Volume 89 – No. 2

Articles

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  Who’s Ready for ASEAN 2015? Firm Expectations and Preparations in the Philippines

  Cesi Cruz, Prudenciano U. Gordoncillo, Benjamin A.T. Graham, Jeanette Angeline B. Madamba and Jewel Joanna S. Cabardo

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  Ongoing Rebel Violence in Autonomous Regions: Assam, Northeast India

  Chris Wilson

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  Introduction: Gender Reforms, Electoral Quotas and Women’s Political Representation in Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore

  Netina Tan

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  Reserved for Whom? The Electoral Impact of Gender Quotas in Taiwan

  Chang-Ling Huang

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  Gender Quotas and Candidate Selection Processes in South Korean Political Parties

  Hyunji Lee and Ki-young Shin

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  Why Are Gender Reforms Adopted in Singapore? Party Pragmatism and Electoral Incentives

  Netina Tan

Perspectives

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• 农家乐 PEASANT FAMILY HAPPINESS | By Jenny Chio

  Tenzin Jinba

• THE VANCOUVER ASAHI = バンクーバーの朝日 | By Yuya Ishii

  Bill Staples, Jr.

• DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll | Directed and photographed by John Pirozzi

  David Novak

• FOREIGN POLICIES AND DIPLOMACIES IN ASIA: Changes in Practice, Concepts, and Thinking in a Rising Region | Edited by Matthias Maass

  Joseph Caron

• ASIAN-PACIFIC RIM LOGISTICS: Global Context and Local Policies | By Peter J. Rimmer

  David W. Edgington

• HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ARTS: Perspectives on Global Asia | Edited by Susan J. Henders and Lily Cho

  Marina Svensson

• A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EAST ASIAN CAPITALISM | Edited by Hong Yung Lee

  Alison Hulme

• POWERFUL PATRIOTS: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations | By Jessica Chen Weiss

  June Teufel Dreyer

• CHINESE MODELS OF DEVELOPMENT: Global, Local, and Comparative Perspectives | Edited by Tse-Kang Leng and Yu-Shan Wu

  David Bachman

• PATRONAGE AND POWER: Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China | By Ben Hillman

  Kerry Brown

• THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF CHINA’S CONSUMERISM | Edited by Alison Hulme

  Liu Kang

• BEIJING’S ECONOMIC STATECRAFT DURING THE COLD WAR, 1949-1991 | By Shu Guang Zhang

  Xiaoming Zhang

• CHINA’S JAPAN POLICY: Adjusting to New Challenges | By Joseph Yu-shek Cheng

  Jing Sun

• CHINESE AND AMERICANS: A Shared History | By Xu Guoqi; foreword by Akira Iriye

  Madeline Y. Hsu

• GREEN INNOVATION IN CHINA: China’s Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy | By Joanna I. Lewis

  Sam Geall

• NEGOTIATING CHINA’S DESTINY IN WORLD WAR II | Edited by Hans van de Ven, Diana Lary, and Stephen R. MacKinnon

  Bruce A. Elleman,

• CHINA’S CIVIL WAR: A Social History, 1945-1949 | By Diana Lary

  Matt Galway

• FROM FU MANCHU TO KUNG FU PANDA: Images of China in American Film | By Naomi Greene

  Stacilee Ford

• IN THE LAND OF THE EASTERN QUEENDOM: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border | MAPPING SHANGRILA: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

  Matthew T. Kapstein

• MY TIBETAN CHILDHOOD: When Ice Shattered Stone | By Naktsang Nulo; translation provided by Angus Cargill and Sonam Lhamo; edited and abridged by Angus Cargill

  Benno Ryan Weiner

• JAPAN’S MARITIME SECURITY STRATEGY: The Japan Coast Guard and Maritime Outlaws | By Lindsay Black

  Alessio Patalano

• CONFIGURATIONS OF FAMILY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN | Edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales, Romit Dasgupta

  Allison Alexy

• BAD WATER: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950 | By Robert Stolz

  William M. Tsutsui

• BEYOND THE METROPOLIS: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan | By Louise Young

  Peter Siegenthaler

• KINDAI NIHON NO KAKUSHINRON TO AJIA SHUGI: Kita Ikki, Ōkawa Shūmei, Mitsukawa Kametarō ra no Shisō to Kōdō 近代日本の革新論とアジア主義: 北一輝，大川周明，満川亀太郎らの思想と行動 | By Christopher W.A. Szpilman (Kurisutofā W.A. Supiruman cho)

  Tosh Minohara

• JAPANESE NEW YORK: Migrant Artists and Self-reinvention on the World Stage | By Olga Kanzaki Sooudi

  Andrew Horvat

• WORKING SKIN: Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan | By Joseph D. Hankins

  Timothy D. Amos

• JAPANESE AND KOREAN POLITICS: Alone and Apart from Each Other | Edited by Takashi Inoguchi

  Seung Hyok Lee

• SOUTH KOREA’S RISE: Economic Development, Power and Foreign Relations | By Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig

  Hyung-Gu Lynn

• ON THE MARGINS OF EMPIRE: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan | By Jeffrey Paul Bayliss

  Sidney Xu Lu

• THE REAL MODERN: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea | By Christopher P. Hanscom

  Chul Kim

• GLOBALIZATION AND INDIA’S ECONOMIC INTEGRATION | By Baldev Raj Nayar

  Stuart Corbridge

• INDIA’S GRAND STRATEGY: History, Theory, Cases | Edited by Kanti Bajpai, Saira Basit, V. Krishnappa

  Sumit Ganguly

• ELITE PARTIES, POOR VOTERS: How Social Services Win Votes in India | By Tariq Thachil

  Rob Jenkins

• INDIA’S NORTH-EAST: Identity Movements, State, and Civil Society | By Udayon Misra

  Sajjad Hassan

• DALIT WOMEN’S EDUCATION IN MODERN INDIA: Double Discrimination | By Shailaja Paik

  Surinder S. Jodhka

• THE DURABLE SLUM: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai | By Liza Weinstein

  Sanjeev Routray

• STREET CORNER SECRETS: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai | By Svati P. Shah

  Atreyee Sen

• THE FIRST NAXAL: An Authorised Biography of Kanu Sanyal | By Bappaditya Paul

  Alpa Shah

• SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: Non-Traditional Security Crises and Cooperation | By Naila Maier-Knapp

  Anja Jetschke

• SLOW ANTHROPOLOGY: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien | By Hjorleifur Jonsson

  Jean Michaud

• WOMEN AND SEX WORK IN CAMBODIA: Blood, Sweat and Tears | By Larissa Sandy

  Michael L. Rekart

• LIVING WITH RISK: Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor | By Tamaki Endo

  Gisèle Yasmeen

• MYANMAR: The Dynamics of an Evolving Polity | Edited by David I. Steinberg

  Bruce Matthews

• CIVILIAN STRATEGY IN CIVIL WAR: Insights from Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines | By Shane Joshua Barter

  Damien Kingsbury

• INDONESIA’S CHANGING POLITICAL ECONOMY: Governing the Roads | By Jamie S. Davidson

  T.G. McGee

• LAND’S END: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier | By Tania Murray Li

  Jonathan Rigg

• CARS, CONDUITS, AND KAMPONGS: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960 | Edited by Freek Colombijn, Joost Coté

  Christopher Silver

• AUSTRALIA’S ‘WAR ON TERROR’ DISCOURSE | By Kathleen Gleeson

  Clarke Jones

• FOUR DEGREES OF GLOBAL WARMING: Australia in a Hot World | Edited by Peter Christoff

  Roderick Ewins

• PACIFIC FUTURES: Projects, Politics and Interests | Edited by Will Rollason

  Rachel E. Smith

• BIOMEDICINE IN AN UNSTABLE PLACE: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital | By Alice Street

  John Barker

• DISASSEMBLING AND DECOLONIZING SCHOOL IN THE PACIFIC: A Genealogy from Micronesia | By David W. Kupferman

  Rachana Agarwal

• HOUSEHOLD VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE TO ECONOMIC SHOCKS: Findings from Melanesia | Edited by Simon Feeny

  Chelsea Wentworth