Pacific Affairs

Volume 97 – No. 1

March 2024

Articles

We are Brothers but Not Allies: The Sino–DPRK Alliance Revisited

Daekwon Son and Yongjon Han
From Human Rights to Citizens’ Rights? Democratic Framing Contests and Refugee Politics in South Korea

Seo-Hyun Park

Perspectives

The Role of Fear and Memory in West Papua’s Ethnonationalist Conflict

Cahyo Pamungkas and Yogi Setya Permana
The Real Deal: Results versus Outcomes of the 2023 Thai General Election

Duncan McCargo
Social Media and the DIY Politics in Thailand’s 2023 Election

Aim Sinpeng
Age and Ideology: The Emergence of New Political Cleavages in Thailand’s 2566 (2023) Election

Napon Jatusripitak and Jacob Isaac Ricks

Review Essays

A Bridge over Troubled Waters? New Developments in Chinese Foreign Relations

Aleksander Lust

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

CROSSINGS | Directed by Deann Borshay Liem

Eun Ah Cho
DEATH OF THE ONE WHO KNOWS | A film by Dana Rappoport

Kathleen M. Adams

Book Reviews

China & Inner Asia

South Asia & the Himalayas

Australasia & the Pacific Islands

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EXAMINING US-CHINA-RUSSIA FOREIGN RELATIONS: Power Relations in a Post-Obama Era | By Gregory O. Hall

Zhiqun Zhu
CHIANG KAI-SHEK’S POLITICS OF SHAME: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China | By Grace C. Huang

Peter Worthing
SEEKING TRUTH & HIDING FACTS: Information, Ideology, & Authoritarianism in China | By Jeremy L. Wallace

Kerry Ratigan
TIGER, TYRANT, BANDIT, BUSINESSMAN: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China | By Brian DeMare

Qiliang He
CHINA’S NEXT ACT: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future | By Scott M. Moore

Carla Freeman
MARRIAGE UNBOUND: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China | By Ke Li

Arianne M. Gaetano
POVERTY AND PACIFICATION: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class | By Dorothy J. Solinger

Bjorn A. Gustafsson
I HAVE NO ENEMIES: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo | By Perry Link and Wu Dazhi

Norbert Francis
ICONOGRAPHIES OF OCCUPATION: Visual Cultures in Wang Jingwei’s China, 1939–1945 | By Jeremy E. Taylor

Travis Chambers
DISTANT SHORES: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier | By Melissa Macauley

Ryan Holroyd
TOURING CHINA: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949 | By Yajun Mo

Gregory Fayard

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PLOUGHSHARES AND SWORDS: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War | By Jayita Sarkar

Waheguru Pal Sidhu
OUTCASTE BOMBAY: City Making and the Politics of the Poor | By Juned Shaikh

Indrajit Roy
CAPABLE WOMEN, INCAPABLE STATES: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India | By Poulami Roychowdhury

Rajib Nandi
MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka | By Asha L. Abeyasekera

Victor de Munck
PIOUS PERIPHERIES: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan | By Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi

Orzala Nemat

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IGNORED HISTORIES: The Politics of History Education and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and Kanaky/New Caledonia | By Angélique Stastny

Marta Gentilucci
PACIFIC SPACES: Translations and Transmutations | Edited by A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul, Lana Lopesi, and Albert L. Refiti

Doug Dalton
THE THEORY OF RECOGNITION AND MULTICULTURAL PRACTICES IN COLOMBIA AND NEW ZEALAND | By Nicolas Pirsoul

Michèle D. Dominy
CAPITAL AND INEQUALITY IN RURAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Edited by Bettina Beer and Tobias Schwoerer

Naomi M. McPherson
SINGING SAMO SONGS: From Shaman to Pastor | By R. Daniel Shaw

John Cox
STATE AND SOCIETY IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, 2001–2021 | By R. J. May

Michael Main
YOUTH IN FIJI AND SOLOMON ISLANDS: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement | By Aidan Craney

Rachel Emerine Hicks
UNSUNG LAND, ASPIRING NATION: Journeys in Bougainville | By Gordon Peake

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