June 2008
SPECIAL ISSUE
Migration and Mobility
Guest Editors: Don DeVoretz and David Zweig
Articles
Don DeVoretz and David Zweig
Alan Smart and Josephine Smart
Yun-Chung Chen
Peter S. Li
Lan-Hung Nora Chiang and Chih-Hsiang Sean Yang
Perspectives
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Film Reviews
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Review Essays
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Book Reviews
Asia General
REGIONALISM AND GLOBALIZATION IN EAST ASIA: Politics, Security & Economic Development. By Mark Beeson.Reviewed by Hui Feng
THE GEOPOLITICS OF GLOBALIZATION: The Consequences for Development. By Baldev Raj Nayar.Reviewed by Howard Lentner
TOWARD AN EAST ASIAN EXCHANGE RATE REGIME: Edited by Duck-Koo Chung and Barry Eichengreen.Reviewed by Tony Cavoli
GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND BODY POLITICS IN MODERN ASIA: By Michael G. Peletz.Reviewed by Johanna Hood
China and Inner Asia
CHINESE OVERSEAS: Migration, Research and Documentation. Edited by Tan Chee-Beng, Colin Storey and Julia Zimmerman.Reviewed by Yuen-fong Woon
CITIES IN MOTION: Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational China. Edited by Sherman Cochran and David Strand; General Editor, Wen-hsin Yeh.Reviewed by Bill Sewell
CHINESE TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS. Edited by Chee-Beng Tan.Reviewed by Madeline Hsu
SOCIAL CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA: C.K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion. Edited by Wenfang Tang and Burkart Holzner.Reviewed by T.J. Cheng
RISING STAR. China’s New Security Diplomacy. By Bates Gill.Reviewed by Christian Constantin
SOCIAL STATES: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000. By Alastair Iain Johnston. Reviewed by Marc Lanteigne
THE CHINESE ECONOMY IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Enterprise and Business Behaviour. Edited by Barbara Krug and Hans HendrischkeReviewed by David Ip
WORRYING ABOUT CHINA. The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry. By Gloria Davies. Reviewed by Christopher Bush
FOR GODS, GHOSTS, AND ANCESTORS: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings. By Janet Lee Scott.Reviewed by James A. Flath
CHINA AT WAR: Regions of China, 1937-45. Edited by Stephen R. MacKinnon, Diana Lary and Ezra F. Vogel.Reviewed by Chang-tai Hung
MAID TO ORDER IN Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers. By Nicole Constable.Reviewed by Jiemin Bao
Northeast Asia
PAN-asianism in modern japanese history: Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders. Edited by Sven Saaler and J. Victor Koschmann.Reviewed by Mark R. Peattie
LAW IN JAPAN: A Turning Point. Edited by Daniel H. Foote.Reviewed by Shigenori Matsui
CROSS CURRENTS: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia. Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel C. Sneider.Reviewed by Gilbert Rozman
JAPANESE LOVE HOTELS: A Cultural History. By Sarah Chaplin.Reviewed by Jeffrey Alexander
A DISCONTENTED DIASPORA: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980. By Jeffrey Lesser.Reviewed by Mariko Nagoshi
THE MAKING OF MINJUNG: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea. By Namhee Lee.Reviewed by Yoonkyung Lee
RED ROGUE: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea. By Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr. Reviewed by John Feffer
South Asia
THE CLASH WITHIN: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future. By Martha C. Nussbaum.Reviewed by Catherin Wilson
DANCING WITH GIANTS: China, India, and the Global Economy. Edited by L. Alan Winters and Shahid Yusuf.Reviewed by Ashok Kotwal
PAKISTAN: Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation. By Mohammad Abdul Qadeer.Reviewed by Matthew A. Cook
Southeast Asia
SECURING SOUTHEAST ASIAN: The Politics of Security Sector Reform. By Mark Beeson and Alex J. Bellamy.Reviewed by Pierre P. Lizee.
BURMA’S MASS LAY MEDITATION MOVEMENT: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power. By Ingrid Jordt.Reviewed by Ian Harris
DEMOCRACY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THAILAND. By Michael Kelly Connors. Reviewed by Kasian Tejapira
TROUBLED RELATIONS: The United States and Cambodia since 1870. By Kenton Clymer. Reviewed by Karen L. Greene
CAMBODGE: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945. By Penny Edwards.Reviewed by Milton E. Osborne
MODERNITY AND MALAYSIA: Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads. By Alberto G. Gomes. Reviewed by Tim Bunnell
POWERS OF BLESSING FROM THE WILDERNESS AND FROM HEAVEN: Structure and Transformations in the Religion of the Toraja in the Mamasa Area of South Sulawesi. By Kees Buijs.Reviewed by Gregory Forth
INDONESIA BETRAYED: How Development Fails. By Elizabeth Fuller Collins.Reviewed by Michele Ford
ART AS POLITICS: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism, and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. By Kathleen M. Adams.Reviewed by Jill Forshee
Australasia and the Pacific Region
COERCIVE RECONCILIATION: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia. Edited by Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson.Reviewed by Toon van Meijl
LIVING TOGETHER: Towards Inclusive Communities. Edited by Michelle Thompson-Fawcett and Claire Freeman.Reviewed by Neriko Doerr
LAND OF BEAUTIFUL VISION: Making a Buddhist Sacred Place in New Zealand. By Sally McAra.Reviewed by Ann Hardy
FACING THE PACIFIC: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination. By Jeffrey Geiger. Reviewed by Heather Waldroup
WAYWARD WOMEN: Sexuality and Agency in a New Papua Guinea Society. By Holly Wardlow.Reviewed by Martha Macintyre
PENINA ULIULI: Contemporary Challenges in Mental Health for Pacific People. Edited by Philip Culbertson, Margaret Nelson Agee with Cabrini ‘Ofa.Reviewed by Robert J. Gregory
THE POWER OF PERSPECTIVE: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. By Knut Mikjel Rio.Reviewed by Ilana Gershon