Map of Asia |
CIAO DATE: 02/04
Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific
Summer 2003 (Vol. 76 No. 2)
Articles
Innovation in China's Local Governance: Open Recommendation and Selection
Tony Saich and Xuedong Yang
Japan's National/Asian Women's Fund for "Comfort Women"
C. Sarah Soh
Deepening Democracy in Taiwan
Joseph Wong
Hong Kong's Post-1997 Transformation in Perspective
Bernard Hung-Kay Luk
Books Reviewed in this Issue
Asia General
Future Trends in East Asian International Relations. Edited by Quansheng Zhao.
Reviewed By Wookhee Shin
The Asian American Century. By Warren I. Cohen
Reviewed By Eleana Kim
Twenty-First Century World Order and the Asia Pacific: Value, Change Exigencies, and Power Realignment. Edited by James C. Hsiung.
Reviewed By Mark Beeson
Understanding Business Systems in Developing Countries. Edited by Gurli Jakobsen and Jens Erik Torp.
Reviewed By Sub Park
East Asian Capitalism: Conflicts, Growth, and Crisis. Edited by Lurigi Tomba.
Reviewed By Hun Joo Park
Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Developing in South Korea and the Philippines. By David C. Kang.
Reviewed By Park Tae-Gyun
Border of Being: Citizenship, Fertility and Sexuality in Asian and the Pacific. Edited by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram.
Reviewed By Terence H. Hull
Women and Work in Globalising Asian. Edited by Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper.
Reviewed By Vera Leigh Fennell
Asian Food: The Global and the Local. Edited by Katarzyna Cwiertka and Boudewijn Walraven.
Reviewd By Giséle Yasmeen
China and Inner Asia
Mending Fences: The Evoluation of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin. By Elizabeth Wishnick
Reviewed By Victor Zatsepine
Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages. By David Zweig.
Reviewed By Dorothy Solinger
Chinese Democracy After Tiananmen. By Yikan Ding.
Reviewed By Ka-Ho Mok
Regionalism and Subregionalism in East Asia: The Dynamics of China. Edited by Glenn Drover, Graham Johnson, and Julia Tao Lai Po-wah.
Reviewed By Yasuhiro Izumikawa
Searching for Life's Meaning: Changes and Tensions in the Worldviews of Chinese Youth in the 1980's. By Luo Xu.
Reviewed By Stanley Rosen
Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China. By Frank Dikötter.
Reviewed By Rana Mitter
A Military History of China. Edited by David A. Graff and Robin Higham.
Reviewed By Colin Green
Information Technology: New Dimensions of Government and Citizen Interation, and Human Security in Mainland China, and the Taiwan Experience. Edited by Robert Bedeski and Helen Lansdowne.
Reviewed By Yuezhi Zhao
Controlling the Dragon: Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in Late Imperial China. By Randall A. Dodgen.
Reviewed By Jane Kate Leonard
Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and its Repression. By Jogn W. Dardess.
Reviewed By Leo K. Shin
Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E. By Yuri Pines
Reviewed By Guo Jue
Small Well Lane: A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History. By Li Longyun, translated and edited by Jonh Jiang and Timothy Cheek.
Reviewed By Julia Lovell
Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Heresy. By Jamie Hubbard.
Reviewed By Daniel L. Overmyer
Governing Hong Kong: Legitimacy, Communcation and Political Decay. By Shiu-hing Lo.
Reviewed by Ngok Ma
China and Taiwan: Cross-Strait RElations under Chen Shui-bian. By Sheng Lijun.
Reviewed By Rene Goldman
Chinese-Japanese Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Complementarity and Conflict. Edited by Marie Söderberg.
Reviewed By Robert E. Bedeski
Northeast Asia
Civil Society in Japan: The Growing Role of NGOs in Tookyo's Aid Development Policy. By Keiko Hirata
Reviewed By Robert A. Dayley
Justice in Japan: The Notorious Teijin Scandal. By Richard H. Mitchell.
Reviewed By Christopher W.A. Szpilman
The Making of Modern Japan. By Marius B. Jansen.
Reviewed By Jeff Alexander
The Best Course Available: A Personal Account of the Secret US-Japan Okinawa Reversion Negotiations. By Wakaizumi Kei. Edited by John Swenson-Wright.
Reviewed By Keisuke Enokido
Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000. By Richard Sims, MIchael Lewis Kimono. Fashioning Culture. By Liza Crihfield Dalby.
Reviewed By Monika Dix
Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki. By Matthew Carl Stretcher.
Reviewed By Ted Goossen
Kabuki Plays on Stage: Brilliance and Bravado, 1697-1766, Volume 1. Edited by James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter.
Reviewed By Timothy Iles
Kabuki Plays on Stage: Villainy and Vengeance, 1773-1799, Volume 2. Edited by James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter.
Reviewed By Timothy Iles
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin. Edited by Sonia Ryang.
Reviewed By Hideki Harajiri
Comptemporary Directions: Kkorean Folk Music Engaging the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Edited by Nathan Hesselink.
Reviewed By Roald H. Maliangkay
South Asia
Community and Identities: Comtemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India. Edited by Surinder S. Jodhka.
Reviewed By Ashutosh Kumar
Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by D.R. SarDesai and Raju G.C. Thomas.
Reviewed By Robert S. Anderson
Thinking Social Science in India: Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner. Edited by Sujata Patel, Jasodhara Bagchi and Krishna Raj.
Reviewed By R. Sooryamoorthy
Southeast Asia
House of Glass: Culture, Modernity, and the State in Southeast Asia. Edited by Yao Souchou.
Reviewed By Mark L. Wisniewski
The Emergence of a National Economy: An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000. By Howard Dick, Vincent J.H. Houben, J. Thomas Lindblad and Thee Kian Wie.
Reviewed By Hal Hill
Australasia and the Pacific Region
Crime, Corruption and Capacity in Papua New Guinea. By Maxine Pitts.
Reviewed By Abby McLeod
Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea: Second Edition. By Ann Turner.
Reviewed By Michael Goddard
Forests of Ash: An Environmental History. By Tom Griffiths.
Reviewed By Michael Feller
An Honorable Accord: The Covenant Between the Northern Marianas and the United States. By Howard P. Willens and Deanna C. Siemer.
Reviewed By Karla Sean Kitalong
Hell Wouldn't Stop: An Oral History of the Battle of Wake Island. By Chet Cunningham.
Reviewed By Gregory J.W. Urwin
Inscribd Landscapes: Marking and Making Places. Edited by Bruno David and Meredith Wilson.
Reviewed By Glenn R. Summerhayes
Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activitist Texts. By Chadwick Allen.
Reviewed By Natacha Gagné
The Making of Little Punjab in Canada: Patterns of Immigration. By Archana B. Verma.
Reviewed by Hugh Johnston