Pacific Affairs

Volume 90 – No. 3

September 2017

Articles

All Politics is Local: Judicial and Electoral Institutions’ Role in Japan’s Nuclear Restarts

All Politics is Local: Judicial and Electoral Institutions’ Role in Japan’s Nuclear Restarts
Daniel P. Aldrich and Timothy Fraser

The Regime of Urban Informality in Migration: Accommodating Undocumented Chosŏnjok Migrants in their Receiving Community in Seoul, South Korea

The Regime of Urban Informality in Migration: Accommodating Undocumented Chosŏnjok Migrants in their Receiving Community in Seoul, South Korea
HaeRan Shin and Soyoung Park

The Paradox of Inequality in South Korea: Minsaeng Kyŏngje and Reinvigorated Developmentalism

The Paradox of Inequality in South Korea: Minsaeng Kyŏngje and Reinvigorated Developmentalism
Ji-Whan Yun

Is Regional Animus in Decline in Korea? A Test of the Generational Difference and Geographical Mobility Hypothesis

Is Regional Animus in Decline in Korea? A Test of the Generational Difference and Geographical Mobility Hypothesis
Kyu S. Hahn, Jihye Lee, Seulji Jang, Inho Won, and Joonhwan Lee

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Book Reviews

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Asia General

POWERPLAY: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia | By Victor D. Cha POWERPLAY: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia | By Victor D. Cha
Thomas Stow Wilkins

TWO CRISES, DIFFERENT OUTCOMES: East Asia and Global Finance | Edited by T. J. Pempel and Keiichi Tsunekawa TWO CRISES, DIFFERENT OUTCOMES: East Asia and Global Finance | Edited by T. J. Pempel and Keiichi Tsunekawa
Prema-chandra Athukorala

A NEW STRATEGY FOR COMPLEX WARFARE: Combined Effects in East Asia | By Thomas A. Drohan A NEW STRATEGY FOR COMPLEX WARFARE: Combined Effects in East Asia | By Thomas A. Drohan
Jingdong Yuan

JEWISH IDENTITIES IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA: Singapore, Manila, Taipei, Harbin, Shanghai, Rangoon, and Surabaya | By Jonathan Goldstein JEWISH IDENTITIES IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA: Singapore, Manila, Taipei, Harbin, Shanghai, Rangoon, and Surabaya | By Jonathan Goldstein
Henelito A. Sevilla

MIDDLE KINGDOM AND EMPIRE OF THE RISING SUN: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present | By June Teufel Dreyer MIDDLE KINGDOM AND EMPIRE OF THE RISING SUN: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present | By June Teufel Dreyer
Martin Laflamme

PEOPLE’S SPACES: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating | By Nihal Perera PEOPLE’S SPACES: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating | By Nihal Perera
Tim Bunnell

POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND SOCIAL THEORY | By Julian Go POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND SOCIAL THEORY | By Julian Go
Sean Chabot

China & Inner Asia

CHINESE ECONOMIC STATECRAFT: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control | By William J. Norris CHINESE ECONOMIC STATECRAFT: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control | By William J. Norris
Nicholas Krapels

BUILDING CHINA: Informal Work and the New Precariat | By Sarah Swider BUILDING CHINA: Informal Work and the New Precariat | By Sarah Swider
Dorothy J. Solinger

CHINA’S MILITARY TRANSFORMATION: Politics and War Preparation | By You Ji CHINA’S MILITARY TRANSFORMATION: Politics and War Preparation | By You Ji
Xiaobing Li

THE RED GUARD GENERATION AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN CHINA | By Guobin Yang THE RED GUARD GENERATION AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN CHINA | By Guobin Yang
Daniel Leese

SINO-U.S. ENERGY TRIANGLES: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony | Edited by David Zweig and Yufan Hao SINO-U.S. ENERGY TRIANGLES: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony | Edited by David Zweig and Yufan Hao
Theresa Sabonis-Helf

GENERAL HE YINGQIN: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China | By Peter Worthing GENERAL HE YINGQIN: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China | By Peter Worthing
Colin Green

KNOWING CHINA: A Twenty-First-Century Guide | By Frank N. Pieke KNOWING CHINA: A Twenty-First-Century Guide | By Frank N. Pieke
Alvin Y. So

INFECTIOUS CHANGE: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic | By Katherine A. Mason INFECTIOUS CHANGE: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic | By Katherine A. Mason
Fang Xiaoping

FAREWELL TO THE GOD OF PLAGUE: Chairman Mao’s Campaign to Deworm China | By Miriam Gross FAREWELL TO THE GOD OF PLAGUE: Chairman Mao’s Campaign to Deworm China | By Miriam Gross
William C. Summers

CONVERGENCE OR CONFLICT IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT: The Illusion of Peace? | By J. Michael Cole CONVERGENCE OR CONFLICT IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT: The Illusion of Peace? | By J. Michael Cole
Norbert Francis

ETHNIC CONFLICT AND PROTEST IN TIBET AND XINJIANG: Unrest in China’s West | Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle ETHNIC CONFLICT AND PROTEST IN TIBET AND XINJIANG: Unrest in China’s West | Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle
Eric Schluessel

CONTEMPORARY SINO-FRENCH CINEMAS: Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons | By Michelle E. Bloom CONTEMPORARY SINO-FRENCH CINEMAS: Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons | By Michelle E. Bloom
Victor Fan

Northeast Asia

LEARNING FROM A DISASTER: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima | Edited by Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan LEARNING FROM A DISASTER: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima | Edited by Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan
Daniel P. Aldrich

LIFELONG LEARNING IN NEOLIBERAL JAPAN: Risk, Community, and Knowledge | By Akihiro Ogawa LIFELONG LEARNING IN NEOLIBERAL JAPAN: Risk, Community, and Knowledge | By Akihiro Ogawa
Simon Avenell

SINGLE MOTHERS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice | By Aya Ezawa SINGLE MOTHERS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice | By Aya Ezawa
Patricia Boling

ONE HUNDRED MILLION PHILOSOPHERS: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan | By Adam Bronson ONE HUNDRED MILLION PHILOSOPHERS: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan | By Adam Bronson
Marie Söderberg

ACCIDENTAL ACTIVISTS: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea | By Celeste L. Arrington ACCIDENTAL ACTIVISTS: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea | By Celeste L. Arrington
David Chiavacci

YASUKUNI SHRINE: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar | By Akiko Takenaka YASUKUNI SHRINE: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar | By Akiko Takenaka
Thomas U. Berger

アメリカの排日運動と日米関係 = AMERIKA NO HAINICHI UNDŌ TO NICHIBEI KANKEI [THE ANTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT IN AMERICA AND US-JAPAN RELATIONS]: 「排日移民法」はなぜ成立したか = Hainichi Iminhō Wa Naze Seiritsushitaka [The Reason Behind the Japanese Exclusion] | By Toshihiro Minohara アメリカの排日運動と日米関係 = AMERIKA NO HAINICHI UNDŌ TO NICHIBEI KANKEI [THE ANTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT IN AMERICA AND US-JAPAN RELATIONS]: 「排日移民法」はなぜ成立したか = Hainichi Iminhō Wa Naze Seiritsushitaka [The Reason Behind the Japanese Exclusion] | By Toshihiro Minohara
Noriko Kawamura

DEMYTHOLOGIZING PURE LAND BUDDHISM: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition | By Paul B. Watt DEMYTHOLOGIZING PURE LAND BUDDHISM: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition | By Paul B. Watt
Lori R. Meeks

IMITATION AND CREATIVITY IN JAPANESE ARTS: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao | By Michael Lucken; translated by Francesca Simkin IMITATION AND CREATIVITY IN JAPANESE ARTS: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao | By Michael Lucken; translated by Francesca Simkin
Matthew Larking

NOUVEAU-RICHE NATIONALISM AND MULTICULTURALISM IN KOREA: A Media Narrative Analysis | By Gil-Soo Han NOUVEAU-RICHE NATIONALISM AND MULTICULTURALISM IN KOREA: A Media Narrative Analysis | By Gil-Soo Han
Jeong-Im Hyun

WRITERS OF THE WINTER REPUBLIC: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea | By Youngju Ryu WRITERS OF THE WINTER REPUBLIC: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea | By Youngju Ryu
Sunyoung Park

THE CHANGING FACE OF KOREAN CINEMA: 1960 to 2015 | By Brian Yecies and Aegyung Shim THE CHANGING FACE OF KOREAN CINEMA: 1960 to 2015 | By Brian Yecies and Aegyung Shim
Jinhee Choi

THE COLLAPSE OF NORTH KOREA: Challenges, Planning and Geopolitics of Unification | By Tara O THE COLLAPSE OF NORTH KOREA: Challenges, Planning and Geopolitics of Unification | By Tara O
Ramon Pacheco Pardo

South Asia & the Himalayas

COMMUNITY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND POVERTY IN INDIA: Evidence from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh | By Shashidharan Enarth, Jharna Pathak, Amita Shah, Madhu Verma, John R. Wood COMMUNITY NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND POVERTY IN INDIA: Evidence from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh | By Shashidharan Enarth, Jharna Pathak, Amita Shah, Madhu Verma, John R. Wood
Ganeshdatta Poddar

PIPE POLITICS, CONTESTED WATERS: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai | By Lisa Björkman PIPE POLITICS, CONTESTED WATERS: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai | By Lisa Björkman
Louise Tillin

GROWING THE TREE OF SCIENCE: Homi Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | By Indira Chowdhury GROWING THE TREE OF SCIENCE: Homi Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | By Indira Chowdhury
Dinshaw Mistry

PAPER TIGER: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India | By Nayanika Mathur PAPER TIGER: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India | By Nayanika Mathur
Georgina Drew

POVERTY AND THE QUEST FOR LIFE: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India | By Bhrigupati Singh POVERTY AND THE QUEST FOR LIFE: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India | By Bhrigupati Singh
Jeffrey Witsoe

FIGHTING TO THE END: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War | By C. Christine Fair FIGHTING TO THE END: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War | By C. Christine Fair
A. Z. Hilali

Southeast Asia

FORESTS ARE GOLD: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam | By Pamela D. McElwee; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan FORESTS ARE GOLD: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam | By Pamela D. McElwee; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Bradley Camp Davis

CLAIMING PLACE: On the Agency of Hmong Women | Edited by Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, Ma Vang CLAIMING PLACE: On the Agency of Hmong Women | Edited by Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, Ma Vang
Jean Michaud

ACTIVIST ARCHIVES: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia | By Doreen Lee ACTIVIST ARCHIVES: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia | By Doreen Lee
Abidin Kusno

INDONESIAN NOTEBOOK: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference | Edited by Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher INDONESIAN NOTEBOOK: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference | Edited by Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher
Itty Abraham

LAND AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA: Searching for the People’s Sovereignty | Edited by John F. McCarthy, Kathryn Robinson LAND AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA: Searching for the People’s Sovereignty | Edited by John F. McCarthy, Kathryn Robinson
Tania Murray Li

MOMENTUM AND THE EAST TIMOR INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT: The Origins of America’s Debate on East Timor | By Shane Gunderson MOMENTUM AND THE EAST TIMOR INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT: The Origins of America’s Debate on East Timor | By Shane Gunderson
David Webster

Australasia & the Pacific Islands

ENGAGING WITH STRANGERS: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands | By Debra McDougall ENGAGING WITH STRANGERS: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands | By Debra McDougall
David Lipset

NIUE 1774–1974: 200 Years of Contact and Change | By Margaret Pointer NIUE 1774–1974: 200 Years of Contact and Change | By Margaret Pointer
Judith A. Bennett

ISLES OF AMNESIA: The History, Geography, and Restoration of America’s Forgotten Pacific Islands | By Mark J. Rauzon ISLES OF AMNESIA: The History, Geography, and Restoration of America’s Forgotten Pacific Islands | By Mark J. Rauzon
Rachana Agarwal

THE BATTLE OVER PELELIU: Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War | By Stephen C. Murray THE BATTLE OVER PELELIU: Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War | By Stephen C. Murray
Glenn Petersen

HEARING THE FUTURE: The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band | By Denis Crowdy HEARING THE FUTURE: The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band | By Denis Crowdy
Nancy C. Lutkehaus