Off In China Research Articles

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:ChinaNi Zhen. Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: the Genesis of China's Fifth Generation.Chunhou Zhang and C. Edwin Vaughan. Mao Zedong as Poet and Revolutionary Leader: social and Historical Perspectives.Susan Blum and Lionel Jensen. (eds). China off Center: mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom.Jie Tang and Anthony Ward. The Changing Face of Chinese Management.Frank Dikötter. Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China, 1895–1949.Japan And KoreaYukie Ohta (trans). A Rainbow in the Desert: an Anthology of Early Twentieth‐Century Japanese Children's Literature.Bob Johnstone. We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age.Andrew C. Ross. A Vision Betrayed: the Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542–1742.South, West & Central AsiaPrema Clarke. Teaching and Learning: the Culture of Pedagogy.Robert Deliege. The Untouchables of India.Bina Gupta (ed). The Empirical and the Transcendental: a Fusion of Horizons.Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta. New Reproductive Technologies, Women's Health and Autonomy: freedom or Dependency?Pradeep Barua. The Army Officer Corps and Military Modernisation in Later Colonial India.Southeast AsiaKees Van Dijk. A Country in Despair. Indonesia between 1997 and 2000.Cheah Boon Kheng. Malaysia: the Making of a Nation.Robert L. Winzeler (ed). Indigenous Peoples and the State: politics, Land, and Ethnicity in the Malayan Peninsula and Borneo.Andrea Whittaker. (ed). Women's Health in Mainland Southeast Asia.Jan Breman and Gunawan Wiradi. Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java: case Study of Socio‐economic Dynamics in Two Villages towards the End of the Twentieth Century.William Case. Politics in Southeast Asia: democracy or Less.Andrew McWilliam. Paths of Origin, Gates of Life: a Study of Place and Precedence in Southwest Timor.Patricia M. Pelly. Postcolonial Vietnam: new Histories of the National Past.Sally Ann Ness. Where Asia Smiles: an Ethnography of Philippine Tourism.General AsiaJohn Kelly and Martha Kaplan. Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization.

Review

China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom Edited by Susan D. Blum and Lionel M. Jensen Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2002. Pp. xxii + 402 Price: US$24.95

Development trends and future prospects of internal audit

Provides an historical introduction to how internal audit took off in China. Acquaints us with the fascinating three theoretical models of the national role of internal audit: the theory of two legs, the theory of two wings and the theory of supplement. Details the roles that internal audit may perform and ends with a prophetic forecast of the likely direction and development of internal audit into the new millennium.

Interpreting new evidence about China and U.S. silver purchases

This paper offers a reinterpretation of the influence on China of America's silver policy in the early 1930's. Recently compiled evidence about events in China are described and interpreted in light of a model of free banking under a commodity standard. Our interpretation is that the U.S. silver purchase program did not set off a chain of bad economic events which eventually forced China off silver and onto a fiat standard. Rather, China was forced off silver by its own government, which wanted to make itself the beneficiary of the capital gain associated with the appreciation of silver and to relieve itself of the restrictions that are imposed on government finance by a commodity standard.

China’s Offshore Energy Policy and its Implications for the Japanese-Market Oriented ASEAN Producers

Using foreign capital and advanced technology to develop its offshore energy industry, China began its exploration activities on an unpre cedented scale in January 1984. Together with ASEAN's energy-producing members, it should play an important role in Japan's diversification of sources of energy supply due to their proxim ity to Japan and their political stability. This paper considers the implications of China's off shore energy for the Japanese-market oriented ASEAN producers.