China’s century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun’s seminal writings on liter
This volume charts a course through never-before-surveyed historical territory: Japan’s medieval population, a topic so challenging that neither Japanese nor foreign scholars have investigated it in a
This anthology of essays by a multidisciplinal group reveals perceptions of three Filipino concepts belonging to marginalized and often ignored ethnolinguistic groups.
"The Heian court of the late ninth and early tenth centuries represents one of the most innovative and influential periods in the history of Japanese poetry. It witnessed the creation of entirely new
Singapore has few natural resources, but, in a relatively short history, its economic and social development and transformation are nothing short of remarkable. Today Singapore is by far the most succ
Lindquist (social anthropology, Stockholm U.) describes how the entry of Singapore into global trade has impacted the nearby Indonesian island of Batam, where cheap labor and lax government policies t
Bennett and Keuper-Bennett are sports divers who have watched Hawaiian green turtles in Maui since 1988 and pioneered observation and awareness efforts about them. Here, they explain how to find and o
"Suehiro’s strength lies in his grasp of capital accumulation, entrepreneurship, and its socioeconomic background, and his ability to place this body of knowledge in the wider international historical
Ming and Qing wrote poetry and prose about their own lives and the larger life beyond, and Fong (Chinese literature, McGill U.) gracefully analyzes the autobiographical poetry of Gan Lirou, the litera
Oceania is characterized by thousands of islands and archipelagoes amidst the vast expanse of the Pacific. Although it is one of the few truly oceanic habitats occupied permanently by humankind, surpr
Developing a Dream Destination is an interpretive history of tourism and tourism policy development in Hawai'i from the 1960s-to the twenty-first century. Part 1 looks at the many changes in tourism s
Zeitlin's study centers on the seventeenth century, one of the most interesting and creative periods of Chinese literature and politically one of the most traumatic, witnessing the overthrow of the M
The Tay Son uprising (1771-1802) was a cataclysmic event that profoundly altered the eighteenth-century Vietnamese political and social landscape. This book offers a new look at an important and cont
In postindustrial societies, people must consciously define their individuality through the choices they make. Recently, death has become yet another realm of personal choice, making a "good death" on
After a review of earlier funerary rituals in Japan, Bernstein (history, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon) shows how diverse premodern practices from different regions and social strata were homogenize
The martial arts novel is one of the most distinctive and widely-read forms of modern Chinese fiction. In Paper Swordsmen, John Christopher Hamm offers the first in-depth English-language study of thi
In these articles, Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.
Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered his small band of monks to wander forth for the welfare and weal of the many, a command that initiated one
Wide ranging and cross-disciplinary in its approach, Foreign Flowers focuses on the process of policy transfer in the Pacific and the use of power to achieve it. Many governing institutions in the reg
Larmour (political science, Australian National U.) explores how Western government institutions have been applied in the Pacific Islands by colonists, missionaries, consultants, and other forces. He
Kelley (history, U. of Hawai'i) examines the complex relationship between Vietnam and China in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through the works of Vietnamese poet/diplomats sent to China to ple
Succeeding waves of migration, from China to Thailand and from Thailand to the United States, have helped shape the identities of three generations of diasporic Chinese Thai. In this exciting new stud
Recent archeological finds in China have spurred interest in an important, but little-studied type of Chinese Buddhist/Buddhist-Daoist sculpture. Wong (East Asian art, U. of Virginia), a specialist in
Though diverse in religious practices and ideas, a network of individuals in 19th century Tokugawa Japan, converging on an ideology of "personal cultivation" (mi o osameru; shusin), began to form coal
Those in the economic elite of Ming China surrounded themselves with exquisite objects practical only in that they brought pleasure on sight and marked the social worth of the possessor. The author ex
Gade (religion, Oberlin College, Ohio) explains the revitalization of piety among Indonesian Muslims since the middle 1990s, as it is expression in perfecting the various modes of reciting the Qur'an.
Seaman (Japanese literature, University of Massachusetts) examines the recent boom in Japanese women's detective fiction and looks at how five Japanese authors critically engage with social issues suc
Focusing on the period during which Korea was under Japanese colonial domination, from the turn of the 20th century to the late 1930s, Hyun (Korean studies, York U., Toronto) investigates correlations
For well over a century, Chinese fengshui, or "geomancy," has interested Western laymen and scholars. Today, hundreds of popular manuals claim to use its principles in their advice on how people can i
Landscape and architectural designer Wijaya presents a visual study of Balinese architecture's origins, elements, and variations. Following an overview of the Balinese village, he discusses basic arch
In this rich and absorbing analysis of the transformation of political thought in nineteenth-century Japan, Douglas Howland examines the transmission to Japan of key concepts--liberty, rights, soverei
The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations—where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy symbols to the capital to exert pressure on c
An English eccentric and adventurer, Tom Harrisson (1911-1976) sought knowledge and renown in a dizzying number of fields, while breaking most of the rules of civilized society. He was a precursor in
The story of the people from the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and the Solomon Islands who left their homes to work in the French colony of New Caledonia has long remained a missing piece of Pacific Islands
This work anayzes events surrounding the Yokohama incident (1942–1945), which led to the arrest of dozens of journalists and researchers in Japan during the Pacific War period. Utilizing government do
William Schafer read, and dreamed, about New Zealand before his first visit in 1995. Mapping the Godzone grew out of that visit and his attempts, as an American, to focus his impressions of New Zealan
For many years, Japan was seen as the peculiar exception in Asia: a highly dynamic economy isolated in an otherwise moribund continent. With the rise of the Southeast Asian and Chinese economies, howe
