CIAO DATE: 07/03

Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Winter 2002-2003 (Vol. 75 No. 4)

 

Articles

• Managing Transition: Unemployment and Job Hunting in Urban China
  Ming Tsui

• Female Leadership of Democratic Transitions in Asia
  Mark R. Thompson

• Taiwan's Democratization and the Rise of Taiwanese Nationalism as Socialization to Global Culture
  Daniel Lynch

• Withering Realism? A Review of Recent Security Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region
  Sorpong Peou

  Review Article

  Correspondence

Books Reviewed in this Issue

Asia General

• Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan. By David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye.
  Reviewed By Victor Zatsepine

• The World and the Wild. Edited by David Rothenberg and Marta Ulvaeus.
  Reviewed By E.N. Anderson

China and Inner Asia

• The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analysis. Edited by Alvin Y. So, Nan Lin, and Dudley Poston.
  Reviewed By George C.S. Lin

• Between Politics and Markets: Firms, Competition, and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China. By Yi-min Lin.
  Reviewed By Mark Jacobs

• The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000. Edited by Stephen C. Angle and Marina Svenssson.
  Reviewed By Richard Kraus

• Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China. By Elizabeth J. Perry.
  Reviewed By Michael Tsin

• The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to Individuality. By Lung-kee Sun.
  Reviewed By Karl Gerth

• Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973. Edited by Robert S. Ross and Jiang Changbin.
  Reviewed By Ramon H. Myers

• Chinese Political Culture: 1989-2000. Edited by Shiping Hua, foreword by Andrew J. Nathan.
  Reviewed By André Laliberté

• Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing. Edited by Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella, and David Liu, with foreword by Perry Link.
  Reviewed By Andrew T. Dyche

• Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty. By Bradley W. Reed.
  Reviewed By Jennifer Rudolph

• The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State Making And Civil Society in Late Imperial China. By Man Bun Kwan.
  Reviewed By Ruth Rogaski

Northeast Asia

• The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence. By Gavan McCormack.
  Reviewed By Brian J. McVeigh

• Inside Japanese Business: A Narrative History, 1960-2000. By Makoto Ohtsu with Tomio Imanari, and foreword by Solomon B. Levine.
  Reviewed By David W. Edgington

• A Social History of Science and Technology in Contemporary Japan: Volume 1, The Occupation Period, 1945-1952. Edited by Shigeru Nakayama.
  Reviewed By Jeff Alexander

• The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995. By Kenneth J. Ruoff.
  Reviewed By Greg P. Guelcher

• War, Occupation, and Creativity: Japan and East Asia, 1920-1960. Edited by Marlene J. Mayo and J. Thomas Rimer, with H. Eleanor Kerkham.
  Reviewed By Jason G. Karlin

• Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and the Search for Self in a Changing Nation. By Nancy Rosenberger.
  Reviewed By Laura Miller

• Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams. By Karen Kelsky.
  Reviewed By Hyung Gu Lynn

• Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron. By Harumi Befu.
  Reviewed By William W. Kelly

• Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations. By Joseph M. Henning.
  Reviewed By Roger Dingman

• Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th Century Japanese Diplomacy. By Reinier H. Hesselink.
  Reviewed By Brian Platt

• The Politics of Democratization in Korea: The Role of Civil Society. By Sunhyuk Kim.
  Reviewed By John Kie-Chiang Oh

South Asia

• The 'Ulama of Farangi Mahall and Islamic Culture in South Asia. By Francis Robinson.
  Reviewed By Satadru Sen

• Women, War and Peace in South Asia: Beyond Victimhood to Agency. Edited by Rita Manchanda.
  Reviewed By Vidhu Verma

• Policies, Institutions and Industrial Development: Coping with Liberalisation and International Competition in India. By John Degnbol-Martinussen.
  Reviewed By Kuldeep Kaur

• Globalization and Nationalism: The Changing Balance in India's Economic Policy, 1950-2000. By Baldev Raj Nayar.
  Reviewed By Pablo Bose

• Traditional Industry in the New Market Economy: The Cotton Handlooms of Andhra Pradesh. By Kanakalatha Mukund and B. Syama Sundari.
  Reviewed By Tirthankar Roy

• Government and Politics in South Asia: Fifth Edition. By Craig Baxter, Yogendra K. Malik, Charles H. Kennedy and Robert C. Oberst.
  Reviewed By Subrata K. Mitra

Southeast Asia

• Local Cultures and the "New Asia": The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia. Edited by C.J.W.-L. Wee.
  Reviewed By Jim Placzek

• Chinese Populations in Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies: Identities, Interdependence and International Influence. Edited by M. Jocelyn Armstrong, R. Warwick Armstrong, and Kent Mulliner.
  Reviewed By Edgar Wickberg

• Government and Politics in Southeast Asia. Edited by John Funston.
  Reviewed By Diane K. Mauzy

• The Making of Modern Burma. By Thant Myint-U.
  Reviewed By Josef Silverstein

• The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam. Edited by Hue-Tam Ho Tai, with foreword by John Bodnar.
  Reviewed By Mark W. McLeod

• Introduction à l'histoire contemporaine du Viêt Nam: de la réunification au néocommunisme (1975-2001). By Philippe Langlet et Quach Thanh Tâm.
  Reviewed By Laurence Monnais-Rousselot

• French Colonial Education: Essays on Vietnam and West Africa. By Gail Paradise Kelly, edited by David H. Kelly.
  Reviewed By Van Nguyen-Marshall

• Democracy in Malaysia: Discourses and Practices. Edited by Francis Loh Kok Wah and Khoo Boo Teik.
  Reviewed By Edmund Terence Gomez

• Malaysia: Mahathirism, Hegemony and the New Opposition. By John Hilley.
  Reviewed By Maznah Mohamad

• The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. By Arthur J. Dommen.
  Reviewed By D. Gordon Longmuir

• The Politics of Policy-making in Singapore. By Ho Khai Leong.
  Reviewed By Garry Rodan

• Comet in our Sky: Lim Chin Siong in History. Edited by Tan Jing Quee and Jomo K.S.
  Reviewed By Sharon A. Carstens

• Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State. By Patricio N. Abinales.
  Reviewed By Ivan Molloy

• Lives at the Margin: Biography of Filipinos Obscure, Ordinary, and Heroic. Edited by Alfred W. McCoy.
  Reviewed By John A. Larkin

• The Indonesian Question: The Dutch/Western Response to the Struggle for Independence in Indonesia, 1945-1950: An Annotated Catalogue of Primary Materials Held in the British Library. Compiled by Jaap Harskamp, with introduction by Peter Carey.
  Reviewed By David Webster

Australasia and the Pacific Region

• The New Shape of Old Island Cultures: A Half Century of Social Change in Micronesia. By Francis X. Hezel, S.J.
  Reviewed By Edward D. Lowe

• Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization. By John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan.
  Reviewed By Roderick Ewins

• Stories from the Marshall Islands: Bwebwenato Jan Aelon Kein. By Jack A. Tobin.
  Reviewed By James Hess

• Queen Sa-lote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, Barbara Burns McGrath 1900-1965. By Elizabeth Wood-Ellem.
  Reviewed By Tevita O. Ka'ili

• Farewell to Nippon: Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia. By Machiko Sato.
  Reviewed By Mark Wisniewski

• Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction. Edited by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Walter K. Lew.
  Reviewed By Bruce Fulton