The Tropical Frontier: America's South Sea Colony
by Joseph Kennedy
December 2009
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For more than two thousand years the Samoan Islands were among the most forgotten places on earth, but by the late nineteenth century they suddenly attracted the attention of some of the most powerful nations on the globe. Germany and the United Kingdom became interested in the western islands, but it was the U.S. that eventually obtained suzerainty over Pago Pago harbor on the island of Tutuila in the east and began its one and only South Seas colonial experiment.
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Reference Maps of the Islands of Hawaii: Hawaii, 8th Edition
by James A. Bier
December 2009
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Features of the latest edition of this full-color, topographic map of the Big Island include detailed road networks, large-scale inset maps of towns, points of interest (historic, natural, and cultural), hiking trails, parks, beaches, waterfalls, peaks, and ridges (with altitudes), and more than 2,200 place names (index included).
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Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China
by Jonathan Hay
December 2009
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Sensuous Surfaces is a richly illustrated and in-depth introduction to the decorative arts in Ming- and Qing-dynasty China. Jonathan Hay explores materials and techniques, as well as issues of patronage and taste, which together formed a loose system of informal rules that affected every level of decoration in early modern China, from an individual object to the arrangement of an entire residential interior. |
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Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese: A Companion to Grammata Serica Recensa
by Axel Schuessler
April 2009
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Although long out of date, Bernard Karlgren’s Grammata Serica Recensa (1957) remains the most convenient work for looking up Middle Chinese (ca. A.D. 600) and Old Chinese (before 200 B.C.) reconstructions of all graphs that occur in literature from the beginning of writing (ca. 1250 B.C.) down to the third century B.C. In the present volume, Axel Schuessler provides a more current reconstruction of Old Chinese, limiting it, as far as possible, to those post-Karlgrenian phonological features of Old Chinese that enjoy some consensus among today’s investigators. At the same time, the updating of the material disregards more speculative theories and proposals. Schuessler refers to these minimal forms as “Minimal Old Chinese” (OCM). He bases OCM on Baxter’s 1992 reconstructions but with some changes, mostly notational. In keeping with its minimal aspect, the OCM forms are kept as simple as possible and transcribed in an equally simple notation. Some issues in Old Chinese phonology still await clarification; hence interpolations and proposals of limited currency appear in this update.
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The Occupation-era Correspondence of Kichisaburo Nomura
ed. by Peter Mauch
January 2010
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This volume is the result of the recent discovery of the personal papers of Kichisaburo Nomura—one-time foreign minister, pre–Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, and “spiritual godfather” of post-war Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force.
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Peking: A Social Survey
by Sidney D. Gamble; J. S. Burgess
January 2010
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Conducted under the auspices
of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men’s Christian Association, this survey contains data from questionnaires collected from a cross-section of the local population between September 1918 and December 1919. The result, first published in 1921, is a comprehensive record of all aspects of life and conditions in the capital–from government, health, and education, to commercial life, recreation, poverty, and philanthropy.
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Polynesia: The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art
by Adrienne Kaeppler
January 2010
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The visual arts of Polynesia offer a richly diverse and relatively little known body of work, covering an enormous geographical area yet linked by shared artistic conventions. The collection of Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, one of the greatest private collections of Polynesian art in the world, encompasses this broad field of artistic endeavor. It features both ceremonial and functional traditional forms in diverse media, from delicate ivory ornaments and decorated barkcloth to formidable weaponry and imposing sculpture in coral, wood, and stone.
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Huia Short Stories 8: Contemporary Maori Fiction
ed. by Huia Publishers
January 2010
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Here are the best short stories and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori Writers 2009, as judged by David Geary, Briar Grace-Smith, and Julian Wilcox. For over ten years, the Maori Literature Trust and Huia Publishers have been responsible for this unique and increasingly popular biennial writing competition. Past winners and finalists include James George, Briar Grace-Smith, Kelly Ana Morey, and Paula Morris.
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Lucky Come Hawaii: A Novel of December 7, 1941
by Jon Shirota
January 2010
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In the opening chapter of this classic novel set in Hawai‘i, news of the attack on Pearl Harbor has just reached rural Maui. Miscommunication, confusion, and rumors of war aggravate the already tense relations among the diverse immigrant communities, Native Hawaiians, and the American military. As told through the perspective of a poor Okinawan family, Lucky Come Hawaii vividly captures the emotions and trauma at this momentous turning point in Island history, which will change the fate of individuals, ways of life, and the land itself forever.
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Shore Fishes of Hawaii: Revised Edition
by John E. Randall
January 2010
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First published in 1996, this new edition of Shore Fishes of Hawai‘i updates our knowledge of Hawaiian fishes and has been expanded to include 372 species. All are illustrated by the author’s 475 superb photographs. The most important characteristics to identify a fish are given as well as the size attained and its distribution. Each species account begins with the American common name, followed by the Hawaiian name (when known), and the scientific name. Because it is necessary to use some scientific terminology when giving the principal diagnostic characteristics of families or species of fishes and what they eat, a handy glossary appears at the back of the book before the Index.
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Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity
by Keith McMahon
January 2010
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For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the “polygynous male,” the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental antagonisms in sexual relations in serious and constructive ways. Qing fiction abounds in stories of female resistance and superiority. Women—main wives, concubines, and prostitutes—were adept at exerting control and gaining status for themselves, while men indulged in elaborate fantasies about female power. In Polygamy and Sublime Passion, Keith McMahon introduces a new concept, “passive polygamy,” to explain the unusual number of Qing stories in which women take charge of a man’s desires, turning him into an instrument of female will. To this he adds a story that haunted the institutions of polygamy and prostitution: the tale of “sublime passion,” in which the main characters are a “remarkable” woman and her male lover.
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Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations
by Marc L. Moskowitz
January 2010
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Since the mid-1990s, Taiwan’s unique brand of Mandopop (Mandarin Chinese–language pop music) has dictated the musical tastes of the mainland and the rest of Chinese-speaking Asia. Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow explores Mandopop’s surprisingly complex cultural implications in Taiwan and the PRC, where it has established new gender roles, created a vocabulary to express individualism, and introduced transnational culture to a country that had closed its doors to the world for twenty years.
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Chinese Writing and Calligraphy
by Wendan Li
January 2010
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Suitable for college and high school students and those learning on their own, this fully illustrated coursebook provides comprehensive instruction in the history and practical techniques of Chinese calligraphy. No previous knowledge of the language is required to follow the text or complete the lessons.
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New Scholarship on Champa
ed. by Bruce Lockhart; Tran Ky Phuong
February 2010
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The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. Their Indianized civilization flourished for centuries, and they competed with the Vietnamese and Khmers for influence in mainland Southeast Asia. This book brings together a collection of essays on the Cham by specialists from the fields of history, archaeology, anthropology, art history, and linguistics. It presents a revisionist overview of Cham history and a detailed study of the various ways in which the Cham have been studied by different generations of scholars, as well as chapters on specific aspects of the Cham past. Several pieces focus on recent archaeological work in central Vietnam that positions recent discoveries within the broader framework of Cham history.
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On Asian Streets and Public Space
ed. by Heng Chye Kiang; Low Boon Liang; Hee Limin
February 2010
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The rapid urbanization of the Asian continent and transformation of its cityscapes have incited many professionals and scholars to pay urgent attention to the study of Asian streets and public spaces in the hope of recording them, learning from their complex nature, and even applying distilled principles in new environments before they disappear under the assault of rapid urban transformation.
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