CIAO DATE: 01/03

Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Summer 2002 (Vol. 75 No. 2)

 

Articles

• The William L. Holland Prize Announcement

• Pacific Affairs at 75

• Nostalgia for the Future: The Resurgence of an Alienated Culture in China, by Hanchao Lu

• The Motivations Behind China's Government-Initiated Industrial Investments Overseas, by Mark Yaolin Wang

• Democratic Standard and Performance in Twelve Pacific Micro-States, by Dag Anckar

• Restitution of Land to New Zealand Maori: The Role of Social and Structure, by Steven C. Bourassa and Ann Louise Strong

 

Books Reviewed in this Issue

Asia General

• Engaging Russia in Asia Pacific. Edited by Watanabe Koji.
  Reviewed By Artem Rudnitsky

• To The Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914.
  By David Wolff.
  Reviewed By Victor Zatsepine

• The European Union and Asean: Trade and Investment Issues.
  Edited by Roger Strange, Jim Slater and Corrado Molteni.
  Reviewed By Sorpong Peou

• Japan and China: Rivalry or Cooperation in East Asia?
  Edited by Peter Drysdale and Dong Dong Zhang.
  Reviewed By Young C. Kim

• Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963.
  By Shu Guang Zhang.
  Reviewed By Victor Zatsepine

• Changing Chinese Foodways in Asia.
  Edited by David Y.H. Wu and Tan Chee-beng.
  Reviewed By Gisèle Yasmeen

• East Asian Strategic Review 2001.
  Edited by Shigekatsu Kondo.
  Reviewed By Robert E. Bedeski

• Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest.
  Edited by Karen K. Gaul and Jackie Hiltz.
  Reviewed By Victor R. Savage

China and Inner Asia

• China Under Jiang Zemin.
  Edited by Hung-mao Tien and Yun-han Chu.
  Reviewed By Scott Kennedy

• Chinese Occupational Welfare in Market Transition.
  By Ming-kwan Lee.
  Reviewed By Raymond K.H. Chan

• The Market in Chinese Social Policy.
  Edited by Linda Wong and Norman Flynn.
  Reviewed By Glenn Drover

• Jumping into the Sea: From Academics to Entrepreneurs in South China.
  By Xiuwu R. Liu.
  Reviewed By David K.K. Chan

• China's Regions, Polity, & Economy: A Study of Spatial Transformation in the Post Reform Era.
  Edited by Si-ming Li and Wing-shing Tang.
  Reviewed By Yehua Dennis Wei

• China in the Twentieth Century.
  By Paul J. Bailey.
  Reviewed By Craig Dietrich

• Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics.
  By Jing Huang.
  Reviewed By Lucian W. Pye

• Problems of Democratization in China.
  By Thomas Lum.
  Reviewed By Alvin Y. So

• Chen Duxiu's Last Articles and Letters, 1937-1942.
  Edited and Translated by Gregor Benton.
  Reviewed By Thomas Kampen

• Society and the Supernatural in Song China.
  By Edward L. Davis.
  Reviewed By Stephen Eskildsen

Northeast Asia

• Can Japan Compete?
  By Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara.
  Reviewed by David W. Edgington

• Trends in Japanese Management: Continuing Strengths, Current Problems and Changing Priorities.
  By Toyohiro Kono and Stewart Clegg.
  Reviewed by Leonard H. Lynn

• Social Evolution, Economic Development and Culture: What it Means to Take Japan Seriously.
  By Ronald Dore,
  Edited by D. Hugh Whittaker.
  Reviewed by Bernard Bernier

• The Rice-paper Ceiling: Breaking through Japanese Corporate Culture.
  By Rochelle Kopp.
  Reviewed by Bill Rapp

• The Japanese Police System Today: A Comparative Study.
  By L. Craig Parker, Jr.
  Reviewed by Mark L. Wisniewski

• The Price Of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan.
  By Hikaru Suzuki.
  Reviewed by Hiroshi Aoyagi

• Religious Violence In Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo.
  By Ian Reader.
  Reviewed by Nancy Stalker

• Japan's Emergence as a Modern State: Political and Economic Problems of the Meiji Period.
  By E. Herbert Norman.
  Reviewed by Eyal Ben-Ari

• Judgement at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials.
  By Tim Maga.
  Reviewed by E. Bruce Reynolds

• Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act.
  By Izumi Horibe.
  Reviewed by John S. Brownlee

• Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami.
  Edited by John Breen and Mark Teeuwen.
  Reviewed by Aloysius Chang

• Plunder and Pleasure: Japanese Art in the West, 1860-1930.
  By Max Put.
  Reviewed by Monika Dix

• The Practices of Painting in Japan, 1475-1500.
  By Quitman E. Phillips.
  Reviewed by Monika Dix

• The Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea: A Fragile Miracle.
  By Tat Yan Kong.
  Reviewed by David C. Kang

South Asia

• Building Women's Capacities: Interventions in Gender Transformation.
  Edited by Ranjani. K. Murthy.
  Reviewed by Jeanne Hahn

• The Gender Gap in Basic Education: NGOs as Change Agents.
  Edited by Rekha Wazir.
  Reviewed by Habiba Zaman

• Sex Ratio Patterns in the Indian Population: A Fresh Exploration.
  By Satish Balram Agnihotri.
  Reviewed by Alan B. Anderson

• Land, Power and Market: A Bihar District Under Colonial Rule, 1860-1947.
  By Jacques Pouchepadass.
  Reviewed by Reviewed
  By Hira Singh

• Ramayana in the Arts of Asia.
  By Garrett Kam.
  Reviewed by Mandakranta Bose

Southeast Asia

• The Quest For Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia.
  By Amitav Acharya.
  Reviewed by Donald Crone

• Occupation And Revolution: China and the Vietnamese August Revolution of 1945.
  By Peter Worthing.
  Reviewed by Marilyn B. Young

• Burma: The State of Myanmar.
  By David I. Steinberg.
  Reviewed by Michael Aung-Thwin

• Art et Archéologie du Laos.
  By Madeleine Giteau.
  Reviewed by Hélène Legendre de Koninck

• Malaysian Eclipse: Economic Crisis and Recovery.
  Edited by K.S. Jomo.
  Reviewed by Kiyokatsu Nishiguchi

• Lee's Lieutenants: Singapore's Old Guard.
  Edited by Lam Peng Er and Kevin Y.L. Tan.
  Reviewed by Thomas J. Bellows

• White Love: And Other Events in Filipino History.
  By Vicente L. Rafael.
  Reviewed by Andrew Abalahin

• Indonesia Today: Challenges of History.
  Edited by Grayson Lloyd and Shannon Smith.
  Reviewed by Geoffrey B. Hainsworth

• A Country in Despair: Indonesia Between 1997 and 2000.
  By Kees van Dijk.
  Reviewed by Vedi R. Hadiz

• The East Timor Question: The Struggle for Independence from Indonesia.
  Edited by Paul Hainsworth and Stephen McCloskey.
  Reviewed by Donald E. Weatherbee

• Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community.
  Edited by Richard Tanter, Mark Selden and Stephen R. Shalom.
  Reviewed by Donald E. Weatherbee

• Self-determination in East Timor: The United Nations, the Ballot, and International Intervention.
  By Ian Martin.
  Reviewed by Donald E. Weatherbee

• Foreign Policy On Human Rights: Its Influence on Indonesia under Soeharto.
  By Marlies Glasius.
  Reviewed by David Webster

  Australasia and the Pacific Region

• Stars and Stripes Across the Pacific: The United States, Japan, and the Asia/Pacific Region, 1895-1945.
  By William F. Nimmo.
  Reviewed by David Ekbladh

• The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacine.
  By Robert Paddle.
  Reviewed by Richard Scaglion

• Houses Far From Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides.
  By Margaret Critchlow Rodman.
  Reviewed by John Barker

• Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology.
  By Patrick Vinton Kirch and Roger C. Green.
  Reviewed by John Edward Terrell