Pacific Affairs

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Social Media and Malaysia’s 2022 Election: The Growth and Impact of Video Campaigning	29
Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography.	22
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan.	12
Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan	11
Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force during the Cold War.	9
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Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture.	8
Insurgency in India’s Northeast: Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist Resistance	6
Out of Line and Offline: Queer Mobilizations in ’90s Eastern India.	6
Populist Appeal or Fearful Support? Examining the War on Drugs in the Philippines under Duterte	5
Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement. Pacific Series.	5
Dialogues with a Trickster: On the Margins of Myth and Ethnography in the Marshall Islands	5
Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing River.	4
Covid in the Islands: A Comparative Perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific.	4
Development Challenges of Pakistan: Constraints and Choices	4
Comparing Religious Intolerance in Indonesia by Affiliation to Muslim Organizations	4
Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan.	4
Handbook of Governance in Small States.	4
The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy	4
Iconographies of Occupation: Visual Cultures in Wang Jingwei’s China, 1939-1945.	3
Science for Governing Japan’s Population.	3
Racial Difference and the Colonial Wars of 19th Century Southeast Asia.	3
The Routledge Handbook of Exclusion, Inequality and Stigma in India.	3
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness.	3
Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in BougainviUe.	3

The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore.	3
The Global Anti Corruption Regime: The Case of Papua New Guinea.	3
Understanding Mistrust and Instability in East Asia	2
From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border.	2
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States	2
Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War.	2
Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary.	2
Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control.	2
South Korea and The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism	2
Goldilocks’ Purgatory: The Public Transcript of Performative Governance in Singapore	2
Electoral Reform and the Fate of New Democracies: Lessons from the Indonesian Case.	2
The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy 1978 to 2020.	2
Perspective Democratic Resilience and Vulnerability in South Korea: Lessons from South Korea’s 2024–2025 Constitutional Crisis	2
Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West : Care of the Self.	2
Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong.	2
Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa	1
Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea	1
International Norms and Local Politics in Myanmar.	1
Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent.	1
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty	1
The Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan: A Comparative Study of Judicial Restraint and Its Development in India, the Us and Pakistan.	1
Remittance as Belonging: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home	1
Commodities of Care: The Business of Hiv Testing in China.	1
Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland.	1
From the “Cultural Properties Protection Act” to the “Framework Act on National Heritage”: Legal Paradigm Shifts in South Korea’s Heritage Policy	1
Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place.	1
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When the Iron Bird Flies: China’s Secret War in Tibet.	1
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability.	1
Peace, Poverty, and Betrayal: A New History of British India.	1
Post-democratizing Politics in Southeast and Northeast Asia	1
Japan in Australia: Culture, Context and Connection.	1
The Sino-Indian Rivalry: Implications for Global Order.	1
Unthinking Collaboration: American Nisei in Transwar Japan.	1
Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety.	1
Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands.	1
Oishii: The History of Sushi.	1
Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India: Assessing Sustainable Development Goals.	0
The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam.	0
Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community	0
North Korea’s Foreign Policy: The Kim Jong-Un Regime in a Hostile World.	0
The Asian Monetary Fund and De-Dollarization: The Reshaping of the Global Order	0
Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India. By Priti Joshi.	0
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Migrant Ecologies; Environmental Histories of the Pacific World.	0
Chinas Muslims Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War Ii.	0
Subjects and Aliens: Histories of Nationality, Law and Belonging in Australia and New Zealand	0
A Team of Five Million? The 2020 ‘COVID-19’ New Zealand General Election	0
Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea	0
Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India	0

Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City.	0
The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China	0
Why Was the Pandemic Poorly Managed by the Government of India? a State-in-Society Approach	0
Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States.	0
Nation-Building and Federalism in Nepal: Contentions on Framework	0
The Dancer’s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India.	0
Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women's Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia	0
Zhou Enlai: A Life	0
The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City.	0
Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia: Mitigating Violence with Non-State Armed Groups.	0
Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India.	0
Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society: Women’s Lives in the Wahgi Valley.	0
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China	0
The Theory of Recognition and Multicultural Practices in Colombia and New Zealand.	0
Poverty, Genderand Health in the Slums Ofbangladesh: Children of Crows	0
Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape	0
Remorse, Resentment, & Resilience: The 2025 Midterm Philippine Elections	0
Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing.	0
Struggle, Reform, Boom and Bust: An Economic History of Papua New Guinea Since Independence	0
Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobili ties in India.	0
Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy.	0
Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration.	0
Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security	0
The Candidate’s Dilemma: Anticorruptionism and Money Politics in Indonesian Election Campaigns.	0
Terminus: Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire	0
Chinese Asianism, 1894–1945.	0
Ghost Citizens: Decolonial Apparitions of Stateless, Foreign and Wayward Figures in Law	0
China’s Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership.	0
Multicultural at the Meso-Level: Governing Diversity within the Family in South Korea	0
Violent Atmospheres: Livelihoods and Landscapes in Crisis in Southeast Asia	0
The Forgotten Victims of the Atomic Bomb: North Korean Pipokja and the Politics of Victimhood in Japan-DPRK Relations	0
The Logic of Compressed Modernity.	0
Gardens of Gold: Place-Making in Papua New Guinea.	0
Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention.	0
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Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State	0
Justice and International Order East and West.	0
Reppin’: Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice.	0
When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa	0
The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (ramsi) : Did It Help or Harm a Friend?	0
From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan.	0
The Geographic Scope of Opposition Challenges in Malaysia’s Parliament	0
The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them	0
The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927-1976: Building on Fear.	0
Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore	0
Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border	0
Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898–1918	0
The Federated States of Micronesia’s Engagement with the Outside World: Control, Self-Preservation and Continuity.	0
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise.	0
Suharto’s Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World	0
Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India.	0
The Everyday Politics of Resources: Lives and Landscapes in Northwest Vietnam	0
The Making of China’s Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation	0
One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty.	0
Rioting for Representation: Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries.	0
Silences of the Dam: The Intimate Geographies of Ethnic Lao Well-Being on the Sesan River	0
Accidental Holyland: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China.	0
Mobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia.	0
Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India’s Capital.	0
Unearthing Politics: Environment and Contestation in Postsocialist Vietnam.	0
Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India.	0
The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea	0
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond “Thucydides’s Trap.”	0
Governing Asymmetric Interdependence Networks: How Network Position and Institutional Power Shape US Hypersecuritization and Japanese Strategic Desecuritization of Submarine Cable Policies	0
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries.	0
China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption.	0
Communism, Cold War, and Revolution: The Indonesian Communist Party in West Java, 1949–1966	0
Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre	0
Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan Is Haunted by Its Past and Germany Is Not	0
The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era.	0
The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development	0
Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan.	0
Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India	0
Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan.	0
Diasporic Hallyu: The Korean Wave in Korean Canadian Youth Culture.	0
The Indonesian Presidency; Assessing the 2024 Presidential Elections and Beyond	0
Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies.	0
Push the Button: Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan	0
International Impact of Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1945.	0
Islam in a Secular State: Muslim Activism in Singapore.	0

The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan	0
Perspective Gerrymandering and its Effects in Singapore’s 2025 General Elections	0
Southeast Asia Views the United States: Perceptions, Policies, and Prospects	0
Poverty and Pacification: The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class.	0
Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness	0
Like Fire: The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia.	0
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China.	0
Chequered Past, Uncertain Future: The History of Pakistan	0
Interasian Intimacies Across Race, Religion, and Colonialism	0
South Korea and Foreign Direct Investment: Policy Dynamics and the Aftercare Ombudsman	0
Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea: Musical Analysis as a Pathway to Learning.	0
The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy	0
Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments	0
Review Essay Peaks of Policy Analysis: Six National Cases in Asia and the Pacific	0
The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China	0
Violence and Impunity: Democratic Backsliding in the Philippines and the 2022 Elections	0
The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization.	0
The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform	0
Transpacific Developments: The Politics of Multiple Chinas in Central America.	0
The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java	0
Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory.	0
Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century.	0
‘New’ Women: Trans Women, Hijras and the Remaking of Inequality in India	0
Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China	0
China’s Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement	0
China’s Historical Statecraft: The Construction of Lost Territories in Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, Taiwan, and the South China Sea	0
Young Soeharto: The Making of a Soldier, 1921–1945.	0
The Chinese Communist Party: A 100-Year Trajectory	0
Japanese Racial Identities Within Us-Japan Relations, 1853-1919	0
Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea.	0
Social Purpose, Commercialization, and Innovations in Microfinance: A Global Perspective.	0
Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema	0
The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia	0
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Pathways of Autocratization: The Tumultuous Journey of Bangladeshi Politics	0
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India	0
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China	0
Ningwasum.	0
China’s Policy Response to Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan: The Influence of Nationalism Revisited	0
In and Out of Plain Sight: Interrogating Power in the Mekong Riverscape	0
Objects as Insights: R. H. Codrington’s Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia.	0
Innovation and China’s Global Emergence.	0
China's Chance to Lead: Acquiring Global Influence via Infrastructure Development and Digitalization	0
The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.s. Relations	0
Myanmar Diaries. By Myanmar Film Collective. Amsterdam: Zindoc; Nesodden: Ten Thousand Images [co-producer], 2022. 1 online resource (70 min.). In Burmese and English with English subtitles.	0
Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State.	0
The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics	0
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir	0
Korea: A History.	0
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims.	0
The Mountain Is Moving, but Where To? Japan's 2025 Upper House Election and the Future of Japanese Politics	0
Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program.	0
Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class Histories.	0
Food Security or Food Sovereignty? Agricultural Technology Reforms after the Famine in North Korea	0
Robots Won’t Save Japan: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation.	0
Precarious Asia: Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia.	0
Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion	0
The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics.	0
Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush.	0
Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989	0
Voices of Dissent: An Essay.	0
Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan	0
Capturing Institutional Change: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India.	0
A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia.	0
Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy: From the Cold War to the Abe Era.	0
Regional Politics in Oceania: From Colonialism and Cold War to the Pacific Century	0
Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda	0
Amorphous Dissent: Post-Fukushima Social Movements in Japan.	0
Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West	0
Historical Lessons from Japanese-Russian Trade	0
Towards a New Malaysia? The 2018 Election and Its Aftermath.	0
India’s Near East: A New History	0
Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China	0
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today.	0
Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War.	0
Bargaining between Giants: Reassessing South Korea’s Military Options in a Taiwan War	0
Moderation of Sarawak Regionalism in Malaysia’s 15th General Election	0
Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar	0
Clash of Powers: Us-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance.	0
Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea: Cohesion and Disarray.	0
Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Ideology and Culture in Us-Japan Relations, 1919-1941.	0
On Dangerous Ground: America’s Century in the South China Sea.	0
Experiments with Marxism-Leninism in Cold War Southeast Asia. Asian Studies Series.	0
The Funeral of Mr. Wang: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China.	0
Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care	0
Turning Land Into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region.	0
Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms, and Genres.	0
Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia: US Hegemony and Local Agency	0
The Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia.	0
Resisting Indonesia’s Culture of Impunity: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission	0
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. the Rule of Law.	0
Breaking the Engagement: How China Won and Lost America	0
Margaret Mead. Anthropology’s Ancestors.	0
The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China	0
Perspective Valence Rules: Explaining Opposition Party Performance in Singapore’s 2025 General Elections	0