Monthly Archives: August 2015

Taiwan’s working class

A new book review is available at the JCA website. Robert Tierney of Australia’s Charles Sturt University reviews Ming-sho Ho’s Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity and State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012 (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1075776). One significance of this review, it is … Continue reading

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Myanmar: From Cronyism to Oligarchy?

In a new article posted at the JCA website, Michele Ford, Michael Gillan and Htwe Htwe Thein discuss business and cronyism in contemporary Myanmar. Their article “From Cronyism to Oligarchy? Privatisation and Business Elites in Myanmar” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1072731), examines how … Continue reading

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China articles for free download

Taylor & Francis have a China Focus page that has had several updates, the most recent in August. The blurb states: “This wide-ranging series will present research from a number of disciplines, including Education, Geography, Art and Religion. Each month, a … Continue reading

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Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations

In a new review at the JCA website, Murdoch University’s James Boyd has looked at a new book by Robert Hoppens, The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1075309). Published by Bloomsbury, the publisher … Continue reading

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Thailand’s Political Development

Michael K. Connors of the School of Politics, History and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus has reviewed a new and important book by Federico Ferrara, The Political Development of Modern Thailand, published by  Cambridge University Press … Continue reading

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