Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 19, no. 2 (2002)

Editor’s Note
Samuel L. Leiter, p. iii

At this moment, when Asian Theatre Journal is about to enter its twentieth year, it seems appropriate to pause and look back on its achievement. After years of unrelenting determination James R. Brandon succeeded in launching ATJ in 1983 under the auspices of the University of Hawai‘i Press, which has remained its publisher. Jim (and his later co-editor Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak) turned the editorship over to me in January 1991, and my first issue came out a year later. The present year completes my tenth as editor. During this decade I have benefited from the assistance of several razor-sharp associate editors. Robert Bethune was followed by Diane Daugherty and Susan Pertel Jain. Susan recently moved on to other interests, and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei joined the team with ATJ 19.1. When I needed a breather, Kathy Foley handled a guest editorship for an issue on Asian puppet theatre (18.1).

Invaluable during all these years has been the consistently significant participation of ATJ’s area editors, whose positions on the masthead have remained surprisingly stable. Andrew T. Tsubaki was the original Japan area editor, and when Andy felt ready to shift gears, Laurence R. Kominz ably replaced him. But Kathy Foley (Southeast Asia), Farley Richmond (South Asia), and Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak (China) have been with me all along.

The University of Hawai‘i Press deserves enormous credit for the high editorial standards of its outstanding production staff. Those with whom I’ve had the closest working relationship, and who’ve saved my neck countless times, have been Keith Leber and his successor, Shirley Samuelson. Copyeditor Don Yoder has been a pillar of support and instruction throughout my tenure.

Every promising submission to ATJ has been critiqued by a minimum of two readers (me and an associate editor), but many get read by three or four (including both associate editors and an area editor). Frequently, specialists in a particular area are asked to read a submission even though their names are not listed on the masthead. To all who have given me their advice and expertise I want to say thank you. You have made ATJ the distinguished publication it continues to be.

The clearest indication of ATJ’s remarkable accomplishment is represented by the index to its nineteen volumes, published in this issue, and compiled as a labor of love by David V. Mason. The usefulness of Dave’s index will be immediately discernible. One can look up entries by a variety of approaches: author, subject, geography, play title, reviews. The index certainly points to ATJ’s strengths, but also to its weaknesses insofar as it makes clear what areas could benefit from increased representation.

Perusing this index makes me inordinately proud to be associated with ATJ. I hope you find it helpful both as a record of where we’ve come from and as a platform from which we can spring into the next decade.

INDEX

Comprehensive Index to Asian Theatre Journal: Vols. 1-19
David V. Mason, p. 261

BOOK REVIEWS

Kim Yun-Cheol and Kim Miy-He, eds., Contemporary Korean Theatre: Playwrights, Directors, Stage Designers
reviewed by Richard Nichols, p. 351

Editorial Committee of History of China’s Jingju, Zhongguo Jingju Shi (History of China’s Jingju) (in Chinese), Vol. 3
reviewed by Colin Mackerras, p. 355

C. Andrew Gerstle, trans. and ed., Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays
reviewed by Katherine Saltzman-Li, p. 357

M. Cody Poulton, Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka
reviewed by Samuel L. Leiter, p. 360

Junji Kinoshita, Junji Kinoshita, Requiem on the Great Meridian and Selected Essays, translated by Brian Powell and Jason Daniel
reviewed by David G. Goodman, p. 362

Shiro Okamoto, The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan, translated and adapted by Samuel L. Leiter
reviewed by Julie A. Iezzi, p. 364

Miryam Sas, Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism
reviewed by John D. Swain, p. 367

William Peterson, Theater and the Politics of Culture in Contemporary Singapore
reviewed by Yoshiko Fukushima, p. 369

Robert Yeo, The Singapore Trilogy
reviewed by Craig Latrell, p. 372

Edward Herbst, Voices in Bali: Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater
reviewed by Margaret Coldiron, p. 375

Phillip B. Zarrilli, Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play
reviewed by Marlene B. Pitkow, p. 378

Erin B. Mee, ed., DramaContemporary: India
reviewed by Martin Russell, p. 383

Joann Faung Jean Lee, Asian American Actors: Oral Histories from Stage, Screen, and Television
reviewed by Randy Barbara Kaplan, p. 386

Carole Pegg, Mongolian Music, Dance, and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities
reviewed by Colin Mackerras, p. 388

Richard J. Kohn, Lord of the Dance: The Mani Rimdu Festival in Tibet and Nepal
reviewed by Claudia Orenstein, p. 390

Sidney Jowers and John Cavanagh, Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-up and Wigs: A Bibliography and Iconography
reviewed by Rebecca Cunningham, p. 392

PERFORMANCE REVIEW

Ong Keng Sen, conceiver and director, The Continuum: Beyond the Killing Fields
reviewed by Claudia Orenstein, p. 393

MEDIA REVIEW

Shui Bo Wang, director, Swing in Beijing
reviewed by Claire Conceison, p. 396

UH Press
Privacy Overview

University of Hawaiʻi Press Privacy Policy

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

University of Hawaiʻi Press collects the information that you provide when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, or fill out a form. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing 0address, phone number or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
Website log files collect information on all requests for pages and files on this website's web servers. Log files do not capture personal information but do capture the user's IP address, which is automatically recognized by our web servers. This information is used to ensure our website is operating properly, to uncover or investigate any errors, and is deleted within 72 hours.
University of Hawaiʻi Press will make no attempt to track or identify individual users, except where there is a reasonable suspicion that unauthorized access to systems is being attempted. In the case of all users, we reserve the right to attempt to identify and track any individual who is reasonably suspected of trying to gain unauthorized access to computer systems or resources operating as part of our web services.
As a condition of use of this site, all users must give permission for University of Hawaiʻi Press to use its access logs to attempt to track users who are reasonably suspected of gaining, or attempting to gain, unauthorized access.

WHAT DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To process transactions

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested. Order information will be retained for six months to allow us to research if there is a problem with an order. If you wish to receive a copy of this data or request its deletion prior to six months contact Cindy Yen at cyen@hawaii.edu.

To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the service requested. Your information will only be kept until the survey, contest, or other feature ends. If you wish to receive a copy of this data or request its deletion prior completion, contact uhpbooks@hawaii.edu.

To send periodic emails

The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.
Note: We keep your email information on file if you opt into our email newsletter. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

To send catalogs and other marketing material

The physical address you provide by filling out our contact form and requesting a catalog or joining our physical mailing list may be used to send you information and updates on the Press. We keep your address information on file if you opt into receiving our catalogs. You may opt out of this at any time by contacting uhpbooks@hawaii.edu.

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.
We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
Some services on this website require us to collect personal information from you. To comply with Data Protection Regulations, we have a duty to tell you how we store the information we collect and how it is used. Any information you do submit will be stored securely and will never be passed on or sold to any third party.
You should be aware, however, that access to web pages will generally create log entries in the systems of your ISP or network service provider. These entities may be in a position to identify the client computer equipment used to access a page. Such monitoring would be done by the provider of network services and is beyond the responsibility or control of University of Hawaiʻi Press.

DO WE USE COOKIES?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you click to allow cookies to be set) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. You can see a full list of the cookies we set on our cookie policy page. These cookies are only set once you’ve opted in through our cookie consent widget.

DO WE DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION TO OUTSIDE PARTIES?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties other than to those trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your personally identifiable information to those persons to whom disclosure is required to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

CALIFORNIA ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE

Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

CHILDRENS ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY ONLY

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

YOUR CONSENT

By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and update the Privacy Policy modification date.
This policy is effective as of May 25th, 2018.

CONTACTING US

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
University of Hawaiʻi Press
2840 Kolowalu Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
uhpbooks@hawaii.edu
Ph (808) 956-8255, Toll-free: 1-(888)-UH-PRESS
Fax (800) 650-7811