CIAO DATE: 06/05

Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Summer 2004 (Vol. 77 No. 2)

 

Articles

• Agile Big Man: The Flexible Marketing of Yao Ming
  Thomas Oates and Judy Polumbaum

• The First Tiananmen Incident Revisited: Elite Politics and Crisis Management at the End of the Maoist Era
  Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun

• Democratic renewal by "Digital" Local Government in Japan
  Yasuo Takao

• Burma, China and the U.S.A
  Wayne Bert

• North Korean Reform and Opening: Dual Strategy and 'Silli (Practical) Socialism
  Young Chul Chung

Books Reviewed in this Issue

Asia General

• Learning Places: The Afterlife of Area Studies. Edited by Masao Miyoshi and H.D. Harutoonian.
  Reviewed By Hyung Gu Lynn

• The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative. By Robert B. Marks.
  Reviewed By James L. Huffman

• Violence Against Women in Asian Societies. Edited By Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett.
  Reviewed By Sunera Thobani

• Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia. Edited by Esther Ngan-ling Chow.
  Reviewed By Vera Leigh Fennell

• Sagacious Monks and Bloodthirsty Warriors: Chinese Views of Japan in the Ming-Qing Period. Edited by Joshua A. Fogel.
  Reviewed By Benjamin Wai-ming Ng

China and Inner Asia

• China and the World Trading System: Entering the New Millenium. Edited By Deborah Z. Cass, Brett G. Williams, and George Barker.
  Reviewed By Pitman B. Potter

• China's Challenges in the Twenty-First Century. Edited By Joseph Y.S. Cheng.
  Reviewed By Mark Wisniewski

• Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000. By Robert L. Suettinger.
  Reviewed By David Shambaugh

• Chinese Provincial Leaders: Economic Performance and Political Mobility Since 1949. By Zhiyue Bo.
  Reviewed By John Fuh-sheng Hsieh

• Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches. Edited By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom.
  Reviewed By Charles W. Hayford

• Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded. By Xiaomei Chen.
  Reviewed By Gloria Davies

• Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China: The System Reform Institute and Policy Making. By Catherine Keyser, with a foreword by Andrew J. Nathan.
  Reviewed By Stanley Rosen

• Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950. By Odd Arne Westad.
  Reviewed By Hans van de Ven

• Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-1930. By Di Wang.
  Reviewed By Michael Tsin

• The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. By Tze-lan D. Sang.
  Reviewed By Fran Martin

• Precious Fire: Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution. By Karen Garner.
  Reviewed By Ruth Hayhoe

• Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience Since 1949. Edited By Mark A. Ryan, David M. Finklestein and Michael A. McDevitt.
  Reviewed By Dennis Showalter

Northeast Asia

• Japan's Fiscal Crisis: The Ministry of Finance and the Politics of Public Spending, 1975-2000. By Maurice Wright.
  Reviewed by Andrew Dewit

• Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy. By Richard A. Werner.
  Reviewed By Myung Soo Cha

• The Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival. By Richard Katz.
  Reviewed By Mark Beeson

• Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan. By J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen.
  Reviewed By Darryl E. Flaherty

• The State of Civil Society in Japan: Edited By Frank J. Schwartz and Susan J. Pharr.
  Reviewed By Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien

• Class Structure in Contemporary Japan. By Kenji Hashimoto.
  Reviewed By Jeffrey P. Bayliss

• Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism. By Curtis Anderson Gayle.
  Reviewed By Julian Dierkes

• A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House. By James L. Huffman.
  Reviewed By Robert Eskildsen

• The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure. By David Leheny.
  Reviewed By James E. Roberson

• Limits to Power: Asymmetric Dependence and Japanese Foreign Aid Policy. By Akitoshi Miyashita.
  Reviewed By Alan Rix

• A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. By Andrew Gordon.
  Reviewed By Jeff Alexander

• Kabuki Plays on Stage: Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, Volume 3. Edited By James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter.
  Reviewed By Timothy Iles

• Kabuki Plays on Stage: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905, Volume 4. Edited By James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter.
  Reviewed By Timothy Iles

• Five Gentlemen of Japan: The Portrait of a Nation's Character. By Frank Gibney.
  Reviewed By Greg P. Guelcher

• Kendo: Elements, Rules, and Philosophy. By Jinichi Tokeshi.
  Reviewed By Tsuneharu Gonnami

• Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism. By Sheila Miyoshi Jager.
  Reviewed By Chiho Sawada

• Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience, 1900-1950. By Donald N. Clark. A. Reviewed By Hamish Ion

South Asia

• India Working: Essays on Society and Economy. By Barbara Harriss-White.
  Reviewed By Ashok Kotwal

• Sustainable Agriculture And Food Security: The Impact of Globalization. Edited By Vandana Shiva and Gitanjali Bedi.
  Reviewed By Tirthankar Roy

• Land Reforms In India, Volume 6: Intervention for Agrarian Capitalist Transformation in Punjab and Haryana. Edited By Sucha Singh Gill.
  Reviewed By Murray J. Leaf

• Land Reforms In India, Volume 7: Issues of Equity in Rural Madhya Pradesh. Edited By Praveen K. Jha.
  Reviewed By Murray J. Leaf

• Land Reforms In India, Volume 8: Performance and Challenges in Gujarat and Maharashtra. Edited By Ghanshyam Shah and D.C. Sah.
  Reviewed By Murray J. Leaf

• Political Parties And Party Systems. Edited By Ajay K. Mehra, D.D. Khanna and Gert Kueck.
  Reviewed By Csaba Nikolenyi

• The Aftermath Of Partition In South Asia. By Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya.
  Reviewed By Sarah Ansari

• Colors Of The Robe: Religion, Identity, and Difference. By Ananda Abeysekara.
  Reviewed By John D. Rogers

Southeast Asia

• Globalization In Southeast Asia: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives. Edited By Shinji Yamashita and J.S. Eades.
  Reviewed By Geoffrey B. Hainsworth

• Cambodia After The Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation Building. By Evan Gottesman.
  Reviewed By David Chandler

• Fear And Sanctuary: Burmese Refugees in Thailand. By Hazel J. Lang.
  Reviewed By Bruce Matthews

• Gender, Household, State: Doi Moi In Viet Nam. Edited By Jayne Werner and Danièle Bélanger.
  Reviewed By Dorothy Chua

• Parties And Politics: A Study of Opposition Parties and the PAP in Singapore. By Hussin Mutalib.
  Reviewed By Michael D. Barr

• The American Colonial State In The Philippines: Global Perspectives. Edited By Julian Go and Anne L. Foster.
  Reviewed By Linda K. Richter

• The Indonesian Crisis: A Human Development Perspective. Edited By Aris Ananta.
  Reviewed By Christopher R. Duncan

• Indonesian Destinies. By Theodore Friend.
  Reviewed By John Roosa

• Indonesia's Small Entrepreneurs: Trading on the Margins. By Sarah Turner.
  Reviewed By Michael Leaf

• The Politics Of Power: Freeport in Suharto's Indonesia. By Denise Leith.
  Reviewed By Brigham Golden

Australasia and the Pacific Region

• Accounting For Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures. By Tony Bennett, Michael Emmison and John Frow.
  Reviewed By Nancy J. Pollock

• A Cup Of Aloha: The Kona Coffee Epic. By Gerald Y. Kinro.
  Reviewed By Larry M. Lake

• Samoan Art & Artists: O Measina a Samoa. By Sean Mallon.
  Reviewed By Roderick Ewins