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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 90, Number 3, September 2017

Articles

All Politics is Local: Judicial and Electoral Institutions' Role in Japan's Nuclear Restarts
pp. 433-457(25)
Authors: Aldrich, Daniel P.; Fraser, Timothy

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The Regime of Urban Informality in Migration: Accommodating Undocumented Chosǒnjok Migrants in their Receiving Community in Seoul, South Korea
pp. 459-480(22)
Authors: Shin, HaeRan; Park, Soyoung

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The Paradox of Inequality in South Korea: Minsaeng Kyǒngje and Reinvigorated Developmentalism
pp. 481-504(24)
Author: Yun, Ji-Whan

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Is Regional Animus in Decline in Korea? A Test of the Generational Difference and Geographical Mobility Hypothesis
pp. 505-533(29)
Authors: Hahn, Kyu S.; Lee, Jihye; Won, Inho; Jang, Seulgi; Lee, Joonhwan

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Correspondence

Free Content Correspondence
pp. 535-536(2)

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Book Reviews: Asia General

Free Content Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia. By Victor D. Cha
pp. 537-539(3)
Author: Wilkins, Thomas S.

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Free Content Two Crises, Different Outcomes: East Asia and Global Finance. Edited by T. J. Pempel and Keiichi Tsunekawa
pp. 539-541(3)
Author: Athukorala, Prema-chandra

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Free Content A New Strategy for Complex Warfare: Combined Effects in East Asia. By Thomas A. Drohan
pp. 541-543(3)
Author: Yuan, Jingdong

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Free Content Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia: Singapore, Manila, Taipei, Harbin, Shanghai, Rangoon, and Surabaya. By Jonathan Goldstein
pp. 544-545(2)
Author: Sevilla, Henelito A.

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Free Content Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present. By June Teufel Dreyer
pp. 546-548(3)
Author: Laflamme, Martin

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Free Content People's Spaces: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating. By Nihal Perera
pp. 548-550(3)
Author: Bunnell, Tim

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Free Content Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory. By Julian Go
pp. 550-552(3)
Author: Chabot, Sean

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Book Reviews: China and Inner Asia

Free Content Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control. By William J. Norris
pp. 553-555(3)
Author: Krapels, Nicholas

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Free Content Building China: Informal Work and the New Precariat. By Sarah Swider
pp. 555-557(3)
Author: Solinger, Dorothy J.

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Free Content China's Military Transformation: Politics and War Preparation. By You Ji
pp. 557-559(3)
Author: Li, Xiaobing

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Free Content The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism In China. By Guobin Yang
pp. 560-562(3)
Author: Leese, Daniel

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Free Content Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony. Edited by David Zweig and Yufan Hao
pp. 562-564(3)
Author: Sabonis-Helf, Theresa

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Free Content General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China. By Peter Worthing
pp. 564-566(3)
Author: Green, Colin

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Free Content Knowing China: A Twenty-First-Century Guide. By Frank N. Pieke
pp. 566-568(3)
Author: So, Alvin Y.

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Free Content Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic. By Katherine A. Mason
pp. 569-571(3)
Author: Xiaoping, Fang

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Free Content Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China. By Miriam Gross
pp. 571-573(3)
Author: Summers, William C.

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Free Content Convergence or Conflict in the Taiwan Strait: The Illusion of Peace? By J. Michael Cole
pp. 573-575(3)
Author: Francis, Norbert

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Free Content Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West. Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle
pp. 575-577(3)
Author: Schluessel, Eric

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Free Content Contemporary Sino-french Cinemas: Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons. By Michelle E. Bloom
pp. 577-579(3)
Author: Fan, Victor

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Book Reviews: Northeast Asia

Free Content Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima. Edited by Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan
pp. 579-581(3)
Author: Aldrich, Daniel P.

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Free Content Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan: Risk, Community, and Knowledge. By Akihiro Ogawa
pp. 582-584(3)
Author: Avenell, Simon

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Free Content Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan: Motherhood, Class, and Reproductive Practice. By Aya Ezawa
pp. 584-586(3)
Author: Boling, Patricia

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Free Content One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan. By Adam Bronson
pp. 586-588(3)
Author: Söderberg, Marie

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Free Content Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea. By Celeste L. Arrington
pp. 588-591(4)
Author: Chiavacci, David

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Free Content Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar. By Akiko Takenaka
pp. 591-593(3)
Author: Berger, Thomas U.

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Free Content Amerika No Hainichi Undō To Nichibei Kankei [The Anti-Japanese Movement in America and US-Japan Relations]: = Hainichi Iminhō Wa Naze Seiritsushitaka [The Reason Behind the Japanese Exclusion]. By Toshihiro Minohara
pp. 593-595(3)
Author: Kawamura, Noriko

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Free Content Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism: Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition. By Paul B. Watt
pp. 595-597(3)
Author: Meeks, Lori R.

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Free Content Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao. By Michael Lucken
pp. 597-599(3)
Author: Larking, Matthew

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Free Content Nouveau-Riche Nationalism and Multiculturalism In Korea: A Media Narrative Analysis. By Gil-Soo Han
pp. 600-602(3)
Author: Hyun, Jeong-Im

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Free Content Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee's Korea. By Youngju Ryu
pp. 602-604(3)
Author: Park, Sunyoung

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Free Content The Changing Face of Korean Cinema: 1960 to 2015. By Brian Yecies and Aegyung Shim
pp. 604-606(3)
Author: Choi, Jinhee

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Free Content The Collapse of North Korea: Challenges, Planning and Geopolitics of Unification. By Tara O
pp. 607-609(3)
Author: Pardo, Ramon Pacheco

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Book Reviews: South Asia and the Himalayas

Free Content Community Natural Resource Management and Poverty in India: Evidence from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. By Shashidharan Enarth, Jharna Pathak, Amita Shah, Madhu Verma, John R. Wood
pp. 609-611(3)
Author: Poddar, Ganeshdatta

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Free Content Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai. By Lisa Björkman
pp. 611-613(3)
Author: Tillin, Louise

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Free Content Growing the Tree of Science: Homi Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. By Indira Chowdhury
pp. 613-615(3)
Author: Mistry, Dinshaw

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Free Content Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India. By Nayanika Mathur
pp. 615-617(3)
Author: Drew, Georgina

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Free Content Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India. By Bhrigupati Singh
pp. 618-619(2)
Author: Witsoe, Jeffrey

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Free Content Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War. By C. Christine Fair
pp. 620-622(3)
Author: Hilali, A. Z.

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Book Reviews: Southeast Asia

Free Content Forests are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. By Pamela D. McElwee
pp. 622-624(3)
Author: Davis, Bradley Camp

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Free Content Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women. Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang, editors
pp. 624-626(3)
Author: Michaud, Jean

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Free Content Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia. By Doreen Lee
pp. 626-628(3)
Author: Kusno, Abidin

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Free Content Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference. Editors, Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher
pp. 628-630(3)
Author: Abraham, Itty

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Free Content Land and Development in Indonesia: Searching for the People's Sovereignty. Edited by John F. McCarthy, Kathryn Robinson
pp. 630-632(3)
Author: Li, Tania Murray

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Free Content Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement: The Origins of America's Debate on East Timor. By Shane Gunderson
pp. 633-635(3)
Author: Webster, David

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Book Reviews: Australasia and the Pacific Islands

Free Content Engaging with Strangers: Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands. By Debra McDougall
pp. 635-637(3)
Author: Lipset, David

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Free Content Niue 1774–1974: 200 Years of Contact and Change. By Margaret Pointer
pp. 637-639(3)
Author: Bennett, Judith A.

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Free Content Isles of Amnesia: The History, Geography, and Restoration of America's Forgotten Pacific Islands. By Mark J. Rauzon
pp. 639-641(3)
Author: Agarwal, Rachana

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Free Content The Battle Over Peleliu: Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War. By Stephen C. Murray
pp. 641-643(3)
Author: Petersen, Glenn

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Free Content Hearing the Future: The Music and Magic of the Sanguma Band. By Denis Crowdy
pp. 643-645(3)
Author: Lutkehaus, Nancy C.

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