The Virtues of Persistence

Book reviewed in this article:
Mark A. Stoler, Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II     

Book reviews

CHINA

LOWELL DITTMER. Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, revised edition. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. US$68.95, hardcover; US$24.95, paper.

HARRIET EVANS. Women and Sexuality in China: female Sexuality and Gender Since 1949. New York: Continuum, 1997. 270 pp. US$49.50, hardcover.

TONY GALLAGHER. In Their Own Words: profiles of Today's Chinese Students. San Francisco: China Books, 1998. 214 pp. A$24.95, paper.

JAPAN, KOREA

JOHN PRICE. Japan Works: power and Paradox in Postwar Industrial Relations. Ithaca and London: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 1997. 315 pp. US$45.00, hardcover; US$17.95, paper.

SOUTH ASIA

JEFFREY J. KRIPAL. Kali's Child: the Mystical and the Erotic in the Life of Ramakrishna. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2nd edition, 1998. 386 pp. $US19.00, paper.

D. A. LOW and HOWARD BRASTED (eds). Freedom, Trauma, Continuities: Northern India and Independence. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998. ix, 237 pp. Rs 350, hardcover; Rs 195, paper.

MARTHA ALTER CHEN (ed). Widows in India: social Neglect and Public Action. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London: Sage Publications, 1998. 456 pp. £29.00, paper.

SOUTHEAST ASIA

C. F. YONG. The Origins of Malayan Communism. Singapore: South Seas Society, 1997. xvi, 312 pp. Preface, tables, plates, abbreviations, introduction, index. No price given, paper.

DAMIEN KINGSBURY. The Politics of Indonesia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 286 pp. 1 map. A$29.95, paper.

R. WILLIAM LIDDLE. Leadership and Culture in Indonesian Politics. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, for the Asian Studies Association of Australia (Southeast Asia Publication Series no. 29), 1996. 314 pp. A$35.00, paper.

NICHOLAS TARLING. Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. x, 504 pp. Preface, abbreviations, maps, personalia, notes, bibliography, index. A$80.00, hardcover.

GENERAL ASIA

DAVID MARTIN JONES. Political Development in Pacific Asia. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. 235 pp. US$57.95, hardcover; US$26.95, paper.

JAMES J. FOX (ed). The Poetic Power of Place: comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1997. vi, 204 pp. Maps, references, index. A$30.00 (surface mail) or A$38.00 (air mail), paper.     

Dating the Ascope Canal System: Competition for Water during the Late Intermediate Period in the Chicama Valley,North Coast of Peru

Here we present the first ¹⁴C ages for the Ascope Canal System (ACS), a large prehispanic hydraulic network in the Chicama Valley on the north coast of Peru. Composed of multiple alignments that irrigated areas north of the river, our results indicate that the ACS was constructed and operated in the Late Intermediate Period, ca. a.d. 1000–1400. This overlaps in time with the Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal that diverted water on the south side of the Chicama River and extended to the city of Chan Chan. Conservative estimates of discharge capacity indicate that the combined flow through the canals would have exceeded stream flow in the Chicama River during half of the year. The ACS appears to have functioned for several centuries and would have been in direct competition with the Intervalley Canal. There was, apparently, insufficient water for both systems and other Chicama Valley canals during most of the year. This study underscores the complexities of understanding the operations and histories of irrigation systems in complex societies.     

Book reviews

Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant. Australia's Foreign Relations: In the World of the 1990s. Melbourne University Press, 1991. xx + 389 pp. $34.95.

Hugh Smith (ed.). Australia and Peacekeeping. Campbell, ACT, Australian Defence Studies Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1990. viii + 137 pp. $10.00.

Alan Dupont. Australia's Security Interests in Northeast Asia. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No.84. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, 1991. xii + 131 pp. $13.50.

Desmond Ball. Building Blocks for Regional Security. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No.83. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1991. xv + 109 pp. $12.00.

Francis G. Castles (ed.). Australia Compared: People, Policies andPolitics. North Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1991. xvii + 291 pp. $22.95.

C. Carstairs and R. Ware (eds). Parliament and International Relations. Buckingham, UK, Open University Press, 1991. xii + 195 pp. $34.95.

Mark Turner. Papua New Guinea: The Challenge of Independence. Ringwood, Vic, Penguin Books Australia, 1990. viii + 200 pp. $16.99.

Sean Dorney. Papua New Guinea. People, Politics and History since 1975. Sydney, Random House Australia, 1990. vii + 330 pp. $16.95.

A.D. Couper (ed.). Development and Social Change in the Pacific Islands. London and New York, Routledge, 1989. x +203 pp. $99.95.

Peter Bauer, Savenaca Siwatibau and Wolfgang Kaspar. Aid and Development in the South Pacific. St Leonards, Centre for Independent Studies, 1991. ix + 120 pp. $15.95.

Jeremy Carew‐Reid. Environment, Aid and Regionalism in the South Pacific. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Pacific Research Monograph No.22, 1989. xi + 185 pp. $25.00.

Viberto Selochan (ed.). The Military, the State, and Development in Asia and the Pacific. Boulder, Westview Press, 1991. xix + 288 pp. $US34.95.

Robert McKinlay. Third World Military Expenditure. London, Pinter Publishers Ltd, 1989. 154 pp. $63.75

Chandran Jeshurun (ed.). Arms and Defence in Southeast Asia. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1990. $US19.00 (hardcover), $US14.00.

Takashi Inoguchi. Japan's International Relations. London, Pinter Publishers/Boulder, Westview Press, 1991. xii + 190 pp. £10.95.

Kenneth M, Wells. New God, New Nation. Protestants and Self‐Reconstruction Nationalism in Korea 1896–1937. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1991. xi + 222 pp. $24.95.

Maila Stivens (ed.). Why Gender Matters in Southeast Asian Politics. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1991. 123 pp. $16.00.

Ruth Havelaar. Quartering: A Story of a Marriage in Indonesia During the Eighties. Clayton, Vic., Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1991. xxvi + 125 pp. $14.00.

Max Lane. ’Openness’. Political Discontent and Succession in Indonesia: Political Developments in Indonesia, 1989–91. Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Australia‐Asia Papers No.56, 1991. iii + 74 pp. No price given.

M.C. Ricklefs (ed.). Islam in the Indonesian Social Context, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1991. 82 pp. No price given.

John Taylor. Indonesia's Forgotten War. The Hidden History of East Timor. London, Zed Books, 1991. xvi + 230 pp. $22.46.

E.J. Hobsbawm. Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990. viii + 191 pp. $39.95.

Urmila Phadnis. Ethnicity and Nation‐building in South Asia. New Delhi, Sage, 1990. 328 pp. Rs.225.

Barry M. Schutz and Robert O. Slater (eds). Revolution and Political Change in the Third World. Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers/London, Adamantine Press Limited, 1990. x + 260 pp. £14.50 (paper), £28.50 (cloth).

Geoffrey C. Gunn and Jefferson Lee. Cambodia Watching Down Under. Institute of Asian Studies Monograph No.47. Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 1991. xxx + 328 pp. No price given.

Archie Brown (ed.). Political Leadership in the Soviet Union. Basingstoke, UK, MacMillan, 1989. ix + 245 pp. £14.99 (paper). £35.00 (cloth).

Jeffrey Simon (ed.). European Security Policy after the Revolutions of 1989. Washington, D.C., National Defense University Press, 1991. xvi + 639 pp. No price given.

Amin Saikal and William Maley. Regime Change in Afghanistan: Foreign Intervention and the Politics of Legitimacy. Bathurst, NSW, Crawford House Press in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1991. xiii + 190 pp. $37.95.

David:Butler and DA. Low (eds). Sovereigns and Surrogates: Constitutional Heads of State in the Commonwealth. Houndmills, Macmillan, 1991. 365 pp. £45.00.

Jeffrey T. Richelson and Desmond Ball. The Ties that Bind. Sydney, Unwin Hyman, 1990. 426 pp. $19.95.

Desmond Ball and Cathy Downes (eds). Security and Defence: Pacific and Global Perspectives. Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1990. 517 pp. $29.95.

Jonathan Unger (ed.). The Pro‐Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces. North Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1991. xii + 239 pp. $24.95.

G. Linge and D. Forbes (eds). China's Spatial Economy. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1990. xiii + 223 pp. $29.95.

Colin Mackerras, Kevin BucknaU and Russell Trood. The Beijing Tragedy: Implications/or China and Australia. Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, 1991. Australia‐Asia Papers No.51. vii + 93 pp. No price given.

P. Alston and G. Brennan (eds). The UN Children's Covenant and Australia. HREOC, Australian National University Centre for International and Public Law, ACOSS, 1991. ix + 133 pp. $10.00.

Adam Jamrozik. Class, Inequality and the State. South Melbourne, Macmillan Australia, 1991. xx + 348 pp. $29.95 (paper), $59.95 (cloth).

R. Ovendale. The United States and the End of the Palestine Mandate 1942–1948. Studies in History No.52. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell & Brewster Ltd for the Royal Historical Society, 1989. 332 pp. £37.50.

R. Springborg. Mubarak's Egypt. Fragmentation of the Political Order. Boulder and London, Westview Press, 1989. xi + 307 pp. £31.00.     

Finding common ground: use of a geographically-framed landscape template as an integrating platform for an international education initiative

This situated case study outlines how a place-based landscape template provided an integrative platform for the environmental arm of a cross-disciplinary international education initiative, the Three Brothers Project, wherein geographers at the University of Auckland worked alongside engineers at Tsinghua University in Beijing to support collaborative research with grassland and agricultural scientists at Qinghai University in western China. These collaborative efforts built upon strategic leadership at government and university level, an appropriate resource base and engaged practitioners who developed and embedded research opportunities that built upon a shared commitment to research on environmental values in the source zone of the Yellow River. We highlight how a landscape framing brought together divergent mindsets, methodologies and practices in this collaborative research, providing an effective platform to share experiences, discuss perspectives and develop research outcomes.