Asian history Books
University of Hawai'i Press Minority Stages
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University of Hawai'i Press From the Mountains to the Cities
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University of Hawai'i Press Cities and Nationhood
Book SynopsisPlaces the design of Philippine cities within a framework of Americaâs distinct religious and racial identity, colonial politics, and local cultural expansion. In doing so, the book expands knowledge about city planning - its influence and role - within national development by providing valuable insights into the nature of Philippine society.
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University of Hawai'i Press Elusive Belonging
Book SynopsisExamines the post-migration experiences of Filipina marriage immigrants in rural South Korea. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Elusive Belonging examines Filipinas who married rural South Korean bachelors in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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University of Hawai'i Press Ethnographies of Islam in China
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University of Hawai'i Press Politics of Control
Book SynopsisUsing a unique interdisciplinary, cultural-institutional analysis, Politics of Control is the first comprehensive study of how, in the early decades of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party reshaped people's minds using multiple methods of control.
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University of Hawai'i Press Koreas Great BuddhistConfucian Debate
Book SynopsisMakes available in English the seminal treatises in Korea’s greatest interreligious debate of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. ‘On Mind, Material Force, and Principle’, ‘An Array of Critiques of Buddhism’ and ‘Exposition of Orthodoxy’ are presented here with extensive annotation.
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University of Hawai'i Press Precepts Ordinations and Practice in Medieval
Book SynopsisA landmark collection of essays by Paul Groner, one of the leading authorities on Tendai Buddhism, that examines the medieval Tendai School to uncover the differences in understanding and interpreting monastic precepts and ordinations.
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR Reading the Kimono in TwentiethCentury Japanese
Book SynopsisThe kimono is a vibrant part of Japanese modernity, playing an integral role in literature and film in the twentieth century. This book is the first extended study to offer new ways of interpreting textual and visual narratives through ‘kimono language’ - what these garments communicate within their literary, historical, and cultural contexts.
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University of Hawai'i Press Belitung
Book SynopsisIn 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean-style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. In this moving and thought-provoking reflection of underwater cultural heritage management, Natali Pearson reveals valuable new information about the Belitung salvage.
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR Reading the Kimono in TwentiethCentury Japanese
Book SynopsisThe kimono is a vibrant part of Japanese modernity, playing an integral role in literature and film in the twentieth century. This book is the first extended study to offer new ways of interpreting textual and visual narratives through ‘kimono language’ - what these garments communicate within their literary, historical, and cultural contexts.
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR The Japanese Empire and Latin America
Book SynopsisProvides an analysis of the complicated relationship between Japanese migration and capital exportation to Latin America and the rise and fall of the empire in the Asia-Pacific region. The book explains how Japan influenced the cultures of Latin American countries and explores the role of Latin America in the evolution of Japanese expansion.
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University of Hawai'i Press A Path into the Mountains
Book SynopsisShugendo has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose.Trade ReviewA Path into the Mountains offers a new perspective and a novel approach on several long-standing controversial points in the history of Shugendō—all of which have an echo in the wider landscape of Japanese religions. It provides readers with a rich and many-faceted understanding of how religious traditions are solidly anchored in very human ground." —Carina Roth, University of Geneva"Based on convincing arguments and stimulating ideas, Caleb Carter's book calls into question the perception of Shugendō as a folk religion that existed on all mountains at all times. Carter makes the case for Shugendō's spread by means of institutions and lineages and enlivens his discussion with thought-provoking comparisons between Shugendō and Shintō, which he then applies to Mount Togakushi." —Gaynor Sekimori, SOAS University of London
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University of Hawai'i Press Living and Working in Wartime China
Book SynopsisCovering the years of Japanese invasion from 1937 to 1945, this collection recounts Chinese experiences of living and working under conditions of war. Through stories of everyday people and mid-level technocrats charged with carrying out the war, this book brings to light the gap between the leadershipâs demands and the reality of everyday life.
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University of Hawai'i Press Inscribing Death
Book SynopsisTraces how Chinese came to view death as an opportunity to fashion and convey social identities and memories during the medieval period (200-1000) and the Tang dynasty (618-907). In particular, the book details the growing emphasis on remembrance as an expression of filial piety and the grave as a focal point of ancestral sacrifice.Trade ReviewInscribing Death is simply the best book in any language on one of the most important elements of Chinese culture: its mortuary practice. Drawing on a stunning array of primary and secondary sources, including a fine selection of newly available muzhiming (entombed epitaphs), Choo centers her exploration on Tang burial practices that were new or controversial—joint burials, divination, and soul-summoning burials—but her analysis includes the classical sources that were consulted and sometimes recast to solve problems regarding the disposition of the dead. This is, thus, an indispensable resource for those seeking to understand the rich technical mortuary vocabulary of Chinese sources, many discussed here for the first time in a non-Chinese language. But it is Choo’s extensive study of muzhiming, where the dead sometimes speak for themselves, voicing preferences for their burial and remembrance, that gives this study a liveliness and immediacy belied by the title." —Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University"Jessey Choo’s rigorous, vivid, and lucidly argued account of Tang Dynasty mourning and burial practice is based on the many thousands of biographical inscriptions engraved in stone (muzhiming), both retrieved and transmitted, now available to scholarship. All specialists of late medieval Chinese religion, social history, and gender studies, as well as students of medieval Chinese canonical scholarship and late medieval literature, will be indebted to her for the scope and clarity of her research. Inscribing Death is a significant contribution to Tang studies." —David L. McMullen, University of Cambridge
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University of Hawai'i Press Precepts Ordinations and Practice in Medieval
Book SynopsisA landmark collection of essays by Paul Groner, one of the leading authorities on Tendai Buddhism, that examines the medieval Tendai School, which dominated Japanese Buddhism at that time, to uncover the differences in understanding and interpreting monastic precepts and ordinations.
£16.96
University of Hawai'i Press Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism
Book SynopsisAlthough scholars often study Esoteric Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism as if they were mutually exclusive, diametrically opposed, schools of Buddhism, Aaron Proffitt examines the context of the eastward flow of Mahayana Buddhism from India to Japan and uncovers Mahayana Buddhists employing so-called esoteric approaches along the path to awakening.
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University of Hawai'i Press A Korean Confucians Advice on How to Be Moral
Book SynopsisWritten as a dialogue with King Chongjo, (r. 1776-1800) these texts reveal how Tasan interpreted his Confucian tradition, particularly its understanding of how human beings could cultivate morality, while the king’s questions illustrate the mainstream Neo-Confucianism Tasan was reacting against.
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University of Hawai'i Press Taiwan Archaeology
Book SynopsisDescribes the archaeology of the island, outlining the major discoveries of the past fifty years. These date from roughly 200,000 years ago to the seventeenth century AD, the time of Dutch and Spanish contact and the entry of Taiwan into global trade markets. The book focuses on some forty sites and is based on roughly 450 published sources.
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University of Hawai'i Press Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism
Book SynopsisAlthough contemporary scholars often study Esoteric Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism as if they were mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed schools of Buddhism, Aaron Proffitt examines Dohan’s Compendium in the context of the eastward flow of Mahayana Buddhism from India to Japan.Trade ReviewAaron Proffitt combines two terms that are usually considered distinct—"Esoteric" and "Pure Land"—to show that both traditions as we know them today in Japan were incubated in the same historical and intellectual context. Their disambiguation did not happen until much later, and much of the reification happened in modernity. . . . With scholarly acumen, Proffitt shows that Esoteric Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism were not mutually exclusive categories, but rather elements existing in the same cultural sphere, each influencing and shaping the other." - Joie Szu-Chiao Chen, Buddhadharma (Summer 2023)
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University of Hawai'i Press Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam 19201963
Book SynopsisArgues that republicanism shaped modern Vietnam no less profoundly than communism. Republicans championed representative government, the universal rights of man, civil liberties, and the primacy of the nation. These ideas infused the thinking of Vietnamese reformers, dissidents, and revolutionaries from the 1900s onward.
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University of Hawai'i Press Chan Before Chan
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University of Hawai'i Press Memories of Unbelonging
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University of Hawai'i Press Indigenizing the Cold War
Book SynopsisThrough a study of the Border Patrol Police’s transformations, Indigenizing the Cold War shows how the Thai ruling elite unfailingly pursued their nation-building. With an introduction of the ‘indigenization’ concept and an in-depth analysis of postcolonial nation-building, this work challenges conventional Cold War studies.Trade ReviewIn this highly original and engaging book, Sinae Hyun offers a new account of the hot Cold War in Thailand through a rich, detailed analysis of the genesis and consolidation of the Border Patrol Police (BPP). Initially funded by the CIA and crafted with collaboration from the US government, Thai military, and Thai monarchy, the BPP is a repressive paramilitary force that went to great lengths to prevent communism from succeeding in Thailand. What makes this book so exciting is that Hyun uses the history of the BPP to develop new arguments about the Cold War in and beyond Thailand. By questioning the very border the BPP was policing—one that was at once psychological and human as well as physical—she develops a new theoretical optic that illustrates how counterinsurgency functioned as a project of creating a new nation and new national subjects." —Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR Mimetic Desires
Book SynopsisThrough an exploration of subjects such as Gandhi impersonators, performance artists, and ritual participants, Mimetic Desires makes an intervention toward understanding the phenomenon of impersonation and guising in South Asia and the world.
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR Haunted Modernities
Book SynopsisExplores how ‘history’ and ‘memory’ are not simply about the past but part of a forward-looking process that emerges from the social, political, and economic needs of the present, legitimized and validated through its associations with the past.
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR Reorienting the Pure Land
Book SynopsisOffers the first historical study of Nisei Shin Buddhists in the US during the tumultuous period between World War II and the early decades of the Cold War. This book examines Nisei-led adaptations to American Shin Buddhist institutions and organizations in an effort to reconstitute Nikkei Buddhist communities following the end of World War II.Trade ReviewMasatsugu’s book is a well-researched and important contribution to the fields of Japanese American history, US immigration and ethnic history, American religious history, and other areas of study. It is packed with fascinating evidence about a subject, Nisei Buddhism, that has yet to find its historian." —Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR Ethics of Belonging
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University of Hawai'i Press Embodying Xuanzang
Book SynopsisIn this engaging exploration of the confluence of myth, narrative, and ritual, Benjamin Brose uncovers the hidden histories of Xuanzang's many afterlives. The book traces the postmortem travels of China's greatest pilgrim and reveals the narrative and performative roots of China's best-known novel.
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University of Hawaii Press Even in the Rain
Book SynopsisExplores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Uyghur homeland in the far Chinese northwest, Chuen-Fung Wong focuses on aspects of Uyghur music making as it faces the state’s management of minority art expressions.Trade Review“The book is the result of successful combination of fieldwork (no longer possible recently), sound understanding of world music, and profound studies on music traditions relevant to Central Asia. Not only is the book important for the studies of Uyghur music, but also in the merging of studies in various closely related but distinct traditions (Turkic, Persian and Arabic), against the predominant backdrop of Han-Chinese music and its Westernization. The book would be of interest to ethnomusicologists, certainly a must-read item for those who are interested in Central Asian music, Uyghur music, Xinjiang, musical instruments, and particularly relevant to political scientists.” - Yu Siu Wah, The Chinese University of Hong Kong“This is beautifully written, engaging, and richly detailed ethnography of Uyghur musical practices in Northwest China. The reader comes away with a nuanced understanding of musical change in Xinjiang through the last century, as musical modernism and the complexities of being an ethnic minority in China collide. Wong carefully dissects his own positioning as an ethnomusicologist from Hong Kong and writes with vulnerability about his ethnographic process. As careful as Wong is with his interlocutors’ voices, one can get a feel for the lives of the Uyghur musicians Wong works with. The stories, scenes of life in different parts of Xinjiang, and the descriptions of the music come through with vivid detail.” - Margarethe Adams, Stony Brook University“In Even in the Rain Wong combines a fine grasp of theoretical approaches in ethnomusicology, relevant literature in Uyghur, Chinese and English, good ethnographic research, and sure-footed musical transcription and analysis. His analysis brings original material, careful research, and an authoritative voice to the topics of popular music and voice, and musical instruments and modernity. The book picks up the approaches of earlier scholarship and extends it into the twentieth-first century, bringing together engagement with Uyghur national canons and staged performance, popular and folk music.” - Rachel Harris, SOAS, University of London“Chuen-Fung Wong’s Even in the Rain offers a compelling examination of the dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity, national identity and global influences, and musical innovation and cultural preservation in the context of Uyghur music. With his insightful analysis, extensive fieldwork, and expertise in the Uyghur language and culture, Wong delivers a must-read book for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between music, society, and identity in contemporary inner Asia.” - Gülnar Eziz, Harvard University
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University of Hawai'i Press The Global Japanese Restaurant
Book SynopsisUses an innovative global perspective and rich ethnographic data on six continents to fashion a comprehensive account of the creation and reception of the global Japanese restaurant' in the modern world.Trade ReviewJapanese food has spread around the world with dramatic ease over the last forty years. This book historicizes and spatializes that dispersion over the long twentieth century (1880–2020). The authors connect the phases of East Asian colonialism, through settler migration, to ethnic succession, corporatization, to the sudden global repute of Japanese fine dining. This is not about Japanese food in Japan but about Japanese food outside of Japan." —Eric C. Rath, The University of Kansas
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University of Hawai'i Press Forging the Nation
Book SynopsisAgainst a fraught democratization process that unfolded from 2011 to 2020, Forging the Nation looks at how state and societal actors in Myanmar's multiethnic society, recovering from over seven decades of civil war, negotiated land politics to shape democratic land institutions.
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University of Hawai'i Press Republican Vietnam 19631975
Book SynopsisEnglish-language scholarship all too often dismisses South Vietnam as an American creation, a product of US imperialism. Republican Vietnam boldly upends this depiction, exposing a diverse and dynamic portrait of the Second Republic.
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University of Hawai'i Press On Our Own Strength
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR Reorienting the Pure Land
Book SynopsisOffers the first historical study of Nisei Shin Buddhists in the US during the tumultuous period between World War II and the early decades of the Cold War. This book examines Nisei-led adaptations to American Shin Buddhist institutions and organizations in an effort to reconstitute Nikkei Buddhist communities following the end of World War II.Trade ReviewMasatsugu’s book is a well-researched and important contribution to the fields of Japanese American history, US immigration and ethnic history, American religious history, and other areas of study. It is packed with fascinating evidence about a subject, Nisei Buddhism, that has yet to find its historian." —Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California
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UNIV OF HAWAII PR Haunted Modernities
Book SynopsisExplores how ‘history’ and ‘memory’ are not simply about the past but part of a forward-looking process that emerges from the social, political, and economic needs of the present, legitimized and validated through its associations with the past.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Peoples West Lake
Book SynopsisExamines the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to reconfigure Hangzhou’s urban space, alter the natural environment in West Lake (Xihu), and refashion the city’s culture in post-1949 China.Trade ReviewWith the focus on political ecology, The People’s West Lake addresses the policy, remapping, and engineering of the environment in the Mao era. The author explores the fraught notion and practice of "nature" in biosphere, landscapes, and human nature in production. An excellent historian, He Qiliang has drawn from historical archives and assembled rich empirical evidence in picturing the schemes of political ecology and the discontents. This book offers a refreshing perspective on China’s urbanization and modernization under socialism." —Ban Wang, Stanford University"Too often in the humanities and social sciences, "nature" is conceived as the inert or passive object of human action, or a platform upon which human events unfold. This has particularly been the case in the interdisciplinary field of China area studies. He’s book is long overdue and welcome. The People’s West Lake develops a framework of what Jane Bennett has called the "distributive agency" of the non-human. He uses this to explore the history of the Mao-era party-state’s contradictory and fitful efforts to transform Hangzhou’s West Lake through a series of propaganda-campaign projects." —Tim Oakes, University of Colorado, Boulder
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University of Hawai'i Press Embodying Xuanzang
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University of Hawaii Press Signs from the Unseen Realm
Book SynopsisRobert Ford Campany, one of North America’s preeminent scholars of Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first complete, annotated translation, with in-depth commentary, of the largest extant collection of miracle tales from the early medieval period, Wang Yan’s Records of Signs from the Unseen Realm, compiled around 490 CE.Trade ReviewTaken together, the translation and study are valuable both for scholars and for undergraduates in courses on Buddhism, religious literature or Chinese religion." - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (76:1, 2013)"Taken as a whole, the translation itself is refined, readable, and reliable. Campany has again set a new high standard for annotated Western-language translation of the Mingxiang ji Campany's book is a very welcome addition to the expanding scholarship on the zhiguai genre in general and Buddhist miracle tales of the Six Dynasties in particular." - Xiaohuan Zhao, China Review International (19:2, 2012)"The book is a comprehensive study and annotated translation with commentaries of Mingxiang ji a collection of Buddhist miracle tales. As a translation and study of zhiguai literature, Campany's book has surpassed all previous endeavors by other scholars of the genre in terms of its comprehensiveness, depth, and texture." - Sing-Chen Chiang, Boston College
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University of Hawaii Press BuddhistInflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean
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University of Hawai'i Press The TradeOffs of Legal Status
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University of Hawai'i Press Enduring Erosions
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University of Hawaii Press Living with the Vinaya
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University of Hawai'i Press The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan
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University of Hawaii Press Aspiring to Enlightenment
Book SynopsisCombines analyses of scriptural, exegetical, hagiographical, epigraphical, art historical, and literary materials to provide an episodic account of the Amitabha cult in Silla times and its rise in an East Asian context through the mutually interconnected perspectives of doctrine and practice.
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University of Hawai'i Press Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan
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University of Hawai'i Press Being Korean Becoming Japanese
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University of Hawaii Press No Island Is an Island
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