CIAO DATE: 12/02

Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Winter 2001-2002 (Vol. 74 No. 4)

 

Articles

• Parochial Universalism, Democracy Jihad, and the Orientalist Image of Burma: The New Evangelism, by Michael Aung-Thwin

• "Already Sovereign as a People": A Foundational Moment in West Papuan Nationalism , by David Webster

• Ethnic Group Recruitment in the Indian Army: The Contrasting Cases of Sikhs, Muslims, Gurkhas and Others (Abstract), by Omar Khalidi

• Towards a More Federalized Parliamentary System in India: Explaining Functional Change (Abstract), by Mahendra P. Singh

• Kashmir Conflict: Secessionist Movement, Mobilization and Political Institutions Review Article, by Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay

 

Books Reviewed In This Issue

Asia General

• The Asia-Pacific in the New Millennium: Geopolitics, Security and Foreign Policy
  Edited by Shalendra D. Sharma
  Reviewed By Robert E. Bedeski

• The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Contagion and Consequences
  Edited by Pierre-Richard Agenor, Marcus Miller, David Vines and Axel Weber
  Reviewed By James W. Dean

• Financial Integration in East Asia
  By Gordon de Brouwer
  Reviewed By Eiji Fujii

• Asian Nationalism: China, Taiwan, Japan, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines
  Edited by Michael Leifer
  Reviewed By Prasenjit Duara

China and Inner Asia

• Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan
  Edited by Stephen Kotkin and Bruce A. Elleman
  Reviewed By Uradyn E. Bulag

• Soldiers of Fortune: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Military-Business Complex, 1978-1998
  By James Mulvenon
  Reviewed By Harlan W. Jencks

• Power, Money, and Media: Communication Patterns and Bureaucratic Control in Cultural China
  Edited by Chin-Chuan Lee
  Reviewed By Tina Chen

• Power of the Wheel: The Falun Gong Revolution
  By Ian Adams, Riley Adams and Rocco Galati
  Reviewed By Shin-Yi Chao

• Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village
  By Bruce Gilley
  Reviewed By Michelle Mood

• Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the Evolution of the Chinese Communist Leadership
  By Thomas Kampen
  Reviewed By Gregor Benton

• Open Doors: Vilhelm Meyer and the Establishment of General Electric in China
  By Christopher Bo Bramsen
  Reviewed By Mark F. Wilkinson

• Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924-1937
  By Edward R. Slack, Jr
  Reviewed By Zhou Yiongming

• Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750-1950
  By Carl A. Trocki
  Reviewed By Bill Sewell

• Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
  Edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
  Reviewed By John E. Wills, Jr

Northeast Asia

• Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan
  By Mayumi Itoh
  Reviewed By Theodore J. Gilman

• Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
  Edited by J.S. Eades, Tom Gill and Harumi Befu
  Reviewed By David W. Edgington

• Modern Japan: A Historical Survey, Third Edition
  By Mikiso Hane
  Reviewed By John S. Brownlee

• Japan After the Economic Miracle: In Search of New Directions
  Edited by Paul Bowles and Lawrence T. Woods
  Reviewed By Wesley Sasaki-Uemura

• Rising Suns, Rising Daughters: Gender, Class and Power in Japan
  By Joanna Liddle and Sachiko Nakajima
  Reviewed By E. Patricia Tsurumi

• The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
  By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
  Reviewed By Bill Sewell

South Asia

• Trade and Dependence: Essays on the Indian Economy
  By Sunanda Sen
  Reviewed By Anthony P. D'Costa

• Regional Cooperation in the Indian Ocean: Trends and Perspectives
  Edited by P.V. Rao
  Reviewed By Kuldeep Kaur

• United They Survive: Redistribution, Leadership and Human Services Delivery in Rural Bangladesh
  By Showkat H. Khan
  Reviewed By Ahmed Shafiqul Huque

Southeast Asia

• Burma: Political Economy under Military Rule
  Edited by Robert H. Taylor
  Reviewed By Maureen Aung-Thwin

• Political Transition in Cambodia 1991-99: Power, Elitism and Democracy
  By David W. Roberts
  Reviewed By Milton Osborne

• Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government
  By Neil A. Englehart
  Reviewed By Kullada Kesboonchoo-Mead

• Singapore's Foreign Policy: Coping with Vulnerability
  By Michael Leifer
  Reviewed By N. Ganesan

• Raiding, Trading and Feasting: The Political Economy Of Philippine Chiefdoms
  By Laura Lee Junker
  Reviewed By Deirdre McKay

• Southeast Asia: An Introductory History, Eighth Edition
  By Milton Osborne
  Reviewed By William H. Frederick

Australasia and the Pacific Region

• Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families, 1800-2000
  By Anna Haebich
  Reviewed By Deborah Montgomerie

• Nature, Culture and History: The "Knowing" Of Oceania
  By K.R. Howe
  Reviewed By Toon van Meijl

• Isles of Refuge: Wildlife and History of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
  By Mark J. Rauzon
  Reviewed By Richard Scaglion

• A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
  By Donald Denoon, Philippa Mein-Smith And Marivic Wyndham
  Reviewed By Cyril Belshaw

• A Voyage Round The World, Volumes I & II
  By George Forster, edited by Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Berghof
  Reviewed By John Barker