June 2011
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Building Asia’s Security. By Nick Bisley.
Reviewed by Denny Roy
Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific: Theory and Practice. By Sorpong Peou.
Reviewed by David Envall
Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance. Edited by Jacques Bertrand, André Laliberté.
Reviewed by Susan J. Henders
Globalizing in Hard Times: The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World. By Leonardo Martinez-Diaz.
Reviewed by Malcolm Cook
Intercultural Relations in Asia: Migration and Work Effectiveness. Edited by Chan-Hoong Leong and John W. Berry.
Reviewed by Robert A. Didham
Legal Education in Asia: Globalization, Change, and Contexts. Editors: Stacey Steele and Kathryn Taylor.
Reviewed by Tom Ginsburg
Women’s Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism. Edited by Mina Roces and Louise Edwards.
Reviewed by Jennifer Chan
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China, the Developing World, and the New Global Dynamic. Edited by Lowell Dittmer, George T. Yu.
Reviewed by Lilly Kelan Lu
Dancing with the Dragon: China’s Emergence in the Developing World. Edited by Dennis Hickey and Baogang Guo.
Reviewed by Joshua Eisenman
The Future of China-Russia Relations. Edited by James Bellacqua.
Reviewed by Czeslaw Tubilewicz
Embattled Glory: Veterans, Military Families, and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949-2007. By Neil J. Diamant.
Reviewed by Lawrence N. Shyu
Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China’s New Class. By Joel Andreas.
Reviewed by Xiaowei Zang
In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis. By Li Zhang.
Reviewed by Arianne Gaetano
China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom. By Richard Baum.
Reviewed by Scott Kennedy
Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations. By Marc L. Moskowitz.
Reviewed by Andreas Steen
Hong Kong’s Watershed: The 1967 Riots. By Gary Ka-wai Cheung.
Reviewed by John Carroll
Whither Taiwan and Mainland China: National Identity, the State, and Intellectuals. By Zhidong Hao.
Reviewed by Richard Weixing Hu
Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence Across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond. By Scott L. Kastner.
Reviewed by Steven Goldstein
The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing. By Yingcong Dai.
Reviewed by John Herman
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Innovation and Change in Japanese Management. Edited by Parissa Haghirian.
Reviewed by Leonard Lynn
Changing Politics in Japan. By Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel.
Reviewed by Linda Hasunuma
The Supreme Court and Benign Elite Democracy in Japan. By Hiroshi Itoh.
Reviewed by Shigenori Matsui
Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb. Edited by Robert Jacobs.
Reviewed by Sandra Youssef
Korea’s Changing Roles in Southeast Asia: Expanding Influence and Relations. Edited by David I. Steinberg.
Reviewed by Jaehyon Lee
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters. By B.R. Myers.
Reviewed by Thomas F. Cargill
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Political Economy, Growth, and Liberalisation in India, 1991-2008. By Matthew McCartney.
Reviewed by Amitendu Palit
Khaki and the Ethnic Violence in India: Armed Forces, Police and Paramilitary Forces During Communal Riots. By Omar Khalidi.
Reviewed by Sohini Guha
Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons. By Bhumitra Chakma.
Reviewed by Rajshree Jetly
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal: Democracy in the Margins. By Susan I Hangen.
Reviewed by Sukh Deo Muni
Inside Nuclear South Asia. Edited by Robert S. Anderson.
Reviewed by Robert S. Anderson
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Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia. By Anthony Reid.
Reviewed by Stein Tønnesson
Vietnam: Le Moment Moderniste. Sous la direction de Gilles de Gantes et Nguyen Phuong Ngoc.
Reviewed by Shawn F. McHale
Farming with Fire and Water: The Human Ecology of a Composite Swiddening Community in Vietnam’s Northern Mountains. Edited by Trân Dúc Viên, A. Terry Rambo, Nguyên Thanh Lâm; with the assistance of Neil L. Jamieson and Stephen J. Leisz.
Reviewed by Stan B-H Tan
Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World. By Robyn Magalit Rodriguez.
Reviewed by Leonora Angeles
Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and State in Southeast Asia. By Andrew Walker.
Reviewed by Ian G. Baird
Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society. Edited by Joakim Öjendal and Mona Lilja.
Reviewed by Sorpong Peou
Rural Livelihoods, Resources and Coping with Crisis in Indonesia: A Comparative Study. Edited by Milan J. Titus & Paul P.M. Burgers.
Reviewed by Lesley Potter
Collective Violence in Indonesia. Edited by Ashutosh Varshney.
Reviewed by Jamie S. Davidson
Understanding Islam in Indonesia: Politics and Diversity. By Robert Pringle.
Reviewed by Sumanto Al Qurtuby
The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia. By Abidin Kusno
Reviewed by Deden Rukmana
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Tuamaka: The Challenge of Difference in Aotearoa New Zealand. By Joan Metge.
Reviewed by Fiona McCormack
Raupatu: The Confiscation of Maori Land. Edited by Richard Boast and Richard S. Hill.
Reviewed by Toon van Meijl
Pacific Ways: Government and Politics in the Pacific Islands. Edited by Stephen Levine.
Reviewed by Jaap Timmer
Migration and Transnationalism: Pacific Perspectives. Edited by Helen Lee and Steve Tupai Francis.
Reviewed by Paul Shankman
Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands. By Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington.
Reviewed by Eric K. Silverman
Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence. Edited by Margaret Jolly Serge Tchérkezoff & Darrell Tryon.
Reviewed by A (Max) Quanchi
Substantial Justice: An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea. By Michael Goddard
Reviewed by Jean G. Zorn
Gunnar Landtman in Papua: 1910 to 1912. By David Lawrence.
Reviewed by Michael Goddard
After the Cult: Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea). By Holger Jebens.
Reviewed by Lamont Lindstrom