‘Buzantine’ security complexes in the Pacific

In Search of Peace: Confidence Building and Conflict Reduction in the Pacific, edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Kuala Lumpur/Kegan Paul International, London, 1989. vi + 72 pp. £20. ISBN 0–7103–0375–0.

Building Confidence, Resolving Conflicts, edited by Muthiah Alagappa. ISIS, Kuala Lumpur/Kegan Paul International, London, 1990. vi+155 pp. £35. ISBN 0–7103–0372–6.

No Longer an American Lake?, edited by John Ravenhill. Allen &; Unwin, Sydney, Wellington and London, 1989, ix + 227 pp. £10.95 paperback. ISBN0–04–372042–0.

Arms and Defence in Southeast Asia, edited by Chandran Jeshurun. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1989. xiv+174pp. $19.0 (SS35.00) hardback, $14.00 (S$25.00) paperback. ISBN 981–3035–44–7 and 981–3035–45–5.

Security and Arms Control in the North Pacific, edited by A. Mack and P. Keal. Allen &; Unwin, Sydney, Wellington and London, 1988. xiv+324pp. £30 hardback, £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–335061–5 and 0–04–332138–0.     

Reviews

Japan's International Relations, by Takashi Inoguchi. Pinter Publishers, London, 1991. xii + 190 pp. £10.95 paperback, £39.50 hardback. ISBN 0–86187–095–6, 0–86187–076‐X.

NIPPON: New Superpower, Japan since 1945, by William Horsley and Roger Buckley. BBC Books, London, 1990. x + 278 pp., 24 pp. plates. £15. ISBN 0–563–20875–9.

Korea Briefing, 1990, edited by Chong‐Sik Lee. Westview, Boulder, CO, 1991. viii + 175 pp. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8133–8010–3.

Britain and the Korean War, by Callum MacDonald. Blackwell, Oxford, 1990. viii + 112 pp. £17.50 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–631–16769–2, 0–631–16771–4.

The Future of South Korean‐U.S. Security Relations, edited by William J. Taylor Jr., Young Koo Cha, John Q. Blodgett, and Michael Mazarr. Westview Press, Boulder CO, 1989. £22.50. ISBN 0–8133–7889–3.

The Cambodian Crisis and U.S. Policy Dilemmas, by Robert G. Sutter. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1991. vi + 135 pp. £15.50, paperback. ISBN 0–8133–8047–2.

Opium and Foreign Policy: The Anglo‐American Search for Order in Asia: 1912–1954, by William O. Walker III. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 1991. xvi + 345 pp. $43.95. ISBN 0–8078–1970.

Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972–1990, by David Shambaugh. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1991. 326 pp. £25, $35. ISBN 0–691–07864–5.

Building Sino‐American Relations: An Analysis for the 1990s, edited by William T. Tow. Paragon House, New York, 1991. vii + 327 pp. $18.95 paperback. ISBN 0–88702–061–5.

Molding the Medium: The Chinese Communist Party and the Liberation Daily, by Patricia Stranahan. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk NY and London, 1991. x + 189 pp. $39.95 ISBN 0–87332–662–8.

The Privatization of China: The Great Reversal, by William Hinton. New York, Monthly Review Press, 1990; Earthscan Publications, London, 1991.191 pp. £7.95 paperback. ISBN 1–85383–098–4.

Rural Reform and Peasant Income in China, by Zhu Ling. Macmillan, Houndmills and London, 1991. xiv + 204 pp. £35 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0–333–49743–0, 0–333–49744–9.

China's Defence Modernisation and Military Leadership, by Ngok Lee. Australian National University Press, Sydney, 1989. xxi + 395 pp. ISBN 0–08–033046–0.

Taiwan: China's Last Frontier, by Simon Long. Macmillan, Houndmills and London, 1991. xix + 264 pp. £40 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0–333–51292–8, 0–333–51293–6.

Party‐Military Relations in the PRC and Taiwan: Paradoxes of Control, by Cheng Hsiao‐shih. Westview Special Studies on China and East Asia, Boulder, CO, 1990. xiv + 178 pp. £18.50. ISBN 0–8133–7738–2.

Modern Taiwan in the 1990s, edited by Garry Klintworth. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 75. Australian National University, Canberra, 1991. 216 pp. A$15. ISBN 07315–11689.

Shanghai, by Harriet Sergeant. Jonathan Cape, London, 1991. xi + 371 pp., 16 pp. plates, maps. £16.99. ISBN 0–224–02816–2.

An Illustrated History of Hong Kong, by Nigel Cameron. Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1991. 362 pp., maps, illus. £25. ISBN 0–19–584997–3.

Hong Kong 1977: dans la gueule du Dragon rouge, by Jules Nadeau with Mathieu‐Robert Sauvé and Judith Bélanger. Editions Québec/Amérique, Montreal, 1990. 306 pp., maps, illus. Can$26.95. ISBN 2–89037–513–7.

Australia in the International Economy in the Twentieth Century, by Barrie Dyster and David Meredith. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. xvi + 362 pp. £39.50 hardback, £15.00 paperback. ISBN 0–521–33496–9, 0–521–33689–9.

Art and Identity in Oceania, edited by F. Allan Hanson and Louise Hanson. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1990. viii + 315 pp., illus. £37. ISBN 0–8248–1304–0.

The Pacific, by Simon Winchester. Hutchinson, London, 1991. xi + 501 pp. £19.99. ISBN 0–09–173485–1.     

A king's Indian defence?

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, by Peter Hopkirk. John Murray, London, 1991. xiv + 526 pp., maps, 24 pp. plates. £19.95. ISBN 0–7195–4727‐X.

Roads and Rivals: The Politics of Access in the Borderlands of Asia, by Mahnaz Z. Ispahani. I. B. Tauris, London, 1991. xvi + 286 pp., maps. £22.95 ($37.80). ISBN 1–85043–145–0.     

The development of Singapore and Malaysia in regional context

Singapore. City‐State in South‐East Asia, by Philippe Régnier. Hurst & Company, London, 1991. xv + 301 pp. £27.50. ISBN 1–85065–053–5.

Growth Triangle. The Johor‐Singapore‐Riau Experience, edited by Lee Tsao Yuan. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, 1991. x + 119 pp. $23.95. ISBN 981–3016–11–6.

The Malaysian Economy. Pacific Connections, by Mohammed Ariff. Oxford University Press, Singapore, Oxford and New York, 1991. xx + 216 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0–19–588564–3.     

South Pacific prospects

Aborigines in the Defence of Australia, edited by Desmond Ball. Australian National University Press, Botany NSW, 1991. xxii + 240 pp. ISBN 0–08–034419–4.

The South Pacific: Problems, Issues and Prospects, edited by Ramesh Thakur. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1991. xvii + 232 pp. £35. ISBN 0–333–55704–2;

Tuturani: A Political Journey in the Pacific Islands, by Scott L. Malcolmson. Hamish Hamilton, London, 1991. 267 pp. £15.99 ($27.70). ISBN 0–241–12905–2.     

The Asian‐Pacific ‘Geese’: Flying or floundering?

The Western Pacific: Challenge of Sustainable Growth, by Alan Burnett. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1992. 272 pp. £45. ISBN 1–85278–367–2.

Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia‐Pacific Region, edited by James W. Morley. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk NY, 1992. 345 pp. £42. ISBN 1–56324–013–0.

The West Pacific Rim, by Rupert Hodder. Belhaven Press, London, 1992. 153 pp. £35. ISBN 1–85293–210–4.

The East‐West Pendulum, by Robert Lloyd George. Woodhead Faulkner. Cambridge, 1992. 142 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0–85941–753–0.

People and Power in the Pacific, by Walden Bello. Pluto Press, London, 1993. 146 pp. £7.50 paperback. ISBN 0–7453–0698–5.     

Hong Kong as a financial centre in the twenty‐first century

The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories, edited by Murray Bail. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. xii + 413 pp. £12.95 hardback, £5.95 paperback. ISBN 0–571–14763–1 and 0–571–15083–7.

The Book of Sei, by David Brooks. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. xi + 142 pp. £9.95. ISBN 0–571–15145–0.

Oscar and Luanda, by Peter Carey. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. xi + 512 pp. £10.95. ISBN 0–571–14812–3.

Captivity Captive, by Rodney Hall. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. vii + 214 pp. £10.95. ISBN 0–571–15093–4.

The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia, edited by Peter Pierce. Oxford University Press, Melbourne and Oxford, 1988. xvi + 344 pp., illus., maps. £25. ISBN 0–19–554592–3.

Pacific Prelude. A Journey to Samoa and Australasia, 1929. Margery Perham. Edited and with an Introduction by A. H. M. Kirk‐Greene. Peter Owen, London, 1988. 272 pp. 4 pp. plates. £18.95. ISBN 0–7206–0683–7.

Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A study of variation in language, customs, and human biology, by John Terrell. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986. xvi + 299 pp. £12.50. ISBN 0–521–36956–8.

Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, by Lynne Withey. Hutchinson, London, Melbourne, Auckland and Johannesburg, 1987. 512 pp., illus. £16.95. ISBN 0–09–173602–1.

Research, Realpolitik, and Development in Korea. The State and the Green Revolution, by Larry L. Burmeister. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. xiii + 200 pp. $29.50. ISBN 0–8133–7400–6.

U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas, by Edward A. Olsen. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. xvii + 115 pp. £9.95. ISBN 0–8133–0593–4.

The Foreign Relations of North Korea. New Perspectives, edited by Jae Kyu Park, Byung Chul Koh and Tae‐Hwan Kwak. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. xvi + 491 pp. $39.50. ISBN 0–8133–0569–1.

Korea: The Unknown War, by Jon Halliday and Bruce Cumings. Viking, London, 1988. 224 pp. Photographs. £14.95. ISBN 0–670–81903–4.

Korea: Enduring Division? (A Keesing's Special Report), edited by D. S. Lewis. Longman, Harlow, Essex, 1988. x + 173 pp. £9.95. ISBN 0–582–02627‐X.

A Short History of Modern Korea, by David Rees. Ham Publishing, Isle of Man, 1988. ix + 196 pp. £10.95 hardback, £5.95 paperback. ISBN 1–871235–05–7 and 1–871235–00–6.

The Koreans: Contemporary Politics and Society, by Donald Stone Macdonald. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado and London, 1988. xv + 309 pp., 25 figures and tables, 3 appendices (including glossary), bibliography and index. £25.50. ISBN 0–8133–0515–2.

The Kwangju Uprising, edited by Donald Clark. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. vi + 101 pp. £11.75. ISBN 0–8133–7523–1.

Financing East Asia's Success: Comparative Financial Development in Eight Asian Countries, by Michael T. Skully and George J. Viksnins. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1987. xiii + 242 pp. £29.50. ISBN 0–333–42655‐X.

The Financial Samurai: The Emerging Power of Japanese Money, by Aaron Viner. Kogan Page, London, 1988. 233 pp. £12.95. ISBN 1–85091–614–4.

The Political Economy of Japan, Volume 2: The Changing International Context, edited by Takashi Inoguchi and Daniel I. Okimoto. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 1988. xxii + 568 pp. $37.50 hardback, $12.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8047–1380–4 and 0–8047–1381–2.

The Japanese through American Eyes, by Sheila K. Johnson. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 1988. xiv + 192 pp. $22.50. ISBN 0–8047–1449–5.

China Under Deng Xiaoping: Political and Economic Reform, by David Wen‐Wei Chang. Macmillan, London, 1988. xxiii + 304 pp. £33. ISBN 0–333–45129–5.

A Critical Biography of Deng Xiaoping: Vol. 1. 1904–1959; Vol. 2. 1960–1977, by Han Shanbi. East West and Culture Publishing Co., Hong Kong, 1988. Vol. 1, 362 pp., illus.; Vol. 2, 368 pp. Chronology. HK$40 each volume.

Hu Yaobang: A Chinese biography, by Yang Zhongmei. Translated by William A. Wycoff, edited by Timothy Cheek. With a foreword by Rudolf G. Wagner. M. E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, New York, 1988. $29.95 pp. xxvi + 208. ISBN 0–87332–457–9.

Family, Fields and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550–1949, by Lloyd E. Eastman. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988. 267 pp. Notes, maps, tables, photographs. £22.50. ISBN 0–19–505269–2.

The House of Confucius, by Kong Demao and Ke Lan. Translated by Rosemary Roberts. Edited and with an introduction by Frances Wood. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1988. ix + 180 pp., 12 pp. photos. £14.95. ISBN 0–340–41279–8.

The Far East and Australasia 1989 (updated and revised edition). Europa Publications, London. xxi + 1,048 pp., maps. £85. ISBN 0–946653–45–3.     

Singapore and the myth of the liberalizing middle class

Fiji: Coups in Paradise: Race, Politics and Military Intervention, by Victor Lal. Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1990. xv + 268 pp., maps. £32.95 hardback, £10.95 paperback. ISBN 0–86232–776–8 and 0–86232–777–6.

A Fragile Paradise, by Andrew Mitchell. Fontana, London, 1990. 256 pp., colour plates, maps. £9.99 paperback. ISBN 0–00–637655‐X.

Overreaching in Paradise: United States Policy in Palau since 1945, by Sue Rabbitt Roff. Denali Press, Juneau, Alaska, 1991. ix + 244 pp., maps. $27.50. ISBN 0–938737–22–8.     

War,security and system change in the Pacific

Missile Defences and Asian Pacific Security, by Michael J. Mazarr. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1989. xii + 226 pp. £29.50. ISBN 0–333–48228–X.

Asian Security 1988–89, compiled by the Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo. Brassey's Defence Publishers, London, 1988. viii + 173 pp. £17.95. ISBN 0–08–036263–X.

Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Theory and Practice, edited by Colin McInnes and G. D. Sheffield. Unwin Hyman Ltd, London, 1988. xv + 239 pp. £28.00 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–355034–7 and 0–04–355035–5.

Border Crossings: Studies in International History, by Christopher Thorne. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988. x + 313 pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–631–16062–0.

The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American commitment to Southeast Asia, by Andrew J. Rotter. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, and London, 1987. $29.95 hardback, $9.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8014–1958–1 and 0–8014–9620–9.

Security and Economy in the Third World, by Nicole Ball. Adamantine Press, London, 1989. xxvii + 432 pp., 32 tables, 18 figs. £29.95. ISBN 0–7449–0021–2.     

Reviews

Opening Rounds: Lessons of Military History, 1918–1988, by Anthony Farrar‐Hockley. Andre Deutsch, London, 1988. xiii+188 pp. £12.95. ISBN 0–233–98009–1.

The Blunted Sword: The Erosion of Military Power in Modern World Politics, by Evan Luard. I. B. Tauris, London, 1988. v+196 pp. £16.95. ISBN 1–85043–068–3.

Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World War (Revised second edition), edited by Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint and John Pritchard. Viking, London, 1989. xxviii+1,315 pp., illus., maps. £25. ISBN 0–670–80311–1.

Codebreaker in the Far East, by Alan Stripp. Frank Cass, London, 1989. xiv+204 pp., illus. £18. ISBN 0–7146–3363–1.

The Pacific: Peace, Security and the Nuclear Issue, edited by Ranginui Walker and William Sutherland. Zed Books, New Jersey; UN University, Tokyo; 1988. xiii+243 pp. £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–86232–815–2.

China eyes Japan, by Allen S. Whiting. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1989. xi+228 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–520–06511–5.

Single Sparks: China's Rural Revolutions, edited by Kathleen Hartford and Steven M. Goldstein. M. E. Sharpe, New York, 1989. xi+216 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–87332–427–7.

China's Regional Development, edited by David S. G. Goodman, (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) Routledge, London and New York, 1989. xvi+204 pp. £32.50 hardback. ISBN 0–415–03510–4.

China's Science Policy in the 80s, (Studies on East Asia), by Tony Saich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1988. iv+188 pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–7190–2986–4.

The Chinese Communist Party's Nomenklatura System, edited by John P. Burns. M. E. Sharpe Inc., New York and London, 1989. xlii+166 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–543–5.

The Thought of Mao Tse‐tung, by Stuart Schram. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. x+242 pp. £27.50 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–521–32549–8 and 0–521–31062–8.

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward (Harvard Contemporary China Series: 6), edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek and Eugene Wu. The Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University, Harvard, 1989. xxiii+561 pp. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–67 4–7967 3‐X.

Marxism and the Chinese Experience: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism, edited by Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk NY and London, 1989. xii+384 pp. $45.00. hardback, $17.95 paperback. ISBN 0–87332–515‐X and 0–87332–546‐X.

The Asiatic Mode of Production in China, edited by Timothy Brook. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk NY and London, 1989. xi+204 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–542–7.

The New China: Comparative Economic Development in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hongkong, by Alvin Rabushka. Westview Press, Boulder and London, 1987. xii+254 pp. £28. ISBN 0–8133–0519–5.

Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service, edited by John S. Service. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979. xxvi+346 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0–520–06656–1.

Information China: The Comprehensive and Authoritative Reference Source of New China, (3 volumes), organized by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, compiled and translated by the China Social Sciences Publishing House. Edited for Pergamon Press by C. V. James. (Oxford, New York, Beijing, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto: Pergamon Press, 1989). 1,621 pp., 1,250 photographs, line drawings and tables; 52 full colour plates; 23 maps. £450. ($795.00). ISBN 0–08–034764–9.

New China's Population, by China's Financial and Economic Publishing House. (New York and London: Macmillan, 1988). xxiv+232pp., tables, charts. £64. ISBN 0–02–905471–0.

China: Facts and Figures Annual, Volume 12, 1989, edited by Charles E. Greer (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1989). xxiii+510 pp. $91.00. ISBN0–87569–112–9.

The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century, edited by Marius B. Jansen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1989. xiv+828 pp. £60, $89.50. ISBN 0–521–22356–3.

The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 6: The Twentieth Century, edited by Peter Duus. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1988. xx+866 pp. £60, $89.50. ISBN 0–521–22357–1.

Children of the Sun: The Japanese and the Outside World, by Michio Kitahara. Paul Norbury Publications, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent, 1989. 160 pp. £12.95. ISBN 0–904404–68–4.

The Sun also Sets: Why Japan will not be Number One, by Bill Emmott. Simon and Schuster, London, 1989. xii+275 pp. £14.95. ISBN 0–671–69696–3.

Japan: The Blighted Blossom, by Roy Thomas. I. B. Tauris, London, 1989. xii+299 pp. £16.95. ISBN 1–85043–125–6.

A History of Japanese Economic Thought, by Tessa Morris‐Suzuki. Routledge, London and New York; with the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford, 1989. vii+213 pp. £30. ISBN 0–415–01264–3.

The Japanese Business Community and the National Trade Policy, 1920–1942, by William Miles Fletcher III. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 1989. x+226 pp. £34.95 ($37.45). ISBN 0–8078–1847‐X.

Management and Higher Education Since 1940: The influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain, and France, by Robert R. Locke. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. xiii+328 pp. £30. ISBN 0–521–34102–7.

Democracy in Japan (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies), edited by Takeshi Ishida and Ellis S. Krauss. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1989. x+354 pp. $39.95 hardback, $14.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8229–3608–9 and 0–8229–5414–1.

A History of Singapore, 1819–1988 (Second Edition), by C. M. Turnbull. Oxford University Press, Singapore, Oxford and New York, 1989. xiv+388 pp. 16 plates, 8 maps. £30. ISBN 0–19–588911–8.

Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization, by Alice H. Amsden. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1989. xvi+379 pp. £25. ISBN 0–19–505852–6.

Korea: A Religious History, by James Huntley Grayson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989. xii+319 pp. £37.50. ISBN 0–19–826186–1.

Authoritarianism and Opposition in South Korea, by Hak‐Kyu Sohn. Routledge, London and New York, 1989. xii+287 pp. £35. ISBN 0–415–03550–3.

Australian Public Policy and Economic Vulnerability: A Comparative and Historical Perspective, by Francis Castles. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988. xii+184 pp. £12.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–324021–6.

The Politics of Development in Australia, edited by Brian Head. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989. xv+274 pp. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–861880–2.

The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War 1939–42, by David Day. Angus and Robertson, Sydney and London, 1988. x+388 pp. Illus. £14.95, AS39.95. ISBN 0–207–15328–0.

India and South East Asia: Indian Perceptions and Policies, by Mohammed Ayoob. Routledge, London, 1989. xi+105 pp. £25. ISBN 0–415–03894–4.

Southeast Asia: An Illustrated Introductory History (Expanded Edition) by Milton Osborne. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Wellington, London and Boston, 1989. viii+263 pp., illus., maps. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–352238–6.

Crisis and Response: The Challenge to South‐South Economic Cooperation, edited by Noordin Sopiee, B. A. Hamzah and Leong Choon Heng. Kegan Paul International, London, 1989. xxvii+450 pp. £45. ISBN 0–7103–0370‐X.

Women's Asia, by Yayori Matsui. Zed Books Ltd., London and New Jersey, 1989. viii+172 pp. £26.95 ($49.95) hardback, £7.95 ($12.50) paperback. ISBN 0–86232–826–8 and 0–86232–827–6.

Urbanization in Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues, edited by Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J. C. Ma, and Allen Noble. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1989. ix+412 pp. $44.00. ISBN 0–8248–1151–8.

The Far East and Australasia 1990 (updated and revised edition), (London: Europa Publications, 1990), xxi+1,054 pp., maps. £105.00. ISBN 0–946653–53–4.     

The pressures for protection

Japan's Unequal Trade, by Edward J. Lincoln. The Brookings Institution, Washington, 1990. xiii+223 pp. $26.95. ISBN 0–8157–5262–8.

Japan's Quest for a Role in the World: Roles ascribed to Japan Nationally and Internationally, by Bert Edström. Institute of Oriental Languages, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, 1988. xiii+325 pp. ISBN 91–7146–585–5.

Japan at the Summit: Its Role in the Western Alliance and Asian‐Pacific Cooperation, by Shiro Saito. Routledge for RIIA, London, 1990. xii + 220 pp. £30. ISBN 0–415–04271–2.

Made in Japan And Other Japanese ‘Business Novels’, translated and edited by Tamae K. Prindle. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY and London, 1990. xviii+203 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0–87332–529‐X.

Trade and Investment Relations Among the United States, Canada and Japan, edited by Robert M. Stern. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1989. viii+448 pp. £47.25 ($43.95). ISBN 0–226–77317–5.

International Economic Pluralism: Economic Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, by Peter Drysdale. Allen and Unwin Australia, Sydney and London, 1988. 294 pp. £20 paperback. ISBN 0–04–350075–7.

Japanese Business Down Under: Patterns of Japanese Investment in Australia, by David W. Edgington. Routledge, London and New York, 1990. xiv + 294 pp. £40. ISBN. 0–415–03499‐X.

Japan's Foreign Policy, by Reinhard Drifte. Routledge and the RIIA, London, 1990. x + 112 pp. £7.95. ISBN 0–415–03234–2.

Japan's Trade Policies: 1945 to the Present Day, by Takashi Shiraishi. Athlone Press, London, 1989. viii + 228 pp. £37.50. ISBN 0–485–11363–5.

Resisting Protectionism: Global Industries and the Politics of International Trade, by Helen V. Milner. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1988. xiii+329 pp. $29.50. ISBN 0–691–05670–6.     

The crisis of European socialism: Searching for a (really) big idea

After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism. Edited by Robin Blackburn. London: Verso, 1991. Pp. xvi + 327. £39.95 (hardback); £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–360 320–1 and 540–9. (Henceforth, Fall).

Social Democracy in Transition: Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe. Edited by L. Karvonen and J. Sundberg. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1991. Pp. ix + 321. £35 (hardback) ISBN 1–85521–1114. (Henceforth, Transition).

The Left Unraveled: Social Democracy and the New Left Challenge in Britain and West Germany. By Thomas A. Koelble. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 162. $34.95 (hardback) ISBN 0–8223–1108–9. (Henceforth, Unraveled).

The Crisis of Socialism in Europe. Edited by Christiane Lemke and Gary Marks. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992. Pp. x + 253. £37.95 (hardback); £12.50 (paperback) ISBN 0–8223–1180–1 and 1197–6. (Henceforth, Crisis).

Socialist Parties in Europe. By José Maravall et al. Barcelona: ICPS (Institut de Ciències Politiques i Socials), 1991. Pp. 222. NP, ISBN 84–7794–172–6.(Henceforth, Parties).

A History of Social Democracy in Postwar Europe. By Stephen Padgett and William E. Paterson. London and New York: Longman, 1991. Pp. xii 4 + 290. £24 (hardback); £9.99 (paperback) ISBN 0–582–49173–8 and 49174–6. (Henceforth, History).

Is Socialism Doomed? The Meaning of Mitterrand. By Daniel Singer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. 295. £19.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–195–04925 x. (Henceforth, Doomed).

Moscow and the Global Left in the Gorbachev Era. Edited by Joan Barth URBAN. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xii + 204. $32.95 (hardback); $14.25 (paperback). ISBN 0–8014–2726–6 and 8008–6. (Henceforth, Moscow).     

Reviews

Joseph Fewsmith Dilemmas of Reform in China. Political Conflict and Economic Debate Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. 289 pp. £44.00. ISBN 1–56324–327‐X.

Tani E. Barlow Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993. 307 pp. £15.95. ISBN 0–8223–1389–8.

William A. Joseph (ed.) China Briefing, 1994 Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1994. 234pp. £10.50. ISBN 0–8133–2057–7.

Y.Y. Kueh and Robert F. Ash (eds) Economic Trends in Chinese Agriculture. The Impact of the Post‐Mao Reforms Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. xii + 405 pp. £45.00. ISBN 019–828753–4.

X.L. Ding (Ding Xueliang) The Decline of Communism in China: Legitimacy Crisis, 1977–1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 230 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0–521–45138–8.

Minxin Pei From Reform to Revolution. The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1994. 253pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–674–32563‐X.

Julia F. Andrews Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China 1949–1979 Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1994. xv + 568 pp. $75.00. ISBN 0–520–07981–7.

E. Wayne Nafziger, Learning From the Japanese: Japan's Pre‐war Development and the Third World, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. xv + 221pp. ISBN 1–56324–485–3, paperback 1–56324–486–1.

Richard J. Samuels ’Rich Nation Strong Army'; National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. 455 pp. £38.50. ISBN 0–8014–2705–3.

Alan Burnett The Western Pacific: Challenge of Sustainable Growth London: Earthscan, 1993. 276 pp. £15.95. ISBN 1–85383–1581

Tom Wells The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. 706 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0–5200–8367–9.

Ross Garnaut, Peter Drysdale and John Kunkel (eds) Asia Pacific Regionalism: Readings in International Relations Sydney: Harper Educational, 1994. 433 pp. ISBN 0–06–312140–9.

Atu Emberson‐Bain Labour and Gold in Fiji Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 270 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–521–36372–1.     

Asian ambiguities

The Asian Dilemma in U.S. Foreign Policy: National Interest versus Strategic Planning, by K. Holly Maze Carter. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk and London, 1989. xxiv + 247 pp. £30 hardback, £13.95 paperback. ISBN 0–87332–512–3 and 0–87332–535–4.

Nuclear Dynamite, by Trevor Findlay. Brassey's Australia, Rushcutters Bay, NSW, 1990. xv+339 pp. £19.50. ISBN 0–08–034436–4.

New Directions for American Policy in Asia, Bernard K. Gordon. Routledge, London and New York, 1990. xiii+170pp. £35. ISBN 0–415–02289–4.     

Short notices

Japan among the Powers 1890–1990, by Sydney Giffard. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994. xxi + 218 pp. Map, glossary. £19.95. ISBN 0–300–05847–0.

Modern Japan: A Concise Survey, by Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Macmillan Press, Basingstoke and London, 1993. xii + 242 pp. Maps, tables and figures. £40 hardback, £13.99 paperback. ISBN 0–33354–339–4, 0–33354–340–8.

Shattered World: Adaption and Survival among Vietnam's Highland Peoples during the Vietnam War, by Gerald Cannon Hickey. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA, 1993. Distributed in the UK and Europe by Academic and University Publishers Group, London, xxxiv + 297 pp. Illus. $34.95 hardback, $14.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8122–3172–4 and ISBN 0–8122–1417‐X.

Shanghai 1927–1937: Municipal Power, Locality and Modernization, by Christian Henriot, translated by Noel Castenino. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1993. xiv + 288 pp. £37.50/$42.00. ISBN 0–520–07096–8.

Trade, Industrial Restructuring and Development in Hong Kong, by Yin‐Ping Ho. Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, 1992. xviii + 297 pp. Tables. £50. ISBN 0–333–49882–8.

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, edited by Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA, 1993. Distributed in the UK and Europe by Academic and University Publishers Group, London, viii + 355 pp. £37.95. ISBN 0–8122–3111–2.     

Haranguing Hong Kong

The Economic Future of Hong Kong, by Mir on Mushkat. Lynne Rienner, Publishers, Boulder and London/Hong Kong University Press, 1990. xii+171 pp. £16.50. ISBN 1–555–87197–6.

City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future, by Kevin Rqfferty. Viking, London, 1989. x + 518 pp., 16 pp. plates. £15.95. ISBN0–670–80205–0.

Political Change and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Hong Kong, by Ian Scott. C. Hurst, London, 1990. xv + 480 pp. £27.50. ISBN 1–850650–527.

Kowtow! After Tiananmen Square: A Plea on Behalf of Hong Kong, by William Shawcross. Chatto CounterBlasts No. 6. Chatto and Windus, London, 1989. 57 pp. £2.99. ISBN 0–7011–3628–6.

Democracy Shelved: Great Britain, China, and Attempts at Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong, 1945–1952, by Steve Yui‐Sang Tsang. Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1988. xxxiv + 254 pp. £18.50. ISBN 0–19–584175–1.

Hong Kong! Hong Kong!, by Dick Wilson. Unwin Hyman, London, 1990. 284 pp. £15.99. ISBN 0–04–440622.     

Democratic transition

Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, edited by Diane Ethier. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1990. xii+280 pp. £37.50. ISBN 0–333–52128–5.

The Process of Democratization: A Comparative Study of 147 States 1980–88, by Tatu Vanhanen. Taylor & Francis, London and New York, 1900. viii+328 pp. £39 hardback, £25 paperback. ISBN 0–8448–1640‐X and 0–8448–1641–8.     

Australian counterfactuals

The Secret History of the Convict Colony: Alexandro Malaspina's report on the British Settlement of New South Wales, by Robert J. King. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990. xii + 179 pp. £25. ISBN 0–04–610020–2.

Taming the Great South Land: a history of the conquest of nature in Australia, by William J. Lines. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1991. xx + 337 pp. £30. ISBN 1–86373–017–6.

Governing Savages, by Andrew Markus. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990. x + 214 pp., illus. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–442150–8. Sydney, by Jan Morris. Viking, London, 1992. 246 pp. £16.99. ISBN 0–670–82745–2.

Australia's Immigrants 1788–1988 (2nd edition), by Geoffrey Sherington. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990. x + 199 pp., illus. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–442204–0.     

Short notices

Eastern Asia: An Introductory History, edited by Colin Mackerras. Longman Cheshire Pty Ltd., Melbourne, 1992. xiv + 639 pp., illus., tables, maps. Aus $18.99. ISBN 0–582–87005–4.

Asia Pacific: A view of its role in the New World Order, by M.S. Dobbs‐Higginson. Longman Asia Ltd., Hong Kong, 1993. xxviii + 422 pp., maps. £25.00. ISBN 962–000105–2

Korea Briefing 1993: Festival of Korea, edited by Donald N. Clark. Westview Press, Boulder CO, San Francisco and Oxford, in cooperation with The Asia Society, 1993. x + 249 pp. £9.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8133–8770–1.

Southeast Asian Affairs 1992, edited by Daljit Singh. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1992. x + 364 pp. S$ 26.00. ISSN 0377–5437.     

Nations by design?

National Identity, by Anthony D. Smith. Penguin, Harmondsworth and London, 1991. x + 227 pp. £5.99 paperback. ISBN 0–14–012565–5.

Ethnic Groups Across National Boundaries in Mainland Southeast Asia, edited by Gehan Wijeyewardene. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1990. 183 pp. S$39.50/US$24.00 hardback, S$29.50/US$18.00 paperback. ISBN 981–3035–61–7, 981–3035–57–9.