Volume 82 – No. 4

December 2009

Reviews Article

Getting Global China Right
By Paul Evans

REVIEW OF

CHINA SHAKES THE WORLD: A Titan’s Breakneck Rise and Troubled Future and the Challenge for America. By James Kynge.

THE NEW ASIAN HEMISPHERE: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East. By Kishore Mahbubani.

CHINA’S ASCENT: Power, Security and the Future of International Politics. Edited by Robert S. Ross and Zhu Feng.

CHARM OFFENSIVE: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World. By Joshua Kurlantzick.

CHINA’S RISE: Challenges and Opportunities. By C. Fred Bergsten, Charles Freeman, Nicholas R. Lardy and Derek J. Mitchell.

THE THREE FACES OF CHINESE POWER: Might, Money and Minds. By David M. Lampton.

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Book Reviews

Asia General

PARTY POLITICS IN EAST ASIA: Citizens, Elections, and Democratic Development. Edited by Russell J. Dalton, Doh Chull Shin and Yun-han Chu.
Reviewed by Andreas Ufen

WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION IN ASIA: Obstacles and Challenges. Edited by Kazuki Iwanaga.
Reviewed by Robin LeBlanc

CATCH-UP INDUSTRIALIZATION: The Trajectory and Prospects of East Asian Economies. By Akira Suehiro. Translated by Tom Gill.
Reviewed by John Ravenhill

CHINA, JAPAN AND REGIONAL LEADERSHIP IN EAST ASIA. Edited by Christopher M. Dent.
Reviewed by Reinhard Drifte

JAPAN AND CHINA IN EAST ASIAN INTEGRATION. By Lim Hua Sing.
Reviewed by Takashi Terada

ASIAPACIFIQUEER: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities. Edited by Fran Martin, Peter A. Jackson, Mark McLelland and Audrey Yue.
Reviewed by John Whittier Treat

China and Inner Asia

IMAGINING GLOBALISATION IN CHINA: Debates on Ideology, Politics and Culture. By Nick Knight.
Reviewed by Timothy S. Oakes

THE VITAL TRIANGLE: China, the United States and the Middle East. By Jon B. Alterman and John W. Garver.
Reviewed by P.R. Kumaraswamy

CHINA’S GREAT ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION. Edited by Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski.
Reviewed by Victor D. Lippit

CHINA’S MONETARY CHALLENGES: Past Experiences and Future Prospects. By Richard C. K. Burdekin.
Reviewed by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

HAINAN: State, Society and Business in a Chinese Province. By Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard.
Reviewed by David S.G. Goodman

RELUCTANT RESTRAINT: The Evolution of China’s Nonproliferation Policies and Practices, 1980-2004. By Evan S. Medeiros.
Reviewed by Jing-dong Yuan

CHINA: Fragile Superpower: How China’s Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise. By Susan L. Shirk.
Reviewed by Yongnian Zheng

ZHAO ZIYANG AND CHINA’S POLITICAL FUTURE. Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne.
Reviewed by Marc Lanteigne

SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: Work, Community and Politics in China’s Rural Enterprises. By Calvin Chen.
Reviewed by Susan Whiting

CHINA’S NEW CONFUCIANISM: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. By Daniel A. Bell.
Reviewed by Ruiping Fan

FALUN GONG AND THE FUTURE OF CHINA. By David Ownby.
Reviewed by David A. Palmer

PERFORMING GRIEF: Bridal Laments in Rural China. By Anne E. McLaren.
Reviewed by Ellen R. Judd

Northeast Asia

DECIPHERING STRATIFICATION AND INEQUALITY: Japan and Beyond. Edited by Yoshimichi Sato.
Reviewed by David B. Grusky

JAPANESE-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, 1907-2007. By Joseph P. Ferguson.
Reviewed by Nobuo Shimotomai

THE KURILLIAN KNOT: A History of Japanese-Russian Border Negotiations. By Hiroshi Kimura. Translated by Mark Ealey.
Reviewed by Peggy L. Falkenheim Meyer

FIGHTING FOR FOREIGNERS: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy. By Apichai W. Shipper.
Reviewed by John Lie

WELFARE AND CAPITALISM IN POSTWAR JAPAN. By Margarita Estevez-Abe.
Reviewed by Patricia Boling

THE CINEMA OF NARUSE MIKIO: Women and Japanese Modernity. By Catherine Russell.
Reviewed by Jeffrey A. Dym

KOREA CONFRONTS GLOBALIZATION. Edited by Chang Yun-shik, Hyun-Ho Seok and Donald L. Baker.
Reviewed by Do-Hyun Han

MIN YOXNGHWAN: The Selected Writings of a Late Choson Diplomat. Translated and annotated by Michael Finch.
Reviewed by Eugene Y. Park

South Asia

LANDSCAPES AND THE LAW: Environmental Politics, Regional Histories and Contests over Nature. By Gunnel Cederlof.
Reviewed by Ajit Menon

THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA: Transnational Networks and Changing Identities. Edited by Rajesh Rai and Peter Reeves.
Reviewed by Kaveri Harriss

Southeast Asia

PIRATES, PROSTITUTES AND PULLERS: Explorations in the Ethno- and Social History of Southeast Asia. By James Warren.
Reviewed by Stefan Eklöf Amirell

MAKING MODERN MUSLIMS: The Politics of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia.
Edited by Robert W. Hefner.
Reviewed by Trevor W. Preston

UNCULTURAL BEHAVIOR: An Anthropological Investigation of Suicide in the Southern Philippines. By Charles J-H Macdonald.
Reviewed by Barbara D. Miller

TEARING APART THE LAND: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand. By Duncan McCargo.
Reviewed by Robert B. Albritton

LOST IN TRANSITION: Malaysia under Abdullah. By Kee Beng Ooi.
Reviewed by Diane K. Mauzy

HOUSES IN MOTION: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia. By Richard Baxstrom.
Reviewed by Seng-Guan Yeoh

KUALA LUMPUR AND PUTRAJAYA: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia. By Ross King.
Reviewed by Terry G. McGee

GOVERNANCE, POLITICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A Singapore Study. By Maria Francesch-Huidobro.
Reviewed by Daniel P.S. Goh

RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN SINGAPORE. Edited by Lai Ah Eng.
Reviewed by Judith Nagata

CHALLENGING THE SECULAR STATE: The Islamization of Law in Modern Indonesia. By Arskal Salim.
Reviewed by Robert W. Hefner

FROM REBELLION TO RIOTS: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo. By Jamie S. Davidson.
Reviewed by John F. McCarthy

THE FOURTH CIRCLE: A Political Ecology of Sumatra’s Rainforest Frontier. By John F. McCarthy.
Reviewed by Freek Colombijn

Australasia and the Pacific Region

THE LAST WHALE. By Chris Pash.
Reviewed by Kate Barclay

NEW ZEALAND – NEW CALEDONIA: Neighbours, Friends, Partners. Edited by Frédéric Angleviel and Stephen Levine.
Reviewed by Nathalie Mrgudovic

EMPIRE, BARBARISM, AND CIVILISATION: Captain Cook, William Hodges and the Return to the Pacifi c. By Harriet Guest.
Reviewed by Andrew E. Robson

TELL IT AS IT IS: Autobiography of Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Kenilorea, KBE, PC Solomon Islands’ First Prime Minister. By Peter Kenilorea; Edited by Clive Moore.
Reviewed by Jaap Timmer

HELL’S ISLANDS: The Untold Story of Guadalcanal. By Stanley Coleman Jersey; foreword by Edward W. Snedeker.
Reviewed by Norman Hurst

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