Recently added articles from Journal of Contemporary Asia:

Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Rowley, Kelvin ... Revolution, Reform and Regionalism in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Ronald Bruce St John (London and New York: Routledge, 2006) Ronald Bruce St John has written a detailed account of the political economy of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, focused on the period from ...

The Political Economy of Asian Transition Economies.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Salevurakis, John ... The Political Economy of Asian Transition Economies Sujian Guo (Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006) Sujian Guo's The Political Economy of Asian Transition Economies is an exploration of the degree to which China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos PDR and Cambodia have ...

Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Avonius, Leena ... Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem Anthony Reid (Singapore and Seattle: Singapore University Press and University of Washington Press, 2006) For years the isolation of Aceh from the outside world has been detectable in the scarcity of academic studies on ...

The Fourth Circle: A Political Ecology of Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Thompson, Herb ... The Fourth Circle: A Political Ecology of Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier John F. McCarthy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006) Dante's portrayal of struggle in "the fourth circle" of hell, between those who hoard, and those who waste (the world's resources), is designated ...

Ageing in Singapore: Service Needs and the State.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Oehlers, Alfred ... Ageing in Singapore: Service Needs and the State Peggy Teo, Kalyani Mehta, Leng Leng Thang and Angelique Chan (London and New York: Routledge, 2006) Debating policy in Singapore can be a hazardous undertaking--especially for the unwary academic. Those familiar with Singapore's ...

Democratisation, Governance and Regionalism in East and Southeast Asia: A Comparative Study.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Thompson, Herb ... Democratisation, Governance and Regionalism in East and Southeast Asia: A Comparative Study Ian Marsh (ed.) (London and New York: Routledge, 2006) This is another volume in a burgeoning series in the Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation. It contains a collection of eight ...

L'Asie d'Entre Inde et Chine: Logiques Territoriales des Etats.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Malay, A.S. ... L'Asie d'Entre Inde et Chine: Logiques Territoriales des Etats Michel Bruneau (Paris: Editions Belin, 2006) This is quite obviously a textbook for geography majors or Asian Studies graduate students in the Francophone countries; it's not what is known as a book for "tous ...

Critical Social Theory in Public Administration.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Viquaruddin, Mohammed ... Critical Social Theory in Public Administration Richard C. Box (New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India, 2005) People are often uncomfortable with critiques of the society in which they live, especially when these express concerns about specific problems such as unemployment, air ...

Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Dotson, Sarah ... Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Martha Macintyre (eds) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) To those not familiar with mining, the word almost universally conjures up an image of men and boys covered with soot. It is these male workers ...

Beyond the Global Culture War.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Laurel, R. Kwan ... Beyond the Global Culture War Adam K. Webb (London: Routledge, 2006) Adam Webb, a lecturer at Harvard University, whose book is actually an offshoot of his dissertation for Princeton University, must thank his publisher, Routledge, for the packaging of his product. Without even ...

Developing Cultures: Case Studies.(Book review)

May 01, 2008; Gunn, Geoffrey C. ... Developing Cultures: Case Studies Lawrence E. Harrison and Peter L. Berger (eds) (New York and London: Routledge, 2006) A production of an academic symposium and a sequel to the suggestively titled work Culture Matters authored/edited by Lawrence Harrison and Samuel Huntington, ...