviewed By Yue-man Yeung

• Elite Politics In Contemporary China
  By Joseph Fewsmith
  Reviewed By You Ji

• China and the People's Liberation Army: Great Power or Struggling Developing State?
  By Solomon Karmel
  Reviewed By You Ji

• China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945-1996
  Edited by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
  Reviewed By David Shambaugh

• Sex, Law, And Society In Late Imperial China
  By Matthew H. Sommer
  Reviewed By James A. Flath

• As Taiwan Approaches The New Millennium: Essays on Politics and Foreign Affairs
  Essays by John F. Copper
  Reviewed By Dennis Van Vranken Hickey

• Hong Kong In Transition: The Handover Years
  Edited by Robert Ash, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook And Robin Porter
  Reviewed By Ming K. Chan

• Hong Kong The Super Paradox: Life After Return to China
  Edited by James C. Hsiung
  Reviewed By Ming K. Chan

• Historical Dictionary Of Taiwan (Republic Of China): Second Edition
  By John F. Copper
  Reviewed By Mike K.K. Yang

• Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism
  By A-chin Hsiau
  Reviewed By Mike K.K. Yang

Northeast Asia

• Internationalization, Corporate Preferences And Commercial Policy In Japan
  By Hidetaka Yoshimatsu
  Reviewed By Masao Nakamura

• Corporate Capitalism In Japan
  By Hiroshi Okumura
  Translated by Douglas Anthony and Naomi Brown
  Reviewed By Kiyoshi Kawahito

• No Miracles Here: Fighting Urban Decline in Japan and the United States
  By Theodore J. Gilman
  Reviewed By Philip Shapira

• Leaving Japan: Observations on the Dysfunctional U.S.-Japan Relationship
  By Mike Millard
  Reviewed By Alan Rix

• A Rainbow in the Desert: An Anthology of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Children's Literature
  Translated By Yukie Ohta
  Reviewed By Gregory Polakoff

• The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan
  By Shiro Okamoto
  Translated and adapted by Samuel L. Leiter
  Reviewed By Cody Poulton

• Japan And The Dutch, 1600-1853
  By Grant K. Goodman
  Reviewed By David C. Moreton

• Korea Briefing, 1997-1999: Challenges and Change at the Turn of the Century
  Edited by Kongdan Oh
  Reviewed By Oknim Chung

• The Korean Language
  By Iksop Lee and S. Robert Ramsey
  Reviewed By Sung-Ock S. Sohn

South Asia

• Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora
  Edited by Crispin Bates
  Reviewed By Verne A. Dusenbery

• Television and Social Change in Rural India
  By Kirk Johnson
  Reviewed By Stephen D. McDowell

• Information and Communication Technology in Development: Cases from India
  Edited by Subhash Bhatnagar and Robert Schware
  Reviewed By Stephen D. McDowell

• Inside Diplomacy
  By Kishan S. Rana. D
  Reviewed By Gordon Longmuir

Southeast Asia

• Chinese Business in South-east Asia: Contesting Cultural Explanations, Researching Entreprenuership
  Edited by Edmund Terence Gomez and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
  Reviewed By Henry Wai-chung Yeung

• Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order
  By Amitav Acharya. D
  Reviewed By Gordon Longmuir

• Atlas of Laos: Spatial Structures of the Economic and Social Development of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
  By Bounthavy Sisouphanthong And Christian Taillard
  Reviewed By Rodolphe De Koninck

• Fragments Of The Present: Searching for Modernity in Vietnam's South
  By Philip Taylor
  Reviewed By Lisa Drummond

• Angkor Wat, A Royal Temple
  By Hélène Legendre De Koninck
  Reviewed By Terry McGee

• Money and Power in Provincial Thailand
  Edited By Ruth McVey
  Reviewed By Josef Silverstein

• Philippine Left: Political Crisis and Social Change
  By Ben Reid
  Reviewed By Leonora C. Angeles

• Closer than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy
  By Alfred W. McCoy
  Reviewed By Belinda A. Aquino

• Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia
  Edited by Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
  Reviewed By John T. Sidel

• Fields of the Lord: Animism, Christian Minorities, and State Development in Indonesia
  By Lorraine V. Aragon
  Reviewed By Joshua Barker

Australasia and the Pacific Region

• Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
  By Rob Wilson
  Reviewed By Michael Goldsmith

• Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific
  Edited by Jeannette Marie Mageo
  Reviewed By Cyril Belshaw

• Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea
  By Sinclair Dinnen
  Reviewed By John Barker

• A Compensation Claims Procedure for Papua New Guinea: Report to The Institute of National Affairs Port Moresby
  By Deborah Dwyer, Terence Dwyer, Graham Ellis, Michael Ward and Daniel Fitzpatrick
  Reviewed By Hartmut Holzknecht

• Nanshin: Japanese Settlers in Papua and New Guinea
  By Hiromitsu Iwamoto
  Reviewed By Hartmut Holzknecht

• Calling the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealand's High Country
  By Michèle D. Dominy
  Reviewed By Graeme Wynn

• Tagi Tote E Loto Haaku, My Heart is Crying A Little: Niue Island Involvment in the Great War, 1914-1918
  By Margaret Pointer
  Translated by Kalaisi Folau
  Reviewed By Lamont Lindstrom

• Pepper In Our Eyes: The APEC Affair
  Edited by W. Wesley Pue
  Reviewed By David Webster