Reviews

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     

Re-evaluating Asia

Harland, Bryce Collision Course: America and East Asia in the Past and Future. da Cunha, Derek (ed.) The Evolving Pacific Power Structure. King, Peter and Kibata, Yoichi (eds) Peace Building in the Asia Pacific Region: Perspectives from Japan and Australia. Bell, Roger; McDonald, Tim and Tidwell, Alan (eds) Negotiating the Pacific Century: The ‘New’ Asia, the United States and Australia. Robison, Richard (ed.) Pathways to Asia: The Politics of Engagement.     

Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Geographia's Quest Peter Gould. The Geographer at Work. London Whither the Welfare State? S. N. Eisenstadt and Ora Ahimeir, eds. The Welfare State and Its Aftermath. Away from Stereotypes: Appalachia Karl B. Raitz and Richard Ulack with Thomas R. Leinbach. Appalachia: A Regional Geography Land People and Development. Production Sharing and Distribution of Benefits Joseph Grunwald and Kenneth Flamm. The Global Factory: Foreign Assembly in International Trade. Planning and Embedded Values Martin Wachs, ed. Ethics in Planning. Approaches to Urban Development Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, and Steven Pinch, eds. Public Service Provision and Urban Development. Cities and Self-Reliance Paul R. Porter and David C. Sweet, eds. Rebuilding America's Cities: Roads to Recovery. Sir Arthur's Careful Consideration W. Arthur Lewis. Racial Conflict and Economic Development. Keeping the Soil Where We Want It Edwin H. Clark II, Jennifer A. Haverkamp, and William Chapman. Eroding Soils: The Off-Farm Impacts. Should Workers Buy the Factory? Raymond Russell. Sharing Ownership in the Workplace. Aspects of Chinese Urbanization R. J. R. Kirkby. Urbanization in China: Town and Country in a Developing Economy 1949–2000 A.D. Centralization or Multiple Jurisdictions? David L. Chicoine and Norman Walzer. Governmental Structure and Local Public Finance. Book Review Essay: The Dual Gaps of Development Mitchell A. Seligson, ed. The Gap betweeen Rich and Poor: Contending Perspectivies on the Political Economy of Development.     

Reviews

Anthony, Jim (2007) Sex Across the Color Line – A Neglected Topic in Pacific History: The Case of Parbhudaia aka Minnie Wilkinson and Sir Henry Scott. Lautoka: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies, Research Report No. 7, 60 pp., FJD$12, ISBN: 978 982 301 030 4.
Reviewer: Portia Richmond
Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand.
Email: Portia_richmond@yahoo.com Scheyvens, Regina and Donovan Storey (eds.) (2003) Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. London: Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage Publications, ix, 264 pp., USD47.95, pbk, ISBN: 9780761948902.
Reviewer: Peggy Fairbairn‐Dunlop
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: peggy.fairbairn‐dunlop@vuw.ac.nz Batiwala, Srilatha and L. David Brown (eds.) (2006) Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction. Bloomfield, Connecticut: Kumarian Press, 288 pp. US $25.95, pbk, ISBN: 1‐56549‐210‐2.
Reviewer: Peter Swain
Volunteer Service Abroad, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: PSwain@vsa.org.nz Kin Wah, Chin and Leo Suryadinata (comp. and ed.) (2005) Michael Leifer Selected Works on Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS, xvii, 748 pp., illus, $US55.00, ISBN: 981‐230270‐0.
Reviewer: Nicholas Tarling
New Zealand Asia Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Email: n.tarling@auckland.au.nz Connell, John and Eric Waddell (eds.) (2007) Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia Pacific: Between Local and Global. London: Routledge, 256 pp., US$65.00, ISBN: 978‐0‐415‐40414‐3.
Reviewer: Douglas K. Bardsley
School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Email: d.bardsley@uq.edu.au     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Nordhaus, William D. and Joseph Boyer, Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming. Lee, Helen Morton, Tongans Overseas: Between Two Shores. Pugh, Michael and Neil Cooper, with Jonathan Goodhand, War Economies in a Regional Context. Challenges of Transformation. Askew, Marc, Bangkok. Reuter, Thomas A., Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali. Lan, Hua R. and Vanessa L. Fong (eds), Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook. Chuh, Kandice and Karen Shimakawa (eds), Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora.     

Reviews

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     

Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Incomplete Picture Victor L. Arnold, ed., Alternatives to Confrontation: A National Policy toward Regional Change. Ladies’Room Gerda R. Wekerle, Rebecca Peterson, and David Morley, eds., New Space for Women. Speaking Fluidly Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Western Water Resources: Multilateral Monologues Alice H. Amsden, ed., The Economics of Women and Work. New York: To Plan or Not to Plan Joseph F. DiMento, The Consistency Doctrine and the Limits of Planning. Comprehensive Social Theory Walter Isard and Panagis Liossatos with Yoshigeto Kanemoto and Phyllis C. Kaniss Galvanized into Action Kai N. Lee and Donna Lee Klemka with Marion E. Marts, Electric Power and the Future of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle and London: Toil and Trouble Andrew Levison, The Full Employment Alternative. New York: Made in the U.S.A. Hsin-Min Tong, Plant Location Decisions of Foreign Manufacturing Investors. Also of Interest Peter Abelson, Cost Benefit Analysis and Environmental Boblems. Also of Interest Brian J. L. Berry and Lester P. Silverman, eds., Also of Interest John Carney, Ray Hudson, and Jim Lewis, eds. Also of Interest Leslie Dienes and Theodore Shabad, The Soviet Energy System: Resource Use and Policies. New York: Also of Interest Thomas R. Dye and Virginia Gray, eds., The Determinants of Public Policy. Lexington, Mass. Also of Interest Stahrl W. Edmunds and Adam Z. Rose, eds. Also of Interest Thomas G. Rawski, China's Transition to Industrialism: Producer Goods and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century.     

Book Reviews

Book Review in this Article Ralph M. Kramer, Voluntary Agencies in the Welfare State. Boris S. Pushkarev with Jeffrey M. Zupan and Robert S. Cumella, Urban Rail in America: An Exploration of Criteria for Fixed-Guideway Transit. Jon Van Til, Living with Energy Shortfall: A Future for American Towns and Cities. Robert Orr Whyte and Pauline Whyte, The Women of Rural Asia. William P. Browne and Don F. Hadwiger, eds., Rural Policy Problems: Changing Dimensions. Alan Lewis, The Psychology of Taxation. A. G. Aganbegyan, ed., Regional Studies for Planning and Projecting: The Siberian Experience. Yusuf J. Ahmad and Frank G. Müller, eds., Integrated Physical, Socio-economic, and Environmental Planning Bela Balassa, Development Strategies in Semi-industrial Economies. Steven C. Ballard et al., Water and Western Energy: Impacts, Issues, and Choices Dennis Bloodworth, The Messiah and the Mandarins: Mao Tsetung and the Ironies of Power. Landrum R. Bolling with Craig Smith, Private Foreign Aid: U.S. Philanthropy for Relief and Development. Coralie Bryant and Louise G. White, Managing Development in the Third World. V. Bulmer-Thomas, Input-Output Analysis in Developing Countries: Sources, Methods, and Applications. Robert W. Burchell and David Listokin, eds., Energy and Land Use. Canada, Department of Regional Economic Expansion, A Guide to Regional Multiplier Estimation Michael J. Carter and William H. Leahy, eds., New Directions in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations. E. William Colglazier, Jr., ed., The Politics of Nuclear Waste. Martin Counihan, A Dictionary of Energy.     

Reviews

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     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Ben Burt and Christian Clerk (eds), Environment and development in the Pacific Islands Glenn Banks and Chris Ballard (eds), The Oki Tedi Settlement – issues, outcomes and implications Bill Gammage, The Sky Travellers: journeys in New Guinea 1938–1939     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Straight Talk from Our Former Editor U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (prepared by Lawrence R. Klein and Susan Ghozeil), A Popularized Version of 21 Doctoral Dissertations, R & D monograph. The Well-Tempered Caveat Benjamin Chinitz, ed., The Declining Northeast: Demographic and Economic Analyses.. George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes, eds., Revitalizing the Northeast: Prelude to an Agenda.. The Economic Solution William J. Baumol and Wallace E. Oates, Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life. The No-Free-Lunch Bunch Harold Sprout and Margaret Sprout, The Context of Environmental Politics: Unfinished Business for America's Third Century. Of Flora, Fish, and Titmice Ian C. Laurie, ed., Nature in Cities: The Natural Environment in the Design and Development of Urban Green Space. An Array of Options David J. Bartholomew and Andrew F. Forbes, Statistical Techniques for Manpower Planning. Reusing Resources David W. Pearce and Ingo Walter, eds., Resource Conservation: Social and Economic Dimensions of Recycling. Once More with Fueling Wallace E. Tyner, Energy Resources and Economic Development in India. Left-of-Center Viewpoint Jeannine Swift, Economic Development in Latin America. Edward J. Blakely, ed., Community Development Research: Concepts, Issues, and Strategies. Elchanan Cohn, The Economics of Education P. W. Daniels, ed., Spatial Patterns of Office Growth and Location. Douglas Evans, Western Energy Policy: The Case for Competition. R. A. French and F. E. Ian Hamilton, eds., The Socialist City: Spatial Structure and Urban Policy. D. A. Kirby, Slum Housing and Residential Renewal: The Case in Urban Britain. Thomas D. Lynch, Public Budgeting in America. Ragaei El Mallakh, Qatar: Development of an Oil Economy. Roberta Balstad Miller, City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development. Rakesh Mohan, Urban Economic and Planning Models: Assessing the Potential for Cities in Developing Countries. Joseph P. Newhouse, The Economics of Medical Care: A Policy Perspective. John L. Palmer, ed., Creating Jobs: Public Employment Programs and Wage Subsidies. V. Kerry Smith, ed., Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: H.W. Arndt and Hal Hill (eds), Southeast Asia’s economic crisis: Origins, lessons and the way forward William Cline, Trade and income distribution Morris Goldstein, The Asian financial crisis: Causes, curses and systemic implications Lamont Lindstrom and James Gwero (eds), Big Wok: Storian blong Wol Wo Tu long Vanuatu     

Reviews

Neher, Clark D. and Marlay, Ross Values, Culture, Development and Democracy in Southeast Asia: The Winds of Change Ravenhill, John (ed.) The Political Economy of East Asia: Vol. 1 Japan Vol 2: China, Korea and Taiwan Vol 3: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines and Thailand Lim, David Explaining economic growth: a new analytical framework Naya, S.F. and Tan, J.L.H. (eds) Asian Transitional Economies: Challenges and Prospects for Reform and Transformation Tilton, Mark Restrained trade: cartels in Japan's basic materials industries Province, Guizhou The population atlas of Guizhou Province Smith, Michael French Hard times on Kariru island: poverty, development and morality in a Papua New Guinea Village Dalziel, Paul and Lattimore, Ralph The New Zealand macroeconomy: a briefing on the reforms     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Training for the Labor Market R. Thayne Robson, ed., Employment and Training R & D: Lessons Learned and Future Directions. Symbols, Concepts, and Approaches Lloyd Rodwin and Robert M. Hollister, eds., Cities of the Mind: Images and Themes of the City in the Social Sciences. Power and Purity Richard D. Brown, Robert P. Ouellette, and Paul N. Cheremisinoff, Pollution Control at Electric Power Stations: Comparisons for U.S. and Europe. Biosocial Reckoning William R. Burch, Jr. and Donald R. DeLuca, Measuring the Social Impacts of Natural Resource Policies. Pinching the Purse Terry Nichols Clark and Lorna Crowley Ferguson, City Money: Political Processes, Fiscal Strain, and Retrenchment. Polis and Policy Royce Hanson, ed., Rethinking Urban Policy: Urban Development in an Advanced Economy. Unequal Health Ann Lennarson Greer and Scott Greer, eds., Cities and Sickness: Health Care in Urban America.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Heggelund, Gorild (2004) Environment and Resettlement Politics in China: The Three Gorges Project. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 276 pp., US$110.00, ISBN: 0754638596.
Reviewed by Robert A. Dayley
Department of Political Economy, Albertson College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID, USA.
Email: rdayley@albertson.edu Drummond, Lisa B.W. and Mandy Thomas (eds.) (2003) Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam. London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 248 pp., US$115.00, hbk, cloth ISBN: 0‐415‐29689‐7.
Reviewed by Phuong An Nguyen
Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund, Sweden.
Email: an_phuong.nguyen@ace.lu.se Takamasa, Akiyama and Donald F. Larson (eds.) (2004) Rural Development and Agricultural Growth in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. CanbeITa: Asia Pacific Press for the World Bank, xxv, 558 pp., US$40.00, pbk, ISBN: 0‐7315‐3786‐6.
Reviewed by R.D. Hill
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Email: rdhill@hku.hk Nicholas, Colin, Tijah Yok Chopil and Tiah Sabak (2003) Orang Asli Women and the Forest: The Impact of Resource Depletion on Gender Relations among the Semai. Subang Jaya: Center for Orang Asli Concerns, xi + 131 pp., US$12.00, ISBN: 9834004249.
Reviewed by Barbara Nowak
Development Studies, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.
Email: b.s.nowak@massey.ac.nz Fisher, Susan (2001) Nostalgic Journeys: Literary Pilgrimages between Japan and the West. Vancouver: The Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia, 194 pp., Cdn$24.95, ISBN: 0888657501.
Reviewed by Xiaofei Tu
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
Email: xtu@syr.edu     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Ross McLeod and Ross Garnaut (eds), East Asia in crisis: from being a miracle to needing one? Anthony Reid (ed.), Sojourners and settlers: histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese William Callahan, Imagining democracy: reading ‘the events of May’ in Thailand 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 Michael Young, Malinowski's Kiriwana; fieldwork photography 1915‐1918 Colin Filer with Nikhil Sekhran, Loggers, donors and resource owners. Policy that works for forests and people Michael Dutton (ed.), Streetlife China Kimberly Ann Elliott (ed.), Corruption and the global economy     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: Laboring under Discrimination William B. Gould, Black Workers in White Unions: Governing Oil Resources Kenneth W. Dam, Oil Resources: Talking Homes Franklin D. Becker, Housing Messages. Stroudsburg, Pa.: Dispatching Disposal Difficulties Michael R. Greenberg et al., Solid Waste Planning in Metropolitan Regions. New Brunswick, N.J.: The Price of Protection Dan K. Richardson, The Cost of Environmental Protection: Why Not Wye? Boyd Gibbons, Wye Island: New Ghettos Francine F. Rabinovitz and William J. Siembieda, Minorities in Suburbs: Landlords' Lament Monica R. Lett, Rent Control: Sharing the Wealth David A. Caputo and Richard L. Cole, eds., Revenue Sharing: Planning Tools William A. Schaffer, ed., Briefer Mention Out of the Salt Mine Sar A. Levitan and Richard S. Belous, Shorter Hours, Shorter Weeks:     

Reviews

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