Reviews, 2010:
• S. A. Smith, Revolution and the People in Russia and China:
A Comparative History, The Wiles Lectures series (Cambridge, UK and
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), in Journal of
Chinese Political Studies, vol. 15 (2010), forthcoming.
Reviews, 2009:
• Pamela Tan, The Chinese Factor: An Australian Chinese
Woman's Life in China from 1950 to 1979, 1st ed. (Dural, New South
Wales, Australia: Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd., 2008), in Journal of
Chinese Political Studies, vol. 14 (2009), SpringerLink.
• Review of Rudolfo C. Severino, Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community: Insights from the Former ASEAN Secretary-General (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2006), in East Asia Integration Studies [Hanns Seidel Foundation, Seoul], January 2009.
• "John DeFrancis, 1911-2009," H-Asia, 7 January 2009.
Reviews, 2008:
• Review of Sujian Guo and Shiping Hua (eds.), New Dimensions
of Chinese Foreign Policy, Lexington Books (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2007), in Journal of Chinese Political Science,
vol. 13, no. 3 (Winter 2008), pp. 307-309.
• Review of Czeslaw Tubilewicz, Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe: Shopping for Allies, Routledge Contemporary Asia series (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), in China Review International, vol. 15, no. 2 (Summer 2009), pp. 305-309.
• Review of Judith Vecchione (writer, producer, director), "Tug of War: The Story of Taiwan," videotape (South Burlington, Vermont: WGBH Educational Foundation and WGBH Boston Video, 1998), in Special Media Section, Education About Asia, vol, 13, no. 1 (Spring 2008), p. 68.
• "Fred Warren Riggs (1917-2008)," H-Asia [H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online], 3 March 2008.
Cited in Doreen Ilozor, "Fred Warren Riggs," Asian Studies Newsletter, vol. 53, no. 2 (Spring 2008), p. 33.
Reviews, 2007:
• Review of Alvyn Austin, China's Millions: The China Inland
Mission and Late Qing Society, 1832-1905, Studies in the History of
Christian Missions (R. E. Frykenberg and Brian Stanley, general editors)
(Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company, 2007), in Itinerario; International Journal on the History of
European Expansion and Global Interaction, vol. 31, no. 3 (2007), pp. 129-131.
• Review of Christopher A. Bayly and Timothy N. Harper, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005), in Journal of Chinese Political Science [中 國 政 治 學 刊], vol. 12, no. 2 (August 2007), pp. 196-197.
• "Norton S. Ginsburg (1921-2007)," H-Asia [H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online], 8 August 2007.
Reviews, 2006:Cited in Doreen Ilozor, "Deceased Asianists [Norton Ginsburg (July 30, 2007)," Asian Studies Newsletter, vol. 52, no. 3 (Fall Issue 2007), pp. 36-37.
• Review of Arasaki Moriteru (ed.), Wa-Ei ryobun 100 Q&A, Okinawa no sugao; Profile of Okinawa: 100 Questions and Answers (Tokyo: Techno Marketing Center, Inc., 2000), in The Ryûkyûanist [International Society for Ryûkyûan/Okinawan Studies], nos. 72/73 a (Summer/Autumn 2006), pp. 6-7.
• "Exemplary Survivors," review of Geoffrey Dunn and Mark Schwartz (directors), "A Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance," videotape and film (1984), In Ani [Ilokano and Philippine Drama and Film Program, Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa], Hawai‘i Filipino Centennial issue (Spring 2006), pp. 181-182.
• Review of Nanako Kurihara (producer, director, writer), "Ripples of Change; Japanese Women's Search for Self," video (New York: Women Make Movies, 1993), Education about Asia [The Association for Asian Studies, Inc.], vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring 2006), Special AEMS [Asian Educational Media Service] Film Review Section, p. 64.
Reviews, 2005:
• Review of Michel Bonnin, Generation perdue: Le mouvement
d'envoi des jeunes instruits à la campagne en Chine, 1968-1980
[Lost Generation: The Movement Sending Educated Youth to China's
Countryside, 1968-1980], coll. "Civilisations et sociétés"
("Civilizations and Societies" series) (Paris: École de Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, 2004), China Review
International, vol. 12, no. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 373-376.
• "Emerging Issues and Impermanent Institutions: Social Movements, Early Indicators of Social Change, and Film Pedagogy," review of ten videos on social movements in Europe, Asia and North America, in Journal of Political Science Education [Undergraduate Education Section, American Political Science Association], vol. 1, no. 3 (September-December 2005), pp. 397-401.
• Review of James A. Dator (ed.), Advancing Futures: Futures Studies in Higher Education, Praeger Studies on the 21st Century (Westport, Connecticut and London, U.K.: Praeger, 2002), in Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, vol. 2, no. 2 (June 2005), pp. 147-150.
• Review of Ezra F. Vogel, Yung Ming and Tanaka Akihiko (eds.), The Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1972-1989, Harvard East Asian Monographs 216 (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002), in "Current Books Reviewed On-Line," Political Studies and Political Studies: Review (2005).
To access the review with the advanced search, type "Pollard" in the "Reviewer" field.
Reviews, 2004:
• "Earlier Origins, Protracted Journey: Local, Regional and
Global Pathways to Independence," review of Marc Frey, Ronald W. Pruessen,
and Tai Yong Tan (eds.), The Transformation of Southeast Asia:
International Perspectives on Decolonization, An East Gate Book
(Armonk, New York and London, England: M. E. Sharpe, 2003), IIAS
Newsletter [The International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden,
Netherlands], no. 35 (November 2004), p. 31.
• [with You-jeong Lee], Review of Sheng Lijun, China and Taiwan: Cross-Strait Relations under Chen Shui-bian (Singapore: Institute of South East Asian Studies/London & New York: Zed Books, 2002; dist., Palgrave), in Journal of Chinese Political Science [中 國 政 治 學 刊], vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 91-92.
• Review of Jen Schradie and Matt DeVries, "The Golf War: A Story of Land, Golf and Revolution," VHS videotape (Durham, North Carolina: Anthill Productions, L.L.C., 1999), in Education About Asia [The Association for Asian Studies, Inc.], vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 68-69.
Reviews, 2003:
• Review of Wim Stokhof and Paul van der Velde (eds.),
Asian-European Perspectives: Developing the ASEM Process,
Curzon-IAAS Studies Series (Series Coordinator: D. van der Meij) (London:
Curzon, 2001), in Asian Business & Management (Palgrave), vol.
2, no. 3 (December 2003), pp. 421-424. Also, in a .pdf
file.
• Review of Jocelyne Fresnais, La protection du patrimoine en République populaire de Chine, 1949-1999 ("Protection of the Heritage of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1999"), Preface by F. Blanchon (Paris: Imprimerie Rey-Villeurbanne for Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques ("The Committee on Historical and Scientific Works"), 2001, in China Review International, vol. 10, no. 2 (Fall 2003), pp. 385-389. Also, a .pdf file is available from Project Muse.
• Review of Gilles Guiheux, Les Grands entrepreneurs privés a Taiwan: La main visible de la prospérité [Taiwan's Big Business People: Prosperity's Visible Hand], Asie Orientale ["East Asia"] series (editor, Christian Henriot) (Paris: Brochage Imprimerie Chirat for CNRS Éditions, 2002), in China Review International, vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 133-137. Also, a .pdf file is available from Project Muse.
• Review of Andrew Delano Abbott, Chaos of Disciplines (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001), in Futures: The Journal of Forecasting, Planning and Policy [Elsevier Science], vol. 35, issue 5 (June 2003), pp. 531-534; also, available online with access to Science Direct.
• Review of Muthiah Alagappa (ed.), Taiwan's Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-First Century, An East Gate Book, Taiwan in the Modern World series (Armonk, New York, and London: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., in collaboration with the East-West Center, 2001), in China Review International, vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 1-7. Also, a .pdf file is available from Project Muse.
• Review of Japan-Asia-Africa-Latin America (JAALA) Solidarity Committee, "Withdraw U.S. Bases! Appeal From Okinawa," videotape (Naha City, Okinawa: Cinema Okinawa Co., Ltd., 1998), in "Asia: Comparative and Transnational" section, The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 62, no. 2 (May 2003), pp. 563-565. Also, a .pdf file is available from JSTOR.
• Review of Marc S. Gallicchio, The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), in China Review International, vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 150-154. Also, a .pdf file is available from Project Muse.
Reviews, 2002:
• Review of Ikehata Setsuho and Lydia N. Yu Jose (eds.),
Philippines-Japan Relations (Quezon City: The Ateneo de Manila
University Press, 2003), in Pilipinas; An International Journal of
Philippines Studies [Philippine Studies Group, The Association for
Asian Studies, Inc.], no. 38 (March 2002), pp. 81-83.
• "Paano Nakiambag si José Rizal sa Nasyonalismo ng Pilipinas: Pagkasubersibo ba o Pagka-ilustrado Lamang?" ("Subversion — or Mere Elitist 'Enlightenment'? How Did José Rizal Contribute to Nationalism in the Philippines?"), Katipunan Literary Journal [Filipino and Philippine Languages Program and Katipunan at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa], vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 65-66. English summary of reviewer's essay in Tagalog.
Reviews, 2001:
• Review of Theresa Chong Cariño, Chinese Big
Business in the Philippines: Political Leadership and Change
(Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1998), in The Journal of Asian
Studies [The Association for Asian Studies, Inc.], vol. 60, no. 4
(November 2001), pp. 1121-1123.
• Review of Mayumi Itoh, Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), in International Studies Review [International Studies Association], vol. 3, issue 3 (Fall 2001), pp. 203-206.
• Review of Françoise Mengin, Trajectoires chinoises; Taiwan, Hong Kong et Pékin ("Chinese Trajectories: Taiwan, Hong Kong and Peking"), "Recherches internationales" series (General Editor, Jean-François Bayart, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales) (Paris: Éditions Karthala, 1998), in China Review International, vol. 8, no. 2 (Fall 2001), pp. 475-478.
• "Pacifico A. Castro (1932-2001)," The Journal of Asian Studies [The Association for Asian Studies, Inc.], vol. 60, no. 3 (August 2001), pp. 935-937.
• Review of Kent E. Calder, Asia's Deadly Triangle; How Arms, Energy and Growth Threaten to Destabilize Asia-Pacific, rev. ed. (London, UK, and Sonoma, California: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1997), in Asian Thought & Society, vol. 26, no. 78 (May-August 2001), pp. 184-187.
Reviews, 2000:
• Review of Gregory W. Noble, Collective Action in East Asia:
How Ruling Parties Shape Industrial Policy, Cornell Studies in
Political Economy (Peter J. Katzenstein, editor) (Ithaca and London:
Cornell University Press, 1998), in Journal of Asian Business
[Southeast Asia Business Education and Resources Program, Center for South
and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan], vol. 16, no. 4
(December 2000), pp. 83-84.
• Review of T. T. B. Koh, The United States and East Asia: Conflict and Co-operation (Singapore: The Institute of Policy Studies and Times Academic Press, 1995), in Asian Thought & Society, vol. 25, no. 75 (September-December 2000), pp. 280-283.
• "Pathways and Detours to Chinese Democracy: Structure, Agency and Social Process," review of Shaohua Hu, Explaining Chinese Democratization (Westport, Connecticut, and London: Praeger Publishers, 2000), in H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, July 2000.
• Review of Sol Sanders (ed.), The U.S. Role in the Asian Century: A Panel of Experts Looks at National Interest in the New Environment (Lanham, New York and London: University Press of America, 1997), in Asian Thought & Society, vol. 25, no. 74 (May-August 2000), pp. 190-192.
• Review of Yayori Matsui, Women in the New Asia: From Pain to Power, transl. Noriko Toyakawa and Carolyn Francis (Bangkok: White Lotus/Victoria: Spinifex Press; London and New York: Zed Books, 1999), In Crossroads; An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies [Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University], vol. 13, no. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 109-111.
• "Remembering Tang Tsou (1918-1999)," review article, China Review International, vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 1-5.
Accessible through Project Muse.
Reviews, 1991-1999:
• Review of Marilou Diaz-Abaya, "José Rizal" (Manila: GMA
Films, 1998), in The Journal of Asian Studies [Association for
Asian Studies, Inc.], vol. 58, no. 4 (November 1999), pp. 1203-1204.
See Pollard's discussion of Ruel De Vera's commentary on the "José Rizal" film in Asia Week, #1999-69 (10 March 1999), on SEASIA-L (Southeast Asia Discussion List), 11 March 1999.
• "Dr. Masato R. Matsui (1920-1998)," Dead Fukuzawa Society e-mail archive, University of California - San Diego), 11 July 1998, (archives since removed from the Internet); variant obituary as "UH Loses Librarian/Author [historian Masato R. Matsui]," Ka Leo O Hawai'i [University of Hawai'i at Mānoa], vol. 92, no. 151 (16 July 1998), p. 2.
• Review of Temario C. Rivera and Kenji Koike, The Chinese-Filipino Business Families Under the Ramos Government, Joint Research Program Series No. 114 (Tokyo: Institute for Developing Economies, 1995), in Third World Quarterly: Journal of Emerging Areas, vol. 19, no. 1 (March 1998), pp. 156-158.
• Review of Warren I. Cohen (ed.), Pacific Passage: The Study of American-East Asian Relations on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), in Education about Asia [The Association for Asian Studies, Inc.], vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall 1997), pp. 67-68. Also available at the International Studies Association's Foreign Policy Analysis discussion list.
• Review of Theresa C. Cariño and Bernardita R. Churchill (eds.), Perspectives on Philippine Policy Towards China (New Manila, Quezon City: Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, 1993), in China Review International, vol. 3, no. 2 (Fall 1996), pp. 370-374.
Cited in PSAA Newsletter [Philippine Studies Association of Australia], no. 23 (March 1997).
• Review of Michael Parenti, Land of Idols (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), in New Political Science, nos. 36/37 (Summer/Fall, 1996), pp. 171-173.
• Review of Candace Chien-tzu Chou, Zafar Syed and Mark Warschauer, Internet Basics for Language Professionals, 2nd. ed., NFLRC Research Notes, no. 12 [Honolulu]: Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1996, In, SEASIA-L@msu.edu ["Southeast Asia Discussion List"], 4 May 1996.
• Review of Nettie Wild, "A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution" (1988), film, in Pilipinas; An International Journal of Philippine Studies [Philippine Studies Group, Association for Asian Studies], no. 16 (Spring 1991), pp. 141-142.
Reviews, 1985-1990:
• Review of Kenji Tsuchiya, Democracy and Leadership; The
Rise of the Taman Siswa Movement in Indonesia, Monographs of The
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (English-language Series), Kyoto
University, No. 18 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1987), in
ASEASUK News [Association for South-East Asian
Studies (UK)], New Series, No. 8 (Fall 1990), pp. 30-32.
• Review of Gary R. Hess, The United States' Emergence as a Southeast Asian Power, 1940-1950 (New York and Guildford Surrey: Columbia University Press, 1987), in The Chicago Review of International Affairs [Committee on International Relations, The University of Chicago], vol. 1, no. 3 (Fall 1989), pp. 75-78.
• Review of Patricia Lim Pui Huen, ASEAN: A Bibliography, 1981-85 (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1988), in Asian Profile, vol. 17, no. 1 (February 1989), pp. 101-102.
• "Rare Bird," review of Gil Portes, Birds of Prey (1988), film, in Solidarity (Manila), no. 121 (January-March 1989), pp. 121-123.
• "Tibet: Conflicting Perspectives on Human Rights," review essay, Newsletter of Independent Scholars of Asia [Berkeley], vol. 8, no. 2 (December 1988), pp. 4-6.
• Review of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Child of All Nations, transl. Max Lane (Victoria: Penguin Books Australia, 1983), in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars [subsequently, Critical Asian Studies], vol. 19, no. 1 (January-March 1987), pp. 66-68. With permission, this review appeared earlier as "From Java to All Nations," Chicago Literary Review [The University of Chicago], 26 September 1986, p. 9.
• "Philippine Art: A Study in Opposites," review of "Alay sa Pagkaisa" ("Tribute to Unity"), painting exhibition, in New City, vol. 2, no. 37 (1-14 July 1987), p. 6.
• "Scenes from the Philippines," review of "The Philippines in Focus: Photographic Portait of the Philippines and its People," 139 color and black-and-white photographs, curated by Jaime Zobel de Ayala (Exhibit Director) and Arturo Luz (Design Director), Chicago, 18-23 November 1985, in Grey City Journal [The University of Chicago], 26 November 1985, p. 2.
• Review of Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait (New York: Penguin Books, 1964), in The Glen Echo [Maryknoll College], vol. 16, no. 1 (Autumn 1964), pp. 29-30.
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