Suharto's Fall and Afterwards: Medititations Provoked by Four Recent Analyses

Books reviewed in this article: Edward Aspinall, et al, (eds) The last days of President Suharto Richard W. Baker, et al, (eds) Indonesia: The Challenge of Change Arief Budiman, et al, (eds) Reformasi: Crisis and change in Indonesia Geoff Forester, (ed) Post‐Soeharto Indonesia: Renewal or Chaos?     

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     

Nation and nationalism in China

Books Reviewed Jonathan Unger (ed.), Chinese Nationalism Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing history from the nation: Questioning narratives of modern China Germain A. Hoston, The state, identity and the national question in China and Japan Stevan Harrell, (ed.) Cultural encounters on China’s ethnic frontiers Alan M. Wachman, Taiwan: National identity and democratization David Faure and Helen F. Siu (eds.), Down to earth: The territorial bond in South China     

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

Ballard, Chris, Paula Brown, R. Michael Bourke and Tracy Harwood (eds.) (2005) The Sweet Potato in Oceania: A Reappraisal. Ethnology Monograph 19 (University of Pittsburgh), Oceania Monograph 56 (University of Sydney), viii + 227 pp., US$56.00, pbk, ISBN: 0 945428 13 8.
Reviewed by Janet Davidson
Honorary Research Associate, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: Janet.Davidson@University‐of‐Ngakuta.ac.nz Boomgaard, Peter, David Henley and Manon Osseweijer (eds.) (2005) Muddied Waters, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island South East Asia. Leiden: KITLV Press, 418 pp., US$35.00, ISBN 90 6718 243 5.
Reviewed by Michael Roche
School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Email: M.M.Roche@massey.ac.nz McMillan, Richard (2005) The British Occupation of Indonesia 1945‐1946: Britain, the Netherlands, and the Indonesia Revolution [Royal Asiatic Society Books]. London: Routledge, 248 pp., US$115.00, ISBN 978‐0415355513.
Reviewed by Laura M. Calkins
Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Email: laura.calkins@ttu.edu     

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

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     

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: 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     

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

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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed Karl A. Fox, Urban‐regional Economics, Social System Accounts, and Eco‐behavioral Science: Selected Writings James G. Gimpel, Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration and the Politics of Places Jeffry Frieden, Manuel Pastor Jr. and Michael Tomz (eds.), Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Women's Work
Phyllis Andors, The Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women, 1949–1980. Costs of Change
Larry Sawers and William K. Tabb, eds., Sunbelt/Snowbelt: Urban Development and Regional Restructuring. Main Street, U.S.A.
Harley E. Johansen and Glenn V. Fuguitt, The Changing Rural Village in America: Demographic and Economic Trends since 1950. What Is Dangerous?
Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers. Becoming Oriented
Clifton W. Pannell and Laurence J. C. Ma, China: The Geography of Development and Modernization. Immigrants and Citizens
Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Mark J. Miller, eds., The Unavoidable Issue: U.S. Immigration Policy in the 1980s. The Rising South
Robert J. Newman, Growth in the American South: Changing Regional Employment and Wage Patterns in the 1960s and 1970s. Into the Nineties
Anthony Downs, Rental Housing in the 1980s.     

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     

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

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     

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     

Reviews

D. Denoon, M. Hudson, G. McCormack, T. Morris-Suzuki (eds), Multicultural Japan: palaeolithic to postmodern Khoo Boo Teik, Pardoxes of Mahathirism: An Intellectual Biography of Mahathir Mohamad William Case, Elites and Regimes in Malaysia: Revisiting a Consociational Democracy Edmund T. Gomez, The 1995 Malaysian General Elections: A Report and Commentary Bruce Grant, Indonesia B.S. Baviskar and Donald W. Attwood (eds.), Finding the middle path: the political economy of cooperation in rural India Harold Brookfield, Lesley Potter and Yvonne Bryon, In place of the forest. Environmental and socio-economic transformation in Borneo and the Eastern Malay Peninsula. UNU Studies on critical environmental regions     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed Moazzem Hozzain, Iyanatul Islam and Reza Kibria, South Asian Economic Development:Transformation, Opportunities and Challenges, Valentine Udoh James and James S. Etim, (eds.) The Feminization of Development Processes in Africa Aura Reggiani, (ed.) Accessibility, Trade and Locational Behaviour Richard H. Olson and Thomas A. Lyson, (eds.) Under the Blade: The Conservation of Agricultural Landscapes     

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.