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				Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies  
				The University of Auckland | 
				 
			 
			
			
				
					
		Welcome to Volume 4 
		Number 2 of the Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies. This edition 
		is entitled 'Global Convergence / Local Divergence'. 
		 
		 
		 
		Volume 4 No. 
						2, December 2006, 
						Global Convergence / Local Divergence 
		
		Contents,
		Editorial
					- Visual Essay
 
					Rua Acorn,
					
					We Are 
					- Article
 
					Matthew Penney,
					
					China Comparisons: Images of China in Japanese Popular 
					Non-Fiction 
					- Article
 
					Julie Nichols,
					
					Nomadic Urbanities: Constant's New Babylon and the 
					Contemporary City 
					- Article
 
					Bon-Soo Kim,
					
					E-Democracy in the Information Age: The Internet and the 
					2002 Presidential Election in South Korea 
					- Review
 
					Imogen Neale,
					
					Cracking the Cultural Nut: Roseanne Liang discusses her 
					Autobiographic Documentary ‘Banana in a Nutshell’ 
					- Visual 
					Essay
 Megan Hansen-Knarhoi,
					
					Boob Series & Topsy/Turvy 
					- Review
 
					Howard Gilbert, Kenneth Ruoff,
					
					The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 
					1945-1995 
					- Review
 
					Teresa Shewry, Jeffrey Sissons,
					
					First Peoples: Indigeneous Cultures and Their Futures 
					- Review
 
					Teresa Shewry, Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells,
					
					Nature and Nation: Forests and Development in Peninsular 
					Mayalsia 
					- Review
 
					Nadine France, Makiko Kuwahara,
					
					Tattoo: An Anthropology 
					- Review
 
					Aimee Skrine,
					
					Mark Adams' Pe'a Exhibition and Tattoo: Bodies, Art and 
					Exchange in the Pacific and West 
				 
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