December 2013
SPECIAL ISSUE
Decentralized Governance and Urban Change in Asia
Guest Editors: Michelle Ann Miller and Tim Bunnell
Articles
Introduction: Problematizing the Interplay between Decentralized Governance and the Urban in Asia
Michelle Ann Miller and Tim Bunnell
Urban Development in a Decentralized Indonesia: Two Success Stories?
Tim Bunnell, Michelle Ann Miller, Nicholas A. Phelps, and John Taylor
Perspectives
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Film Reviews
Intan Paramaditha
Review Essays
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Book Reviews
Asia General
Youngwon Cho
Tosh Minohara
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FOREIGN AID COMPETITION IN NORTHEAST ASIA | Edited by Hyosook Kim and David M. Potter
Marie Söderberg
TOWARD A HISTORY BEYOND BORDERS: Contentious Issues in Sino- Japanese Relations | Edited by Daqing Yang et al.
Jens Sejrup
MODERN WOMEN IN CHINA AND JAPAN: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity Between the Wars | By Katrina Gulliver
Joan Judge
ASIAN POPULAR CULTURE IN TRANSITION | Edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons and John A. Lent
Timothy Iles
ECOAMBIGUITY: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures | By Karen Laura Thornber
Dafna Zur
EXTERNAL INTERVENTION AND THE POLITICS OF STATE FORMATION: China, Indonesia, and Thailand, 1893–1952 | By Ja Ian Chong
Ang Cheng Guan
China & Inner Asia
Kenneth M. Swope
Richard S. Horowitz
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CONTEMPORARY CHINESE POLITICAL THOUGHT: Debates and Perspectives | Edited by Fred Dallmayr and Zhao Tingyang
Stella Xu
CHINA EXPERIMENTS: From Local Innovations to National Reform | By Ann Florini, Hairong Lai, Yeling Tan.
Stephen Trott
THE RISE OF CHINA VS. THE LOGIC OF STRATEGY | By Edward N. Luttwak
S. Mahmud Ali
SOCIAL PROTEST AND CONTENTIOUS AUTHORITARIANISM IN CHINA | By Xi Chen
Sophia Woodman
SINO-RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS COOPERATION: The Reality and Implications | By Keun-Wook Paik
Roman V. Sidortsov
RE-SHAPING EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP: Democratic National Citizenship in Hong Kong | By Pak-sang Lai and Michael Byram
Wing-Wah Law
EATING BITTERNESS: Stories from the Front Lines of China’s Great Urban Migration | By Michelle Dammon Loyalka
Grace Huang
GOURMETS IN THE LAND OF FAMINE: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton | By Seung-joon Lee
Tomoko Shiroyama
Northeast Asia
Joanna Elfving-Hwang
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RESEARCHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY JAPAN: New Directions and Approaches for the Electronic Age | Edited by Timothy Iles and Peter Matanle
Ken Coates
BONES OF CONTENTION: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan | By Barbara R. Ambros
Aaron Skabelund
DRAWING ON TRADITION: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan | By Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Michael Newton
POP CULTURE AND THE EVERYDAY IN JAPAN: Sociological Perspectives. Japanese Society Series | Edited by Katsuya Minamida and Izumi Tsuji; translated by Leonie R. Stickland
Brian J. McVeigh
SCREENING ENLIGHTENMENT: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan | By Hiroshi Kitamura
Harald Salomon
JAPANESE CINEMA IN THE DIGITAL AGE | By Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
Marc Steinberg
TROPICS OF SAVAGERY: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame | By Robert Thomas Tierney
Lung-chih Chang
TRANSNATIONAL SPORT: Gender, Media, and Global Korea | By Rachael Miyung Joo
Joanna Elfving-Hwang
NORTH KOREA IN TRANSITION: Politics, Economy, and Society | Edited by Kyung-Ae Park and Scott Snyder
Robert E. Kelly
South Asia & the Himalayas
Sukh Deo Muni
Bart Klem
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PRINCELY INDIA RE-IMAGINED: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the Present | By Aya Ikegame
Robin Jeffrey
Southeast Asia
Tony Day
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THE SPIRIT OF THINGS: Materiality and Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia | Edited by Julius Bautista
Justin McDaniel
CHANGING WORLDS: Vietnam’s Transition from Cold War to Globalization | By David W.P. Elliott
Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
LỤC XÌ: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi. Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory Series | By Vũ Trọng Phụng
Lisa Drummond
THE GIFT OF FREEDOM: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages | By Mimi Thi Nguyen
Thy Phu
AID DEPENDENCE IN CAMBODIA: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy | By Sophal Ear
D. Gordon Longmuir
THE BUDDHA ON MECCA’S VERANDAH: Encounters, Mobilities, and Histories Along the Malyasian-Thai Border | By Irving Chan Johnson
Mary Beth Mills
THE POLITICS OF TIMOR-LESTE: Democratic Consolidation After Intervention | Edited by Michael Leach and Damien Kingsbury
Gerry van Klinken
POWER, CHANGE, AND GENDER RELATIONS IN RURAL JAVA: A Tale of Two Villages | By Ann R. Tickamyer and Siti Kusujiarti
Rebecca Elmhirst
Australasia & the Pacific Islands
Miriam Kahn
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SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Other Paths for Papua New Guinea | By Paul James et al.
Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
PARI HANUA: An Appreciation of the Traditional, Colonial and Modern Life of a Papuan Village, Inspired by 50 Years of Contact and 6 Years of Residence | By Ian Maddocks
Michael Goddard
THE GILBERT ISLANDS IN WORLD WAR TWO | By Peter McQuarrie
Glenn Petersen