Volume 88 – No. 4

Articles

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  Behind the Scenes: Smuggling in the Thailand-Myanmar Borderland

  Sang Kook Lee

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  The Politics of Regulating Elections in South Korea: The Persistence of Restrictive Campaign Laws

  Erik Mobrand

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  Central America, China and the U.S.:What Prospects for Development?

  Rolando Avendaño and Jeff Dayton-Johnson

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  A Shared History?: Postcolonial Identity and India-Australia Relations, 1947-1954

  Alexander Edmund Davis

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  Context and Comparison in Southeast Asia: The Practical Side of the Area Studies-Discipline Debate

  Kai Ostwald and Paul Schuler

Perspectives

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• HAFU: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan | Directed, produced and shot by Megumi Nishikura and Lara Perez Takagi

  Kaori Mori Want

• JALANAN: A Music Documentary | By Daniel Ziv, director, producer, cinematographer

  Edwin Jurrïens

• CATCH UP: Developing Countries in the World Economy | By Deepak Nayyar

  Kunal Sen

• EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT: Foundations and Strategies | By Dwight H. Perkins

  Kun-chin Lin

• NEW CHALLENGES FOR MATURING DEMOCRACIES IN KOREA AND TAIWAN | Edited by Larry Diamond and Gi-Wook Shin

  Byong-Kuen Jhee

• OUT OF THE SHADOWS: The Global Intensification of Supplementary Education | Edited by Janice Aurini, Scott Davies, Julian Dierkes

  John N. Hawkins

• THE THOUGHT REMOLDING CAMPAIGN OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY-STATE | By Hu Ping; translated by Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu

  Charlotte Lee

• WALKING A TIGHTROPE: Defending Human Rights in China | By Gert Holmgaard Nielsen

  David Kinley

• A CONTINUOUS REVOLUTION: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture | By Barbara Mittler

  Stephen R. MacKinnon

• BREAKING WITH THE PAST: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China | By Hans van de Ven

  Stephanie Villalta Puig

• SEEING TRANSNATIONALLY: How Chinese Migrants Make Their Dreams Come True | By Li Minghuan

  Ronald Skeldon

• GUANGDONG AND CHINESE DIASPORA: The Changing Landscape of Qiaoxiang | By Yow Cheun Hoe

  Glen Peterson

• REGULATING PROSTITUTION IN CHINA: Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900–1937 | By Elizabeth J. Remick

  Kimberley Ens Manning

• CONSUMPTION IN CHINA: How China’s New Consumer Ideology is Shaping the Nation | By LiAnne Yu

  C. Simon Fan, Yu Pang

• MOBILE HORIZONS: Dynamics Across the Taiwan Strait | Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh

  C.X. George Wei

• GOVERNING INSECURITY IN JAPAN: The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response | JAPAN’S CIVIL-MILITARY DIPLOMACY: The Banks of the Rubicon

  Andrew L. Oros

• GROWING DEMOCRACY IN JAPAN: The Parliamentary Cabinet System since 1868 | By Brian Woodall

  Kuniaki Nemoto

• THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION OF JAPANESE CAPITALISM | Edited by Sébastien Lechevalier; translated by J.A.A. Stockwin

  Derek Hall

• JAPAN: The Paradox of Harmony | By Keiko Hirata and Mark Warschauer

  Hye Won Um

• INEQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE: Labor Market Reform in Japan and Korea | By Jiyeoun Song

  Jae Won Sun

• FROM CULTURES OF WAR TO CULTURES OF PEACE: War and Peace Museums in Japan, China, and South Korea | By Takashi Yoshida

  Shogo Suzuki

• DISCOURSES OF DISCIPLINE: An Anthropology of Corporal Punishment in Japan’s Schools and Sports | By Aaron L. Miller

  Brent McDonald

• FAILED DEMOCRATIZATION IN PREWAR JAPAN: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime | By Harukata Takenaka

  Frederick R. Dickinson

• IN TRANSIT: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere | By Faye Yuan Kleeman

  Franklin Rausch

• MABIKI: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660–1950 | By Fabian Drixler

  Robert Eskildsen

• BEYOND AINU STUDIES: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives | Edited by Mark J. Hudson, Ann-Elise Lewallen, and Mark K. Watson

  Mayumi Okada, Rina Shiroishi, Yasushige Takahashi

• A FAMILY OF NO PROMINENCE: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea |By Eugene Y. Park

  Anders Karlsson

• INDIA’S OCEAN: The Story of India’s Bid for Regional Leadership | By David Brewster

  Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy

• THE PARIAH PROBLEM: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India | By Rupa Viswanath

  C. J. Fuller

• THE RIGHT SPOUSE: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu | By Isabelle Clark-Decès

  Haripriya Narasimhan

• 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh | By Srinath Raghavan

  Nayanika Mookherjee

• THE POLITICS OF ACCOUNTABILITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies | By Garry Rodan and Caroline Hughes

  Edmund Terence Gomez

• ADVANCING SINGAPORE-CHINA ECONOMIC RELATIONS | Edited by Saw Swee-Hock and John Wong

  Shee Poon Khim

• ARCHIVING THE UNSPEAKABLE: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia | By Michelle Caswell

  Karen Strassler

• GHOSTS OF THE NEW CITY: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai | By Andrew Alan Johnson

  Eric C. Thompson

• DEBATING DEMOCRATIZATION IN MYANMAR | Edited by Nick Cheesman, Nicholas Farrelly, Trevor Wilson

  Matthew J. Walton

• THE ROOTS OF TERRORISM IN INDONESIA: From Darul Islam to Jema’ah Islamiyah | By Solahudin; translated by Dave McRae; foreword by Greg Fealy

  Shane J. Barter

• GENDER ON THE EDGE: Transgender, Gay, and other Pacific Islanders | Edited by Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff

  Åse Ottosson

• GREED AND GRIEVANCE: Ex-Militants’ Perspectives on the Conflict in Solomon Islands, 1998–2003 | By Matthew G. Allen

  Terry M. Brown

• THE SHARK WARRIOR OF ALEWAI: A Phenomenology of Melanesian Identity | By Deborah Van Heekeren

  Roger Ivar Lohmann