CIAO DATE: 06/05

Pacific Affairs:
An International Review of Asia and the Pacific

 

Winter 2003-2004 (Vol. 76 No. 4)

 

Articles

• China and Southeast Asia: Asymmetry, Leadership and Normalcy
  Brantly Womack

• From a Special Relationship to a Normal Partnership?: Interpreting the Garlic Battle in Sino-South Korean Relations
  Jae Ho Chung

• The Anatomy of the Welfare-Zoku: The Institutional Complementarity of the Party Commission and the National Reform Councils in LDP Decision-Making
  Benoit Rousseau Leduc

• The Strings of Neutralism: Burma and the Colombo Plan
  Ademola Adeleke

• Letters in Support of the Institute of Pacific Relations: Defending a Nongovernmental Organization
  Lawrence T. Woods

Books Reviewed in this Issue

Asia General

• New Regionalisms In The Global Political Economy: Theories and Cases. Edited by Shaun Breslin, Christopher W. Hughes, Nicola Phillips and Ben Rosamond.
  Reviewed by David W. Edgington

• Liberalism, Democracy And Development. By Sylvia Chan.
  Reviewed by Stephan Haggard

• Emerging Market Democracies: East Asia and Latin America. Edited by Lawrence Whitehead.
  Reviewed by Juan D. Lindau

• Winning In Asia, European Style: Market and Nonmarket Strategies for Success. Edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal.
  Reviewed by Andrea Boltho

• Asian Media Productions. Edited by Brian Moeran.
  Reviewed by Yasmin Jiwani

China and Inner Asia

• Making China Policy: Lessons from the Bush and Clinton Administrations. Edited by Ramon H. Myers, Michel C. Oksenberg and David Shambaugh.
  Reviewed by Steven M. Goldstein

• The Expanding Role Of Chinese Americans In U.s.-China Relations: Transnational Networks and Trans-Pacific Interactions. Edited by Peter H. Koehn and Xiao-huang Yin.
  Reviewed by Madeline Y. Hsu

• Inklings Of Democracy In China. By Suzanne Ogden.
  Reviewed by Shiping Hua

• China And The Legacy Of Deng Xiaoping: From Communist Revolution to Capitalist Evolution. By Michael E. Marti.
  Reviewed by Jeremy T. Paltiel

• Social Connections In China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi. Edited by Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie and David Wank.
  Reviewed by Xiaolin Guo

• The Growth Of Market Relations In Post-reform Rural China: A Micro-analysis of Peasants, Migrants and Peasant Entrepreneurs. By Hiroshi Sato.
  Reviewed by Samuel P.S. Ho

• Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform. By James Farrer.
  Reviewed by Chia Ning

• Debating Human Rights In China: A Conceptual and Political History. By Marina Svensson.
  Reviewed by Roger B. Jeans

• Living With Their Past: Post-Urban Youth Fiction. By Zhang Kangkang, edited by Richard King.
  Reviewed by Hong Jiang

• Biographical Dictionary Of Chinese Women: The Twentieth-Century, 1912-2000. Edited by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and A.D. Stefanowska.
  Reviewed by Eugenia Lean

• Tiger And The Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China. By Chris Coggins.
  Reviewed by Tim Oakes

• China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives. Edited by Woei Lien Chong.
  Reviewed by Michael Schoenhals

• China. By Henrietta Harrison.
  Reviewed by R. Keith Schoppa

• Ethnography In China Today: A Critical Assessment of Methods and Results. Edited by Daniel L. Overmyer with the assistance of Shin-Yi Chao.
  Reviewed by Donald S. Sutton

• A History Of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism. By Zhaojin Ji.
  Reviewed by Brett Sheehan

• Strangers Always: A Jewish Family in Wartime Shanghai. By Rena Krasno.
  Reviewed by Rene Goldman

• The Last Glorious Summer 1939: Shanghai-Japan. By Rena Krasno, edited by Tess Johnston.
  Reviewed by Rene Goldman

Northeast Asia

• Japan Between Asia And The West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance. By Ming Wan.
  Reviewed by Michael A. Barnhart

• Comparing Economic Systems: Italy and Japan. Edited by Andrea Boltho, Alessandro Vercelli and Hiroshi Yoshikawa.
  Reviewed by Masao Nakamura

• Demographic Change And The Family In Japan's Aging Society. Edited by John W. Traphagan and John Knight.
  Reviewed by Bernard Bernier

• Sokaiya: Extortion, Protection, and the Japanese Corporation. By Kenneth Szymkowiak.
  Reviewed by Mark L. Wisniewski

• A Geneaology Of 'Japanese' Self-images. By Eiji Oguma, translated by David Askew.
  Reviewed by Michael A. Schneider

• Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, And Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
  Reviewed by Frederick R. Dickinson

• Titia: The First Western Woman in Japan. By René P. Bersma.
  Reviewed by Harold Bolitho

• Toward Normalizing U.s.-korea Relations: In Due Course? By Edward A. Olsen.
  Reviewed by Tae Yang Kwak

• North Korea And Northeast Asia. Edited by Samuel S. Kim and Tai Hwan Lee.
  Reviewed by Young Chul Chung

South Asia

• Federalism Without A Centre: The Impact of Political and Economic Reform on India's Federal System. By Lawrence Sáez.
  Reviewed by Rekha Saxena

• Economic Reform And Social Sector Development: A Study of Two Indian States. By K. Seeta Prabhu.
  Reviewed by Balkrishna Gokhale

Southeast Asia

• Don't Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese. By Wang Gungwu.
  Reviewed by Amy Freedman

• Only Connect!: Sino-Malay Encounters. By Wang Gungwu.
  Reviewed by Amy Freedman

• Ethnic Chinese In Singapore And Malaysia: A Dialogue between Tradition and Modernity. Edited by Leo Suryadinata.
  Reviewed by Craig A. Lockard

• Rethinking Environmental Management In The Pacific Rim: Exploring Local Participation in Bangkok, Thailand. By Amrita Daniere and Lois M. Takahashi.
  Reviewed by Basil van Horen

• Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes. Edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips and Wei Wei Yeo.
  Reviewed by Abidin Kusno

• Asian States, Asian Bankers: Central Banking in Southeast Asia. By Natasha Hamilton-Hart.
  Reviewed by Mukul Asher

• The Politics Of Justice And Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory. By Anthony J. Langlois.
  Reviewed by Lyal S. Sunga

• Mixed Blessing: The Impact of the American Colonial Experience on Politics and Society in the Philippines. Edited by Hazel M. McFerson.
  Reviewed by Patricio N. Abinales

• The Disorder In Order: The Army-State in Burma since 1962. By Donald M. Seekins.
  Reviewed by Robert H. Taylor

• The Indonesian Town Revisited. Edited by Peter J.M. Nas.
  Reviewed by Michael Leaf

• Roots Of Violence In Indonesia: Contemporary Violence in Historical Perspective. Edited by Freek Colombijn and J. Thomas Lindblad.
  Reviewed by Jamie S. Davidson

Australasia and the Pacific Region

• Materializing The Nation: Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea. By Robert J. Foster.
  Reviewed by Martha Macintyre

• In Colonial New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Naomi M. McPherson.
  Reviewed by Chris Ballard

• Defining The Pacific: Opportunities and Constraints (The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples, and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900, Volume 1). Edited by Paul W. Blank and Fred Spier.
  Reviewed by Mark D. McCoy

• Unfolding The Moon: Enacting Women's Kastom in Vanuatu. By Lissant Bolton.
  Reviewed by Miriam Meyerhoff

• Pacific Diaspora: Island Peoples in the United States and Across the Pacific. Edited by Paul Spickard, Joanne L. Rondilla, and Debbie Hippolite Wright.
  Reviewed by Unasa L.F. Va'a

• The Columbia Documentary History Of The Asian American Experience. Edited by Franklin Odo.
  Reviewed by David Capie

• Wild Daisies In The Sand: Life in a Canadian Internment Camp. By Tom Sando.
  Reviewed by Tsuneharu Gonnami