Recently added articles from Pacific Affairs:

The forest for the trees: trade, investment and the China-in-Africa discourse.(ABSTRACTS)

Mar 22, 2008; Sautman, Barry ... Trade and investment are topics central to the China-in-Africa discourse that has strongly emerged from the West in the last few years. Western opinion leaders, along with several African opposition parties, often characterize China's role in Africa as "colonialist," "neo-imperialist" or ...

Jathika Hela Urumaya and ethno-religious politics in Sri Lanka.(ABSTRACTS)(Author abstract)

Mar 22, 2008; DeVotta, Neil ... Sri Lanka's April 2004 parliamentary elections were a watershed because for the first time a political party comprised solely of Buddhist monks contested the polls. Despite being created just two months before the elections and generating passionate debate over the appropriateness of ...

North Korean market vendors: the rise of grassroots capitalists in a post-stalinist society.(ABSTRACTS)

Mar 22, 2008; Lankov, Andrei ... The article deals with the social changes that have taken place in North Korea since the mid-1990s, when the collapse of the centrally planned economy led to the growth of private commercial activity. This activity remains technically illegal, but the relevant bans and restrictions have ...

Narcotics trafficking in China: size, scale, dynamics and future consequences.(ABSTRACTS)(Author abstract)

Mar 22, 2008; Clark, Ryan ... This article examines narcotics trafficking in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and in its special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. A general overview is provided regarding types of narcotics trafficked, most common sources, and the key actors involved. Problem areas, or ...

Bill Holland's 100th Birthday.(William L. Holland )(Brief article)

Mar 22, 2008 ... Dr. William L. Holland has given a life time of service to public affairs in the Asia Pacific. He worked for years at the Institute of Pacific Relations, leading it through the difficult years of the Cold War. He brought its journal, Pacific Affairs, to the University of British Columbia ...

Jackie Garnett (1945-2008).(Pacific Affairs Celebrates)(Obituary)(Brief article)

Mar 22, 2008; Cheek, Timothy ... It is with great sorrow we inform the friends of Pacific Affairs that Ms. Jacqueline Garnett, long time Managing Editor, died on Monday 10 March 2008. She fought a long and astonishingly cheerful battle with cancer for many years. To the end Jackie was with her friends, concerned about our ...

The forest for the trees: trade, investment and the China-in-Africa discourse.

Mar 22, 2008; Sautman, Barry ... Introduction An international discourse of China-in-Africa has emerged, particularly in Western countries with dense links to Africa, such as the US, the UK and France. While China's presence in Africa should be critically examined, interest in the West is skewed by elite ...

Jathika Hela Urumaya and ethno-religious politics in Sri Lanka.

Mar 22, 2008; DeVotta, Neil ... If the Cold War's end led to debates about how religious passions could potentially undermine international peace and security, (1) the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States were evidence of the dangers stemming from religious extremism. Indeed, the global resurgence of ...

North Korean market vendors: the rise of grassroots capitalists in a post-stalinist society.

Mar 22, 2008; Lankov, Andrei ... A communist utopia, the professed goal of all Leninist regimes, is incompatible with a monetary economy or commercial activities of any kind. Hence, the gradual displacement of commerce is seen as an important part of the transition to full-fledged communism. However, no communist state ...

Narcotics trafficking in China: size, scale, dynamic and future consequences.

Mar 22, 2008; Clarke, Ryan ... 1. General Overview Narcotics abuse and trafficking are not new developments in China. They have been part of China's history even prior to the Boxer Rebellion and the first British Opium War in the mid-1800s, as the People's Republic of China's (PRC) sheer size and geography ...

Procyclicality of financial systems in Asia.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Wade, Robert ... PROCYCLICALITY OF FINANCIAL SYSTEMS IN ASIA. Edited by Stefan Gerlach and Paul Gruenwald. Basingstock (UK), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xiv, 182 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$90.00, cloth. ISBN 978-1-4039-8751-8. The title is clunky, but the content of this book could ...

Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Ravenhill, John ... RESHAPING THE ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC ORDER. Edited by Christopher Findlay and Hadi Soesastro. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. xvii, 286 pp. (Figures, Tables). US$60.00, cloth. ISBN 0-415-34985-0. The papers in this volume were first presented at the twenty-ninth conference ...

The unpredictability of the past.(The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Kim, Mikyoung ... THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF THE PAST: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations. Edited by Marc Gallicchio. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. 337 pp. (Tables, photos.) US$84.96, cloth, ISBN 978-0-8223-3933-5; US$23.95, paper, ISBN 978-0-8223-3945-8. ...

Transforming East Asia.(Transforming East Asia: The Evolution of Regional Economic Integration)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Dobson, Wendy ... TRANSFORMING EAST ASIA: The Evolution of Regional Economic Integration. By Naoko Munakata. Tokyo: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry; Washington, DC: Brooking Institution Press, 2006. xix, 258 pp. US$24.95, paper, ISBN 0-8157-5887-1. This volume catches hold of a ...

Capitalismes Et capitalistes En Chine.(Capitalismes Et Capitalistes En Chine: Des Origines a Nos Jours)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Goldman, Rene ... CAPITALISMES ET CAPITALISTES EN CHINE: Des Origines a Nos Jours. By Marie-Claire Bergere. Paris: Perrin, 2007. pp. 460 (Maps, tables.) US$31. 99, paper. ISBN 978-2-262-02265-5 Over fourty years ago Mao's paranoic fear of capitalist restoration served him as pretext to launch the ...

China stands up.(China Stands Up: The PRC and the International System)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Zhang, Yongjin ... CHINA STANDS UP: The PRC and the International System. By David Scott. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.vii, 212 pp. US$39.95. paper. ISBN 978-0-415-40270-5 Using Mao Zedong's iconic claim that "Chinese people have stood up" as the central organizing theme of his book, David ...

Challenges and policy programmes of China's new leadership.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Baum, Richard ... CHALLENGES AND POLICY PROGRAMMES OF CHINA'S NEW LEADERSHIP. Edited by Joseph Y.S. Cheng. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2007. xii, 651 pp. (Tables, figures, maps.) US$38.00, paper. ISBN 978-962-937-136-4. This thick, rather awkwardly titled volume contains essays ...

Disciplining the state.(Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence and State-Making in Modern China)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Yang, Dali L. ... DISCIPLINING THE STATE: Virtue, Violence and State-Making in Modern China. By Patricia M. Thornton. Cambridge (MA) and London (UK): Harvard University Asia Center; distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007. ix, 247 pp. US$39.95, cloth. ISBN 0-674-02504-0. This thoughtful ...

Political rights in post-mao China.(Brief article)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Seymour, James D. ... POLITICAL RIGHTS IN POST-MAO CHINA. By Merle Goldman. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2007. 76pp. US$10.00, paper. ISBN 978-0-924304-254-5. This booklet is an excellent addition to the Association for Asian Studies' "Key Issues in Asian Studies" series, intended ...

Reporting the Chinese Revolution.(Reporting the Chinese Revolution: The Letters of Rayna Prohme)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Mackinnon, Stephen R. ... REPORTING THE CHINESE REVOLUTION: The Letters of Rayna Prohme. By Baruch Hirson and Arthur J. Knodel. Edited with an introduction by Gregor Benton. London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2007. xii, 196 pp. (Photos.) US$35.00, Cloth, ISBN 798-0-7453-2642-9. In this book Rayna Prohme ...