Pacific Affairs

Volume 90 – No. 1

March 2017

Articles

The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same-Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese Context

The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward’s Same-Sex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese Context
Yasuo Takao

The Politics of Pacific Ocean Conservation: Lessons from the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve

The Politics of Pacific Ocean Conservation: Lessons from the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve
Justin Alger and Peter Dauvergne

The Real Impact of Subsidies on the Film Industry (1970s–Present): Lessons from France and Korea

The Real Impact of Subsidies on the Film Industry (1970s–Present): Lessons from France and Korea
Patrick Messerlin and Jimmyn Parc

Settlement without Consensus: International Pressure, Domestic Backlash, and the Comfort Women Issue in Japan

Settlement without Consensus: International Pressure, Domestic Backlash, and the Comfort Women Issue in Japan
Ji Young Kim and Jeyong Sohn

Perspectives

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Film Reviews

THE MOSUO SISTERS = MOSUO ZI MEI | By Marlo Poras THE MOSUO SISTERS = MOSUO ZI MEI | By Marlo Poras
Stevan Harrell

THE LOOK OF SILENCE | Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer THE LOOK OF SILENCE | Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
John Roosa

Review Essays

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Book Reviews

Asia General China & Inner Asia Northeast Asia South Asia & the Himalayas Southeast Asia Australasia & the Pacific Islands

Asia General

TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ASIA: The Question of Return | Edited by Michiel Baas TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ASIA: The Question of Return | Edited by Michiel Baas
Josephine Smart

PARTY SYSTEM INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN ASIA: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows of the Past | Edited by Allen Hicken, Erik Martinez Kuhonta PARTY SYSTEM INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN ASIA: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadows of the Past | Edited by Allen Hicken, Erik Martinez Kuhonta
Nathan Allen

THE GLOBAL COAL MARKET: Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies | Edited by Mark C. Thurber and Richard K. Morse THE GLOBAL COAL MARKET: Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies | Edited by Mark C. Thurber and Richard K. Morse
Ian Cronshaw

THINK TANKS AND NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY: Governance Entrepreneurs in Asia | By Erin Zimmerman THINK TANKS AND NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY: Governance Entrepreneurs in Asia | By Erin Zimmerman
Stéphanie Martel

THE SAN FRANCISCO SYSTEM AND ITS LEGACIES: Continuation, Transformation and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific | Edited by Kimie Hara THE SAN FRANCISCO SYSTEM AND ITS LEGACIES: Continuation, Transformation and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific | Edited by Kimie Hara
Ivo Plšek

PACIFIC STRIFE: The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific 1870–1914 | By Kees van Dijk PACIFIC STRIFE: The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific 1870–1914 | By Kees van Dijk
Hao-Li Lin

BILATERAL LEGACIES IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA | Edited by N. Ganesan BILATERAL LEGACIES IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA | Edited by N. Ganesan
Robert L. Curry, Jr.

China & Inner Asia

ASSESSING CHINA’S POWER | Edited by Jae Ho Chung ASSESSING CHINA’S POWER | Edited by Jae Ho Chung
Peter Worthing

THE CHINA BOOM: Why China Will Not Rule the World | By Ho-fung Hung THE CHINA BOOM: Why China Will Not Rule the World | By Ho-fung Hung
Robert J. Hanlon

UNKNOTTING THE HEART: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China | By Jie Yang UNKNOTTING THE HEART: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China | By Jie Yang
Hsuan-Ying Huang

MAOISM AT THE GRASSROOTS: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism | Edited by Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson MAOISM AT THE GRASSROOTS: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism | Edited by Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson
Lynn T. White III

URBANIZING CHINA IN WAR AND PEACE: The Case of Wuxi County | By Toby Lincoln URBANIZING CHINA IN WAR AND PEACE: The Case of Wuxi County | By Toby Lincoln
Micah Muscolino

THE SAGE AND THE PEOPLE: The Confucian Revival in China | By Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval THE SAGE AND THE PEOPLE: The Confucian Revival in China | By Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval
Julia K. Murray

TONGZHI LIVING: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China | By Tiantian Zheng TONGZHI LIVING: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China | By Tiantian Zheng
Bret Hinsch

CHINA’S LITERARY COSMOPOLITANS: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the World of Letters | Edited by Christopher Rea CHINA’S LITERARY COSMOPOLITANS: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the World of Letters | Edited by Christopher Rea
Richard King

SOUNDING THE MODERN WOMAN: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema | By Jean Ma SOUNDING THE MODERN WOMAN: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema | By Jean Ma
S. Louisa Wei

THE RISE OF CANTONESE OPERA | By Wing Chung Ng THE RISE OF CANTONESE OPERA | By Wing Chung Ng
Joseph S.C. Lam

DV-MADE CHINA: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film | Edited by Zhang Zhen and Angela Zito DV-MADE CHINA: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film | Edited by Zhang Zhen and Angela Zito
Weihong Bao

Northeast Asia

IDENTITY CHANGE AND FOREIGN POLICY: Japan and its ‘others’ | Edited by Linus Hagström IDENTITY CHANGE AND FOREIGN POLICY: Japan and its ‘others’ | Edited by Linus Hagström
Kyoko Hatakeyama

JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN POLITICS: Polar Opposites or Something in Common? | Edited by Takashi Inoguchi JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN POLITICS: Polar Opposites or Something in Common? | Edited by Takashi Inoguchi
Alexander Bukh

DISASTERS AND SOCIAL CRISIS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses | Edited by Mark R. Mullins, Koichi Nakano DISASTERS AND SOCIAL CRISIS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses | Edited by Mark R. Mullins, Koichi Nakano
Pablo Figueroa

THE LONG DEFEAT: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan | By Akiko Hashimoto THE LONG DEFEAT: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan | By Akiko Hashimoto
Philip Seaton

HIGH-STAKES SCHOOLING: What We Can Learn from Japan’s Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform | By Christopher Bjork HIGH-STAKES SCHOOLING: What We Can Learn from Japan’s Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform | By Christopher Bjork
Julian Dierkes

NATURE IN TRANSLATION: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies | By Shiho Satsuka NATURE IN TRANSLATION: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies | By Shiho Satsuka
David W. Edgington

CASUALTIES OF HISTORY: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War | By Lee K. Pennington CASUALTIES OF HISTORY: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War | By Lee K. Pennington
Aiko Otsuka

THE JAPAN-SOUTH KOREA IDENTITY CLASH: East Asian Security and the United States | By Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder THE JAPAN-SOUTH KOREA IDENTITY CLASH: East Asian Security and the United States | By Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder
Kijeong Nam

ANTI-AMERICANISM IN DEMOCRATIZING SOUTH KOREA | By David Straub ANTI-AMERICANISM IN DEMOCRATIZING SOUTH KOREA | By David Straub
Kisuk Cho

THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM IN SOUTH KOREA: 1945–2007 | By Yunjong Kim THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM IN SOUTH KOREA: 1945–2007 | By Yunjong Kim
Avram Agov

South Asia & the Himalayas

DEMOCRACY AND TRANSPARENCY IN THE INDIAN STATE: The Making of the Right to Information Act | By Prashant Sharma DEMOCRACY AND TRANSPARENCY IN THE INDIAN STATE: The Making of the Right to Information Act | By Prashant Sharma
Martin Webb

GLOBALISATION, DEMOCRACY AND CORRUPTION: An Indian Perspective | By Pranab Bardhan GLOBALISATION, DEMOCRACY AND CORRUPTION: An Indian Perspective | By Pranab Bardhan
John Harriss

DIVIDED WE GOVERN: Coalition Politics in Modern India | By Sanjay Ruparelia DIVIDED WE GOVERN: Coalition Politics in Modern India | By Sanjay Ruparelia
James Manor

“NATION-STATE” AND MINORITY RIGHTS IN INDIA: Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities | By Tanweer Fazal “NATION-STATE” AND MINORITY RIGHTS IN INDIA: Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities | By Tanweer Fazal
Rajesh Dev

INDIA’S 2014 ELECTIONS: A Modi-led BJP Sweep | Edited by Paul Wallace INDIA’S 2014 ELECTIONS: A Modi-led BJP Sweep | Edited by Paul Wallace
Ronojoy Sen

INDIA’S MILITARY MODERNIZATION: Strategic Technologies and Weapons Systems| Edited by Rajesh Basrur, Bharath Gopalaswamy INDIA’S MILITARY MODERNIZATION: Strategic Technologies and Weapons Systems| Edited by Rajesh Basrur, Bharath Gopalaswamy
Sumit Ganguly

INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN TRANSITION: Relations with South Asia | By Arijit Mazumdar INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN TRANSITION: Relations with South Asia | By Arijit Mazumdar
Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy

IMAGINING MUSLIMS IN SOUTH ASIA AND THE DIASPORA: Secularism, Religion, Representations | Edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert IMAGINING MUSLIMS IN SOUTH ASIA AND THE DIASPORA: Secularism, Religion, Representations | Edited by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert
Nukhbah Taj Langah

UNSETTLING INDIA: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality | By Purnima Mankekar UNSETTLING INDIA: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality | By Purnima Mankekar
John C. Hawley

REVOLUTIONARY LIVES IN SOUTH ASIA: Acts and Afterlives of Anticolonial Political Action | Edited by Kama Maclean and J. Daniel Elam REVOLUTIONARY LIVES IN SOUTH ASIA: Acts and Afterlives of Anticolonial Political Action | Edited by Kama Maclean and J. Daniel Elam
Sinderpal Singh

LIFE SUPPORT: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor | By Kalindi Vora LIFE SUPPORT: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor | By Kalindi Vora
Carol Upadhya

FRONTIERS, INSURGENCIES AND COUNTER-INSURGENCIES IN SOUTH ASIA, 1820–2013 | By Kaushik Roy FRONTIERS, INSURGENCIES AND COUNTER-INSURGENCIES IN SOUTH ASIA, 1820–2013 | By Kaushik Roy
Pahi Saikia

CONFLICTING VISIONS: Canada and India in the Cold War World, 1946-76 | By Ryan Touhey CONFLICTING VISIONS: Canada and India in the Cold War World, 1946-76 | By Ryan Touhey
Robert Anderson

Southeast Asia

FRONTIER LIVELIHOODS: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands | By Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin, Jean Michaud FRONTIER LIVELIHOODS: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands | By Sarah Turner, Christine Bonnin, Jean Michaud
Shaun Kingsley Malarney

EMBODIED NATION: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos | By Simon Creak EMBODIED NATION: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos | By Simon Creak
Carol Ireson-Doolittle

THE LOST TERRITORIES: Thailand’s History of National Humiliation | By Shane Strate THE LOST TERRITORIES: Thailand’s History of National Humiliation | By Shane Strate
Søren Ivarsson

SAVING BUDDHISM: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma | By Alicia Turner SAVING BUDDHISM: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma | By Alicia Turner
Nicola Tannenbaum

“GETTING BY”: Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia | By Donald M. Nonini “GETTING BY”: Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia | By Donald M. Nonini
Huang Jianli

FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia: The Case of the Madurese | By Gerben Nooteboom FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia: The Case of the Madurese | By Gerben Nooteboom
Asep Suryahadi

Australasia & the Pacific Islands

THE PEARL FRONTIER: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network | By Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers THE PEARL FRONTIER: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network | By Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers
A. Ross Gordon

THE PACIFIC FESTIVALS OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND: Negotiating Place and Identity in a New Homeland | By Jared Mackley-Crump THE PACIFIC FESTIVALS OF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND: Negotiating Place and Identity in a New Homeland | By Jared Mackley-Crump
Charmaine ‘Ilaiū Talei

BEING POLITICAL: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands | By Jack Corbett BEING POLITICAL: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands | By Jack Corbett
Steffen Dalsgaard

SAVAGE HARVEST: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | By Carl Hoffman SAVAGE HARVEST: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | By Carl Hoffman
Shirley Campbell

FROM KING CANE TO THE LAST SUGAR MILL: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai‘i’s Premier Crop | By C. Allan Jones & Robert V. Osgood FROM KING CANE TO THE LAST SUGAR MILL: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai‘i’s Premier Crop | By C. Allan Jones & Robert V. Osgood
Kara Hisatake

THINKING LIKE AN ISLAND: Navigating a Sustainable Future in Hawai‘i | Edited by Jennifer Chirico and Gregory S. Farley THINKING LIKE AN ISLAND: Navigating a Sustainable Future in Hawai‘i | Edited by Jennifer Chirico and Gregory S. Farley
Donald H. Rubinstein