Volume 90 – No. 1

Articles

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  The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same-Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese Context

  Yasuo Takao

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  The Politics of Pacific Ocean Conservation: Lessons from the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve

  Justin Alger and Peter Dauvergne

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  The Real Impact of Subsidies on the Film Industry (1970s–Present): Lessons from France and Korea

  Patrick Messerlin and Jimmyn Parc

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  Settlement without Consensus: International Pressure, Domestic Backlash, and the Comfort Women Issue in Japan

  Ji Young Kim and Jeyong Sohn

Perspectives

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• THE MOSUO SISTERS = MOSUO ZI MEI | By Marlo Poras

  Stevan Harrell

• THE LOOK OF SILENCE | Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer

  John Roosa

• TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ASIA: The Question of Return | Edited by Michiel Baas

  Josephine Smart

• PARTY SYSTEM INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN ASIA: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows of the Past | Edited by Allen Hicken, Erik Martinez Kuhonta

  Nathan Allen

• THE GLOBAL COAL MARKET: Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies | Edited by Mark C. Thurber and Richard K. Morse

  Ian Cronshaw

• THINK TANKS AND NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY: Governance Entrepreneurs in Asia | By Erin Zimmerman

  Stéphanie Martel

• THE SAN FRANCISCO SYSTEM AND ITS LEGACIES: Continuation, Transformation and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific | Edited by Kimie Hara

  Ivo Plšek

• PACIFIC STRIFE: The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific 1870–1914 | By Kees van Dijk

  Hao-Li Lin

• BILATERAL LEGACIES IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA | Edited by N. Ganesan

  Robert L. Curry, Jr. 

• ASSESSING CHINA’S POWER | Edited by Jae Ho Chung

  Peter Worthing

• THE CHINA BOOM: Why China Will Not Rule the World | By Ho-fung Hung

  Robert J. Hanlon

• UNKNOTTING THE HEART: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China | By Jie Yang

  Hsuan-Ying Huang

• MAOISM AT THE GRASSROOTS: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism | Edited by Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson

  Lynn T. White III

• URBANIZING CHINA IN WAR AND PEACE: The Case of Wuxi County | By Toby Lincoln

  Micah Muscolino

• THE SAGE AND THE PEOPLE: The Confucian Revival in China | By Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval

  Julia K. Murray

• TONGZHI LIVING: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China | By Tiantian Zheng

  Bret Hinsch

• CHINA’S LITERARY COSMOPOLITANS: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the World of Letters | Edited by Christopher Rea

  Richard King

• SOUNDING THE MODERN WOMAN: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema | By Jean Ma

  S. Louisa Wei

• THE RISE OF CANTONESE OPERA | By Wing Chung Ng

  Joseph S.C. Lam

• DV-MADE CHINA: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film | Edited by Zhang Zhen and Angela Zito

  Weihong Bao

• IDENTITY CHANGE AND FOREIGN POLICY: Japan and its ‘others’ | Edited by Linus Hagström

  Kyoko Hatakeyama

• JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN POLITICS: Polar Opposites or Something in Common? | Edited by Takashi Inoguchi

  Alexander Bukh

• DISASTERS AND SOCIAL CRISIS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses | Edited by Mark R. Mullins, Koichi Nakano

  Pablo Figueroa

• THE LONG DEFEAT: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan | By Akiko Hashimoto

  Philip Seaton

• HIGH-STAKES SCHOOLING: What We Can Learn from Japan’s Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform | By Christopher Bjork

  Julian Dierkes

• NATURE IN TRANSLATION: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies | By Shiho Satsuka

  David W. Edgington

• CASUALTIES OF HISTORY: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War | By Lee K. Pennington

  Aiko Otsuka

• THE JAPAN-SOUTH KOREA IDENTITY CLASH: East Asian Security and the United States | By Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder

  Kijeong Nam

• ANTI-AMERICANISM IN DEMOCRATIZING SOUTH KOREA | By David Straub

  Kisuk Cho

• THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM IN SOUTH KOREA: 1945–2007 | By Yunjong Kim

  Avram Agov

• DEMOCRACY AND TRANSPARENCY IN THE INDIAN STATE: The Making of the Right to Information Act | By Prashant Sharma

  Martin Webb

• GLOBALISATION, DEMOCRACY AND CORRUPTION: An Indian Perspective | By Pranab Bardhan

  John Harriss

• DIVIDED WE GOVERN: Coalition Politics in Modern India | By Sanjay Ruparelia

  James Manor

• “NATION-STATE” AND MINORITY RIGHTS IN INDIA: Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities | By Tanweer Fazal

  Rajesh Dev

• INDIA’S 2014 ELECTIONS: A Modi-led BJP Sweep | Edited by Paul Wallace

  Ronojoy Sen

• INDIA’S MILITARY MODERNIZATION: Strategic Technologies and Weapons Systems| Edited by Rajesh Basrur, Bharath Gopalaswamy

  Sumit Ganguly

• INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN TRANSITION: Relations with South Asia | By Arijit Mazumdar

  Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy

• IMAGINING MUSLIMS IN SOUTH ASIA AND THE DIASPORA: Secularism, Religion, Representations | Edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert

  Nukhbah Taj Langah

• UNSETTLING INDIA: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality | By Purnima Mankekar

  John C. Hawley

• REVOLUTIONARY LIVES IN SOUTH ASIA: Acts and Afterlives of Anticolonial Political Action | Edited by Kama Maclean and J. Daniel Elam

  Sinderpal Singh

• LIFE SUPPORT: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor | By Kalindi Vora

  Carol Upadhya

• FRONTIERS, INSURGENCIES AND COUNTER-INSURGENCIES IN SOUTH ASIA, 1820–2013 | By Kaushik Roy

  Pahi Saikia

• CONFLICTING VISIONS: Canada and India in the Cold War World, 1946-76 | By Ryan Touhey

  Robert Anderson

• FRONTIER LIVELIHOODS: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands | By Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin, Jean Michaud

  Shaun Kingsley Malarney

• EMBODIED NATION: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos | By Simon Creak

  Carol Ireson-Doolittle

• THE LOST TERRITORIES: Thailand’s History of National Humiliation | By Shane Strate

  Søren Ivarsson

• SAVING BUDDHISM: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma | By Alicia Turner

  Nicola Tannenbaum

• “GETTING BY”: Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia | By Donald M. Nonini

  Huang Jianli

• FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia: The Case of the Madurese | By Gerben Nooteboom

  Asep Suryahadi

• THE PEARL FRONTIER: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network | By Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers

  A. Ross Gordon

• THE PACIFIC FESTIVALS OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND: Negotiating Place and Identity in a New Homeland | By Jared Mackley-Crump

  Charmaine ‘Ilaiū Talei

• BEING POLITICAL: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands | By Jack Corbett

  Steffen Dalsgaard

• SAVAGE HARVEST: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | By Carl Hoffman

  Shirley Campbell

• FROM KING CANE TO THE LAST SUGAR MILL: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai‘i’s Premier Crop | By C. Allan Jones & Robert V. Osgood

  Kara Hisatake

• THINKING LIKE AN ISLAND: Navigating a Sustainable Future in Hawai‘i | Edited by Jennifer Chirico and Gregory S. Farley

  Donald H. Rubinstein