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Books reviewed in this article: Carl A. Trocki, Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750–1950 Robert Robertson and William Sutherland, Government by the Gun: The Unfinished Business of Fiji's 2000 Coup Maung Maung, The 1988 Uprising in Burma Jan Van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu (eds), Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and Oceania Hugh Cortazzi (ed.), Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views – Post–war Japan through British Eyes     

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Michaud, Jean (2007) ‘Incidental’ Ethnographers: French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin‐Yunnan Frontier, 1880–1930. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 279 pp., US$155.00, hbk, ISBN: 978‐9004139961.
Reviewer: Steeve Daviau
Département d'anthropologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Email: daviausteeve@gmail.com Lee, Grace and Malcolm Warner (2007) The Political Economy of the SARS Epidemic: The Impact on Human Resources in East Asia. Milton Park and New York: Routledge, 192 pp., US$150.00, ISBN: 978‐0415394987.
Reviewer: Rochelle Stewart‐Withers
School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (presently School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia).
Email: r.stewartwithers@uq.edu.au     

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Books reviewed: Joel S. Kahn (ed), Southeast Asian identities: culture and the politics of representation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand Peter Dauvergne, Shadows in the forest: Japan and the politics of timber in Southeast Asia Geoffrey Murray, China: the next superpower: dilemmas in change and continuity Lynne T. White, Unstately Power, Volume I: Local causes of China's economic reforms; Volume II: Local causes of China's intellectual, legal and government reforms Amarjit Kaur, Economic change in East Malaysia: Sabah and Sarawak since 1850 Josieana Cauqueline, Paul Lim and Birgit Mayer-König, Asian values: encounter with diversity     

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Donald Tuzin, The cassowary’s revenge: the life and death of masculinity in a New Guinea society Raul Pertierra, Philippine Localities and Global Perspectives: Essays on Society and Culture Jacqueline Leckie, To Labour with the State: the Fiji Public Service Association     

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Robie, David (ed.), preface by Bunny McDiarmid, foreword by Walter Hadye Lini (2005) Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior (Memorial Edition). Auckland: Asia Pacific Network, xii, 170 pp., US$35, ISBN: 1 877314463.
Reviewer: Maria Bargh
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: maria.bargh@vuw.ac.nz Hitchcock, Michael and I. Nyoman Darma Putra (2007) Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali. Aldershot: Ashgate, 204 pp., US$99.95, ISBN: 978 0 7546 4866 6.
Reviewer: Regina Scheyvens
School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.
Email: r.a.scheyvens@massey.ac.nz     

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Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika (2008) Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, xvi, 277 pp., US$22.95, pbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐4321‐9; US$79.95, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐4338‐7.
Reviewer: Brendan Hokowhitu, Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago.
Email: brendan.hokowhitu@otago.ac.nz Li, Tani Murray (2007) The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics. Durham and London: Duke University Press, xii, 374 pp., $24.95, ISBN: 0822340275.
Reviewer: Andrew Walker, The Australian National University, Australia.
Email: andrew.walker@anu.edu.au Myoe, Maung Aung (2009) Building the Tatmadaw: Myanmar Armed Forces since 1948. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, xiv, 255 pp., $39.90, hbk, ISBN: 978‐981‐230‐848‐1.
Reviewer: Ng Sue Chia, Associate Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for National Security, S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.
Email: issuechiang@ntu.edu.sg Wilson, Chris (2008) Ethno‐Religious Violence in Indonesia: From Soil to God. London and New York: Routledge, 256 pp., US$170.00, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐415‐45380‐6.
Reviewer: Philip M. Fountain, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Faculties, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Email: philip.fountain@anu.edu.au Ferguson, Kathy E. and Monique Mironesco, eds (2008) Gender and Globalisation in the Asia and Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, xii, 420 pp., US $35.00, pbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8248‐3241‐4; US$69.00, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8248‐3159‐2.
Reviewer: Yvonne Underhill‐Sem, Centre for Development Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Email: y.underhill‐sem@auckland.ac.nz     

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Mason Durie Te Mana Te Kawanatanga: the politics of Maori self-determination Christopher Lingle Singapore’s authoritarian capitalism: Asian values, free market illusions and political dependency Roland J. L. Breton Atlas of the languages and ethnic communities of South Asia Lenore Manderson and Margerat Jolly (eds) Sites of desire, economies of pleasure: sexualities in Asia and the Pacific Eric Venbrux A Death in the TWI Islands: conflict, ritual and social life in an Australian community Brij V. Lal A vision for change     

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Books reviewed: Sinclair, Karen, Maori Times, Maori Places: Prophetic Histories Farrer, James, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific, Volume 75, No. 2 De Blij, H.J. and Muller, Peter O., Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts Kuby, Michael, Harner, John and Gober, Patricia, Human Geography in Action Tolliday, Steven (ed.), The Economic Development of Modern Japan, 1945–1995: From Occupation to the Bubble Economy Frost, Alan and Samson, Jane (eds.), Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams     

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Books reviewed: Martinkus, John, Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence Hanks, Jane Richardson and Lucien Mason Hanks, Tribes of the North Thailand Frontier Carriveau Storie, Monique and Bill Wuerch (compilers), Micronesia. World Bibliographical Series v. 220 Nakamura Mitsuo, Sharon Siddique and Omar Farouk Bajunid, Islam and Civil Society in Southeast Asia     

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Rodan, Garry (2004) Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia. London: Routledge‐Curzon, xvii, 261 pp. references, indices, £70, hbk, ISBN: 0415335825.
Reviewed by James Chin
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia.
Email: jchin@ieas.unimas.my Khai Leong, Ho (ed.) (2005) Reforming Corporate Governance in South East Asia: Economics, Politics, and Regulations. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 387 pp., US$29.90, ISBN: 981‐230‐291‐3.
Reviewed by Meidyah Indreswari
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Email: m_indres@yahoo.com     

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Books reviewed: Yongnian Zheng, Discovering Chinese nationalism in China: Modernization, identity and international relations Peter Drysdale and Dong Dong Zhang, (eds), Japan and China: rivalry or cooperation in East Asia? Eva‐Marie Kroller, Allan Smith, Joshua Mostow and Robert Kramer, (eds), Pacific encounters: the production of self and other Lee Kam Hing and Tan Chee‐Beng, (eds), The Chinese in Malaysia Edmund Terence Gomez and Jomo K.S., Malaysia's political economy: Politics, patronage and profits Patrick V. Kirch, On the Road of the Winds R. Le Heron, L. Murphy, P. Forer, M. Goldstone (eds), Explorations in Human Geography: Encountering Place     

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Essential reading on Fujian
Y.M. Yeung and David K.Y. Chu ( 2000 ) Fujian: A Coastal Province in Transition and Transformation . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , pp . 544 , ISBN: 9622018750 . Foreign economic policy and economic development in Asia
Christopher M. Dent ( 2002 ) The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , pp . 330 , ISBN: 1‐84064‐838‐4 . Case studies of terrorism in the Asia‐Pacific region
D.M. Jones ( ed. ) ( 2004 ) Globalisation and the New Terror: The Asia Pacific Dimension . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , pp . 316 , ISBN: 1843764423 .     

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Ng, Kum Lin (2002) Chinese in Fiji. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 286 pp.
Reviewer: Eugene Kumekawa
Tertiary Education Commission, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: gene.kumekawa@tec.govt.nz Robbins, Joel and Holly Wardlow (eds.) (2005) The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change. Hampshire: Ashgate, xiv, 246 pp., £47.50, hbk.
Reviewer: Ralph Pettman
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Email: rpettman@unimelb.edu.au Pholsena, Vatthana (2006) Post‐war Laos: The Politics of Culture, History and Identity. Singapore: ISEAS, 254 pp., $US22.95, pbk, ISBN: 981‐230‐355‐3.
Reviewer: Richard B. Verrone
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Email: richard.verrone@ttu.edu     

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Paul Keating. Australia, Asia and the New Regionalism Jacques Chirac. France and the New Euro-Asian Partnership Malcolm McKinnon. Immigrants and Citizens: New Zealanders and Asian Immigration in a Historical Context Raj Vasil and Hong-key Yoon. New Zealanders of Asian Origin Adrian Vickers (ed.). Being Modern in Bali: Image and Change Pilat, Dirk. The Economics of Rapid Growth: The Experiences of Japan and Korea Pomfret, Richard. Asian Economies in Transition: Reforming Centrally Planned Economies Richard Morse, Anisur Rahman and Kersten L. Johnson (eds). Grassroot Horizons: Connecting Participatory Development Initiatives East and West Francis T. Seow. To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison Nicholas Tarling. Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War Marion W. Ward. Pacific 2010: Women and Employment in Solomon Islands     

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Daljit Singh and Liak Teng Kiat (eds), Southeast Asian Affairs Michael Hobday, Innovation in East Asia: the challenge to Japan Patricia Jeffrey and Roger Jeffrey, Don’t marry me to a plowman! Women’s everyday lives in rural North India Helen Morton, Becoming Tongan: an ethnography of childhood Edvard Hviding, Guardians of Maravo Lagoon: practice, place, and politics in maritime Melanesia Carol J. Ireson, Field, forest, and family: women’s work and power in rural Laos Jayant Menon, Adjusting towards AFTA: the dynamics of trade in ASEAN Singapore R. Gerard Ward and Elizabeth Kingdon (eds), Land, custom and practice in the South Pacific Paula Brown, Beyond a mountain valley: the Simbu of Papua New Guinea Hal Levine and Anton Ploed (eds), Work in progress: essays in the New Guinea Highlanders ethnography in honour of Paula Brown Glick     

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Books reviewed in this article: H. Charles and L. Boon‐Chye (eds), Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia H. Charles and L. Boon‐Chye (eds), The Role of SMEs in National Economies in East Asia C. Allen, Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts Mushtaq H. Khan and K. S. Jomo (eds), Rents, Rent‐seeking and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia T. Dwyer (ed.), Resource Tax Policy in Countries of the Asia Pacific Region J. X. Kasperson and E. K. Roger, Global Environmental Risk J. D. Kelly and M. Kaplan, Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization R. E. Elson, Suharto: A Political Biography     

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Greg Fry and Tarcisius Kabutaulaka, eds (2008) Intervention and State‐Building in the Pacific: The Legitimacy of ‘Cooperative Intervention’. Manchester: Manchester University Press, xvi, 246 pp., GB £55.00, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐7190‐7683‐1.
Reviewer: David Capie, International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: david.capie@vuw.ac.nz J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. (2008) Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity. Durham: Duke University Press, xvi, 241 pp., US$22.95, pbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐4079‐9; US$79.95, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐4058‐4.
Reviewer: Noelani Goodyear‐Ka'ōpua, Indigenous Politics, Political Science Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
Email: goodyear@hawaii.edu Michael Barr and Zlatko Skrbis (2008) Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation‐Building Project. Copenhagen: NIAS, 304 pp., price unknown, ISBN: 978‐87‐7694‐029‐4.
Reviewer: Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Department of Government and International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Merewether, NSW, Australia.
Email: lily.rahim@sydney.edu.au Kim, Nam‐Kook (editor) (2009) Globalization and Regional Integration in Europe and Asia. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 184 pp., £55.00, ISBN: 978‐0‐7546‐7613‐3.
Reviewer: J.D. Kenneth Boutin, School of International and Political Studies, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
Email: ken.boutin@deakin.edu.au Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King and Michael Parnwell (eds.) (2009) Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 358 pp., £50.00, hbk, ISBN 978‐87‐7694‐033‐1; pbk, ISBN 978‐87‐7694‐034‐8.
Reviewer: Professor Erik Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Email: mserik@mscc.huji.ac.il