The City in Southeast Asia: Patterns, Processes and Policy
by Peter J. Rimmer; Howard Dick
July 2009
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The City in Southeast Asia explores ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigms of the Third World City. It does this by examining urban patterns: the global cities of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur; the national cities of Bangkok, Jakarta, and Manila; and the second cities of Chiang Mai, Surabaya, Cebu, and Penang.
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Small Trees for the Tropical Landscape
by Fred D. Rauch; Paul R. Weissich
July 2009
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Over the past several decades, the U.S. cityscape has changed radically. Large areas have been cleared of natural vegetation to accommodate new development. The “urban forest,” which consists of all city trees, natural and planted, has been severely and negatively impacted. A 2003 study indicates that we are losing through clearing and grading four trees for every one planted. This is a wake-up call for greatly increased planting in the urban forest and the need to popularize small trees (defined as trees that grow up to thirty feet high) for diminished city spaces.
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Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Soseki
by Marvin Marcus
July 2009
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Much has been written about Natsume Soseki (1867–1916), one of Japan’s most celebrated writers. Known primarily for his novels, he also published a large and diverse body of short personal writings (shohin) that have long lived in the shadow of his fictional works. The essays, which appeared in the Asahi shinbun between 1907 and 1915, comprise a fascinating autobiographical mosaic, while capturing the spirit of the Meiji era and the birth of modern Japan.
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The Diplomacy of Nationalism: The Six Companies and China's Policy toward Exclusion
by Yucheng Qin
July 2009
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This is a striking, original portrait of the Chinese Six Companies (Zhonghua huiguan), or Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, the most prominent support organization for Chinese immigrants in the U.S. in the late nineteenth century. As a federation of “native-place associations” (huiguan) in California, the Six Companies responded to racist acts and legislation by organizing immigrant communities and employing effective diplomatic strategies against exclusion. Yucheng Qin substantiates recent arguments that Chinese immigrants were resourceful in fighting for their rights and, more importantly, he argues that through the Six Companies they created a political rhetoric and civic agenda that were then officially adopted by Qing court officials, who at first were unprepared for modern diplomacy. Out of necessity, these officials turned to the Six Companies for assistance and would in time adopt the tone and format of its programs during China’s turbulent transition from a tributary system to that of a modern nation-state.
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Body Ornaments of Kwaraae and Malaita
by Ben Burt
July 2009
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The Kwara‘ae and other peoples of Malaita island in Solomon Islands once dressed for special occasions in ornaments of glistening white shell and pearl shell, intricately carved turtle shell, strings and straps of shell money-beads, and combs and bands patterned with colorful plant fibers. |
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Staying Fijian: Vatulele Island Barkcloth and Social Identity
by Rod Ewins
July 2009
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Barkcloth, or masi, is the traditional art form of the women of Vatulele Island. Its manufacture continues to flourish, even increase, while many other arts are declining, despite the fact that most of its functional roles have been usurped by Western cloth and paper. This book explores this apparent paradox and concludes that the reasons lie in the ability of its identity functions to buffer the effects of social stress. |
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The Comintern and Revolution in Mongolia
by Irina Y. Morozova
July 2009
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Using original research based on previously inaccessible material from the Comintern archives, the author addresses the issues of current concern in the rewriting of the twentieth-century history of Mongolia. It provides new interpretations of the activity of the Comintern (the Third Communist International) in Central Asia and of the politics of Soviet Russia toward the East. |
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Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society
ed. by Joakim Ojendal; Mona Lilja
June 2009
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The peace agreement, major reconstruction efforts, and UN-supervised elections that followed Cambodia’s dark period of civil war and genocide have not brought the democracy and reconstruction that was hoped for. This volume (written by a broad mix of Khmer and non-Khmer researchers) is the first study to assess the post-conflict democratization and reconstruction process in Cambodia in a systematic and in-depth empirical way.
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Other Landscapes: Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-Century South India
by Deborah Sutton
June 2009
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Other Landscapes investigates the interfaces between indigenes, European settlers, and the colonial state on the Nilgiri Hills of South India, focusing on land disputes, regulation of land sales, regimes of forest management and ethnographic projects of cultural “preservation.” |
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Path of No Path: Contemporary Studies in Pure Land Buddhism Honoring Roger Corless
ed. by Richard K. Payne
June 2009
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Roger Corless (1938–2007) pursued his own path, one he described as a path with heart. This enabled him to bring new perspectives to the study of Buddhism in general and Pure Land in particular. Honoring his life and his contribution to the field, this collection brings together ten essays by his colleagues and friends. These articles cover a range of topics, from the practice of Pure Land to its historical transmission and its contemporary interpretation. Contributors include Harvey Aronson, Gordon Bermant, Alfred Bloom, Ruben Habito, Charles Jones, Charles Orzech, Richard Payne, Charles Prebish, James Sanford, and Kenneth Tanaka, as well as a remembrance by one of Corless’s students, Arthur Holder. As is only appropriate in memory of a pioneer in the field of Pure Land Buddhist studies, this work itself contributes to the further development of research and interpretation of the tradition.
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Shin Buddhism: Historical, Textual, and Interpretive Studies
ed. by Richard K. Payne
June 2009
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This collection brings together studies of the history, textual tradition, and contemporary interpretation of Shin Buddhism by leading scholars in the field of Pure Land Buddhist studies. The historical studies included here span the range of Pure Land from its origins in India through its development as a distinct system of Buddhist praxis—that is, the dialectic of doctrine and practice—in China, to its rise as a separate and self-identified “Pure Land” (Jodo) tradition in Japan. In recent decades the term “Pure Land Buddhism” has come to be used very inclusively, as a term for all forms of Buddhist praxis that involves belief in the existence of a buddha land that is in some sense the goal of practice. The focus of this collection, however, is the cultic tradition of Amitabha and Amitayus.
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The Beating Heart: A Political and Socio-economic History of Te Arawa
by Vincent O'Malley; David Armstrong
June 2009
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The Beating Heart details the determined efforts since the 1830s of Te Arawa tribes to work with the Crown and settlers to pursue a mutually advantageous relationship under the Treaty while at the same time maintaining their autonomy, culture, and control over their land and resources.
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Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization in the Central Pacific
by Glenn Petersen
June 2009
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Traditional Micronesian Societies explores the extraordinary successes of the ancient voyaging peoples who first settled the Central Pacific islands some two thousand years ago. They and their descendants devised social and cultural adaptations that have enabled them to survive—and thrive—under the most demanding environmental conditions. The dispersed matrilineal clans so typical of Micronesian societies ensure that every individual, every local family and lineage, and every community maintain close relations with the peoples of many other islands. When hurricanes and droughts or political struggles force a group to move, they are sure of being taken in by kin residing elsewhere. Out of this common theme, shared patterns of land tenure, political rule, philosophy, and even personal character have flowed.
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Fundamental Written Chinese
by Nora Yao; Margaret Lee; Robert Sanders
June 2009
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Accompanying MP3 audio files are available for download:
http://www.hawaii.edu/uhpress/mp3/fwc/
Streaming RealAudio files are forthcoming.
Fundamental Written Chinese teaches both mastery of individual characters and reading comprehension. It introduces characters gradually, moving from simple independent characters to more complex compound ones. How characters are organized and constructed is taught through the liberal use of charts that display the structural and organizational regularities of each character, that is, its radical, phonetic component, shared graphic components, stroke order, and principles of proportion. This knowledge is then reinforced by exercises at the end of each chapter that require students to draw on the compositional information presented in the charts.
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Gagana Samoa: A Samoan Language Coursebook, Revised Edition
by Galumalemana Afeleti Hunkin
June 2009
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Accompanying audio files are available for download and streaming:
MP3: http://www.hawaii.edu/uhpress/mp3/gagana/;
RealAudio: http://www.hawaii.edu/uhpress/realaudio/gagana/
Gagana Samoa is a modern Samoan language resource. Designed for both classroom and personal use, it features a methodical approach suitable for all ages; an emphasis on patterns of speech and communication through practice and examples; 10 practical dialogues covering everyday social situations; an introduction to the wider culture of fa‘asamoa through photographs; more than 150 exercises to reinforce comprehension; a glossary of all Samoan words used in the coursebook; oral skills supplemented with downloadable or streaming audio files.
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