June 2013
Global Perspectives on Chinese Investment
Guest Editors: Graeme Smith and Paul D’Arcy
Articles
Introduction: Global Perspectives on Chinese Investment
Graeme Smith and Paul D’Arcy
Crude ‘Oil-Mercantilism’? Chinese Oil-Engagement in Kazakhstan
Joseph McCarthy
Going Global Responsibly? China’s Strategies Towards “Sustainable” Overseas Investments
Christelle Maurin and Pichamon Yeophantong
China’s Rise in Oceania: Issues and Perspectives
Terence Wesley-Smith
Perspectives
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Film Reviews
Jane M. Ferguson
Review Essays
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Book Reviews
Asia General
Daniel P.S. Goh
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ASEAN AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF EAST ASIA. Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series, 17. Edited by Ralf Emmers. London; New York: Routledge, 2011. xiii, 230 pp. (Illus.) US$140.00, cloth. ISBN 978- 0-415-61434-4. Reviewed by Timo Kivimäki
ASIAN RIVALRIES: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games. Edited by Sumit Ganguly and William R. Thompson. Stanford: Stanford Security Series, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2011. vii, 259 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$24.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-8047-7596-0. Reviewed by David Scott
CHINA OR JAPAN: Which Will Lead Asia? By Claude Meyer; Translated by Adrian Shaw. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. xxi, 195 pp. US$35.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-231-70286-7. Reviewed by Joseph Caron
THE INTERNATIONAL AMBITIONS OF MAO AND NEHRU: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy. By Andrew Bingham Kennedy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ix, 261 pp. (Figures, maps.) US$99.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-521-19351-1. Reviewed by Robert S. Anderson
FIVE POWER DEFENCE ARRANGEMENTS AT FORTY. Edited by Ian Storey, Ralf Emmers, Daljit Singh. Singapore: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011. xxi, 129 pp. (Tables.) US$32.90, cloth. ISBN 978-981-4345-44-6. Reviewed by James Cotton
MANAGING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES. Edited by Ken Taylor and Jane L. Lennon. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xvii, 379 pp. (Figures.) US$46.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-415-67225-2. Reviewed by Marie-Alice L’Heureux
China & Inner Asia
Andrew Brennan
Bruce A. Elleman
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WHO’S AFRAID OF CHINA?: The Challenge of Chinese Soft Power. Asian Arguments. By Michael Barr. London and New York: Zed Books, 2011. vi, 154 pp. US$29.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-84813-590-1. Reviewed by Xiangfeng Yang
SMOKELESS SUGAR: The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China’s National Economy. Contemporary Chinese Studies Series. By Emily M. Hill. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012, c2010. x, 318 pp. (Tables, figures.) C$32.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-7748-1653-3. Reviewed by Elizabeth J. Remick
KEEPING THE NATION’S HOUSE: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China. By Helen M. Schneider. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011. xii, 321 pp. (Figures, maps.) C$34.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-7748-1998-5. Reviewed by Harriet Evans
CONFUCIANISM AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN EAST ASIA. By Doh Chull Shin. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. x, 366 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$28.99, paper. ISBN 978-1-107-63178-6. Reviewed by Taku Tamaki
SALT AND LIGHT: Lives of Faith that Shaped Modern China. Studies in Chinese Christianity. Edited by Carol Lee Hamrin, with Stacey Bieler. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, c2009. xi, 240 pp.(Illus., ports.) US$22.40, paper. ISBN 978-1-55635-984-2. Reviewed by Ruth Hayhoe
SALT AND LIGHT 2: More Lives of Faith That Shaped Modern China. Studies in Chinese Christianity. Edited by Carol Lee Hamrin with Stacey Bieler. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, c2010. xii, 239 pp. (Illus., map, ports.) US$22.40, paper. ISBN 978-1-60608-955-2. Reviewed by Ruth Hayhoe
SALT AND LIGHT 3: More Lives of Faith that Shaped Modern China. Studies in Chinese Christianity. Edited by Carol Lee Hamrin with Stacey Bieler. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, c2011. xv, 261pp. (Illus., map, ports.) US$22.40, paper. ISBN 978-1-61097-158-4. Reviewed by Ruth Hayhoe
CHINESE MIGRANTS IN RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA AND EASTERN EUROPE. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series, 28. Edited by Felix B. Chang and Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xi, 232 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$140.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-415-57874-5. Reviewed by Martina Bofulin
Northeast Asia
Chris Burgess
Sean C. Kim
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HOME AND FAMILY IN JAPAN: Continuity and Transformation. Edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy. London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xvii, 278 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$44.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-415-68804-8. Reviewed by Aya Ezawa
EDUCATION POLICY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN JAPAN. Asia Pacific Studies, v. 4. By Akito Okada. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. xvi, 197 pp. (Tables, figures) US$75.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-85745-267-2. Reviewed by Steve R. Entrich
BEYOND NORTH KOREA: Future Challenges to South Korea’s Security. Edited by Byung Kwan Kim, Gi-Wook Shin and David Straub. Stanford, CA: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2011. xiii, 281 pp. (Tables, figures). US$28.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-931368-19-3. Reviewed by Rudiger Frank
South Asia & the Himalayas
Ronojoy Sen
Arvind Sharma
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SEX TRAFFICKING IN SOUTH ASIA: Telling Maya’s Story. Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series; 3. By Mary Crawford. London and New York: Routledge, 2011. ix, 194 pp. (Figures.) US$42.95, paper. ISBN 978-0- 415-50007-4. Reviewed by Ruchira Gupta
ECONOMY, CULTURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Turbulence in Punjab, India and Beyond. By Pritam Singh. Gurgaon: Three Essays Collective, 2010. xix, 249 pp. US$25.00, paper. ISBN 978-81-88789-69-6. Reviewed by Ashutosh Kumar
IN THE SHADOW OF SHARĪ‘AH: Islam, Islamic Law, and Democracy in Pakistan. By Mathew J. Nelson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. xxxii, 337pp. (Tables, figures, maps.) US$86.50, cloth. ISBN 978-0- 231-70072-6. Reviewed by Ayaz Qureshi
Southeast Asia
David C. L. Lim
Maitrii Aung-Thwin
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THE INSTITUTIONAL IMPERATIVE: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia. Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. By Erik Martinez Kuhonta. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. xxii, 342 pp. (Figures, maps.) US$50.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8047-7083-5. Reviewed by Philip Hirsch
HOW ASIA CAN SHAPE THE WORLD: From the Era of Plenty to the Era of Scarcities. By Jørgen Ørstrom Møller. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011. xiv, 540 pp. (Tables.) US$49.90, paper. ISBN 978-981- 4311-33-5. Reviewed by James Manicom
CHINESE HOUSES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers. By Ronald G. Knapp; photographs by A. Chester Ong; foreword by Wang Gungwu. Clarendon, VT: Tuttle, 2010. 288 pp. (Maps, colored photos.) US$49.95, cloth. ISBN 978-08048-3956-3. Reviewed by Abidin Kusno
HERITAGE TOURISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Edited by Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King and Michael J.G. Parnwell. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2010. xiv, 322 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$28.00, paper. ISBN 978-0-8248-3505-7. Reviewed by Dallen J. Timothy
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF THE INDOCHINA WAR (1945-1954): An International and Interdisciplinary Approach. By Christopher E. Goscha. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012. 564 pp. (Figures, maps.) US$175.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8248-36047. Reviewed by David Chandler
WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS AND THE FILIPINA, 1986-2008. By Mina Roces. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, c2012. x, 277 pp. US$55.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8248-3499-9. Reviewed by Leonora C. Angeles
INDONESIA: Sustaining Growth During Global Volatility. Editor, Thomas Rumbaugh. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2012, xv, 125 pp. (Tables, figures) US$25.00, paper. ISBN 978-1-6-1635-202-8. Reviewed by David Dapice
THE END OF INNOCENCE: Indonesian Islam and the Temptations of Radicalism. By Andrée Feillard and Rémy Madinier; translated by Wong Wee. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011. 336 pp. US$28.00, paper. ISBN 978-0-8248-35231. Reviewed by Robin Bush
MADURESE SEAFARERS : Prahus, Timber and Illegality on the Margins of the Indonesian State. Southeast Asia Publications Series. By Kurt Stenross. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011. xxvi, 315 pp. (Figures, maps, B&W photos.) US$32.00, paper. ISBN 78-0-8248-35552. Reviewed by Glenn Smith
MIXED MEDICINES: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia. By Sokhieng Au. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. viii, 263 pp. (Figures.) US$35.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-226-03163-7. Reviewed by Trude Jacobsen
Australasia & the Pacific Islands
Sina Emde
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HANGING CONTEXTS, SHIFTING MEANINGS: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania. Edited by Elfriede Hermann. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2011. xiii, 365 p. (Maps, B&W photos.) US$58.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8248- 3366-4. Reviewed by Sébastien Galliot
BLIGH: William Bligh in the South Seas. By Anne Salmond. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 528 pp., [16] pp. of plates. (Illus., maps.) US$39.95, cloth. ISBN 978-0-52-027056-5. Reviewed by Bernd Lambert