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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 92, Number 4, December 2019

Articles

Free Content In the Name of the Working Class: Narratives of Labour Activism in Contemporary China

Holland Prize Winner
pp. 643-664(22)
Authors: Franceschini, Ivan; Sorace, Christian

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Legal Reform and Struggles Against Precarity: The Case of State Workers' Early Retirement in Vietnam
pp. 665-684(20)
Author: Nguyen, Tu Phuong

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Ronald P. Dore and Pacific Affairs: A Retrospective

The Work of Ronald P. Dore and Pacific Affairs
pp. 685-700(16)
Author: Shipper, Apichai W.

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Assumptions and Distortions: Dore on Equality in Japanese Schooling
pp. 701-713(13)
Author: White, Merry

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Development, Discernment, and Death: Dore on the South Korean Economy
pp. 715-728(14)
Author: Lynn, Hyung-Gu

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Internationalization in Ronald Dore's Changing Approach to Japan
pp. 729-740(12)
Author: Leheny, David

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Review Essay

Free Content American Grand Strategy in the Indo Pacific: Plus ça change?
pp. 741-757(17)
Author: Wilkins, Thomas S.

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Book Reviews: Asia General

Free Content The Pacific War: Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture. Edited by Christina Twomey and Ernest Koh
pp. 759-759(1)
Author: Kwong, Chi Man

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Free Content Making Waves: Traveling Musics in Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific. Edited by Frederick Lau and Christine R. Yano
pp. 759-760(2)
Author: Moyle, Richard

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Book Reviews: China and Inner Asia

Free Content Handbook of Welfare in China. Edited by Beatriz Carrillo, Johanna Hood, and Paul Kadetz
pp. 763-765(3)
Author: Hu, Aiqun

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Free Content Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China. By Anna Lora-Wainwright
pp. 765-767(3)
Author: Foster, Kenneth W.

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Free Content Civility and its Development: The Experiences of China and Taiwan. By David C. Schak
pp. 767-769(3)
Author: Brown, Melissa J.

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Free Content Empires of Coal: Fueling China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920. By Shellen Xiao Wu
pp. 769-771(3)
Author: Hayes, Jack Patrick

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Free Content Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared. Edited by Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth J. Perry
pp. 772-774(3)
Author: Schwartz, Jonathan

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Free Content From a British to a Chinese Colony?: Hong Kong before and after the 1997 Handover. Edited by Gary Chi-hung Luk
pp. 772-774(3)
Author: Yep, Ray

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Book Reviews: Northeast Asia

Free Content Rethinking Japanese Feminisms. Edited by Julia C. Bullock, Ayako Kano, and James Welker
pp. 776-778(3)
Author: Martin, Sherry L.

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Free Content The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries. By Michal Daliot-Bul and Nissim Otmazgin
pp. 778-780(3)
Author: Hemmann, Kathryn

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Free Content The Virtual Ninja Manifesto: Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism. By Chris Goto-Jones
pp. 780-782(3)
Author: Hutchinson, Rachael

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Free Content Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for Justice, 1946–48. Edited by Kerstin von Lingen
pp. 783-784(2)
Author: Totani, Yuma

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Free Content Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952. By Robert Kramm
pp. 785-787(3)
Author: Zheng, Tiantian

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Free Content Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan. By Eiko Maruko Sinawer
pp. 787-789(3)
Author: Haddad, Mary Alice

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Free Content At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia's National Identity. By Paul B. Richardson; Foreword by Mark Bassin
pp. 789-791(3)
Author: Saveliev, Igor

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Free Content The Personalist Ethic and the Rise of Urban Korea By Chang Yun-Shik
pp. 791-793(3)
Author: Kim, Chul-Kyoo

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Free Content Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State. By Hye-Kyung Lee
pp. 793-795(3)
Author: Watson, Iain

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Free Content The Evolution of the South Korea-United States Alliance. By Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig
pp. 795-797(3)
Author: Kim, Jinwung

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Free Content Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place. By Youjeong Oh
pp. 797-799(3)
Author: Jin, Dal Yong

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BR - Book Reviews: South Asia and the Himalayas [bookrev]

Free Content Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India. By Pradeep K. Chhibber and Rahul Verma
pp. 799-801(3)
Author: Poddar, Ganeshdatta

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Free Content Modi's Foreign Policy. By Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Ashok Kapur
pp. 801-803(3)
Author: Sridharan, Eswaran

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Free Content Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste, and Political Power in South India. By Hugo Gorringe
pp. 804-806(3)
Author: Subramanian, Narendra

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Free Content Why Democracy Deepens: Political Information and Decentralization in India. By Anoop Sadanandan
pp. 806-808(3)
Author: Sen, Ronojoy

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Book Reviews: Southeast Asia

Free Content The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War, 1979–1991. By Boraden Nhem
pp. 808-810(3)
Author: Bultmann, Daniel

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Free Content Governing Cambodia's Forests: The International Politics of Policy Reform. By Andrew Cock
pp. 810-812(3)
Author: Young, Sokphea

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Free Content Constitutionalism and Legal Change in Myanmar. Edited by Andrew Harding with the assistance of Khin Khin Oo
pp. 813-814(2)
Author: Simion, Kristina

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Free Content Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power. By Kenneth Paul Tan
pp. 815-816(2)
Author: Ostwald, Kai

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Free Content Fieldwork in Timor-Leste: Understanding Social Change through Practice. Edited by Maj Nygaard-Christensen and Angie Bexley
pp. 817-819(3)
Author: Webster, David

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Book Reviews: Australasia and the Pacific Islands

Free Content Dynamics of Difference in Australia: Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country. By Francesca Merlan
pp. 819-821(3)
Author: van Meijl, Toon

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Free Content Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission. By Laura Rademaker
pp. 821-823(3)
Author: Troolin, David

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Free Content Island Rivers: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania. Edited by John R. Wagner and Jerry K. Jacka
pp. 824-826(3)
Author: Mills, Andy

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Free Content Kaiāulu: Gathering Tides. By Mehana Blaich Vaughan
pp. 826-828(3)
Author: Langlas, Charles M.

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Pacific Affairs Index

Free Content Pacific Affairs Index
pp. 829-840(12)

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