Volume 82 – No. 3

Review Article

What Makes India Work? The Rudolph’s Lifetime Quest
By John Harriss

Book Reviews

Asia General

EUROPE-ASIA RELATIONS: Building Multilateralisms. Edited by Richard Balme and Brian Bridges.
Reviewed by Douglas Webber

THE WILSONIAN MOMENT: Self-determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. By Erez Manela.
Reviewed by Frank P. Baldwin

THE TRIUMPH OF CITIZENSHIP: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67. By Patricia E. Roy.
Reviewed by Pamela Sugiman

TRUMAN AND MACARTHUR: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown. By Michael Pearlman.
Reviewed by Marc S. Gallicchio

China and Inner Asia

CHINA’S OPENING SOCIETY: The Non-State Sector and Governance. Edited by Yongnian Zheng and Joseph Fewsmith.
Reviewed by Stephen Noakes

COMMUNICATION IN CHINA: Political Economy, Power, and Confl ict. By Yuezhi Zhao.
Reviewed by Daniel Lynch

STRONG BORDERS, SECURE NATION: Cooperation and Confl ict in China’s Territorial Disputes. By M. Taylor Fravel.
Reviewed by Andrew Scobell

POWER, ENTITLEMENT AND SOCIAL PRACTICE: Resource Distribution in North China Villages. By Xiyi Huang.
Reviewed by Helen Funghar Siu

CLEARING THE AIR: The Health and Economic Damages of Air Pollution in China. Edited by Mun S. Ho and Chris P. Nielsen.
Reviewed by Jack Patrick Hayes

TOBACCO CONTROL POLICY ANALYSIS IN CHINA: Economics and Health. Edited by Teh-wei Hu.
Reviewed by Björn A. Gustafsson

BEIJING OPERA COSTUMES: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture. By Alexandra B. Bonds.
Reviewed by Joshua Goldstein

POLITICAL CHANGE IN MACAO. By Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo.
Reviewed by Herbert Yee

Northeast Asia

NORMS, INTERESTS, AND POWER IN JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY. Edited by Yoichiro Sato and Keiko Hirata.
Reviewed by Tsuyoshi Kawasaki

GOVERNING JAPAN: Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy. By J.A.A. Stockwin.
Reviewed by Daniel P. Aldrich

DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN JAPAN: Assessing the Impact. Edited by Sherry L. Martin and Gill Steel.
Reviewed by Erin Chung

KOIZUMI DIPLOMACY: Japan’s Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs. By Tomohito Shinoda.
Reviewed by Thomas U. Berger

RESPONSES TO REGIONALISM IN EAST ASIA: Japanese Production Networks in the Automotive Sector. By Andrew J. Staples.
Reviewed by Ali M. Nizamuddin

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN JAPAN: Edited by Takuji Hara, Norio Kambayashi and Noboru Matsushima.
Reviewed by Ulrike Schaede

JAPANESE PUBLIC OPINION AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM. Edited by Robert D. Elridge and Paul Midford.
Reviewed by Davis B. Bobrow

RUFFIANS, YAKUZA, NATIONALISTS: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960. By Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Reviewed by James L. Huffman

WAR MEMORY, NATIONALISM AND EDUCATION IN POSTWAR JAPAN, 1945-2007: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo’s Court Challenges. By Yoshiko Nozaki foreword by Richard Minear.
Reviewed by Julian Dierkes

KABUKI’S FORGOTTEN WAR 1931-1945. By James R. Brandon.
Reviewed by Thomas R.H. Havens

THE AGE OF VISIONS AND ARGUMENTS: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan. By Kyu Hyun Kim.
Reviewed by David L. Howell

THE ATTRACTIVE EMPIRE: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan. By Michael Baskett.
Reviewed by Sachiko Mizuno

FAITH AND POWER IN JAPANESE BUDDHIST ART, 1600-2005. By Patricia J. Graham
Reviewed by Naoko Gunji

READING FOOD IN JAPANESE LITERATURE. By Tomoko Aoyama
Reviewed by Karen Thornber

MARXIST PERSPECTIVES ON SOUTH KOREA IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. Edited by Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin Jeong and Richard Westra.
Reviewed by Kyoung-Ho Shin

RECONSTITUTING KOREAN SECURITY: A Policy Primer. Edited by Hazel Smith.
Reviewed by Aidan Foster-Carter

TRADITION, TREATIES, AND TRADE: Qing Imperialism and Chosen Korea, 1850-1910. By Kirk W. Larsen.
Reviewed by Kenneth Swope

STORIES INSIDE STORIES: Music in the Making of the Korean Olympic Ceremonies. By Margaret Walker Dilling.
Reviewed by Simon Mills

South Asia

A MILITARY HISTORY OF INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA: From the East India Company to the Nuclear Era. Edited by Daniel P. Marston and Chandar S. Sundaram; foreword by Stephen P. Cohen.
Reviewed by Andre Gerolymatos

MAKING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD SOUTH ASIA: Regional Imperatives and the Imperial Presidency. Edited by Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph.
Reviewed by Achin Vanaik

BLISTERS ON THEIR FEET: Tales of Internally Displaced Persons in India’s North East. Edited by Samir Kumar Das.
Reviewed by Urmitapa Dutta

SHIV SENA WOMEN: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum. By Atreyee Sen.
Reviewed by Uma Chakravarti

Southeast Asia

BANKING REFORM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Region’s Decisive Decade. By Malcolm Cook.
Reviewed by John Bonin

MALAYA’S SECRET POLICE 1945-60: The Role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency. By Leon Comber
Reviewed by Kumar Ramakrishna

Australasia and the Pacific Region

MAORI PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE FORESHORE AND SEABED: The Last Frontier. Edited by Andrew Erueti and Claire Charters.
Reviewed by Fiona McCormack

THE BATTLE FOR WAU: New Guinea’s Frontline 1942-1943. By Phillip Bradley.
Reviewed by John Burton

PULLING THE RIGHT THREADS: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale. Edited by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi and Jeanette Dickerson-Putman.
Reviewed by Richard Scaglion

MELANESIAN ODYSSEYS: Negotiating the Self, Narrative and Modernity. By Lisette Josephides.
Reviewed by Susanne Kuehling

ART AND LIFE IN MELANESIA. By Susan Cochrane
Reviewed by Eric K. Silverman