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Examines some of Heian Japan's most enduring paradigms as well as hitherto unexplored problems in search of new ways of understanding the currents of change as well as the processes of institutionalization that shaped the Heian scene, defined the contours of its legacies, and make it one of the most intensely studied periods of the Japanese past.

Through archival work in British Columbia, Oregon, California, and Hawaii, the authors pieced together what is known about the sailors, laborers, and settlers from 1787 to 1898, the year the Hawaiian Islands were annexed to the US. They include biographical entries on some 800 Native Hawaiians, a useful complement to their narrative history.

Draws attention to the ways control of water resources, in West Maui and across Hawai'i, has been key to the creation and perpetuation of political and economic power and privilege. This volume highlights what has been only touched on by previous volumes and pays specific attention to the environment, history, and communities of West Maui.

This workbook accompanies Integrated Korean: High Intermediate 2, the sixth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All volumes are developed according to performance-based methodology and principles.

This workbook accompanies Integrated Korean: High Intermediate 1, the fifth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All volumes are developed according to performance-based methodology and principles.

From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production, reproduction, and reception.

This root-based dictionary of the Ilocano language (Iloko), the lingua franca of Northern Luzon, and historically the language of the majority of Filipino immigrants to the USA, includes entries for roots and affixes with illustrative sentences, idioms, common derivations and scientific names.

A dictionary of Nafsan, the language spoken in Vanuatu in the south of Efate Island in the villages of Erakor, Pango, and Eratap. Over several decades, linguist Nicholas Thieberger worked in close collaboration with the Erakor community to record this unique language and to refine its written presentation.

Analyses popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an ableist society. It focuses on five representative conditions currently classified as shgai (disabilities) in Japan and explores the complexities and sociocultural issues surrounding each.

In this diverse and compelling collection, an international group of scholars analyses the historical connections between Buddhism and healing in medieval China and Japan. Contributors focus on the transnationally conveyed aspects of Buddhist healing traditions as they moved across geographic, cultural, and linguistic boundaries.

Presents an important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities. Issues of religion and race/ethnicity undergird current national debates around immigration, racial profiling, and democratic freedoms, but these issues, as the contributors document, are longstanding ones in the US.

Offers multigenerational visions of a Hawai'i not defined by the United States. Community leaders, cultural practitioners, artists, educators, and activists share exciting paths forward for the future of Hawai'i, on topics such as education, tourism, elder care, agriculture, urban development, the environment, sports, the arts, and community life.

Examines the intertwining strands of decolonization in Melanesia. Differences in cultural performance and political diversity throughout the region are generating new, fruitful trajectories. Relevant beyond its West Papua focus, this book is essential reading for those interested in Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, activism, and decolonization.

Offers new ways to think about North Korea and how truth emerges over decades from within a dominant discourse. It explores four discrete yet mutually related domains of discourse: the literary purge of the 1950s-1960s; state-initiated linguistic reforms of the 1960s-1980s; stories from a people's chronicle; and the memoirs of the Great Leader.

The 21st century has seen a resurgence of authoritarian rule that has become more refined and nuanced in its strategies of repression and exploitation. This disturbing trend raises the question of what exactly is meant by tyranny. This book addresses these challenges through the perspective of lived experiences and imagined futures.

A significant reinterpretation of Sarawak history, Power and Prowess explores the network of power, economic and ritual relationships that developed on the northwest coast of Borneo in the mid-nineteenth century, from which a coalition led by James Brooke established the state of Sarawak. Where many authors placed Brooke in the context of nineteenth century British imperialism, this study perceives him in the context of Bornean cultures and political economies. Brooke emerges from the historical record as a ''man of prowess'', with the author identifying important ritual sources of Brooke''s power among Malays, Bidayuh and Ibans, sources which derived from and expressed indigenous cultural traditions about fertility, health and status.Drawing on conceptual frameworks from political science, as well as recent southeast Asian historiography, Power and Prowess offers a detailed political history of the period and new interpretations of Brooke''s career. This study also retrieves from the historical sources previously concealed narratives which reflect the interests, priorities and activities of Sarawak people themselves.J.H. WALKER lectures in political science at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

An exploration of the novel in Malay and the relationship between social change and literary practice. It traces the emergence of the genre from the 1920s and, drawing on 26 of Malaysia's best-known novels, argues that the form was developed as a vehicle for Malay ideas about their society.

Explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Knaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawaii's shores. It is both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection.

Outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. The book examines representations of utopia that developed in Bangkok - as expressed in built forms as well as architectural drawings, building manuals, novels, poetry, and ecclesiastical murals.

Cantonese is spoken by an estimated 73 million people worldwide. It remains a source of great pride for its speakers in Hong Kong. The ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary comprises about 15,000 lexical entries that are unique to the colloquial Cantonese language as it is spoken and written in Hong Kong today.

Examines two intertwined historical processes: the development of a Hawai`i-based pan-Oceanian policy and underlying ideology, which in turn provided the rationale for the second process, the spread of the Hawaiian Kingdom's constitutional model to other Pacific archipelagos.

The speed and extent of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic revival make it one of the most extraordinary stories of religious resurgence in post-Mao China. Drawing on the recent ""moral turn"" in anthropology, this volume explores the social and moral dimensions of monastic revival and reform across a range of Geluk monasteries in northeast Tibet.

Investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes.

Discusses foreigners in Korea from before the founding of Chosn in 1392 until the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been common to describe Chosn Korea as a monocultural and homogeneous state, Adam Bohnet reveals the considerable presence of foreigners and people of foreign ancestry in Chosn Korea.