Volume 90 – No. 4

Articles

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  Introduction: Integrated Mega-Casinos and Speculative Urbanism in Southeast Asia

  Juan Zhang

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  Gambling on the Future: Casino Enclaves, Development, and Poverty Alleviation in Laos

  Kearrin Sims

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  The State of Fun? Exclusive Casino Urbanism and Its Biopolitical Borders in Singapore

  Juan Zhang and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

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  Networks of (Dis)trust and Gaming Development in the Philippines: PAGCOR and the Entertainment City

  Vincente Chua Reyes, Jr.

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  Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld Resort and Casino

  Teri Shaffer Yamada

Perspectives

Review Essays

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  “We as Peoples have the Right to Exist”: Threatened Nations and Climate Justice

  Milla Emilia Vaha

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• COMMODITIES, PORTS AND ASIAN MARITIME TRADE SINCE 1750 | Edited by Ulbe Bosma and Anthony Webster

  Wim De Winter

• DIVERGENT MEMORIES: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War | By Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider

  Ivo Plšek

• THE BUSINESS OF CULTURE: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900–65 | Edited by Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland; foreword by Wang Gungwu

  Anna Belogurova

• SCREEN ECOLOGIES: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region | By Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Kristen Sharp, and Linda Williams

  Paul Roquet

• THE POLITICS OF ISLAMIC LAW: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State | By Iza R. Hussin

  Lily Zubaidah Rahim<

• NGO GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT IN CHINA | Edited by Reza Hasmath and Jennifer Y.J. Hsu

  Dingding Chen

• FROM VILLAGE TO CITY: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat | By Andrew B. Kipnis

  Gregory Veeck

• GHOST PROTOCOL: Development and Displacement in Global China | Carlos Rojas and Ralph A. Litzinger, editors

  Nyíri Pál

• ELUSIVE REFUGE: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War | By Laura Madokoro

  Diana Lary

• MASCULINE COMPROMISE: Migration, Family, and Gender in China | By Susanne Y.P. Choi and Yinni Peng

  Wenqing Kang

• REINVENTING CHINESE TRADITION: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism | By Ka-ming Wu

  Yuezhi Zhao

• THE AGE OF IRREVERENCE: A New History of Laughter in China | By Christopher Rea

  Andrew Stuckey

• TAIWAN’S IMPACT ON CHINA: Why Soft Power Matters More than Economic or Political Inputs | Edited by Steve Tsang

  Norbert Francis

• JAPAN’S SECURITY RENAISSANCE: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century | By Andrew L. Oros

  Thomas Wilkins

• SHAKAI KAGAKU TOSHITE NO NIHON GAIKŌ KENKYŪ [JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH AS SOCIAL SCIENCE]: Riron to Rekishi no Tōgō o Mezashite [Integrating Theory and History] | By Tsuyoshi Kawasaki

  Sebastian Maslow

• SINO-JAPANESE POWER POLITICS: Might, Money and Minds | By Giulio Pugliese, Aurelio Insisa

  Ming Wan

• ITALY AND JAPAN: HOW SIMILAR ARE THEY?: A Comparative Analysis of Politics, Economics, and International Relations | Editors, Silvio Beretta, Axel Berkofsky, Fabio Rugge

  Gabriele Abbondanza

• THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF RAMEN: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze | By George Solt

  Joshua Evan Schlachet

• RADIATION BRAIN MOMS AND CITIZEN SCIENTISTS: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima | By Aya Hirata Kimura

  Cornelia Reiher

• THE JAPANESE EMPIRE: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War | By S.C.M. Paine

  Michael J. Green

• HOMECOMINGS: THE BELATED RETURN OF JAPAN’S LOST SOLDIERS | By Yoshikuni Igarashi

  Sherzod Muminov

• IT’S MADNESS: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea | By Theodore Jun Yoo

  Mark Caprio

• THE PROLETARIAN WAVE: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 | By Sunyoung Park

  Travis Workman

• TOURIST DISTRACTIONS: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema | By Youngmin Choe

  Yongwoo Lee

• THE LIFE WE LONGED FOR: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan | By Laura Neitzel

  Mark Jones

• DVOCACY AND POLICYMAKING IN SOUTH KOREA: How the Legacy of State and Society Relationships Shapes Contemporary Public Policy | By Jiso Yoon

  Kyudong Park

• SHADOW EDUCATION AND THE CURRICULUM AND CULTURE OF SCHOOLING IN SOUTH KOREA | By Young Chun Kim

  Julian Dierkes

• IGNITING THE INTERNET: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea | By Jiyeon Kang

  Kyong Yoon

• BUILDING A HEAVEN ON EARTH: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese-Occupied Korea | By Albert L. Park

  Daniel Pieper

• BURNT BY THE SUN: The Koreans of the Russian Far East | By Jon K. Chang

  Outi Luova

• DECENTERING CITIZENSHIP: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea | By Hae Yeon Choo

  Paul Y. Chang

• DEVELOPMENTAL MINDSET: The Revival of Financial Activism in South Korea | By Elizabeth Thurbon

  Thomas Kalinowski

• CASTE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA | By Surinder S. Jodhka

  Andrew Wyatt

• RECOVERING FROM A DISASTER: A Study of the Relief and Reconstruction Process in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami | Edited by Arne Olav Øyhus

  Michele Gamburd

• WARZONE TOURISM IN SRI LANKA: Tales from Darker Places in Paradise | By Sasanka Perera

  Nira Wickramasinghe

• SHI‘ISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: ‘Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions | Edited by Chiara Formichi and R. Michael Feener

  Howard M. Federspiel

• VIET NAM: Tradition and Change | By Hữu Ngọc; edited by Lady Borton and Elizabeth F. Collins

  Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox

• MAN OR MONSTER: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer | By Alexander Laban Hinton

  D. Gordon Longmuir

• THAI POLITICS: Between Democracy and Its Discontents | By Daniel H. Unger and Chandra Mahakanjana

  Kevin Hewison

• BUDDHISM, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN MYANMAR | By Matthew J. Walton

  Bruce Matthews

• FROM WORLD CITY TO THE WORLD IN ONE CITY: Liverpool Through Malay Lives | By Tim Bunnell

  Anthony D. King

• THE IMPACT OF STATE RESTRUCTURING ON INDONESIA’S REGIONAL ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE | By Adiwan Fahlan Aritenang

  Robert L. Curry Jr.

• THE UPROOTED: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980 | By Christina Elizabeth Firpo

  Mai Bui Dieu Linh

• DYNAMICS OF DEMOCRACY IN TIMOR-LESTE: The Birth of a Democratic Nation, 1999–2012 | By Rui Graça Feijó

  Douglas Kammen

• CHRISTIANITY, CONFLICT, AND RENEWAL IN AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC | Edited by Fiona Magowan and Carolyn Schwarz

  Stephanie Hobbis

• DECOLONISATION AND THE PACIFIC: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire | By Tracey Banivanua Mar

  Max Quanchi

• WEAVING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY IN SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES | By Miranda Forsyth and Sue Farran

  Toon van Meijl

• MOTHERS’ DARLINGS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC: The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II | Edited by Judith A. Bennett and Angela Wanhalla

  Rodolfo Maggio

• MEMORIALIZING PEARL HARBOR: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance | By Geoffrey White

  Andrew J. Connelly

• UNEARTHING THE POLYNESIAN PAST: Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist | By Patrick Vinton Kirch

  John Barker

• MAKING THE MODERN PRIMITIVE: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands | By Michelle MacCarthy

  Diane Losche