On Good Friday, 1981, Rujen Keju and his two sons come face to face with their complicated inheritance--one that includes years of atomic testing and the continued military presence of the U.S. in the
This volume presents translations of 14 kabuki plays written between 1804 and 1864 a period marked by extreme violence and sexual aggressiveness on stage. Descriptions of costumes and makeup are inclu
Peleggi situates the creation of a modern royal image by the kings and other members of the royal family of Thailand from the 19th century to the present within the larger context of Victorian taste a
Craig (sociology of health and medicine and international social policy, U. of Auckland) explores the construction of everyday household health in the southeast Asian country, which integrates classic
How can I know something? How can I convince someone of the rightness of my position? How does reality function? What is artistic creativity? What is the role of the state? It is well known that peopl
Though also using the usual sources of biography, Barton (arts, Deakin U., Victoria, Australia) benefited by being able to observe and interact with Wahid, also known as Gus Dur, during his political
Dobbins (religion and East Asian studies, Oberlin College) describes the rise and development of Japan's largest school of Buddhism in premodern times, part of the Pure Land Buddhism that grew in para
In humiliating circumstances, Indonesia's first democratically elected president, Abdurrahman Wahid, was forced from office in July 2001 after less than two years in the job. Wahid, almost blind and s
How is the memory of the past affected by the politics of the present? Tanabe (anthropology, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) and Keyes (anthropology, U. of Washington, US) present 11 chapters tha
This is the first book to assess the indigenous systems of belief in the spirits of ancestors in Indonesia. Thirteen international anthropologists, historians, and literary scholars examine various a
Less than one tenth of the active repertory of kabuki plays have been translated from Japanese into English. The four-volume set begins to correct the deficiency, choosing plays that are being perform
In a secret 1969 agreement between President Nixon, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, and Japanese Prime Minister Sato Eisaku, an arrangement was made where the U.S. would return the Okinawan
Making Sense of Japanese Grammar explains in a lively and highly informative manner basic principles that underlie a wide range of phenomena in Japanese. Students--irrespective of proficiency level an
The state of Sarawak was founded in the 19th century by a coalition led by James Brooke on the northwest coast of Borneo. Walker (political science, U. of New South Wales, Australia) analyzes the netw
Eleven anthropological essays presented by field researchers Wu and Cheung discuss a wide-ranging area of topics related to the meaning of Chinese food to understanding human culture. Noting that the
From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purg
This first volume in a series collecting kabuki play translations draws on new research in kabuki performance and history and presents translations of traditional plays by 22 scholars ranging from the
Chen (Chinese and comparative literature, Ohio State U.), who played a Korean girl on a mainland Chinese stage at age four, provides what is introduced as the first comprehensive study of 20th century
In light of the rapid urbanization of the Asia-Pacific region and the perceived need for both land-use control and compulsory purchase powers, scholars of law, economics, and city planning from the re
This textbook is designed for college-level students who have completed at least the beginning and intermediate levels of Korean (approximately 500 hours of classroom instruction). The content includ
Simanu, a native of the Fa'asamoa, developed the text for her students of Samoan at the University of Hawai'i. She describes the Language of Respect, and using the Samoan Chiefly Language in the elabo
The Bali Aga are a large ethnic minority of indigenous people that live in the central highlands of Bali. In this ethnographic study, Reuter (a research fellow at the U. of Melbourne) examines their e
Among Marshallese the ri-bwebwenato (storyteller) is well known and respected, a living repository and transmitter of traditional history and culture. Here are ninety folktales and stories of historic
Modern Japanese Aesthetics is the first work in English on the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its inception in the 1870s to the present. In addition to the historical information and
The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and terminology that informed
Cai (Chinese and comparative literature, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) presents a comparative study of Western and Chinese poetics. The first four chapters focus on the foundational concepts of We
This collection explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New
With input from native Hawaiians, the author of the Beaches of Hawai'i series has compiled a glossary of terms from AA buoy (in Kaua'i) to Zombies (an O'ahu surf site) that supplements the classic U.
Cwiertka (Japanese and Korean studies, Leiden U., the Netherlands) and Walraven (Korean language and culture, Leiden U., the Netherlands) present nine papers which identify and explain a variety of li
This work is a comprehensive analysis of the political and strategic relationship between Japan and China, each of which in important respects aspires to a global status commensurate with its economic
Since the late 1960s, the lives of south Koreans have been reconstructed on the shifting ground of urbanization, industrialization, military authoritarianism, democratic reform, and social liberalizat
Lents (communications, Temple U.) continues his series on Asian cartooning and cartoonists by assembling views of western and Asian scholars of literature, art, the orient, and other relevant discipli
This highly informative and insightful study opens numerous windows into the history of Islamic religious thought in the Malay-Indonesian world from the thirteenth to the late twentieth century. The a
Since the late 1960s, the lives of south Koreans have been reconstructed on the shifting ground of urbanization, industrialization, military authoritarianism, democratic reform, and social liberalizat
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
This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been place
This study, which is based upon Ge's Ph.D. thesis for Indiana University, considers the development of vernacular fiction, or baihua in Chinese literature and its eventual dominance. The focus is on
