Volume 91 – No. 1

Articles

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  Understanding the Development of Think Tanks in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan: An Introduction to the Special Issue

  Patrick Köllner, Xufeng Zhu, Pascal Abb

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  The Rise of China’s New-Type Think Tanks and the Internationalization of the State

  Jane Hayward

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  Embracing Scientific Decision Making: The Rise of Think-Tank Policies in China

  Lan Xue, Xufeng Zhu, Wanqu Han

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  The Impact of Democratization, Political Culture, and Diplomatic Isolation on Think Tank Development in Taiwan

  Pascal Abb, Alan Hao Yang

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  Knowledge Regimes in Post-Developmental States: Assessing the Role of Think Tanks in Japan’s Policymaking Process

  Sebastian Maslow

Perspectives

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• TOKYO IDOLS | By Kyoko Miyake

  Lindsay Nelson

• PEOPLE ARE THE SKY | By Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

  Robert Oppenheim

• FORGETTING VIETNAM | By Trinh T. Minh-ha

  Van Nguyen-Marshall

• NUCLEAR DEBATES IN ASIA: The Role of Geopolitics and Domestic Processes | Edited by Mike M. Mochizuki and Deepa M. Ollapally

  John P. DiMoia

• SMART DIPLOMACY: Exploring China-India Synergy | By P.S. Suryanarayana; foreword by Ambassador Tommy Koh

  Jiye Kim

• DICTATORS AND THEIR SECRET POLICE: Coercive Institutions and State Violence | By Sheena Chestnut Greitens

  Patrick Hein

• COALITIONS OF THE WELL-BEING: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries | By Joel Sawat Selway

  Gavin W. Jones

• CHINESE ENCOUNTERS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region | Edited by Pál Nyíri and Danielle Tan; foreword by Wang Gungwu

  Chih-yu Shih

• CULTURAL POLITICS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY ASIA | Edited by Tiantian Zheng

  Jesook Song

• THE VALUE OF COMPARISON | By Peter van der Veer; foreword by Thomas Gibson

  Joseph S. Alter

• ARCHITECTS OF BUDDHIST LEISURE: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks | By Justin Thomas McDaniel

  Erik Hammerstrom

• SECURITY RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: From Convergence to Cooperation? | Edited by Emil J. Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen, Han Dorussen

  Andrew Scobell

• THE CHINA MODEL: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy | By Daniel A. Bell

  Paul Evans

• CENTRIFUGAL EMPIRE: Central-Local Relations in China | By Jae Ho Chung

  Lior Rosenberg

• TRANSFORMING PATRIARCHY: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century | Edited by Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell

  Leslie K. Wang

• LEFTOVER WOMEN: The resurgence of gender inequality in China | By Leta Hong Fincher

  Bryna Goodman

• CHINA’S ASIAN DREAM: Empire Building Along the New Silk Road | By Tom Miller

  Tai Wei Lim

• GODDESS ON THE FRONTIER: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China | By Megan Bryson

  C. Patterson Giersch

• FINDING WOMEN IN THE STATE: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1964 | By Wang Zheng

  Wendy Larson

• TRACES OF THE SAGE: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius | By James A. Flath

  Thomas Wilson

• EMPIRE AND THE MEANING OF RELIGION IN NORTHEAST ASIA: Manchuria 1900–1945 | By Thomas David DuBois

  Victor Zatsepine

• THE SUBLIME PERVERSION OF CAPITAL: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan | By Gavin Walker

  Derek Hall

• WOMEN AND POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN | By Emma Dalton

  Jackie F. Steele

• OSAKA MODERN: The City in the Japanese Imaginary | By Michael P. Cronin

  Tristan R. Grunow

• WOMEN IN JAPANESE CINEMA: Alternate Perspectives | By Tamae K. Prindle

  Kathryn Hemmann

• MANGA VISION: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives | Edited by Sarah Pasfield-Neotifou and Cathy Sell, with manga artist Queenie Chan

  James Welker

• THE STRATEGY FOR KOREA’S ECONOMIC SUCCESS | By Hwy-Chang Moon

  Wankeun Oh

• CURATIVE VIOLENCE: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea | By Eunjung Kim

  Celeste L. Arrington

• MADE IN KOREA: Studies in Popular Music | Edited by Hyunjoon Shin and Seung-Ah Lee

  Hyung-Gu Lynn

• NORTH KOREA’S HIDDEN REVOLUTION: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society | By Jieun Baek

  Steven Denney

• SPACE, PLANNING AND EVERYDAY CONTESTATIONS IN DELHI | Edited by Surajit Chakravarty and Rohit Negi

  Sanjeev Routray

• UNCONDITIONAL EQUALITY: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance | By Ajay Skaria

  Uday Chandra

• RELIGION AND NATIONALISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA | By Joseph Chinyong Liow

  Michael D. Barr

• THE RISE OF CHINA AND THE CHINESE OVERSEAS: A Study of Beijing’s Changing Policy in Southeast Asia and Beyond | By Leo Suryadinata

  Amy Freedman

• MOTHERLESS TONGUES: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation | By Vicente L. Rafael

  William B. Noseworthy

• GHOSTLY DESIRES: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema | By Arnika Fuhrmann

  David Teh

• OF BEGGARS AND BUDDHAS: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand | By Katherine A. Bowie

  Susan M. Darlington

• SIEGE OF THE SPIRITS: Community and Polity in Bangkok | By Michael Herzfeld

  Charles Keyes

• HAMKA’S GREAT STORY: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia | By James R. Rush

  Abidin Kusno

• TROPICAL RENDITIONS: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America | By Christine Bacareza Balance

  Victor Bascara

• RESILIENCE AND GROWTH IN THE SMALL STATES OF THE PACIFIC | Edited by Hoe Ee Khor, Roger P. Kronenberg, and Patrizia Tumbarello

  Penelope Schoeffel

• DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE: The United States and the Marshall Islands during the Cold War | By Martha Smith-Norris

  Sylvia C. Frain

• GENDER VIOLENCE & HUMAN RIGHTS: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu | TRANSFORMATIONS OF GENDER IN MELANESIA

  Barbara Andersen

• TIDES OF INNOVATION IN OCEANIA: Value, materiality and place. | Edited by Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone and Anna Paini

  Rodolfo Maggio

• TOURING PACIFIC CULTURES | Edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff, John Taylor

  Shirley Campbell

• TREES, KNOTS, AND OUTRIGGERS: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring | By Frederick H. Damon

  Susanne Kuehling

• WAVES OF KNOWING: A Seascape Epistemology | By Karin Amimoto Ingersoll

  Tui Nicola Clery