Journal of East Asian Studies articles from January 2004

Journal of East Asian Studies archives from January 2004

The balance of power, globalization, and democracy: international relations theory in Northeast Asia.
January 1, 2004... The end of the Cold War has given rise to a wide-ranging debate about the future of international relations in the Asia-Pacific. This debate has been difficult to assess in part because of the elusive quality of the outcomes being explored,...

Regionalization and regionalism in East Asia.
January 1, 2004... What will the future of East Asia be like in the years ahead? More than a decade after the end of the Cold War, we are still confronted with the fundamental question of whether a new world order will be shaped primarily by state, regional, or...

The Chinese axis: zoning technologies and variegated sovereignty.
January 1, 2004... Concepts of regionalization and regionalism have dominated discussions of emerging global orders. With the rise of the European Union (EU), scholars have begun to look for similar multilaterally negotiated regional organizations in the...

Growing into trouble: institutions and politics in the Thai Sugar Industry.(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2004... Why do some economies grow for several years and then stall? One obvious answer is that these economies have "overheated." Another is that foreign demand for their products has dried up. This article explores a longer-term explanation--namely,...

The changing shape of Islamic politics in Malaysia.
January 1, 2004... Malaysia has long been viewed as a model of a "moderate" Islamic polity. Muslims and non-Muslims have enjoyed the same civil and political rights, (1) and Islamic parties have competed alongside secular ones in periodic elections, in spite of...

Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Alice H. Amsden and Wan-wen Chu. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. 248 pp. Everything that Alice Amsden writes is worth reading, and this short book on Taiwan with Wan-wen Chu is no exception. Amsden is often associated with Robert Wade and...

China Since Tiananmen: the Politics of Transition.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Joseph Fewsmith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 313 pp. Tiananmen is the fulcrum of contemporary Chinese history. As Joseph Fewsmith, a professor of international relations at Boston University and one of the foremost U.S....

North Korea: the Politics of Unconventional Wisdom.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Han S. Park. New York: Lynne Rienner, 2002. 193 pp. Han S. Park, one the leading scholars of North Korean politics in the United States, has written an important and original book on ideology in North Korea. This book is a useful...

Protestantism and Politics in Korea.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Chung-Shin Park. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2003.316 pp. Since its introduction in Korea in 1884, Protestant Christianity has proceeded to become South Korea's second largest religion with nearly 9 million followers,...

The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... By Shu-Mei Shih. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 427 pp. The good news about this book is that it has something important to say about responses by China's creative writers to Japanese and Western modernity. The bad news is...

Books received.
January 1, 2004... In addition to the titles reviewed in this issue, the books listed below were recently received by the editor and are available for review. General Barro, Robert J. 2003. Nothing Is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium....