Vol. 24, No. 3 / July-Sept 1992 Levita Duhaylungsod and David Hyndman: “Where All That Glit¬ ters Is Not Gold: Crossroads of Mining Exploration in the T’boli Homeland” Sharat G. Lin: “Shankar Guha Niyogi: Beyond Conventional Trade Unionism in India” Index Ganeshwar Chand: “The United States and South Pacific Regionalism: Participation or Subversion?’ 1992: Volume 24, Numbers 1-4 Charles W. Lindsey: Southeast Asia in the 1980s: The Politics of Economic Crisis, edited by Richard Robison. Kevin Hewison, and Richard Higgott / review Notes from the Field Mark Bonacci and Don Luce: “The AIDS Threat to Southeast Asians and U.S. Military Personnel” Vol. 24, No. 1 / Jan.-Mar. 1992 Judith Moses: “Killing the Messenger: Environmental Reporters Garry Rodan: “Singapore’s Leadership Transition: Erosion or Refine¬ Under Fire in the Philippines” ment of Authoritarian Rule?” Charles Scheiner: “No U.S. Military Aid to Indonesia in Fiscal Richard Lufrano: “Nanjing Spring: The 1989 Student Movement in a Year 1993!” Provincial Capital" BCAS Editors: “Update on the National Security Education Act of Hua Shiping: “All Roads Lead to Democracy: A Critical Analysis of 1991” the Writings of Three Chinese Reformist Intellectuals” James Siegel: “In Response to Paul Stange’s Critique” / correspondence Su Shaozhi, Wang Ruoshui, and Van Jiaqi: “Responses to Hua Paul Stange: “A Reply to Ward Keeler and James Siegel” / cor¬ Shiping’s ‘All Roads Lead to Democracy’” respondence Louise Edwards: “Broadening Horizons: Representations of Women in Asia”: Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, by Van- Vol. 24, No. 4 / OcL-Dec. 1992 dana Shiva; Dialogues in Paradise, by Can Xue; Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South Carol J. Ireson: “Changes in Field, Forest, and Family: Rural China, 1860-1930, by Janice E. Stockard / review essay Women’s Work and Status in Post-Revolutionary Laos” Raka Ray: Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism, David Kunzie: “Festival and Revolution in the Highlands of Vietnam: edited by Sonia Kruks, Rayna Rapp, and Marilyn B. Young / review A Vietnamese Artist Shows How the Revolution Comes to a Moun¬ Martin J. Murray: “Confronting the Dilemmas of Socialist Develop¬ tain People in Central Vietnam” ment”: Postwar Vietnam: Dilemmas in Socialist Development, Alvin Y. So and Ludmilla Kwitko: “The Transformation of Urban edited by David G. Marr and Christine P. White; Vietnam: An Movements in Hong Kong. 1970-90” Economy in Transition, by Stefan de Vylder and Adam Fforde; The Ohno Kazuoki: “Japanese Agriculture Today: The Roots of Decay” Agrarian Question in North Vietnam, 1974-1979: A Study of Roger Bowen: “The Political Economy of Japan”; The Political Cooperator Resistance to State Policy, by Adam Fforde / review Economy of Japan: Volume I, The Domestic Transformation, essay Yamamura Kozo and Yasuba Yasukichi, eds.; Financial Politics in “Leo Cawley (1944—1991)”/ tribute Contemporary Japan, by Frances McCall Rosenbluth; Law and So¬ cial Change in Postwar Japan, Frank K. Upham, ed. / review essay Vol. 24, No. 2 / Apr.-June 1992 Callum MacDonald: “Rediscovering History—New Light on the Un¬ known War”; Korea: The Peninsular Origins of the War, by John Ben Kiernan: ‘The Cambodian Crisis, 1990-1992: The UN Plan, the Merrill; The Origins of the Korean War: Volume 2, The Roaring of Khmer Rouge, and the State of Cambodia” the Cataract, 1947-1950, by Bruce Cumings; A Substitute for Vic¬ Jude Carlson: “Tibet in the News” tory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks, by Judy Polumbaum, A. Tom Grunfeld, Edward Friedman, and Jude Rosemary Foot / review essay Carlson: “Comments on Jude Carlson’s ‘Tibet in the News’” Andre Gunder Frank: ‘The Centrality of Central Asia” Daniel Balland, Thomas J. Barfleld, Mansura Haider, and Andre The picture on the back cover shows the main section of a 1962 Gunder Frank: “Comments on Andre Gunder Frank’s ‘The engraved, painted, and lacquered wooden panel. Spring Festival on the Centrality of Central Asia’” High Plateaus, by Vietrutmese artist Tran Huu Chat. This panel depicts National Security and the Future of Asian Studies the Vietnamese Revolution coming to a Bahnar village in the Central Mark Selden: “Introduction” Highlands of Vietnam, a time when “the drumbeat is now that of James K. Boyce: “The National Security Education Act of 1991: national revolution as well as village celebration, [and] the sacrifice is Issues and Answers” no longer only to the tutelary spirit (Yang) inhabiting the locality, but BCAS Editors: "Historical Perspective” also to the revolutionary spirit that will drive out the oppressor and unify Philip C. Brown: From Cambodia to Kampuchea: Decade of the the nation. ” Note the new socialist national flag atop the sacrificial Genocide, Report of a Finnish Inquiry Commission, edited by pole, the picture of Ho Chi Minh, and the soldiers with modem weapon¬ Kimmo Kiljunen; Cambodia: The Eastern Zone Massacres, a ry intermingled among the villagers in traditional garb—but involved Report on Social Conditions and Human Rights Violations in the in revolutionary as well as traditional activities. One wonders how well Eastern Zone of Democratic Kampuchea under the Rule of Pol Pot’s this unique culture has survived the devastation of the war and the (Khmer Rouge) Communist Party of Kampuchea, by Ben Kiernan; demands of the socialist system that followed. For more on this subject, The Rise and Demise of Democratic Kampuchea, by Craig Etcheson; see the article by David Kunzie, “Festival and Revolution in the High¬ and Kampuchea: Politics, Economics, and Society, by Michael lands of Vietnam, ” on pages 20-31 of this issue of BCAS. This photo Vickery / review essay is by and courtesy of David Kunzie. “Phyllis Andors (1942-1992)” / tribute East Timor Action Network / correspondence