Volume 93 – No. 2

Articles

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  Introduction: Renegotiating Social Risks in The People’s Republic of China and Japan

  Hanno Jentzsch and Alison Lamont

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  External Migrants under Mainland China’s Informal Welfare Regime: Risk Shifts, Resource Environments, and the Urban Employees’ Social Insurance

  Armin Müller

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  The Death of a Child: Institutional Maintenance of Family Welfare after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in the People’s Republic of China

  Alison Lamont

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  Japan’s Changing Regional World of Welfare: Agricultural Reform, Hamlet-based Collective Farming, and the Local Renegotiation of Social Risks

  Hanno Jentzsch

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  Local Policy Experimentation, Social Learning, and Development of Rural Pension Provision in China

  Ting Huang

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  From Employment Security to Managerial Precarity: Japan’s Changing Welfare-work Nexus and its Impacts on Mid-career Workers

  Nana Okura Gagne

Perspectives

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP | Directed by Deann Borshay Liem

  Albert Lee

• UNRULY WATERS: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas have Shaped Asia’s History | By Sunil Amrith

  David Gilmartin

• MARKET IN STATE: The Political Economy of Domination in China | By Yongnian Zheng and Yanjie Huang

  Roselyn Hsueh

• POLARIZED CITIES: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China | Edited by Dorothy J. Solinger

  Isabelle Côté and Yongfeng Tang

• POLITICS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY IN CHINA | By Chen Gang

  Marius Korsnes

• CHINA STEPS OUT: Beijing’s Major Power Engagement with the Developing World | Edited by Joshua Eisenman and Eric Heginbotham

  Lynn T. White III

• CHINA’S DREAM: The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of Its Power | By Kerry Brown

  Carolin Kautz

• THE CONTENTIOUS PUBLIC SPHERE: Law, Media and Authoritarian Rule in China | By Ya-Wen Lei

  Jun Liu

• YELLOW PERILS: China Narratives in the Contemporary World | Edited by Franck Billé and Sören Urbansky

  Ka-Kin Cheuk

• CHINA’S EURASIAN DILEMMAS: Roads and Risks for a Sustainable Global Power | By R. James Ferguson

  Stephanie Winkler

• TRUST AND MISTRUST IN THE ECONOMIES OF THE CHINA-RUSSIA BORDERLANDS | Edited by Caroline Humphrey

  Steven Parham

• CONTESTING CYBERSPACE IN CHINA: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience | By Rongbin Han

  Hualing Fu

• DESTINATION CHINA: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era | Edited by Angela Lehmann and Pauline Leonard

  Gordon Mathews 

• NAVIGATING SEMI-COLONIALISM: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937 | By Anne Reinhardt

  Zhaojin Zeng

• MONGOLIA REMADE: Post-socialist National Culture, Political Economy, and Cosmopolitics | By David Sneath

  Morris Rossabi  

• POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND SCANDALS IN JAPAN | By Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed

  Kenneth Mori McElwain

• SOKA GAKKAI’S HUMAN REVOLUTION: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan | By Levi McLaughlin

  Daniel K. Nagashima

• DRINKING BOMB AND SHOOTING METH: Alcohol and Drug Use in Japan | By Jeffrey W. Alexander

  Paul Christensen

• FOOD SAFETY AFTER FUKUSHIMA: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk | By Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna

  Daniel P. Aldrich

• JAPAN: History and Culture From Classical to Cool | By Nancy K. Stalker

  Linda H. Chance

• JAPANESE CULTURE THROUGH VIDEOGAMES | By Rachael Hutchinson

  Kathryn Hemmann

• INTERPRETING ANIME | By Christopher Bolton

  Marc Steinberg

• MODERN KYOTO: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 | By Alice Y. Tseng

   Timothy Unverzagt Goddard

• THE RISE OF K-DRAMAS: Essays on Korean Television and Its Global Consumption | Edited by JaeYoon Park and Ann-Gee Lee

  Ju Oak Kim

• INVINCIBLE AND RIGHTEOUS OUTLAW: The Korean Hero Hong Gildong in Literature, History, and Culture | By Minsoo Kang

  James H. Grayson

• FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE CITIES: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea | By Mark A. Nathan

  Lucy Jee

• DEATH OF AN INDUSTRY: The Cultural Politics of Garment Manufacturing during the Maoist Revolution in Nepal | By Mallika Shakya

  Chris Crews

• MAKING NEW NEPAL: From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics | By Amanda Thérèse Snellinger

  Kumud Rana  

• NONTRADITIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Transnational Dimension | By Amy L. Freedman and Ann Marie Murphy

  Ja Ian Chong

• THAILAND: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China | By Benjamin Zawacki

  Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt

• MYANMAR TRANSFORMED?: People, Places and Politics. Myanmar Update Series | Edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly, and Chit Win

  Isabel Chew

• A NATION ON THE LINE: Call Centres as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines | By Jan M. Padios

  Kingsley Bolton

• CAMBODIA: Return to Authoritarianism | By Kheang Un

  David Chandler

• CHINESE INDONESIANS IN POST-SUHARTO INDONESIA: Democratisation and Ethnic Minorities | By Wu-Ling Chong

  Alexander R. Arifianto

• HAMKA AND ISLAM: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World | By Khairudin Aljunied

  James Edmonds

• INDONESIA: Twenty Years of Democracy | By Jamie S. Davidson

  Nila Ayu Utami

• DEMOCRACY FOR SALE: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia | By Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot

  Shane Barter

• DEPARTING FROM JAVA: Javanese Labour, Migration and Diaspora | Edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel

  Andy Scott Chang

• HOME IS NOT HERE | By Wang Gungwu

  Ooi Kee Beng

• INSIDE THE GREENS: The origins and future of the party, the people and the politics | By Paddy Manning

  Randall Doyle

• PATHWAY OF THE BIRDS: The voyaging achievements of Māori and their Polynesian ancestors | By Andrew Crowe

  Sylvia Frain

• RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND CONTENTIOUS STATES: Mining and the Politics of Scale in the Pacific Islands | By Matthew G. Allen

  Stephen A. Zorn