Cover & Notes for Contributors

Boards, Contents & Contributors

Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh,“Foreword–Mainland China and Taiwan in the Asia-Pacific: Norms, Institutions, Identity and Governance

Geopolitics and Economic Relations

István Csaba Moldicz, "Differences in East Asian Economic Institutions: Taiwan in a Regional Comparison" 

Audrey Dugué-Nevers, "China and Soft Power: Building Relations and Cooperation"

Meiling Wang and Chun-Kai Wang, "An Assessment of the China-Korea Free Trade Agreement: Implementation Outcome and Influencing Factors

Norms, Institutions and Realpolitik: History and Evolution

Egas Moniz Bandeira, "Political Reforms in a Global Context: Some Foreign Perspectives on Constitutional Thought in Late Imperial China"

Xiaohua Ma, "Rethinking Peace-Building in East Asia: The Case of Japan’s Struggle over History in Postwar Era"

Sergey Vradiy, "Russia-Taiwan Relations: History and Perspectives"

Biopolitics and Social Wellbeing

Olga Yurievna Adams, "Institutional Approach to Anti-corruption Efforts in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China: Improving the Norms, Strengthening the Ethics

Aliya Sartbayeva Peleo, "The Rights of the Wronged: Norms of Nuclearism, the Polygon and the Making of Waste-life"

Silvan Siefert, "China and India Going Green: The Power of Wind, International Norms, and  National Commitments"

Policy Comments

Ching Chang, "The Dialectic Characteristics of Policies for Asia-Pacific Regional Relations"

Tian Guang, Kathy Tian, Camilla H. Wang, Liu Yu and Li Wei, "Independent Planning System and Public Administration in Metropolitan Development : Agglomeration Strategies of Greater Chaoshan in Southern China"

Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh and Wang Fan, "Housing in China: State Governance, Market and Public Perception"

Letter to the Editor

Letter from Cloude Meyer, author of China or Japan: Which Will lead Asia? London and New York: Hurst, with Columbia University Press and Oxford University Press (2012)

Book Review

Weiwei Zhang (ed.) (2012), The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State, reviewed by Chang Le