China and East Asia
September 2006

September Article Abstracts

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Title: US-China Economic Relations: The Next Stage
Author: John Frisbie and Michael Overmyer
"To advance and maintain a mutually advantageous economic relationship, China and the United States should elevate economic engagement to a more comprehensive level."
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Title: Driven to Protest: China's Rural Unrest
Author: Lianjiang Li
"Beijing may wish to keep the rural population as apolitical and passive as possible, but it must understand that this is fast becoming an impossible task."
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Title: Little Emperors or Frail Pragmatists? China's '80ers Generation
Author: Yunxiang Yan
"If idealism, compassion, and naïveté are defining features of youthhood, the '80ers in China are hardly youthful. If efforts to resist and subvert the dominating ideology and symbolisms of the establishment are the core of youth culture, then China's youth hardly have a culture of their own."
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Title: Rumsfeld's Take on the Chinese Military: A Dissenting View
Author: Dennis J. Blasko
"The Pentagon's 2006 report provides little credible new information to support its suppositions about China's lack of transparency, undeclared motivations, or 'military expansion.'"
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Title: China's Charm Offensive in Southeast Asia
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
"Many Southeast Asians now regard China as a benign presence to be emulated-a sharp contrast with current regional views of the United States."
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Title: Japan's Historic Change of Course
Author: Kenneth B. Pyle
"Japan is on the threshold of a new era in the way it relates to the international environment. As it becomes an assertive political-strategic actor, foreign observers will once again be surprised. . . ."
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Title: Vietnam's Bumpy Road to Reform
Author: Sophie Quinn-Judge
"As in China, political and intellectual reform in Vietnam has lagged behind the stunning transformation of the economy."
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Title: The Withering of Philippine Democracy
Author: Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J. Amoroso
"The 'democracy' brought about by people power is not working for the benefit of the majority of poor Filipinos. It has simply returned to power the clans and warlords that once dominated pre-martial-law politics. . . ."
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Title: Book Reviews
Reviewer: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Topic: China's Urban Revolution
Book 1: China's Urban Transition, by John Friedmann
Book 2: The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market, by John Gittings
Book 3: Globalization and the Chinese City, edited by Fulong Wu
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Title: Four Months in Review
An international chronology, country by country, day by day, of events from April through July 2006.
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Title: Asia
A map of Asia.
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