Hefner (anthropology, Boston U.) presents five country case studies of the historical evolution of Islamic educational institutions in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines from
Cheng (history, Delaware State U.) examines how the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro attempted to implement the concept of the "new man." He discusses how th
The Attractive Empire argues for a reconsideration of the period as part of the imperial project - a point of view that its contemporaries held - and not simply as an outgrowth of war mobilization. Ex
We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challenged prevailing notions about Oceania and prescriptio
How do Americans of Asian descent differ in their interpretation of the gospel from those who come from, say, Swedish or Scottish roots? Liew (New Testament, Pacific School of Religion) in essence col
Molloy (women's studies, U. of Auckland, New Zealand) examines four of Margaret Mead's early popular ethnographies--Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, The Changing Culture of an Indian
Falgout (anthropology, U. of Hawai`i), Poyer (anthropology, U. of Wyoming), and Carucci (anthropology, Montana State U.) provide an ethnohistorical account of Micronesian cultural memories of World Wa
They were a typical American family except, of course, theirs was not a typical Hollywood American family, owing to their being of Japanese descent. Then came Pearl Harbor, and their nationality, was
The focus of Richard Rubinger’s study of Japanese literacy is the least-studied (yet overwhelming majority) of the premodern population: the rural farming class. In this book-length historical explora
Islam is a dynamic religion that has been adapted to time and place by its followers, and in any particular region can be measured for orthodoxy not simply against the Middle East but against the gene
Schuessler (emeritus, Wartburg College, Iowa) provides information on the origin of Old Chinese words, including possible word family relationships within Chinese and outside contacts. His focus on wo
This stimulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, identity, and nationalism in
In this first book-length study of anti-Chinese hostility during the collapse of Suharto’s regime, Jemma Purdey presents a close analysis of the main incidents of violence during the transitional peri
Conceison (drama, Tufts U.) focuses on a select group of plays produced between 1987 and 2002, written by Chinese playwrights who have inserted an American character and other representations of The A
The Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century. Each selection
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
“In Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance, English-language readers get a rare opportunity to read in a single volume the work of one of Taiwan’s most distinguished scholars. Although Ming-h
