Monthly Archives: July 2018
Families, Caring and Filipina Migrants
In a new book review at the JCA publisher’s site, Jan-Jan Soon of the School of Economics, Finance & Banking at Universiti Utara Malaysia considers The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age. Authored by … Continue reading
Myths and Vietnam
JCA editorial board member Geoffrey Gunn review of Mythbusting Vietnam: Fact, Fictions, Fantasies, has just become available at the publisher’s website. Published by NIAS Press, this is a collection of articles edited by Catherine Earl. Gunn notes that “nation states … Continue reading
Open Access Books
We have noticed that Routledge is making some of its books open access. We are not sure exactly how to find them all, but in searching the publisher’s site we found two that may be of interest for JCA readers. … Continue reading
2017 Impact Factors
The Web of Science has released its impact factors for listed journals for 2017. Different people have quite divergent views on the utility of such rankings. Whatever one’s views, there is little doubt that IFs and the rankings do have … Continue reading
Chaebol and Workplace Inequality in a Beijing Subsidiary
A new article is now available at the publisher’s website. The Organisational Culture of the Chaebol and Workplace Inequality: Stunted Mobilities of Korean Chinese Employees in a Beijing Subsidiary (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1488176) is authored by Sharon J. Yoon of the Department … Continue reading
Thailand’s Politics and Motorcycle Taxis
JCA Editor-in-chief Kevin Hewison reviews Claudio Sopranzetti’s Owners of the Map. Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok, published by the University of California Press. Hewison says this is an exciting book in that the reader is taken on … Continue reading
Production, Trade and the Colonial Malayan Economy
JCA editorial board member Alec Gordon has a long interest in colonial statistics and the colonial surplus. It is thus appropriate for him to review a new book, Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts. Authored … Continue reading
China’s Crony Capitalism
Kosmas Tsokhas has reviewed a series of books for JCA, all of which have been thought-provoking and have been widely read. His latest review is of China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay. The book is authored by Minxin … Continue reading
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