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

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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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 .     

Place,memory and identity: Imagining ‘New Asia’

Abstract: The rapid transformation of Asian societies and landscapes, especially since the mid‐1990s, has engendered much conjecture of the ‘Asian renaissance’ and the rise of a ‘New Asia’. This Special Edition of Asia Pacific Viewpoint explores the intersecting themes of ‘urban place’, ‘social memory’ and ‘cultural identity’ in the articulation of and contestation towards New Asia. Specifically, the six articles here offer various interpretations of New Asia – as tourism marketing tool, political vision and social identity – and the politics involved in urban, tourism and cultural development. From colonial hotels in key South‐East Asian cities to the historic waterfront of Singapore; from festivals and rituals in Hong Kong, Hoi An (Vietnam) and Penang (Malaysia) to the clash of cultural values in Manggarai (Indonesia), ‘selective remembering’ and ‘ideological forgetting’ are central to the construction of New Asian identities. Ultimately, this Special Edition hopes to provoke continuing discussions on the rhetoric of New Asia and its imaginative and contested geographies, sociologies and histories.     

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: Simon, Judith and Linda Tuhiwai Smith with Fiona Cram, Margie Hohepa, Stuart McNaughton and Maxine Stephenson (eds), A Civilising Mission? Perceptions and representations of the Native Schools System. Lukere, Vicki and Margaret Jolly (eds), Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity? Per Ronnas and Bhargavi Ramamurphy, Entrepreneurship in Vietnam. Transformations and Dynamics. Yaw A. Debrah and Ian G. Smith (eds), Work and Employment in a Globalised Era: An Asia Pacific Focus. Phongpaichit, Pasuk and Chris Baker, Thailand's Crisis. Task Force Report (J.R. Kerrey, Chair; R.A. Manning, Project Director), The United States and Southeast Asia. A Policy Agenda for the New Administration.     

Reviews

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     

Reviews

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     

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: 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     

Genetic relationships among cultivated bananas and plantains from Asia and the Pacific

Summary Isozyme variation was studied to determine genetic relationships among 563 accessions of Musa, including diploid (AA and BB), triploid (AAA, AAB, and ABB), and a few tetraploid (ABBB) clones from Asia and the Pacific. Several open-pollinated seedling progenies of wild, diploid M. acuminata and M. balbisiana were also studied. Cryogenic preservation of leaf tissue in liquid nitrogen allowed sampling of a wide array of germplasm from Papua New Guinea and several Pacific Islands without transporting propagules which are subjected to quarantine regulations. Electrophoretic variation was recorded in three enzyme systems, MDH, PGI and PGM. In total, 52 distinct electromorphs were identified among 192 different isozyme phenotypes (zymotypes). Multivariate analyses of the data clearly differentiated the major genome groups and revealed patterns of association within groups. The isozyme data suggest that the genes contributed by the M. acuminata genome to the triploid Pacific plantain AAB subgroup are similar to those of the acuminata/banksii complex of Papua New Guinea. It is likely that the Pacific plantain subgroup, including the Hawaiian Maoli, Pp'ulu and Iholena cultivars, originated in Papua New Guinea/Melanesia, rather than in Asia or the Malay Archipelago.Journal Series no. 3783 of the Hawaii Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Vintage Wine James M . Buchanan, Liberty, Market and State: New Trade Outlook James J. Emery, Norman A. Graham, and Michael F. Oppenheimer An Interdisciplinary Approach Allan Schnaiberg, Nicolas Watts, and Klaus Zimmermann, eds. Small-Scale Farming Gerald G. Marten, ed. Traditional Agriculture in Southeast Asia: A Human Ecology Perspective. Technological Advancement Nathan Rosenberg and Claudio Frischtak, eds. Dividing up the Oil Walter J. Mead, Asbjorn Moseidjord, Dennis D. Muraoka, and Philip E. Sorensen A Substantial Work Herman Van der Wee, Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy 1945-1980. Development: Red, Blue, or Green? Herb Addo, et al. eds., Development as Social Transformation: Reflections on the Global Problematique. The European Experience Graham Hall, ed., European Industrial Policy. Urban Homesteading David P. Varady, Neighborhood Upgrading Assessment and Future Directions Martin Fransman, Technology and Economic Development. Technology, Economics, Energy Norman K. Whittlesey, ed., Energy and Water Management in Western Irrigated Agriculture. Israeli Enigma S.N. Eisenstadt, The Transformation of Israeli Society: An Essay in Interpretation.     

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 reviews in this article: Predictable Views The New Economics of Richard Nixon: Freezes, Floats, and Fiscal Policy by Roger LeRoy Miller and Raburn M. Williams. The Voice of the Dodo Let Me Say This about That: A Primer on NIXONomics by Ralph Jensen. An Authoritative Analysis Making Monetary and Fiscal Policy by G. L. Bach. Bullish on Puerto Rico The Role of the Financial Sector in the Economic Development of Puerto Rico by Rita M. Maldonado. About Underdeveloped Societies Economic Progress and the Developing World by Edward Marcus and Mildred Rendl Marcus. Updating Development Protagonists of Change: Subcultures in Development and Revolution, edited by Abdul A. Said. The Transcendent Behaviorist Society and Economic Growth: A Behavioral Perspective of Social Change by John H. Kunkel. Viewing History Afresh At the Edge of History by William Irwin Thompson. The Snow of Yesteryear Public Affairs by C. P. Snow. Government Personnel Public Service: The Human Side of Government by John W. Macy, Jr. Labor Relations in Government The Unions and the Cities by Harry H. Wellington and Ralph K. Winter, Jr. Revolting Students, Then and Now Student Activism: Town and Gown in Historical Perspective, edited by Alexander DeConde. 1972 Is Another Ball Game Passion and Politics: Student Activism in America, Part 1 by Seymour Martin Lipset and Part 2 by Gerald M. Schaflander. Tullock's Law The Logic of the Law by Gordon Tullock. Grace and Works in Latin America Human Rights and the Liberation of Man in the Americas, edited by Louis M. Colonnese. Man and Beast The Cougar Doesn't Live Here Any More by Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne. Getting to Know the Bomagai-Angoiang Place and People: An Ecology of a New Guinean Community by William C. Clarke. Geography in the Seventies The North American City by Maurice H. Yeates and Barry J. Garner. Learning from the Past The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Green-belt Town Program, 1935–1954 by Joseph L. Arnold. Slow Progress Urban Land Economics and Public Policy by Richard B. Andrews. Stop the Music Noise Pollution: The Unquiet Crisis by Clifford R. Bragdon. On Behalf of the Indian Big Brother's Indian Programs-With Reservations by Sar A. Levitan and Barbara Hetrick. Near-White Status The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White by James W. Loewen. Lost Ground The Job Crisis for Black Youth Financial Dilemma Fiscal Pressures on the Central City: The Impact of Commuters, Nonwhites, and Overlapping Governments by Werner Z. Hirsch Red Roundup Yearbook on Latin American Communist Affairs, 1971, edited by William E. Ratliff. Comprehensive Guide The Cambridge History of Islam: Vol. 1, The Central Islamic Lands The Value of a Degree Economic Dimensions in Education by Martin O'Donoghue. Demographic Dimensions Population Growth and the Brain Drain, edited by F. Bechhofer. Agricultural Sagacity The Economics of Agriculture by Margaret Capstick. A Brief Rapid Population Growth: Consequences and Policy Implications, Vol. 1, Summary and Recommendations A Challenging Question Is Law Dead?, edited by Eugene V. Rostow. One River's Environment Swan River Landscapes by George Seddon. An Objective Method Voting and Collective Choice: Some Aspects of the Theory of Group Decision-Making by Prasanta K. Pattanaik. A Practical Handbook Regional Economic Analysis for Practitioners by Avrom Bendavid. Chicano Manifesto by Armando B. Rendon. Politics, Position, and Power: The Dynamics of Federal Organization by Harold Seidman. Economic Development and Population Control: A Fifty-Year Projection for Jamaica by B. Thomas Walsh. SDS by Alan Adelson.Now Is the Time: A New Populist Call to Action by Fred R. Harris. Japan: Its History and Culture by W. Scott Morton. The Emerging Japanese Superstate: Challenge and Response by Herman Kahn. Hanging Together: Equality in an Urban Nation by William L. Taylor. A Mind of One Piece: Brandeis and American Reform by Melvin I. Urofsky. Sentencing in a Rational Society by Nigel Walker. Social Experimentation and Manpower Policy: The Rhetoric and the Reality by Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggart 111. Social Control and Social Change, edited by John Paul Scott and Sarah F. Scott. The State of the Nations: Constraints on Development in Independent Africa, edited by Michael F. Lofchie. The Presidency by Dale Vinyard. The American Left: Radical Political Thought in the Twentieth Century, edited by Loren Baritz. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek. Man and Atom: Building a New World through Nuclear Technology by Glenn T. Seaborg and William R. Corliss. Toward a Rational Power Policy: Energy, Politics, and Pollution by Neil Fabricant and Robert M. Hallman. Land of Urban Promise: Continuing the Great Tradition-A Search for Significant Urban Space in the Urbanized Northeast by Julian Eugene Kulski. The Politics of Disorder by Theodore J. Lowi. The Shape of Likelihood: Relevance and the University Regional Economics: Theory and Practice, edited by David L. McKee, Robert D. Dean, and William H. Leahy. The Foreign Affairs Fudge Factory by John Franklin Campbell. The Public Economy of Metropolitan Areas by Robert L. Bish. The Future of the Oceans by Wolfgang Friedmann.     

Book Review Section

Book reviewed in this article: URDAPIC in Chile Urban and Regional Development in Chile: A Case Study of Innovative Planning by John Friedmann. African Land Studies “The Land to Those Who Work It”: Algeria's Experiment in Workers' Management by Thomas L. Blair. Asia's Problems Issues in the Future of Asia: Communist and Non-Communist Alternatives, edited by Richard Lowenthal. Federal Programs Evaluated Federal Training and Work Programs in the Sixties by Sar A. Levitan and Garth L. Mangum. Urban Picture Change and Renewal in an Urban Community: Five Case Studies of Detroit by Eleanor Paperno Wolf and Charles N. Lebeaux, together with Shirley Terreberry and Harriet Saperstein. Poverty in the United States Perspectives on Poverty, Vol. 1, On Understanding Poverty: Perspectives from the Social Sciences, edited by Daniel P. Moynihan. Optimistic Approach to Poverty The Longest Mile by Rena Gazaway. The Have-Nots The War on the Poor by Clarence B. Carson. RX For 1984 The Second Genesis: The Coming Control of Life by Albert Rosenfeld. Child Development The Psychology of the Child by Jean Piaget and Barbel Youthful Dissidents The Binking of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition by Theodore Roszak. Feminism's First Century The Woman Movement: Feminism in the United States and England by William L. O'Neill. How Labor Campaigns Labor in American Politics by J. David Overview of Power Power by Adolf A. Berle. Imperialism's Problems The Lords of Human Kind: Black Man, Yellow Man, and White Man in an Age of Empire by V. G. Kiernan. Environmental Design The Landscape We See by Garrett Eckbo. De Mortuis Nil… Man's Concern with Death by Arnold Toynbee and others     

From Southwest China into Upper Indochina: an overview of Hmong (Miao) migrations

From southern China through mountainous Vietnam, Laos and eventually as far south as the Chao Phraya basin in Thailand, groups of Hmong swiddeners were seen migrating during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When, and under what circumstances did large chunks of this sub-group of the Miao from Guizhou and its periphery move their settlements to the southern part of the continental Southeast Asia Massif? Who were they? What was their history before these migrations? This paper makes use of early evidence to shed some light on the main causes of that march into the mountain ranges of the Peninsula.     

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

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     

Recreating place,replacing memory: Creative destruction at the Singapore River

Abstract: The transformation of urban landscapes is as much a physical process as it is a symbolic one. Material changes in the form of demolition and redevelopment are often accompanied by changes in the image and identity of places, as well as the personal and collective memories associated with these places. Focusing on the Singapore River, we explore how waterfront redevelopment has rendered certain activities, people and place memories invisible, to be replaced by other landscape elements and their associative identities. Through ‘creative destruction’ and ‘destructive creation,’ the waterfront's transformation is evident in three areas: its built environment (‘builtscapes’), activities and events (‘eventscapes’) and displays of public art (‘artscapes’). We contend that landscapes reflect the tensions between ‘remembering to forget’ and ‘forgetting to remember’ in ‘New Asia‐Singapore,’ a city attempting to blend modern Asian dynamism with tradition and heritage.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this Article: Vox Populi John C. Pierce and Harvey R. Doerksen, eds., Water Politics and Public Involvement. Ann Arbor, Mich.: New Topic for Political Scientists James E. Anderson, ed., Economic Regulatory Policies. Carbondale, III.: The Collegiate Cookie Jar Walter I. Garms, Financing Community Colleges. New York: The Local Fisc James C. Snyder, Fiscal Management and Planning in Local Government Lexington, Mass.: Unsuccessful Reign Harry Edward Berndt, New Rulers in the Ghetto: Race and Residence David H. McKay, Housing and Race in Industrial Society: What Ails Us Kenneth E. F. Watt et al., The Unsteady State: The Effects of Indexing Henry J. Aaron, ed., Inflation and the Income Tax. Washington, D.C.: Mood of Gloom E. J. Mishan, The Economic Growth Debate: An Assessment, London: Development in Dixie Leonard F. Wheat, Urban Growth in the Nonmetro politan South. Lexington, Mass.: The Cost of Getting There Alan Abouchar, Transportation Economics and Public Policy: With Urban Extensions. New York: