Volume 93 – No. 1

Articles

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  The Return of Sophisticated Maritime Piracy to Southeast Asia

  Justin V. Hastings

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  Inequality and Democratic Support in Indonesia

  Burhanuddin Muhtadi and Eve Warburton

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  From Cautious Interaction to Mature Influence: China’s Evolving Engagement with the International Investment Regime

  Wendy Leutert and Zachary Haver

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  Civil Society and Labour Rights Protection in Asia and the Pacific

  Dongwook Kim and Chonghyun Choi

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  The Limits of the Multiple Institutionalization of Border Control: A Case Study of Immigration, Customs, and the Indonesian Maritime Security Agency in Batam, Indonesia

  Cornelis Lay and Azifah R. Astrina

Perspectives

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  Revisiting the Concept of Political Participation in the Pacific

  Kerryn Baker and Julien Barbara

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF DESIRE | Directed, produced, cinematography, edited by Hao Wu

  Sheng Zou

• PARTNERSHIP WITHIN HIERARCHY: The Evolving East Asian Security Triangle | By Sung Chull Kim

  Tony Tai-Ting Liu

• THE SPECTER OF GLOBAL CHINA: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa | By Ching Kwan Lee

  Joshua Eisenman

• CHINA IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: From Developmental to Entrepreneurial | By Gordon C.K. Cheung

  Tian He

• CHINA’S REGIONS IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION | By Tim Summers

  Hong Yu

• WILL CHINA’S RISE BE PEACEFUL?: Security, Stability, and Legitimacy | Edited by Asle Toje

  Chengxin Pan

• THE POLITICS OF COMPASSION: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China | By Bin Xu

  Shijing Zhang

• CONFESSIONS OF A RED GUARD: A Chinese Novelist Recounts His Experiences During China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | By Liang Xiaosheng; Translated by Howard Goldblatt

  Yixin Chen

• MAOISM: A Global History | By Julia Lovell

  Norbert Francis

• THE GENDER LEGACY OF THE MAO ERA: Women’s Life Stories in Contemporary China | By Xin Huang

  Feng Xu

• EMPIRE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE MAKING OF MANCHURIA | Edited by Norman Smith

  Emily Matson

• JAPAN DECIDES 2017: The Japanese General Election | Edited by Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Ethan Scheiner, and Daniel M. Smith

   Gregory W. Noble

• TAMING JAPAN’S DEFLATION: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy | By Gene Park, Saori N. Katada, Giacomo Chiozza, and Yoshiko Kojo

  Joseph E. Gagnon

• THE ABE ADMINISTRATION AND THE RISE OF THE PRIME MINISTERIAL EXECUTIVE | By Aurelia George Mulgan

  Leonard Schoppa

• CONTRACEPTIVE DIPLOMACY: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan | By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci

  Paul Christensen

• DIVA NATION: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History | Edited by Laura Miller and Rebecca Copeland

  Elizabeth D. Lublin

• PRODUCING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics | By Yuko Shibata

  Michael P. Cronin

• TOP-DOWN DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH KOREA | By Erik Mobrand

  Joan E. Cho

• RE-INVENTING AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT: Linking Africa to the Korean Development Model | By Jong-Dae Park

  Joonhwa Cho

• CULTURES OF YUSIN: South Korea in the 1970s | Edited by Youngju Ryu

  Tae Yang Kwak

• THE KOREAN WAR IN ASIA: A Hidden History | Edited by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

  Steven Hugh Lee

• K-POP LIVE: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance | By Suk-Young Kim

  Nikki J.Y. Lee

• STRAIGHT KOREAN FEMALE FANS AND THEIR GAY FANTASIES | By Jungmin Kwon

  David C. Oh

• IMPERATIVES OF CARE: Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea | By Sonja M. Kim

  Jennifer Jung-Kim

• INDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY: What Everyone Needs to Know | By Mira Kamdar

  James Manor

• FINANCIALIZING POVERTY: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance | By Sohini Kar

  M. Vijayabaskar

• POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND MOBILISATION: The Hindi Media in India | By Taberez Ahmed Neyazi

  Vivek Yadav

• DARJEELING RECONSIDERED: Histories, Politics, Environments | Edited by Townsend Middleton and Sara Shneiderman

  Selma K. Sonntag

• RIVER OF LIFE, RIVER OF DEATH: The Ganges and India’s Future | By Victor Mallet

  Kenneth Bo Nielsen

• TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN NEPAL: Interests, Victims and Agency | By Yvette Selim

  Chris Crews

• VIETNAM’S FOREIGN POLICY UNDER DOI MOI | Edited by Le Hong Hiep and Anton Tsvetov

  Paul Schuler

• CURRENCIES OF IMAGINATION: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam | By Ivan V. Small

  Tu Phuong Nguyen

• AMERICA’S VIETNAM WAR AND ITS FRENCH CONNECTION | By Frank Cain

  Alex Ferguson

• LIBERALISM AND THE POSTCOLONY: Thinking the State in 20th-Century Philippines | By Lisandro E. Claudio

  Nicole Curato

• MIGRANT RETURNS: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity | By Eric J. Pido

  Karen Anne S. Liao

• STRANGERS NEXT DOOR?: Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century | Edited by Tim Lindsey and Dave McRae

  Sian Troath

• THE STATE, ULAMA AND ISLAM IN MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA | By Norshahril Saat

  Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid

• HOW TO DEFEND AUSTRALIA | By Hugh White

  Randall Doyle

• FROM SECRET BALLOT TO DEMOCRACY SAUSAGE: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting | By Judith Brett

  Shane Barter and Ana Schugurensky

• CORAL AND CONCRETE: Remembering Kwajalein Atoll Between Japan, America, and The Marshall Islands | By Greg Dvorak

  Holly M. Barker

• FAST MONEY SCHEMES: Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea | By John Cox

  Anna-Karina Hermkens

• TADAIMA! I AM HOME: A Transnational Family History | By Tom Coffman

  Ruth (Lute) Faleolo

• HARVESTS, FEASTS, AND GRAVES: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea | By Ryan Schram

  John Barker

• PACIFIC FUTURES: Past and Present | Edited by Warwick Anderson, Miranda Johnson, and Barbara Brookes

  Michael Main

• PACIFIC REALITIES: Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance | Edited by Laurent Dousset and Mélissa Nayral

  Wenzhen He

• PARADOXES OF HAWAIIAN SOVEREIGNTY: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism | By J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

  David Fazzino