Volume 89 – No. 1

Articles

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  Professionals and Soldiers: Measuring Professionalism in the Thai Military

  Punchada Sirivunnabood and Jacob Isaac Ricks

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  Is Culture the Cause? Choices, Expectations and Electoral Politics in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea

  Terence Wood

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  Russia’s Reorientation to Asia: Causes and Strategic Implications

  Alexander Korolev

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  Playing Both Sides of the Pacific: Latin America’s Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with China

  Carol Wise

Perspectives

Film Reviews

• THE MISSING PICTURE = L’IMAGE MANQUANTE | By Rithy Panh

  Brigitte Sion

Review Essays

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  Anarchist Discourse in Asian Studies

  Apichai Shipper

Critical Dialogues

• MAKERS OF MODERN ASIA | Edited by Ramachandra Guha

  Robin Jeffrey

• THE NATURE OF ASIAN POLITICS | By Bruce Gilley

  Takashi Inoguchi

• THE POLITICS OF MARKETISING ASIA | Edited by Toby Carroll and Darryl S.L. Jarvis

  Wei Li

• CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIA | By Robert J. Hanlon

  David Grayson

• UNWANTED VISIONARIES: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War | By Sergey Radchenko

  Kathryn Weathersby

• CONSTRUCTING EAST ASIA: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931–1945 | By Aaron Stephen Moore

  Victor Seow

• CHINA FROM EMPIRE TO NATION-STATE | By Wang Hui; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill

  David Ownby

• CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY | By Stuart Harris

  Dong Wang

• ASSESSING TREATY PERFORMANCE IN CHINA: Trade and Human Rights | By Pitman B. Potter

  Clive Ansley

• STRATEGIC REASSURANCE AND RESOLVE: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century | By James Steinberg, Michael E. O’Hanlon

  Tyler Rooker

• RELIGION AND ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY IN CHINA | Edited by James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu, and Peter van der Veer

  Peter Wong Yih Jiun

• MODERNITY WITH A COLD WAR FACE: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide | By Xiaojue Wang

  Arthur Waldron

• CLASS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA | By David S.G. Goodman

  Martin King Whyte

• BORN OUT OF PLACE: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor | By Nicole Constable

  Pei-chia Lan

• VISIONS OF DYSTOPIA IN CHINA’S NEW HISTORICAL NOVELS | By Jeffrey C. Kinkley

  Richard King

• A LANDSCAPE OF TRAVEL: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China | By Jenny Chio

  Travis Klingberg

• XINJIANG AND THE EXPANSION OF CHINESE COMMUNIST POWER: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century | By Michael Dillon

  Morris Rossabi

• CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY | By Stuart Harris

  Dong Wang

• CHINESE LABOR IN A KOREAN FACTORY: Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China | By Jaesok Kim

  Eli Friedman

• CONVERTS TO CIVIL SOCIETY: Christianity and Political Culture in Contemporary Hong Kong | By Lida V. Nedilsky

  Alexander Chow

• ON THE FRINGES OF THE HARMONIOUS SOCIETY: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China | Edited by Trine Brox, Ildikó Bellér-Hann

  Tsering Shakya

• LA FRANCE EN CHINE DE SUN YAT-SEN À MAO ZEDONG 1918–1953 | By Nicole Bensacq-Tixier

  Serge Granger

• ENERGY SECURITY IN JAPAN: Challenges After Fukushima | By Vlado Vivoda

  Brian Woodall

• CAPTURING CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: Differentiation and Uncertainty | Edited by Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, Susan Orpett Long

  Robin O’Day

• NEW POLICIES FOR NEW RESIDENTS: Immigrants, Advocacy, and Governance in Japan and Beyond | By Deborah J. Milly

  Betsy Brody

• EMBRACING DIFFERENCES: Transnational Cultural Flows between Japan and the United States | By Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt

  Casey Brienza

• LOST AND FOUND: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan | By Hiraku Shimoda

  John E. Van Sant

• JAPANESE EDUCATION IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: Culture, Politics, and Equity | Edited by Gary DeCoker, Christopher Bjork; foreword by James J. Shields

  David Blake Willis

• THE POLITICS OF WAR MEMORY IN JAPAN: Progressive Civil Society Groups and the Contestation of Memory of the Asia- Pacific War | By Kamila Szczepanska

  Ivo Plsek

• THE GREAT KANTŌ EARTHQUAKE AND THE CHIMERA OF NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION IN JAPAN | By J. Charles Schencking

  Andre Haag

• THE JOY OF NOH: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan | By Katrina L. Moore

  Jason Danely

• MEIJI RESTORATION LOSERS: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan | By Michael Wert

  D. Colin Jaundrill

• JAPAN’S RELATIONS WITH NORTH KOREA AND THE RECALIBRATION OF RISK | By Ra Mason

  Sebastian Maslow

• NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR OPERATIONALITY: Regional Security & Nonproliferation | Edited by Gregory J. Moore

  Tomohiko Kawaguchi

• KOREAN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Crisis, Security, and Institutional Rebalancing | By Jongryn Mo and Barry R. Weingast

  Hyun-Chin Lim

• MOBILE SUBJECTS: Boundaries and Identities in the Modern Korean Diaspora | Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh

  Rachael M. Joo

• EASTERN LEARNING AND THE HEAVENLY WAY: The Tonghak and Ch’ŏndogyo Movements and the Twilight of Korean Independence | By Carl F. Young

  Kirk W. Larsen

• WHEN THE FUTURE DISAPPEARS: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea | By Janet Poole

  Dafna Zur

• ASSIMILATING SEOUL: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 | By Todd A. Henry

  Donald N. Clark

• NORTH KOREA-US RELATIONS UNDER KIM JONG II: The Quest for Normalization? | By Ramon Pacheco Pardo

  Sarah Teo

• NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR OPERATIONALITY: Regional Security & Nonproliferation | Edited by Gregory J. Moore; foreword by Graham T. Allison

  Tomohiko Kawaguchi

• DMZ CROSSING: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border | By Suk-Young Kim

  Terry K. Park

• DEATH, MOURNING, AND THE AFTERLIFE IN KOREA: From Ancient to Contemporary Times | Edited by Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Pettid

  Boudewijn Walraven

• K-POP: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea | By John Lie

  Dal Yong Jin

• TRANSFORMING INDIA: Challenges to the World’s Largest Democracy | By Sumantra Bose

  John Harriss

• RIGHTEOUS REPUBLIC: The Political Foundations of Modern India | By Ananya Vajpeyi

  Ronojoy Sen

• NATION AND FAMILY: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India | By Narendra Subramanian

  Maitrayee Chaudhuri

• BIRTH IN THE AGE OF AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India | By Cecilia Van Hollen

  Kaveri Qureshi

• PROSTITUTION AND THE ENDS OF EMPIRE: Scale, Govern-mentalities, and Interwar India | By Stephen Legg

  Renisa Mawani

• THE ALL-INDIA MUSLIM LEAGUE, 1906–1947: A Study of Leadership in the Evolution of a Nation | By Mary Louise Becker

  Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury

• PAKISTAN’S NUCLEAR POLICY: A Minimum Credible Deterrence | By Zafar Khan

  Robert Anderson

• THE POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN SRI LANKA: Transnational Commitments to Social Change | By Eva Gerharz

  Bart Klem

• MEDIATING THE GLOBAL: Expatria’s Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu | By Heather Hindman

  Sara Shneiderman

• THE KHMER LANDS OF VIETNAM: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty | By Philip Taylor

  Matt Galway

• A KINGDOM IN CRISIS: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century | By Andrew MacGregor Marshall

  Jim Glassman

• EXPLORATION AND IRONY IN STUDIES OF SIAM OVER FORTY YEARS | By Benedict R. O’G. Anderson

  Abidin Kusno

• IDENTITY AND PLEASURE: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture | By Ariel Heryanto

  Michael Bodden

• IN SEARCH OF MIDDLE INDONESIA: Middle Classes in Provincial Towns | Edited by Gerry van Klinken, Ward Berenschot

  Emma Baulch

• LIEM SIOE LIONG’S SALIM GROUP: The Business Pillar of Suharto’s Indonesia | By Richard Borsuk, Nancy Chng

  Richard Robison

• REGIONAL DYNAMICS IN A DECENTRALIZED INDONESIA | Edited by Hal Hill

  Fadjar I. Thufail

• MAKING CHINESE AUSTRALIA: Urban Elites, Newspapers and the Formation of Chinese-Australian Identity, 1892–1912 | By Mei-fen Kuo

  James Jupp

• THE CAPTAIN AND “THE CANNIBAL”: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage | By James Fairhead

  Lamont Lindstrom

• AUSTRALIANS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1960–1975 | Edited by Ceridwen Spark, Seumas Spark, and Christina Twomey

  Richard Scaglion

• ANCESTRAL PLACES: Understanding Kanaka Geographies | By Katrina-Ann R. Kapā‘anaokalāokeola Nākoa Oliveira

  Mascha Gugganig

• HOW TO READ OCEANIC ART | By Eric Kjellgren

  Nicolas Garnier

• MAKING MICRONESIA: A Political Biography of Tosiwo Nakayama | By David Hanlon

  Donald Rubinstein