New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 4 No. 1, June 2002

Articles

Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Historiography of Sikhism
TONY BALLANTYNE (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO)

On The Overseas Chinese Secret Societies of Australia
CAI SHAOQING (NANJING UNIVERSITY)

Norman Kirk, The Labour Party and New Zealand's Recognition of The People's Republic Of China
DAVID McCRAW (UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO)

Globalization and Fiscal Management in Hong Kong
JERMAIN LAM (CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG)

Mainstream Attitudes Towards Burakujümin: A Range of Social, Pyschological, Economic and Historical Factors Continue to Exclude These Descendants of The Tokugawa Outcasts
ALASTAIR MCCLAUGHLIN (CHRISTCHURCH POLYTECHNIC)

Newspaper Coverage of the 2000 Election in Japan
CHRIS RUDD (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO)

Graduate Research Essay
Dam Building, Dissent, and Development: the Emergence of the Three Gorges Project
JAMES BEATTIE (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO)

Chinese Letters
The Epistolary World of a Reluctant 17th Century Chinese Magistrate: Yuan Hongdao in Suzhou
DUNCAN CAMBELL (VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON)

Review Article
Japanese Literature as a Modern Invention Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, eds., Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature
ROY STARRS (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO)