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Integrated Korean: Beginning Level 1 Workbook, Second Edition by KLEAR December 2009		Audio files for this volume may be downloaded on the web in RealAudio or MP3 format at http://www.kleartextbook.com. This workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, the first volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series’ volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology—contextualization, learner-centeredness, use of authentic materials, usage-orientedness, balance between skill getting and skill using, and integration of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and culture. Grammar points are systematically introduced in simple but adequate explanations and abundant examples and exercises.

Populism in Asia ed. by Kosuke Mizuno; Pasuk Phongpaichit December 2009		Across Asia, “populist” leaders emerged on an unprecedented scale around the start of the 21st century. Populism in Asia is the first book to examine this phenomenon.

The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographical Perspectives ed. by Minako Sakai; Glenn Banks; John H. Walker December 2009		The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographical Perspectives is a thought-provoking examination of the local politics and the dynamics of power at Indonesia’s geographic and social margins. After the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the introduction of a policy of decentralization in 2001, local stakeholders secured and consolidated decision-making power, and set about negotiating new relations with Jakarta. The volume deals with power struggles and local-national tensions, looking among other things at resource control, the historical roots of regional identity politics and issues relating to Chinese-Indonesians.

Love and Dread in Cambodia: Weddings, Births, and Ritual Harm under the Khmer Rouge by Peg LeVine December 2009		For a decade, the author followed Cambodian men and women to former wedding and birth sites from the Khmer Rouge period (1975–79), filming their return to these locations. In the process she uncovered evidence of the way severe dislocation, induced starvation and other murderous activities paved the way for reconstructed communes. Group marriages, along with prescriptions for sex, pregnancies, and births, were a central feature of the remaking of Cambodian society and contributed to the dissolution of the country's ritual practices. This "ritualcide" caused a mass loss of spirit-protective places, objects, and arbitrators, and had a traumatic impact on Khmer society. Group marriages did, however, give spouses a reprieve from further dislocation.

Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature ed. by Angelia Poon; Philip Holden; Shirley Geok-lin Lim December 2009		The first comprehensive historical anthology of English-language writing from Singapore, this volume covers more than a century of literary production in a variety of genres. It provides readers in Singapore with an easy point of access to compelling narratives and poems, some of which have been forgotten or are difficult to obtain. For readers outside Singapore, it introduces a neglected but important range of works that represent the historical and contemporary imaginaries and realities of one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities.

Southeast Asia-China Interactions: Reprint of Articles from the Journal of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society ed. by Geoff Wade December 2009		The relations between the societies and states of Southeast Asia and China have been of enormous significance to both these regions, extending back for literally thousands of years. This useful single-volume edition of key studies on Southeast Asia-China interactions published in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and its precursors includes classics such as Wang Gungwu's “The Nanhai Trade” and Paul Wheatley's “Geographical Notes on Some Commodities Involved in Sung Maritime Trade.” In this compendium, 18 studies examine political, economic, and social interactions, as well as the flows of people and technologies that have tied these regions together over that period. The work provides a comprehensive summation of the Southeast Asia-China historical relationship, while situating the various individual works in their broader context.

A History of Singapore, 1819-2005: Revised Edition by C. M. Turnbull December 2009		When C.M. Turnbull’s A History of Singapore, 1819-1975 appeared in 1977, it quickly achieved recognition as the definitive history of Singapore. A second edition published in 1989 brought the story up to the elections held in 1988. In this fully revised edition, rewritten to take into account recent scholarship on Singapore, the author has added a chapter on Goh Chok Tong’s premiership (1990–2004) and the transition to a government headed by Lee Hsien Loong. The book now ends in 2005, when the Republic of Singapore celebrated its 40th anniversary as an independent nation.

Reference Maps of the Islands of Hawaii: Hawaii, 8th Edition by James A. Bier December 2009		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).

Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China by Jonathan Hay December 2009		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.

Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese: A Companion to Grammata Serica Recensa by Axel Schuessler April 2009		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.

The Occupation-era Correspondence of Kichisaburo Nomura ed. by Peter Mauch January 2010		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.

Peking: A Social Survey by Sidney D. Gamble; J. S. Burgess January 2010		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.

Polynesia: The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art by Adrienne Kaeppler January 2010		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.

Huia Short Stories 8: Contemporary Maori Fiction ed. by Huia Publishers January 2010		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.

Lucky Come Hawaii: A Novel of December 7, 1941 by Jon Shirota January 2010		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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