Monthly Archives: June 2019
Development and Global Value Chains
In a new book review for JCA, Yvette To of the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong discusses Development with Global Value Chains: Upgrading and Innovation in Asia, edited by Dev Nathan of … Continue reading
China’s Economy: Four Perspectives
The first article published for a forthcoming special issue about Marxist Perspectives on East Asia is “The Future of the Chinese Economy: Four Perspectives (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1623906). It is authored by Minqi Li of the Department of Economics, University of Utah … Continue reading
Nagasaki Peace Discourse
Richard Tanter, of Melbourne University and the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, reviews a new book by Geoffrey Gunn, The Nagasaki Peace Discourse: City Hall and the Quest for a Nuclear Free World, published by NIAS Press as a … Continue reading
2018 Impact Factors
The Web of Science has released its impact factors for listed journals for 2018 and the Journal of Contemporary Asia is now at 2.030. This IF is the highest JCA has achieved. In 2018, the reports list JCA as ranked … Continue reading
Violence and the Origins of the New Order
In a new Review Article for JCA, Olle Törnquist of the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway reviews and discusses three recent books on the Indonesian counter-revolution and killings of the mid-1960s. The abstract for this detailed analysis, … Continue reading
China and the Developing World
In another in his excellent series of book reviews, Kosmas Tsokhas examines a collection, China Steps Out: Beijing’s Major Power Engagement with the Developing World, edited by Joshua Eisenman and Eric Heginbotham and published by Routledge in 2018. China Steps … Continue reading
State enterprises in China
After a long delay, articles and book reviews are finally beginning to appear at the publisher’s website. The first of these is a book review by Richard W. Carney of the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, China. He … Continue reading
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