Journal of East Asian Studies articles from January 2006

Journal of East Asian Studies archives from January 2006

Roundtable discussion of Richard J. Samuels's Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan.
January 1, 2006... Richard Samuels's book Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan raises a number of important issues concerning political leadership and the role individual leaders can play in a nation's history. The book won the...

The social benefit system in urban China: reforms and trends from 1988 to 2002.
January 1, 2006... This article systematically reviews the macrolevel social policy changes in urban China during recent years. It also provides empirical evidence on how such policy changes reflect on microlevel family benefit levels from 1988 to 2002 using the...

Agenda control, intraparty conflict, and government spending in Asia: evidence from South Korea and Taiwan.
January 1, 2006... In nations where the executive has budgetary control, how are spending decisions and allocations affected? Is intraparty conflict relevant? This article sets out to show that institutional rules and leadership roles affect budgetary outcomes....

Bitter taste of paradise: North Korean refugees in South Korea.
January 1, 2006... This article deals with the problems of North Korean defectors currently living in South Korea. In the past, most such defectors came from privileged groups in the North Korean population, and their adjustment to the new environment did not...

Communication networks and changes in electoral choices: a study of Taiwan's 2002 mayoral elections.
January 1, 2006... Communication networks play an important role in the process of political socialization. This article, based on Taiwan's 2002 Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral election data, investigates the extent to which political discussion with family and...

Japan's Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Japan's Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change. By Jennifer A. Amyx. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 365 pp. $39.50. Cloth. This is a fine book, one of the best I have read on Japan's political economy...

China's Economic Transformation.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... China's Economic Transformation. By Gregory C. Chow. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. 407 pp. $76.95. Cloth. Drawing on his vast experience of analyzing Chinese economics, Gregory Chow examines China's transformation from a centrally planned...

Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan. By Thomas E Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, and Takatoshi Ito. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. 273 pp. $32.00. Cloth. It is well known that the so-called Lost Decade in Japan started around 1992,...

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty. By Bradley K. Martin. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. 849 pp. $29.95. Cloth. Bradley Martin's book, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, offers an...

The Politics of Multiple Belonging: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe and East Asia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... The Politics of Multiple Belonging: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe and East Asia. Edited by Flemming Christiansen and Ulf Hedetoft. Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. 282 pp. $89.95. Cloth. The Politics of Multiple Belonging...

Book received.
January 1, 2006... The books listed below were recently received by the editor and are available for review. Asia General Brown, Michael E., and Sumit Ganguly, eds. 2003. Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia. Cambridge: MIT Press....