Volume 92 – No. 1

Articles

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  To Join or Not to Join? State Ownership, Commercial Interests, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative

  Xiaojun Li and Ka Zeng

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  Elite Opinion and the “Belt and Road” Debate in South Korea

  David Hundt and Sooyoung Kim

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  Chinese Investment in Foreign Real Estate and Its Interactions with the Host State and Society: The Case of Jeju, South Korea

  Wooyeal Paik

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  School-community Relations and Fee-Free Education Policy in Papua New Guinea

  Grant W. Walton and Tara Davda

Perspectives

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• A COMPARATIVE GUIDE TO THE ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK | By Natalie Lichtenstein

  Maria Adele Carrai

• COLD WAR RUINS: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes | By Lisa Yoneyama

  James Burnham Sedgwick

• THE HISTORY PROBLEM: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia | By Hiro Saito

  Jung-Sun Han

• THERAVADA TRADITIONS: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka | By John Clifford Holt

  Susan M. Darlington

• VAMPING THE STAGE: Female Voices of Asian Modernities. Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific | Edited by Andrew N. Weintraub and Bart Barendregt

  Azmyl Yusof

• POWER VERSUS LAW IN MODERN CHINA: Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party | By Qiang Fang and Xiaobing Li

  Xing Lijuan

• THE CHINA-JAPAN CONFLICT OVER THE SENKAKU/DIAOYU ISLANDS: Useful Rivalry | By Anna Costa

  Shusuke Murai

• THE WORLD IN GUANGZHOU: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace | By Gordon Mathews with Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang

  Kevin Carrico

• REPORTING FOR CHINA: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World | By Pál Nyíri

  Timothy B. Weston

• GENDER, DATING AND VIOLENCE IN URBAN CHINA | By Xiying Wang

  Lihong Shi

• THE CHINESE TYPEWRITER: A History | By Thomas S. Mullaney

  Gloria Davies

• RED AT HEART: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution | By Elizabeth McGuire

  Steven I. Levine

• THE CIA AND THIRD FORCE MOVEMENTS IN CHINA DURING THE EARLY COLD WAR: The Great American Dream | By Roger B. Jeans

  Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa

• THE POLITICS OF MEMORY IN SINOPHONE CINEMAS AND IMAGE CULTURE: Altering Archives | Edited by Peng Hsiao-yen and Ella Raidel

  Shuk Ting Kinnia Yau

• TRANSNATIONAL JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT | By Simon Avenell

  Petrice Flowers

• RE-RISING JAPAN: Its Strategic Power in International Relations | Edited by Hidekazu Sakai and Yoichiro Sato

  David M. Potter

• VOICE, SILENCE, AND SELF: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan | By Christopher Bondy.

  Frank K. Upham

• PURE LAND, REAL WORLD: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination | By Melissa Anne-Marie Curley

  Richard Jaffe

• SHADOW EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN JAPAN: Evolving Patterns and Conceptual Implications | By Steve R. Entrich

  Christopher Bjork

• STAGED SEDUCTION: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club | By Akiko Takeyama

  David Leheny

• SIGNIFICANT SOIL: Settler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria | By Emer O’Dwyer

  Emily Matson

• ARCHITECTS OF OCCUPATION: American Experts and Planning for Postwar Japan | By Dayna L. Barnes

  Mark E. Caprio

• PROMISCUOUS MEDIA: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926–1945 | By Hikari Hori

  Robert Tierney

• TO STAND WITH THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD: Japan’s Meiji Restoration in World History | By Mark Ravina

  Frederick R. Dickinson

• ENNOBLING JAPAN’S SAVAGE NORTHEAST: Tōhoku as Postwar Thought, 1945–2011 | By Nathan Hopson

  Anne Giblin Gedacht

• WRITING TECHNOLOGY IN MEIJI JAPAN: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture | By Seth Jacobowitz.

  Zev Handel

• POLITICS IN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA: Political Development, Economy, and Foreign Relations | By Yangmo Ku, Inyeop Lee, and Jongseok Woo

  Sung Chull Kim

• HOMING: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration | By Ji-Yeon O. Jo

  Suk-Ki Kong

• GLOBALIZATION AND POPULAR MUSIC IN SOUTH KOREA: Sounding Out K-Pop | By Michael Fuhr

  CedarBough Saeji

• SPORT IN KOREA: History, development, management | Edited by Dae Hee Kwak, Yong Jae Ko, Inkyu Kang, and Mark Rosentraub

  Younghan Cho

• HIMALAYAN MOBILITIES: An Exploration of the Impacts of Expanding Rural Road Networks on Social and Ecological Systems in the Nepalese Himalaya | By Robert E. Beazley, James P. Lassoie

  Martin Saxer

• INDIA AND CHINA AT SEA: Competition for Naval Dominance in the Indian Ocean | Edited by David Brewster

  Richard D. Fisher, Jr.

• WHY REGIONAL PARTIES?: Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System | By Adam Ziegfeld

  Sanjay Ruparelia

• SOUTHEAST ASIA’S COLD WAR: An Interpretive History | By Ang Cheng Guan

  Matthew Galway

• IMPERIAL INTOXICATION: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina | By Gerard Sasges

  Mark W. McLeod

• FLAVORS OF EMPIRE: Food and the Making of Thai America | By Mark Padoongpatt

  Josephine Smart

• MORAL POLITICS IN THE PHILIPPINES: Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor | By Wataru Kusaka

  Erhard Berner

• THE KILLING SEASON: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66 | By Geoffrey B. Robinson

  Thomas B. Pepinsky

• VOTING BEHAVIOR IN INDONESIA SINCE DEMOCRATIZATION: Critical Democrats | By Saiful Mujani, R. William Liddle, and Kuskridho Ambardi

  Nathan Allen

• WHY TERRORISTS QUIT: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists | By Julie Chernov Hwang

  Damien Kingsbury

• MOBILITIES OF RETURN: Pacific Perspectives | Edited by John Taylor and Helen Lee

  Micah Van der Ryn

• SINUOUS OBJECTS: Revaluing Women’s Wealth in the Contemporary Pacific | Edited by Anna-Karina Hermkens and Katherine Lepani

  John Barker

• TAUTAI: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson | By Patricia O’Brien

  Malama Meleisea

• WAYS OF BALOMA: Rethinking Magic and Kinship from the Trobriands | By Mark S. Mosko with Tabalu Pulayasi Daniel, Molubabeba Daniel, Pakalaki Tokulupai, and Yogaru Vincent

  Michelle MacCarthy

• YABAR: The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity. Culture, Mind, and Society | By David Lipset

  Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi

• SELFHOOD AND RECOGNITION: Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality | By Anita C. Galuschek.

  Terry M. Brown

• BREAKING THE SHELL: Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of the Sea in the Marshall Islands | By Joseph H. Genz

  Holly M. Barker

• BEYOND ETHNICITY: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i | Edited by Camilla Fojas, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. and Nitasha Tamar Sharma

  Kara Hisatake