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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 89, Number 3, September 2016

Articles

Free Content Persuading Pariahs: Myanmar's Strategic Decision to Pursue Reform and Opening
pp. 521-542(22)
Authors: Chow, Jonathan T.; Easley, Leif-Eric

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Constraint without Coercion: Indirect Repression of Environmental Protest in Malaysia
pp. 543-565(23)
Author: Yew, Wei Lit

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Democracy Wall, Foreign Correspondents, and Deng Xiaoping
pp. 567-589(23)
Author: Chubb, Andrew

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Youth-Driven Tactics of Public Space Appropriation in Hanoi: The Case of Skateboarding and Parkour
pp. 591-611(21)
Authors: Geertman, Stephanie; Labbé, Danielle; Boudreau, Julie-Anne; Jacques, Olivier

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Book Reviews: Asia General

Free Content The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia. Edited by Jie Yang
pp. 613-615(3)
Author: Daliot-Bul, Michal

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Free Content Cultural Policies in East Asia: Dynamics between the State, Arts and Creative Industries. Edited by Hye-Kyung Lee and Lorraine Lim
pp. 615-617(3)
Author: Flew, Terry

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Free Content Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier. By Bertil Lintner
pp. 618-619(2)
Author: Ganguly, Sumit

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Free Content Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia: International Influences, Local Transformations. Edited by Liping Bu and Ka-che Yip
pp. 620-622(3)
Author: Hanson, Marta E.

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Book Reviews: China and Inner Asia

Free Content The Globalization of Chinese Business: Implications for Multinational Investors. Edited by Robert Taylor
pp. 622-623(2)
Author: Zheng, Yongnian

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Free Content The Changing Policy-Making Process in Greater China: Case Research from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Edited by Bennis Wai Yip So and Yuang-kuang Kao
pp. 624-625(2)
Author: Zhong, Yang

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Free Content The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China. By Luigi Tomba
pp. 626-628(3)
Author: Cho, Mun Young

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Free Content Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance. Edited by Jessica C. Teets and William Hurst
pp. 628-630(3)
Author: Trott, Stephen

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Free Content A Middle Class without Democracy: Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in China. By Jie Chen
pp. 631-633(3)
Author: Mood, Michelle S.

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Free Content Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power. By Bryan Tilt
pp. 633-635(3)
Author: Pietz, David

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Free Content Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis. By Julie Sze
pp. 635-637(3)
Author: Henderson, Mark

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Free Content Forging China's Military Might: A New Framework for Assessing Innovation. Edited by Tai Ming Cheung
pp. 637-639(3)
Author: Li, Xiaobing

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Free Content Health Policy Reform in China: A Comparative Perspective. By Jiwei Qian, Åke Blomqvist
pp. 639-641(3)
Author: Luesink, David

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Free Content After Migration and Religious Affiliation: Religions, Chinese Identities, and Transnational Networks. Edited by Tan Chee-Beng
pp. 641-643(3)
Author: Poon, Shuk-wah

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Free Content Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History. Edited by Alexander C. Cook
pp. 643-645(3)
Author: Belogurova, Anna

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Free Content China under Mao: A Revolution Derailed. By Andrew G. Walder
pp. 645-647(3)
Author: Johnson, Matthew D.

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Free Content Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History. By Q. Edward Wang
pp. 648-649(2)
Author: Cwiertka, Katarzyna J.

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Free Content Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir. By Chen Huiqin with Shehong Chen; introduction by Delia Davin
pp. 649-651(3)
Author: King, Richard

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Free Content Red God: Wei Baqun and His Peasant Revolution in Southern China, 1894–1932. By Xiaorong Han
pp. 651-653(3)
Author: Keating, Pauline

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Book Reviews: Northeast Asia

Free Content An Introduction to Japanese Society. By Yoshio Sugimoto
pp. 654-656(3)
Author: DuBois, Jeffrey

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Free Content Japan's International Fisheries Policy: Law, Diplomacy and Politics Governing Resource Security. By Roger D. Smith
pp. 656-658(3)
Author: Barclay, Kate

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Free Content Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People. By Yoshimi Yoshiaki; translated and annotated by Ethan Mark
pp. 658-660(3)
Author: Buxton, A. Carly

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Free Content Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan. Edited by Christopher Harding, Iwata Fumiaki, and Yoshinaga Shin'ichi
pp. 660-662(3)
Author: Kavanagh, Christopher M.

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Free Content Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture. By Thomas R.H. Havens
pp. 662-665(4)
Author: Manzenreiter, Wolfram

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Free Content Hokusai's Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon. By Christine M.E. Guth
pp. 665-667(3)
Author: Forrer, Matthi

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Free Content The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko: One Woman's Transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan. By Laura Nenzi
pp. 667-669(3)
Author: Ward, Vanessa B.

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Free Content Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market. By Julie Nelson Davis
pp. 669-671(3)
Author: Leca, Radu

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Free Content Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction. By Rebecca Suter
pp. 671-674(4)
Author: Kaplan-Reyes, Alexander

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Free Content Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan. By Hideaki Fujiki
pp. 674-676(3)
Author: Yamazaki, Junko

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Free Content Protest Politics and the Democratization of South Korea: Strategies and Roles of Women. By Youngtae Shin
pp. 676-677(2)
Author: Hayes, William

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Free Content Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity. By Hyung Il Pai
pp. 678-679(2)
Author: Chun, Kyung Hyo

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Free Content Eating Korean in America: Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity. By Sonia Ryang
pp. 679-681(3)
Author: Pettid, Michael J.

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Free Content Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea. Contemporary Asia in the World. By Sandra Fahy
pp. 681-683(3)
Author: Winstanley-Chesters, Robert

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Free Content North Korea: Markets and Military Rule. By Hazel Smith
pp. 683-685(3)
Author: Yeo, Andrew I.

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Book Reviews: South Asia

Free Content Keywords for Modern India. By Craig Jeffrey and John Harriss
pp. 685-687(3)
Author: Goswami, Manu

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Free Content The Engagement of India: Strategies and Responses. Editor, Ian Hall
pp. 687-689(3)
Author: Mitra, Subrata K.

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Free Content Answer the Call: Virtual Migration in Indian Call Centers. By Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Sheena Malhotra, and Kimberlee Pérez
pp. 689-692(4)
Author: Sleesman, Eileen

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Free Content Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment. Edited by Sukhadeo Thorat, Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal
pp. 692-694(3)
Author: Pai, Sudha

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Free Content Ethnographies of Schooling in Contemporary India. Edited by Meenakshi Thapan
pp. 694-696(3)
Author: Kumar, Krishna

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Free Content Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India. By Anand Pandian and M.P. Mariappan
pp. 696-698(3)
Author: De Neve, Geert

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Free Content Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India. By Sara Shneiderman
pp. 698-700(3)
Author: Gellner, David N.

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Free Content The US-India Nuclear Agreement: Diplomacy and Domestic Politics. By Dinshaw Mistry
pp. 700-703(4)
Author: Anderson, Robert

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Free Content The Evolution of India's Israel Policy: Continuity, Change, and Compromise since 1922. By Nicolas Blarel
pp. 703-705(3)
Author: Muni, Sukh Deo

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Free Content Indians in Singapore, 1819–1945: Diaspora in the Colonial Port City. By Rajesh Rai
pp. 705-707(3)
Author: McCann, Gerard

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Free Content The Independence of India and Pakistan: New Approaches and Reflections. Edited by Ian Talbot
pp. 707-709(3)
Author: Long, Roger D.

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Free Content The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Economic Liberalization, Mobilizational Resources, and Ethnic Collective Action. By Nikolaos Biziouras
pp. 710-712(3)
Author: Bandarage, Asoka

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Book Reviews: Southeast Asia

Free Content Vietnam's Socialist Servants: Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity. By Minh T.N. Nguyen
pp. 712-714(3)
Author: Wang, Hong-zen

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Free Content Rice Wars in Colonial Vietnam: The Great Famine and the Viet Minh Road to Power. By Geoffrey C. Gunn
pp. 714-716(3)
Author: Nguyen-Marshall, Van

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Free Content Comparative Study of Child Soldiering on Myanmar-China Border: Evolutions, Challenges and Countermeasures. By Kai Chen
pp. 717-719(3)
Authors: Osanka, Franklin Mark; Osanka, Jeffrey Franklin

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Free Content Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar's Courts Make Law and Order. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. By Nick Cheesman
pp. 719-721(3)
Author: Matthews, Bruce

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Free Content Growing Up Female in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia. ASAA Women in Asia Series. By Cynthia Joseph
pp. 721-723(3)
Author: Mohamad, Maznah

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Free Content Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia's Plantations. By Andrew C. Willford; with the collaboration of S. Nagarajan
pp. 723-725(3)
Author: Chee-Beng, Tan

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Book Reviews: Australasia and the Pacific Islands

Free Content Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics. By Stuart Kirsch
pp. 725-727(3)
Author: Townsend, Patricia K.

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Free Content A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty. Narrating Native Histories. Editors, Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika'ala Wright; photographs by Edward W. Greevy
pp. 727-729(3)
Author: Low, Andrea

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Free Content A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait. By John Edward Terrell
pp. 729-731(3)
Author: Macintyre, Martha

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Free Content Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea. By Courtney Handman
pp. 731-733(3)
Author: Di Rosa, Dario

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Free Content Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba. By Katerina Martina Teaiwa
pp. 733-735(3)
Author: McQuarrie, Peter

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Free Content Oceania: Neocolonialism, Nukes & Bones. By Andre Vltchek; foreword by Noam Chomsky; introduction by Steven Ratuva
pp. 735-737(3)
Author: Pollock, Nancy J.

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Free Content The Naturalist and His 'Beautiful Islands': Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific. By David Russell Lawrence
pp. 737-739(3)
Author: Dominy, Michèle D.

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Documentary Films Review

Free Content India's Daughter: The Story of Jyoti Singh. Directed and produced by Leslee Udwin; an Assassin Films production; co-produced with BBC Storyville and DR; in association with Gamini Piyatissa Foundation, Vital Voices Global Partnership
pp. 739-741(3)
Author: Srinivasan, Sharada

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