December 2010
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ASIA’S NEW MULTILATERALISM: Cooperation, Competition, and the Search for Community. Edited by Michael J. Green and Bates Gill.
Reviewed by Narayanan Ganesan
PREVENTING CORRUPTION IN ASIA: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity. Edited by Ting Gong and Stephen K. Ma. Reviewed by Howard W. Dick
PRESCHOOL IN THREE CULTURES REVISITED: China, Japan, and the United States. By Joseph Jay Tobin, Yeh Hsueh and Mayumi Karasawa.
Reviewed by Merry White
HORROR TO THE EXTREME: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema. Edited by Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano. Reviewed by Greta Niu
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CHINA’S REFORMS AT 30: Challenges and Prospects. Edited by Dali L. Yang and Litao Zhao. Reviewed by Prem Shankar Jha
SOCIALIST CHINA, CAPITALIST CHINA: Social Tension and Political Adaptation under Economic Globalization. Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne. Reviewed by C. Cindy Fan
INEQUALITY AND PUBLIC POLICY IN CHINA. Edited by Björn A. Gustafsson, Li Shi, Terry Sicular. Reviewed by Xiaogang Wu
CREATING WEALTH AND POVERTY IN POSTSOCIALIST CHINA. Edited by Deborah S. Davis, Wang Feng. Reviewed by Xiaogang Wu
FROM IRON FIST TO INVISIBLE HAND: The Uneven Path of Telecommunications Reform in China. By Irene S. Wu. Reviewed by Milton Mueller
CHINA’S RISE IN THE WORLD ICT INDUSTRY: Industrial Strategies and the Catch-up Development Model. By Lutao Ning. Reviewed by Shahid Yusuf
GATED COMMUNITIES IN CHINA: Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life. By Choon-Piew Pow. Reviewed by Delia Davin
DIASPORIC HISTORIES: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism. Edited by Andrea Riemenschnitter and Deborah L. Madsen.
Reviewed by Philip Holden
FRACTURED REBELLION: The Beijing Red Guard Movement. By Andrew G. Walder. Reviewed by Guobin Yang
THE GENERALISSIMO: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. By Jay Taylor. Reviewed by Shao-Kang Chu
TWO SUNS IN THE HEAVENS: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967. By Sergey Radchenko. Reviewed by Elizabeth Wishnick
CHINA’S LAST EMPIRE: The Great Qing. By William T. Rowe.
Reviewed by Matthew Mosca
WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY TAIWAN. By Doris T. Chang.
Reviewed by Emma J. Teng
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JAPAN IN THE WORLD: Shidehara Kijuro, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War, Volume 1. By Klaus Schlichtmann; translated by William Carter.
Reviewed by Tosh Minohara
JAPAN IN THE WORLD: Shidehara Kijuro, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War, Volume 2. By Klaus Schlichtmann; translated by William Carter.
Reviewed by Tosh Minohara
JAPAN’S PEACE-BUILDING DIPLOMACY IN ASIA: Seeking a More Active Political Role. By Peng Er Lam. Reviewed by David Martin Jones
THE PUBLIC SECTOR IN JAPAN: Past Developments and Future Prospects. By Toshihiro Ihori and Takero Doi. Reviewed by Charles J. McMillan
THE JAPANESE CONSUMER: An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan. By Penelope Francks. Reviewed by Jeffrey Alexander
POLITICS AND PITFALLS OF JAPAN ETHNOGRAPHY: Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics. Edited by Jennifer E. Robertson.
Reviewed by Patricia G. Steinhoff
THE SEARCH FOR RECONCILIATION: Sino-Japanese and German-Polish Relations since World War II. By Yinan He. Reviewed by Yoshiko Nozaki
THE GROWTH IDEA: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan. By Scott O’Bryan.. Reviewed by Lonny E. Carlile
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE NEW GLOBAL JAPANESE ECONOMY. By Ruth Taplin. Reviewed by Robert Kneller
NORTHERN TERRITORIES, ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFLICTS, AND THE ALAND EXPERIENCE: Untying the Kurillian Knot. Edited by Kimie Hara and Geoffrey Jukes. Reviewed by David Wolff
CULTURAL STUDIES AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN NORTHEAST ASIA: What a Difference a Region Makes. Edited by Chris Berry, Nicola Liscutin and Jonathan Mackintosh. Reviewed by John A. Lent
YOUNG WOMEN IN JAPAN: Transitions to Adulthood. By Kaori H. Okano. Reviewed by Dawn Grimes-MacLellan
SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONS IN ASIA: The Social History of Mongolia in the 20th Century. By Irina Y. Morozova. Reviewed by Joakim Enwall
DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A History of South Korean Student Movements, 1980-2000. By Mi Park. Reviewed by Paul Y. Chang
DIASPORA WITHOUT HOMELAND: Being Korean in Japan. Edited by Sonia Ryang and John Lie. Reviewed by Kristin Surak
GENDER AND LABOUR IN KOREA AND JAPAN: Sexing Class. Edited by Ruth Barraclough, Elyssa Faison. Reviewed by Jesook Song
SITINGS: Critical Approaches to Korean Geography. Edited by Timothy R. Tangherlini and Sallie Yea. Reviewed by Hong Kal
JAPANESE ASSIMILATION POLICIES IN COLONIAL KOREA, 1910-1945. By Mark E. Caprio. Reviewed by Todd A. Henry
THE RED ROOM: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea. By Pak Wôn-sô; O Chông-hûi and Im Ch‘ôr-u; Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton; with a foreword by Bruce Cumings. Reviewed by Christopher Hanscom
THE PROLETARIAN GAMBLE: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan. By Ken C. Kawashima Reviewed by Jae-won Sun
THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE IN NORTH KOREA: An Institutionalist Perspective. Edited by Philip H. Park. Reviewed by Jae-Cheon Lim
NOTHING TO ENVY: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. By Barbara Demick. Reviewed by Erich Weingartner
ORGANIZING AT THE MARGINS: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States. By Jennifer Jihye Chun. Reviewed by Joonmo Cho
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SOUTH ASIA: Rising to the Challenge of Globalization. By Pradumna B. Rana and John Malcolm Dowling. Reviewed by Mitu Sengupta
GLOBALISATION AND THE MIDDLE CLASSES IN INDIA: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms. By Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Timothy J. Scrase. Reviewed by Henrike Donnerr
ACCELERATING GROWTH AND JOB CREATION IN SOUTH ASIA. Edited by Ejaz Ghani and Sadiq Ahmed. Reviewed by Matthew McCartney
KINGS OF THE FOREST: The Cultural Resilience of Himalayan Hunter-Gatherers. By Jana Fortier. Reviewed by Walter Huber
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America in Vietnam: The War that Couldn’t Be Won. By Herbert Y. Schandler.
Reviewed by Gary R. Hess
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. By James C. Scott. Reviewed by Carlo Bonura
Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Culture. By John Clifford Holt. Reviewed by Patrice Ladwig
Across the Causeway: A Multi-dimensional Study of Malaysia-Singapore Relations. Edited by Takashi Shiraishi. Reviewed by Hussin Mutalib
Singapore: The Unexpected Nation. By Edwin Lee; introduction by Wang Gungwu. Reviewed by Kenneth Paul Tan
The Binding Tie: Chinese Intergenerational Relations in Modern Singapore. By Kristina Goransson. Reviewed by Jason Lim
State of Authority: The State in Society in Indonesia. Edited by Gerry Van Klinken and Joshua Barker. Reviewed by Nadirsyah Hosen
The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo. Reviewed by Timothy P. Barnard
Silenced Voices: Uncovering a Family’s Colonial History in Indonesia. By Inez Hollander. Reviewed by Suzanne Moon
Friends and Exiles: A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement. By Des Alwi; edited by Barbara S. Harvey.
Reviewed by Michelle Ann Miller
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The Native Title Market. By David Ritter.
Reviewed by Stephen Grant Baines
Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women’s Pan-Pacific. By Fiona Paisley. Reviewed by Helen Bethea Gardner
Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific. By Judith A. Bennett. Reviewed by Paul Shankman
In the Wake of the Beagle: Science in the Southern Oceans from the Age of Darwin. Edited by Iain McCalman and Nigel Erskine.
Reviewed by Alexander Mawyer