Monthly Archives: January 2016
Agrarian societies and change
Melissa Johnston, a PhD student at Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre, has reviewed Tanya Jakimow’s book Decentring Development: Understanding Change in Agrarian Societies (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1138272). Jakimow asks: How do agrarian societies respond to development? Johnston says the book is “an … Continue reading
New reviews on China
At teh publisher’s website for JCA, two new reviews are available, reflecting on quite different aspects of China’s development. The first review is by Geoffrey C. Gunn, who reviews Understanding China: The Silk Road and the Communist Manifesto (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1139160), … Continue reading
Free download of prize-winning articles
The Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize was announced late in 2015. The two prize-winning articles are now available for download: Patrick V. Oabel (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada) for the paper “Last of the Labour Aristocrats: Restructuring … Continue reading
Discussing Islam in Southeast Asia
Paul Gallagher has a new review available at the JCA publisher’s site for the journal. Paul reviews Contemporary Islamic Discourse in the Malay-Indonesian World: Critical Perspectives (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1132335), by Azhar Ibrahim. Paul writes that Ibrahim is “proponent of the liberal … Continue reading
Ne Win’s biography
In a new book review at the JCA publisher’s site, Ashley South discusses the sympathetic book authored by Robert H. Taylor, General Ne Win: A Political Biography (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2015.1126758). It is published by Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. While referring … Continue reading
Communist banks in liberal Hong Kong
Damian Tobin of SOAS has a new article at the JCA website. “Continuity and Pragmatism: How Chinese State-Owned Banks adapted to Hong Kong’s Free Market (1949–1978)” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1123283), examines the puzzle of how China’s post-1978 economic reforms saw its enterprises … Continue reading
Casinos and local politics in Macao
Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo and Eric King-Man Chong of Hong Kong’s Institute of Education have published “Casino Interests, Fujian Tongxianghui and Electoral Politics in Macao” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1124444). The abstract states: The study of hometown associations has been traditionally focused on their … Continue reading
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