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Sect. 1 Riffs on a Rim -- 1 A Rim with a View: Orientalism, Geography, and the Historiography of Modernism / Steven Yao -- 2 Modernisms, Pacific and Otherwise / David Palumbo-Liu -- Sect. 2 Terrains -- 3 Unpacking the Present: The Floating World of French Modernity / Christopher Bush -- 4 Rewriting the Literary History of Japanese Modernism / Sadami Suzuki -- 5 Modernism and Modern Korean Poetry of the 1930s / Choi Dong Ho -- 6 Bertrand Russell's Chinese Eyes / Eric Hayot -- Sect. 3 Tectonics -- 7 Blackfellows and Modernists: Not Just Black and White / Ann Stephen -- 8 From Sydney and Shanghai: Australian and Chinese Women Writing Modernism / Susan Carson -- 9 Fission/Fusion: Modanizumu in Japanese Fiction / William J. Tyler -- 10 Oceans Apart? Emily Carr's and Katherine Mansfield's Encounters with Modernisms / Mary Ann Gillies -- 11 The Art of the Bluff: Youth Migrancy, Interlingualism, and Japanese Vernacular Modernism in New Youth Magazine / Kyoko Omori -- 12 'Oriental Wonders, Odd Fabrics': Walking through Hispanic American Modemismo's Chinatown / Francisco Moran -- 13 Pacific Rim Digital Modernism: The Electronic Literature of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries / Jessica Pressman -- Postscript -- 14 Waking to Global Capitalism in Seoul, San Francisco, and Honolulu: Pacific Rim Refigurations of the Global and the Local / Rob Wilson

The cities of the Pacific Rim are in one of the most dynamic spheres of the global economy. In the twenty first century the focus of global affairs is destined to shift from the West to the East. These cities offer a wide range of different responses to the demands that rapid growth puts on planning and infrastructure : from the laxity that has lead to the urban sprawl of Bangkok to the regulation that is characteristic of Singapore. This book considers the interactive relationships between the operation of the planning system and the role and performance of property development and real e

Bernstein, A. H.: Beyond RIMPAC: prospects for multinational regional security cooperation. S. 3-14. Romberg, A. D.: U.S. security policy in Asia. S. 15-38. Kondo, S.: Japan's security interests and role in the Pacific rim cooperation. S. 39-52. Ahn Byung-joon: Korea's security interests and roles in the Pacific rim. S. 53-66. Job, B. L.: Canadian interests and perspectives regarding the emerging Northern Pacific security order. S. 121-146. Polomka, P.: Australia's security interests and role in Pacific rim cooperation. S. 147-164. Holborow, D.: Pacific rim security cooperation: a New Zealand view. S. 165-180. Lau Teik Soon: Pacific rim security cooperation: ASEAN perspective. S. 181-192