Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Summer 1999 (Vol. 72 No. 2)

 

Articles

• Joining The Major Powers For The Status Quo: China's Views And Policy On Korean Reunification (Abstract) , by Fei-Ling Wang

• Whither Japan's Environmental Movement? An Assessment Of Problems (Abstract) , by Robert J. Mason

• The Russian Far East's Economic Integration With Northeast Asia: Problems And Prospects (Abstract) , by Peggy Falkenheim Meyer

• Party Politics In Papua New Guinea: A Deviant Case? (Abstract) , by Ben Reilly

 

Books Reviewed In This Issue

Asia General

• ASIA-PACIFIC SECURITY : The Economic ? Politics Nexus.
  Edited By Stuart Harris And Andrew Mack.
  Reviewed by Robin Ramcharan

• CONSOLIDATING THE THIRD WAVE DEMOCRACIES: Themes And Perspectives.
  Edited By Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yunhan Chu And Hung-mao Tien.
  Reviewed by Adrian Marriage

• PEOPLE'S RIGHTS: Social Movements And The State In The Third World.
  Edited By Manoranjan Mohanty And Partha Nath Mukherji With Olle Törnquist.
  Reviewed by L. C. Green

• BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS WITH EAST ASIA : The European Experience.
  Edited By Jim Slater And Roger Strange.
  Reviewed by Masao Nakamura

China and Inner Asia

• THE CHINESE ECONOMY IN TRANSITION : From Plan To Market.
  By Leong Liew.
  Reviewed by John Wong

• CHINA'S ECONOMIC FUTURE : Challenges To U.S. Policy.
  Edited By Joint Economic Committee, Congress Of United States.
  Reviewed by Paul Bowles

• INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN COMMAND MARKET : A Comparative Analysis Of Eastern Europe And China.
  Edited By Gerd Schienstock, Paul Thompson And Franz Traxler.
  Reviewed by Paul Bowles

• CHINA'S PROVINCES IN REFORM : Class Community And Political Culture.
  Edited By David S. G. Goodman.
  Reviewed by Diana Lary

• GENDER AND THE SOUTH CHINA MIRACLE: Two Worlds Of Factory Women.
  By Ching Kwan Lee.
  Reviewed by Ellen R. Judd

• THE POWER OF WORDS : Literacy And Revolution In South China, 1949-1995.
  By Glen Peterson.
  Reviewed by Mary S. Erbaugh

• HONG KONG : The Road To 1997.
  By Roger Buckley.
  Reviewed by Kim Richard Nossal

• UNEQUAL TREATY 1898-1997 : China, Great Britain, And Hong Kong's New Territories (Revised Edition).
  By Peter Wesley-Smith.
  Reviewed by Elizabeth Lominska Johnson

• CULTURE AND STATE IN CHINESE HISTORY : Conventions, Accommodations, And Critiques.
  Edited By Theodore Huters, R. Bin Wong And Pauline Yu.
  Reviewed by Evelyn S. Rawski

• AN ETHNOHISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF CHINA .
  By James S. Olson.
  Reviewed by Pat Howard

• THE ORIGINAL ANALECTS : Sayings Of Confucius And His Successors.
  Translated By E. Bruce Brooks And A. Taeko Brooks.
  Reviewed by T. C. Kline III

• THE CONFUSIONS OF PLEASURE : Commerce And Culture In Ming China.
  By Timothy Brook.
  Reviewed by Joseph P. McDermott

• SON OF HEAVEN AND HEAVENLY QAGHAN : Sui-Tang China And Its Neighbors.
  By Pan Yihong.
  Reviewed by Jennifer W. Jay

Northeast Asia

• JAPAN, INTERNATIONALISM AND THE UN .
  By Ronald Dore.
  Reviewed by Robert E. Bedeski

• JAPANESE POLITICS TODAY : Beyond Karaoke Democracy?
  Edited By Purnendra Jain And Takashi Inoguchi.
  Reviewed by Joseph Y. S. Cheng

• SHADOW SHOGUNS : The Rise And Fall Of Japan's Postwar Political Machine.
  By Jacob M. Schlesinger.
  Reviewed by Lonny E. Carlile

• SOURCEBOOK FOR MODERN JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY : Selected Documents.
  Edited And Translated By David A. Dilworth, Valdo H. Viglielmo And Agustin Jacinto Zavala.
  Reviewed by John Allen Tucker

• THE VOYAGE OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE THEATRE .
  By Senda Akihiko. Translated By J. Thomas Rimer.
  Reviewed by Peter Eckersall

• PEASANT PROTEST AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN COLONIAL KOREA .
  By Gi-Wook Shin.
  Reviewed by Dennis L. McNamara

South Asia

• GREENING AT THE GRASSROOTS : Alternative Forestry Strategies In India.
  By Eva Dheung Robinson.
  Reviewed by K. Sivaramakrishnan

• POST?GREEN REVOLUTION RURAL PUNJAB : A Profile Of Economic And Socio-Cultural Change (1965-95).
  By B. L. Abbi And Kesar Singh.
  Reviewed by Murray J. Leaf

• THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA : European Commercial Enterprise In Pre-colonial India.
  By Om Prakash.
  Reviewed by Douglas E. Haynes

Southeast Asia

• SOUTHEAST ASIA'S MISUNDERSTOOD MIRACLE : Industrial Policy And Economic Development In Thailand, Malaysia, And Indonesia.
  By K. S. Jomo , With Chen Yun Chung, Brian C. Folk, Irfan Ul Haque Pasuk Pongpaichit, Batara Simatupang And Mayuri Tateshi.
  Reviewed by Greg Felker

• SOUTHEAST ASIAN AFFAIRS 1998 .
  Edited By Derek Da Cunha And John Funston.
  Reviewed by R. S. Milne

• CAMBODIA FROM RED TO BLUE : Australia's Initiative For Peace.
  By Ken Berry.
  Reviewed by Milton Osborne

• POLITICAL CHANGE IN THAILAND : Democracy And Participation.
  Edited By Kevin Hewison.
  Reviewed by John Girling

• HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM : (Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries, No. 25).
  By D. S. Ranjit Singh And Jatswan S. Sidhu
  Reviewed by Mohamad Yusop

• INDONESIA ASSESSMENT : Population And Human Resources.
  Edited By Gavin W. Jones And Terence H. Hull.
  Reviewed by Dean Forbes

• THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA : Contending Perspectives.
  Edited By Ian Chalmers And Vedi R. Hadiz.
  Reviewed by Jacques Bertrand

• SIGNS OF RECOGNITION : Powers And Hazards Of Representation In An Indonesian Society.
  By Webb Keane.
  Reviewed by Gregory Forth

• OUTWARD APPEARANCES : Dressing State And Society In Indonesia.
  Edited By Henk Schulte Nordholt.
  Reviewed by Tineke Hellwig

• SHARED HOPES, SEPARATE FEARS : Fifty Years Of U.S.-Indonesian Relations.
  By Paul F. Gardner.
  Reviewed by Jusuf Wanandi

• THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF MALAYA 1941-1945 : A Social And Economic History.
  By Paul H. Kratoska.
  Reviewed by Bill Sewell

• FOOD SUPPLIES AND THE JAPANESE OCCUPATIONS IN SOUTH-EASTASIA : Studies In The Economies Of East And South-East Asia.
  Edited By Paul H. Kratoska.
  Reviewed by Bill Sewell

• JAPAN, INDONESIA AND THE WAR : Myths And Realities.
  Edited By Peter Post And Elly Touwen-Bouwsma.
  Reviewed by L. C. Green

• OPERATION MATADOR : Britain's War Plans Against The Japanese 1918-1941.
  By Ong Chit Chung.
  Reviewed by Christopher Bell

Australasia and the South Pacific

• CITIZENS WITHOUT RIGHTS: Aborigines And Australian Citizenship.
  By John Chesterman And Brian Galligan.
  Reviewed by Will Sanders

• AUSTRALIA'S CHINA: Changing Perceptions From The 1930s To The 1990s.
  By Lachlan Strahan.
  Reviewed by Neville Meaney

• TOKELAU: A Historical Ethnography.
  By Judith Huntsman And Antony Hooper.
  Reviewed by H. G. A. Hughes

• THE FATEFUL HOAXING OF MARGARET MEAD: A Historical Analysis Of Her Samoan Research.
  By Derek Freeman.
  Reviewed by James E. Côté

• FIELDWORK AND FAMILIES: Contructing New Models For Ethnographic Research.
  Edited By Juliana Flinn, Leslie Marshall And Jocelyn Armstrong.
  Reviewed by Alice Pomponio

• REMAKING MICRONESIA: Discourses Over Development In A Pacific Territory, 1944-1982.
  By David Hanlon.
  Reviewed by Donald H. Rubinstein

• IMAGINING THE ANTIPODES: Culture, Theory And The Visual In The Work Of Bernard Smith.
  By Peter Beilharz.
  Reviewed by Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian

• GUARDIANS OF EMPIRE: The U.S. Army And The Pacific, 1902-1940.
  By Brian McAllister Linn.
  Reviewed by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

Pacific North America

• THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS: ASEAN And Canada.
  By Paul J. Davidson.
  Reviewed by Donald Crone

• THE SOUTH ASIAN AMERICANS .
  By Karen Isaksen Leonard.
  Reviewed by Verne A. Dusenbery

• CHANGING LIVES OF REFUGEE HMONG WOMEN.
  By Nancy D. Donnelly.
  Reviewed by Christian Culas

• MASTERS OF WAR: Military Dissent &a,p; Politics In The Vietnam Era.
  By Robert Buzzanco.
  Reviewed by Robert K. Brigham

• THE WRONG WAR: Why We Lost In Vietnam.
  By Jeffrey Record.
  Reviewed by William J. Duiker