Volume 93 – No. 4

Articles

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  Decentralization of Political Design in China

  Jonathan Benney

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  Candidate Selection Reform in South Korea: The Persistence of Exclusive Practices Despite Inclusive Rules

  Eun Hee Woo

Perspectives

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  Singapore’s Pandemic Election: Opposition Parties and Valence Politics in GE2020

  Steven Oliver and Kai Ostwald

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• RESURGENT ASIA: Diversity in Development | By Deepak Nayyar

  Jikon Lai

• THE NEW ASEAN IN ASIA PACIFIC & BEYOND | By Shaun Narine

  Hiro Katsumata

• ASYMMETRICAL NEIGHBORS: Borderland State Building between China and Southeast Asia | By Enze Han

  Yow Cheun Hoe

• DIVIDED ALLIES: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War | By Thomas K. Robb and James Gill

  Thomas Wilkins

• POSTCOLONIAL GRIEF: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas | By Jinah Kim

  Nobuko Adachi

• STATEBUILDING BY IMPOSITION: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines | By Reo Matsuzaki

  Jong-sung You

• CHALLENGES TO CHINA’S ECONOMIC STATECRAFT: A Global Perspective. Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development | Edited by Yi Edward Yang with Wei Liang

  Maria Adele Carrai

• CHINA IN THE WORLD: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization | By Jennifer Hubbert

  Luwei Rose Luqiu

• ACTIVE DEFENSE: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 | By M. Taylor Fravel

  June Teufel Dreyer

• CHINA’S FOOTPRINTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA | Edited by Marie Serena I. Diokno, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, and Alan H. Yang

  Shaun Narine

• EDUCATION IN CHINA: Philosophy, Politics and Culture | By Janette Ryan

  Julia Kwong

• SOVEREIGNTY IN CHINA: A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840 | By Maria Adele Carrai

  Xingzhong Yu

• THE UMBRELLA MOVEMENT: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong | Edited by Ngok Ma and Edmund W. Cheng

   Ben Bland

• FOUND IN TRANSITION: Hong Kong Studies in the Age of China | By Yiu-Wai Chu

  Gordon Mathews

• MORALITY AND MONASTIC REVIVAL IN POST-MAO TIBET | By Jane E. Caple

  Geoffrey Barstow

• JAPAN’S ISLAND TROUBLES WITH CHINA AND KOREA: Prospects and Challenges for Resolution | Edited by Victor Teo and Haruko Satoh

  Emily Matson

• THAT DISTANT COUNTRY NEXT DOOR: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao’s China | By Erik Esselstrom

  Jessica C. Liao 

• DOWN AND OUT IN LATE MEIJI JAPAN | By James L. Huffman

  Simon Partner

• ELECTRIFIED VOICES: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 | By Kerim Yasar

  Yulia Frumer

• CONTESTED EMBRACE: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea | By Jaeeun Kim

  Arnel E. Joven

• DIPLOMACY, TRADE, AND SOUTH KOREA’S RISE TO INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE | By Dennis Patterson and Jangsup Choi

  Seung-Whan Choi

• MEDIATIZED TRANSIENT MIGRANTS: Korean Visa-Status Migrants’ Transnational Everyday Lives and Media Use | By Claire Shinhea Lee

  Kyong Yoon

• GENDER AND CLASS IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREA: Intersectionality and Transnationality | Edited by Hae Yeon Choo, John Lie, and Laura C. Nelson

  Jinsook Kim

• FROM FACTORY GIRLS TO K-POP IDOL GIRLS: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea’s Popular Music Industry | By Gooyong Kim; Foreword by Douglas Kellner

  Hyejin Jo

• K-POP IDOLS: Popular Culture and the Emergence of the Korean Music Industry | By Dal Yong Jin and Hark Joon Lee

  Seung-Ah Lee

• THE HIJACKED WAR: The Story of Chinese POWs in the Korean War | By David Cheng Chang

  Son Daekwon

• FOR GOD OR EMPIRE: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World | By Wilson Chacko Jacob

  Pnina Werbner

• THE FUTURE OF INDIAN UNIVERSITIES: Comparative and International Perspectives | Edited by C. Raj Kumar

  Pushkar

• COSMOPOLITAN DREAMS: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia | By Jennifer Dubrow

  Carla Petievich

• THE MANY FACES OF POLITICAL ISLAM: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World, Second Edition | By Mohammed Ayoob and Danielle N. Lussier

  Partha S. Ghosh

• THE ETHICS OF STAYING: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan | By Mubbashir A. Rizvi

  Humeira Iqtidar

• THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE CONTACT IN THE HIMALAYA | Edited by Selma K. Sonntag and Mark Turin

  Miranda Weinberg

• ARC OF CONTAINMENT: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia | By Wen-Qing Ngoei

  Jennifer Mustapha

• BEHIND THE FAÇADE: Elections under Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia | By Lee Morgenbesser

  Steven Oliver

• TRANSLATING THE BODY: Medical Education in Southeast Asia | Edited by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson, and John Harley Warner

  David Arnold

• SVAY: A Khmer Village in Cambodia | By May Mayko Ebihara; edited by Andrew Mertha, with an introduction by Judy Ledgerwood

  Edmund J. Malesky

• SPEAKING OUT IN VIETNAM: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation | By Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

  Mark W. McLeod

• RITUALS OF CARE: Karmic Politics in an Aging Thailand | By Felicity Aulino

  Teresa Sobieszczyk 

• THE PHILIPPINES AND THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND NEGOTIATIONS ON PETROLEUM AND IMPORTS: Toward a Theory of Negotiation | By Kenneth Faulve-Montojo

  Apichai W. Shipper

• LAS VEGAS IN SINGAPORE: Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity | By Lee Kah-Wee

  Ho Kong Chong

• WHEN VIOLENCE WORKS: Postconflict Violence and Peace in Indonesia | By Patrick Barron

  Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin

• TOURISM IN PACIFIC ISLANDS: Current Issues and Future Challenges | Edited by Stephen Pratt and David Harrison

  Ashley Meredith

• A DEATH IN THE RAINFOREST: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea | By Don Kulick

  David Lipset

• MONEY GAMES: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town | By Anthony J. Pickles

   Geir Henning Presterudstuen

• PERFORMING MASCULINITY: Body, Self and Identity in Modern Fiji | By Geir Henning Presterudstuen

  Gina Louise Hawkes

• WORKING WITH THE ANCESTORS: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands | By Emily C. Donaldson

  David Fazzino

• POSSESSING POLYNESIANS: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania | By Maile Arvin

  Mascha Gugganig