March 2009
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EUROPE-ASIA RELATIONS: Building Multilateralisms. Edited by Richard Balme and Brian Bridges.
Reviewed by Douglas Webber
THE WILSONIAN MOMENT: Self-determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. By Erez Manela.
Reviewed by Frank P. Baldwin
THE TRIUMPH OF CITIZENSHIP: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67. By Patricia E. Roy.
Reviewed by Pamela Sugiman
TRUMAN AND MACARTHUR: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown. By Michael Pearlman.
Reviewed by Marc S. Gallicchio
China & Inner Asia Back to Tags ^
CHINA’S REFORMS AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY. Edited by David Zweig and Chen Zhimin. Reviewed by Allen Carlson
DOING BUSINESS IN RURAL CHINA: Liangshan’s New Ethnic Entrepreneurs. By Thomas Heberer. Reviewed by Stig Thogersen
STATE AND ETHNICITY IN CHINA’S SOUTHWEST. By Xiaolin Guo.
Reviewed by Nicholas Simon
FIELDWORK CONNECTIONS: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America. By Bamo Ayi, Stevan Harrell and Ma Lunzy.
Reviewed by Susan K. McCarthy
KEEPING DEMOCRACY AT BAY: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. By Suzanne Pepper. Reviewed by Sonny Lo
Northeast Asia Back to Tags ^
21ST-CENTURY JAPANESE MANAGEMENT: New Systems, Lasting Values. By James C. Abegglen. Reviewed by Patrick Reinmoeller
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN JAPAN: Multinationals’ Role in Growth and Globalization. By Ralph Paprzycki and Kyoji Fukao. Reviewed by Kozo Kiyota
RETHINKING JAPANESE SECURITY: Internal and External Dimensions. By Peter J. Katzenstein. Reviewed by David A. Welch
NORMALIZING JAPAN Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice. By Andrew L. Oros. Reviewed by Hugo Dobson
MULTICULTURALISM IN THE NEW JAPAN: Crossing the Boundaries Within. Edited by Nelson H. H. Graburn, John Ertl and R. Kenji Tierney. Reviewed by Robert Moorehead
JAPAN’S DIVERSITY DILEMMAS: Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Education. Edited by Soo im Lee, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu and Harumi Befu. Reviewed by John F. Morris
PRIMARY SCHOOL IN JAPAN: Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education. By Peter Cave. Reviewed by Christopher Bjork
JAPAN AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Empire and World Order, 1914-1938. By Thomas W. Burkman. Reviewed by Hatsue Shinohara
THE ETHICS OF AESTHETICS IN JAPANESE CINEMA AND LITERATURE: Polygraphic Desire. By Nina Cornyetz. Reviewed by Timothy Iles
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND SECURITY IN KOREA. By Jungsup Kim. Reviewed by Hazel Smith
NORTH KOREA IN THE BRINK: Struggle for Survival. By Glyn Ford with Soyoung Kwon. Reviewed by Geir Helgesen
NORTH OF THE DMZ: Essays On Daily Life in North Korea. By Andrei Lankov. Reviewed by Avram Agov
South Asia & the Himalayas Back to Tags ^
JUKI GIRLS, GOOD GIRLS: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka’s Global Garment Industry. By Caitrin Lynch. Reviewed by Dawn H. Currie
Southeast Asia Back to Tags ^
MARITIME SECURITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Edited by Kwa Chong Guan and John K. Skogan. Reviewed by Netina Tan
TAKING SOUTHEAST ASIA TO MARKET: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age. Edited by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso.
Reviewed by Derek Hall
CONTESTED DEMOCRACY AND THE LEFT IN THE PHILIPPINES AFTER MARCOS. By Nathan Gilbert Quimpo. Reviewed by Aprodicio A. Laquian
VIETNAM’S CHILDREN IN A CHANGING WORLD. By Rachel Burr
Reviewed by Danièle Bélanger
CULT, CULTURE, AND AUTHORITY: Princess Lieu Hanh in Vietnamese History. By Olga Dror. Reviewed by Nguyen Thi Dieu
MYANMAR’S LONG ROAD TO NATIONAL RECONCILIATION. Edited by Trevor Wilson. Reviewed by Nicholas Farrelly
WILLIAM J. GEDNEY’S COMPARATIVE TAI SOURCE BOOK: Oceanic Special Publication No. 34. Reviewed by Michael C. Howard
MAKING FIELDS OF MERIT Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand. By Monica Lindberg Falk. Reviewed by Susan M. Darlington
BEYOND THE GREEN MYTH: Borneo’s Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Peter Sercombe and Bernard Sellato.
Reviewed by Gerry Van Klinken
Australasia & the Pacific Back to Tags ^
HUNTING THE COLLECTORS: Pacifi c Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives. Edited by Susan Cochrane & Max Quanchi.
Reviewed by Eric Kline Silverman
WHO OWNS THE CROWN LANDS OF HAWAI’I?: By Jon M. Van Dyke.
Reviewed by Fiona Mccormack
ISLAND MINISTERS: Indigenous Leadership in Nineteenth Century Pacifi c Islands Christianity. By Raeburn Lange. Reviewed by Judith Bennett
MEMORIES OF WAR: Micronesians in the Pacific War. By Susanne Falgout Lin Poyer and Laurence M. Carucci. Reviewed by Glenn Petersen
HOUSE-GIRLS REMEMBER: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu. Edited by Margaret Rodman, Daniela Kramer, Lissant Bolton and Jean Tarisese.
Reviewed by John P. Taylor
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MORALITY IN MELANESIA AND BEYOND. Edited by John Barker. Reviewed by Alexandra Widmer
THE FOUNDING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MELANESIA AND MICRONESIA, 1850-1875. By Ralph M. Wiltgen. Reviewed by Terry M. Brown