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Pacific Affairs is a peer-reviewed, independent, and interdisciplinary scholarly journal focusing on important current political, economic and social issues throughout Asia and the Pacific. Each issue contains approximately five new articles and 40-50 book reviews. Published continuously as a quarterly since 1928 under the same name, it is the oldest English-language journal with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. It enjoys an international reputation based on the high quality of articles, and its extensive book reviews section.

Publisher: Pacific Affairs, a division of the University of British Columbia

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Volume 87, Number 4, December 2014

Articles

Gender Roles and Ethnic Variation in Educational Attainment in Ürümchi
pp. 669-691(23)
Author: Zang, Xiaowei

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Traditional Birth Attendants and the Problem of Maternal Mortality in Indonesia
pp. 693-713(21)
Author: Niehof, Anke

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Transnational Migrant Advocacy From Japan: Tipping the Scales in the Policy-making Process
pp. 715-741(27)
Author: Kremers, Daniel

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Leadership Succession and the High Drama of Political Conduct: Corruption Stories from Samoa
pp. 743-763(21)
Authors: Corbett, Jack; Shiu, Roannie Ng

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North Korea and Its Quest for Autonomy
pp. 765-778(14)
Author: Koh, B.C.

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Western Academia and the Word Juche
pp. 779-789(11)
Author: Myers, B.R.

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North Korea's Autonomy 1965–2015
pp. 791-799(9)
Author: Frank, Rudiger

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Illusions of Autonomy and the Autonomy of Illusions
pp. 801-807(7)
Author: Armstrong, Charles

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An Elusive Quest with Mixed Results
pp. 809-814(6)
Author: Koh, B.C.

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Conservative Turn? Religion, State and Conflict in Indonesia
pp. 815-825(11)
Author: Hamayotsu, Kikue

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Book Reviews

Free Content Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia
pp. 827-828(2)
Author: Bowles, Paul

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Free Content The Making of the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Brokers and the Politics of Representation
pp. 828-830(3)
Author: Chan, Gerald

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Free Content Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China
pp. 830-832(3)
Author: Sutter, Robert

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Free Content Integrating Regions: Asia in Comparative Context
pp. 832-834(3)
Author: Dieter, Heribert

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Free Content Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China
pp. 835-837(3)
Author: Lee, Francis L. F.

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Free Content Lu Xun's Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence
pp. 837-839(3)
Author: Schwarcz, Vera

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Free Content China's Sent-Down Generation: Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program
pp. 839-841(3)
Author: Berman, Evan

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Free Content Community Capitalism in China: The State, the Market, and Collectivism
pp. 841-843(3)
Author: Schaeffer, Robert K.

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Free Content Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China
pp. 843-845(3)
Author: Hsu, S. Philip

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Free Content Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842–1943
pp. 845-847(3)
Author: Hsu, Madeline Y.

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Free Content The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
pp. 848-849(2)
Author: Hall, Gregory O.

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Free Content Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China
pp. 850-852(3)
Author: Luesink, David

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Free Content Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule: Economic Integration and Political Gridlock
pp. 852-854(3)
Author: Chu, Cindy Yik-Yi

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Free Content Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast
pp. 854-856(3)
Author: Alexander, Jeffrey

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Free Content Contemporary Japanese Politics: Institutional Changes and Power Shifts
pp. 856-858(3)
Author: Winkler, Chris

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Free Content Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930–1950
pp. 858-860(3)
Author: Takaragawa, Stephanie

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Free Content An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905
pp. 860-863(4)
Author: Burkman, Thomas W.

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Free Content Japanese Religions and Globalization
pp. 863-865(3)
Author: Borup, Jørn

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Free Content Changing Lives: The “Postwar” in Japanese Women's Autobiographies and Memoirs
pp. 865-867(3)
Author: Friederich, Lee

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Free Content Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation
pp. 867-870(4)
Author: Abe, Marié

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Free Content Non-Traditional Security Issues in North Korea
pp. 870-872(3)
Author: De Ceuster, Koen

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Free Content Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910
pp. 872-874(3)
Author: Chandra, Vipan

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Free Content Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992
pp. 874-876(3)
Author: Kim, Seung-Young

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Free Content India Today: Economy, Politics and Society
pp. 877-879(3)
Author: Williams, Philippa

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Free Content Measuring Voting Behaviour in India
pp. 879-881(3)
Author: Mitra, Subrata K.

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Free Content The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
pp. 881-883(3)
Author: Ahmed, Ishtiaq

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Free Content Separated and Divorced Women in India: Economic Rights and Entitlements
pp. 883-886(4)
Author: Sen, Purna

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Free Content Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity
pp. 886-888(3)
Author: Poddar, Ganeshdatta

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Free Content Conjunctures and Continuities in Southeast Asian Politics
pp. 888-890(3)
Author: Hildebrand, Kedra A.

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Free Content A Heritage of Ruins: The Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia and Their Conservation
pp. 890-892(3)
Author: Miksic, John N.

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Free Content Politics of Ethnic Classification in Vietnam
pp. 892-894(3)
Author: Keyes, Charles

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Free Content Civil Society in the Philippines: Theoretical, Methodological and Policy Debates
pp. 894-896(3)
Author: Abinales, Patricio N.

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Free Content Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines
pp. 896-898(3)
Author: Petersen, Glenn

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Free Content A Few Poorly Organized Men: Interreligious Violence in Poso, Indonesia
pp. 898-900(3)
Author: Spyer, Patricia

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Free Content Democracy and Islam in Indonesia
pp. 900-902(3)
Author: Qurtuby, Sumanto Al

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Free Content Situated Testimonies: Dread and Enchantment in an Indonesian Literary Archive
pp. 903-904(2)
Author: Budiman, Manneke

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Free Content The Peranakan Chinese Home: Art and Culture in Daily Life
pp. 905-906(2)
Author: Kusno, Abidin

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Free Content Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century
pp. 907-908(2)
Author: O'Neil, Andrew

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Free Content Intersections: History, Memory, Discipline
pp. 908-910(3)
Author: Mills, Andy

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Free Content Foodways and Empathy: Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea
pp. 910-912(3)
Author: Lipset, David

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Free Content A Faraway, Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea
pp. 913-914(2)
Author: Townsend, Patricia K.

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Free Content Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
pp. 914-916(3)
Author: Coulter, Neil R.

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Free Content Melanesia: Art and Encounter
pp. 917-919(3)
Author: Barker, John

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Documentary Films Reviewed

Free Content Memory of Forgotten War. A film by Deann Borshay Liem and Ramsay Liem; directed and produced by Deann Borshay Liem and Ramsay Liem; edited by Deann Borshay Liem, Corey Ohama; original music by JJ & Chris; consulting editor, Vivien Hillgrove
pp. 919-921(3)
Author: Agov, Avram

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Free Content A River Changes Course. A film by Kalyanee Mam; Migrant Films, the Documentation Center of Cambodia, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation presents; director, Kalyanee Mam
pp. 921-923(3)
Author: Shipper, Apichai W.

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Pacific Affairs Index

Pacific Affairs Index

Volume 87 (2014)
pp. 925-937(13)

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