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Journals: biography, Chinoperl, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society, Philosophy East & West + more

Posted on March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 by mmyama

Asian Perspectives

Volume 64, Number 2 (2025)

The Editor’s Note introduces this issue as written by Julie Field, Francis Allard, Bérénice Bellina-Pryce, and Cristina Castillo Cobo stating:

Asian Perspectives highlights leading research in archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and biological anthropology in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Volume 64, Issue 2 of Asian Perspectives offers four articles on the ancient past of Asia and Island Southeast Asia. Our lead article (Zhang) focuses on the evidence for social complexity and militarism in the central plains of China. This is followed by an analysis of ritual activity as indicated by bronze manufacture at the site of Sanxingdui in southwest China (He). This issue’s final two articles cover research on Hoa Lu’s urban landscape, a major historical city in Vietnam (Vo), followed by a study of possible crocodile predation on humans and the symbolic behavior of maritime hunter-gatherers in East Timor (Bacon and Galipaud). The concluding section includes four book reviews spanning South and Southeast Asia, from the interpretation of rock art and origins of agriculture in India to the development of maritime cultures in Vietnam.

Our hard copy subscribers will notice that many of the figures in this issue of Asian Perspectives have been printed in color. This is the first of a three-issue trial run intended to test whether it will be financially feasible to continue printing in color without charging authors subvention fees, so future issues may retain this configuration. Of course, the digital version of every issue (published on Project MUSE) always contains color figures.

Find this introduction, articles, book reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

Biography

Volume 47, Number 2 (2024)

Author Cynthia Franklin starts this issue in the Editor’s Note stating:

The sending off of this issue to press is bittersweet. It is the last issue that has been fully in the hands of Paige Rasmussen. Paige assumed the position of Managing Editor for Biography in 2018. For the past seven years, she has brought to Biography her superb editing and design skills. Consider, for example, the award-winning special issue on Graphic Medicine! She also has managed the Center for Biographical Research—a job with many moving parts—with patience, sensitivity, and extraordinary competence. Paige has done everything from running workshops for our special issues, to copyediting, to weighing in on submissions, to communicating with authors, to managing our budget and finances, to navigating often byzantine university bureaucracy to keep the journal running, to supervising our Graduate Assistants, to tracking our readership, to running our socials, to overseeing our Brown Bag Biography series—and more. Paige was a dream for the rest of the Biography staff to work with, and the losses—personal and professional—that attended her move to Chicago were softened for us as she has generously continued to work in a freelance capacity. And our friendship will surely continue once her work for the journal concludes. This is the final issue that will be fully in her hands, although she is continuing to help during this time of transition as we celebrate the arrival of Laura Dunn, who has returned home to Hawai‘i from the San Francisco Bay area to serve as our new Managing Editor. We look forward to introducing Laura in the editor’s note to the next Biography issue.

Find this introduction, open-forum articles, postscript commentary, biographies, translations more at Project MUSE.

CHINOPERL

Volume 44, Number 2 (2025)

Special Issue: Soundscapes of Twentieth-Century China

Edited by Andrea S. Goldman and Jing Shen

Andrea S. Goldman introduces this special issue stating:

CHINOPERL authors and readers have long paid attention to the sonic dimensions of Chinese oral and performing literature. The oral in such literature, after all, implicitly presumes a listener who apprehends and is aurally engaged (or not) by the vocal and/or instrumental artistry of the performer. Much of this concern with the oral and aural component of performance was shaped by the precocious interdisciplinarity of the journal from its inception in 1969, which put into conversation scholarship on Chinese literature, performance, ethnomusicology, and history. But if the sounds of oral and performing literature in past issues of the journal have been frequently noted, their documentation has sometimes been more descriptive than analytical, focused on the signature Chinese sonic characteristics and musical or vocal conventions of the many varieties of opera, storytelling, ballads, or folk songs.

The more recent interdisciplinary approach of sound studies, or sound history, emerging in the 1990s and 2000s, differs from sound as an object of description in that—although still borrowing from (ethno)/musicology—it blurs the distinction between music and sound; or rather, it resists privileging music over all other sounds. I have neither the space nor the expertise to narrate a full history of the development of sound studies across all fields (or even for research on China), but here I will tease out three strains in this scholarship that will help to set the stage, so to speak, for the essays that follow.

Find this introduction, research articles, postscript commentary, research notes, memoriams, and more at Project MUSE.

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society

Volume 18, Number 2 (2025)

Tonal Geography of the Southern Thai Dialects
Ratchadaporn Phonyarit

Ablaut Reduplication in Javanese
Grace B. Wivell

A Four-Way Distance Contrast in Takbanuaz Bunun Demonstratives
Rik de Busser

Mergers of Voiced and Voiceless Consonants in the Siamese, Lanna and Lao Languages
Maria Timpika Chomcha

Reciprocal Constructions in Bodo
Aleendra Brahma

These research papers, data papers, book reviews, and more can be found at eVols.

Pacific Science

Volume 79, Number 3 (2025)

A Comparative Evaluation of Bait Types Taken by Brown Treesnakes or Other Nontarget Species, Including Ants
Melia G. Nafus, Amanda A. Reyes, Bea S. F. Daria, Christiana-Jo C. Quinata, and Ross Miller

Biology and Impacts of Pacific Islands Invasive Species. 19. Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Monica A. M. Gruber, Allan R. Burne, and Meghan Cooling

Radiocarbon Ages of Extinct Terrestrial Crabs (Geograpsus severnsi) from Late Holocene Dunes at Waihe’e, Maui, Hawaiian Islands
Patrick V. Kirch and Scott Fisher

Records of Helminth Parasites at Archaeological Sites in the New Guinea Highlands, from c. 18,000 Yr B.P., Suggest Late Holocene Presence of Dogs and Pigs
Mark Horrocks, Tim P. Denham, and Bronwen Presswell

Temporal Size Changes in Archaeological Fishbone Assemblages from Tikopia, Eastern Solomon Islands: Implications for Long-Term Human–Reef Ecosystem Interactions
Elizabeth M. Perez and Patrick V. Kirch

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Philosophy East and West

Volume 75, Number 4 (2025)

Awake While Dreaming: Reconciling Advaita Vedānta’s Embodied Liberation through Lucid Dreaming
Neil Dalal

How Not To Do Things With Others: A Buddhist Account of Shared Agency
Oren Hanner

In Search of an Ethics for Plants: A Brief Exploration of the Early Writings of Jainism and Buddhism
Pragati Sahni

Epistemic Blinkering: Reflections on Fraser’s Discussion
Winnie Sung

The Place of Zhuangzi and Xunzi in Fraser’s Late Classical Chinese Thought
Ellie Hua Wang

Find these articles, discussions, book reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

Philosophy East and West

Volume 76, Number 1 (2026)

Special Issue: Exploring Seongho Yi Ik’s Theory of Emotions

Guest Editor Youngsun Back talks about the Special Issue stating:

Yi Ik 李瀷 (1681–1763), known by his pen name Seongho 星湖 (Starry Lake), was a prominent figure in Korean Confucianism. Although he is less well known to English-speaking audiences than Yi Hwang 李滉 (1501~1571, known as Toegye 退溪), Yi I (李珥, known as Yulgok 栗谷), and Jeong Yak-yong 丁若

鏞 (1762–1836, known as Dasan 茶山), Seongho occupies a vital place in the intellectual lineage of Korean Neo-Confucianism. As this special issue demonstrates, he stood at the center of the dynamic development of Korean Confucian thought, serving both as a key intermediary between the philosophical legacies of Toegye and Yulgok and as a significant bridge between Toegye and Dasan.

Seongho also played a crucial role in shaping the distinctive character of late Joseon Confucianism, particularly through his contributions to the intellectual current known as Practical Learning (Silhak 實學). This intellectual trend sought to move beyond abstract metaphysical speculation, emphasizing instead moral cultivation grounded in lived experience, as well as a commitment to empirical inquiry, social reform, and effective governance. Another major factor that gave Seongho’s philosophy its innovative character was the influx of Western Learning (Seohak 西學), which had begun circulating in Korea during his time. Drawing on a wide range of intellectual resources, Seongho developed a form of Korean Confucianism that remained rooted in Neo-Confucian thought yet open to new ideas, marking him as a pivotal thinker in the unfolding of Korea’s intellectual tradition.

Find this introduction, articles, book reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal

Volume 69 (2026)

Elise Grilli (1906-1969): Pioneer American Historian and Critic of Japanese Art
Christine M.E. Guth

New Wave Women: Brothel Prostitutes’ Participation in Public Health in 1950s Tokyo
Aoi Saito

Selected Essays from Mukōda Kuniko’s Chichi no wabijō (Father’s Letter of Apology)
Mukōda Kuniko, Rajyashree Pandey, and Teresa Castelvetere

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Journals: Chinese Studies International, Review of Japanese Culture & Society, Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers + more

Posted on February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 by mmyama

Chinese Studies International

Volume 29 (2025)

Contract Law in Hong Kong (Fourth Edition) by Michael J. Fisher and Desmond G. Greenwood (review)
Tristan G. Brown

Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China by Kate Merkel-Hess (review)
Peter J. Carroll

The Making of China’s Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization and the Connection of a Nation by Weiping Tsai (review)
Michael G. Chang

Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction by Mingwei Song (review)
Virginia L. Conn

Sketching Hong Kong: The Drawings of Eddie Chau ed. by Phoebe Wong (review)
Madeline Eschenburg

Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America by William Gee Wong (review)
Meredith Oyen

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The Journal of Burma Studies

Volume 29, Number 2 (2025)

Special Issue: Rebuilding Prospects for “Peace”: Gender, Civil Society, and Informal Spaces in Post-Coup Myanmar

Special Guest Editors Julia Palmiano Federer and Aye Myat Su Wai, along with authors Laura O’Connor and Mariana Savka, discuss this special issue in the introduction stating:

This Special Issue explores the intricate themes of gender, civil society, and informal peace spaces in postcoup Myanmar. This collection of articles situates Myanmar women’s initiatives, practices, and spaces within Myanmar’s historical, political, and cultural context rather than broader attempts to promote women’s inclusion in ongoing peace processes as per the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (Olivius, Hedström, and Zin Mar Phyo 2022). We view that in the ashes of a failed national-level Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) process (2011–2015) and the fraught efforts to manage the fractured talks between different fronts of armed resistance (2016–2021) (Thawnghmung and Htoo 2022), a gendered analysis of women’s informal and unofficial peacebuilding efforts sheds light on the unique ways in which Myanmar women are mitigating conflict and sustaining “peace” after the 2021 military coup. In the context of a revolutionary conflict, the meaning of “peace” is constantly renegotiated and redefined with a focus onpower relations between antagonistic political actors. We choose to understand “peace” and, by extension, “peacebuilding” as moving beyond the stabilization of conflict toward a set of pragmatist visions of liberal peace in times of conflict (Bargués 2024).

Read this introduction, articles, and more at Project MUSE.

Journal of World History

Volume 36, Number 3 (2025)

Lifesaving, Sovereignty, and the Place of the Late Ottoman Empire in the European International Order
Lukas Schemper

Turkish Anticolonialism and Muslim Southeast Asia, 1923–1949: Vernacular Diplomacy “Under the Yoke of 3 and a Half Dutchmen”
Moritz Koenig and Didem Kizir

Making Perfect Markets: The Demand for Global Numbers at the Origin of the International Institute of Agriculture
Federico D’Onofrio and Niccolò Mignemi

Wealth, Health, and the Transnational Pesticide System: Tense Entanglements between the USA and Germany at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Benjamin Brendel

Traversing Multiple Sites of Transit: Repatriating “Mentally Distressed” British Seamen, 1925–30
Jennifer S. Kain

Find these research articles, book reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

Pacific Science

Volume 79, Number 2 (2025)

Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 18. Linepithema humile, the Argentine Ant (Formicidae)
Antoine Felden

Reexamination of Rat Lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Nematoda) Prevalence in Wild Rattus spp. on the Island of Kaua’i after a 60-Year Hiatus
Israel L. Leinbach, Chris N. Niebuhr, Jaime A. Botet-Rodriguez, Carmen C. Antaky, and Steven C. Hess

Taxonomic and Geographic Distributions of Native Angiosperms in the Islands of French Polynesia (South Pacific): An Analysis Based on the Nadeaud Botanical Database
Léa Gros, Jean-Yves Meyer, Robin Pouteau, and Philippe Marmey

Evaluating the Effect of Invasive Rat Management on Habitat Regeneration for Kaua’i’s Forest Birds
Ashley Cozette Romero, Lyssa Lini, and Liba Pejchar

Uncovering the Genetic Diversity of Adenophorus tripinnatifidus Gaudich. (Polypodiaceae), a Hawaiian Islands Endemic Fern
Nipuni Sirimalwatta, Paul G. Wolf, Carol A. Rowe, Tom A. Ranker, Kenneth R. Wood, Michael A. Sundue, and Clifford W. Morden

Assessment of Ecological Status via Macrobenthic Assemblages in the Nanji Islands, East China Sea
Xiaodong Zhou, Hanbing Zhao, Xiangyu Zhang, Ping Xu, Qingxi Han, Yinong Wang, and Zhong jie You

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Review of Japanese Culture and Society

Volume 36 (2024)

Special issue: Empires in Motion, Cultures of Crossing: Creative Production in Japan’s Colonial, Postcolonial, and Diasporic Spaces

Guest Editor John D. Szostak introduces this special issue stating:

Across the twentieth century, empires and their creation, disintegration, and reorganization functioned as engines of change and movement, driving global forces of expansion and migration, stimulating the generation of new identities and narratives, and inspiring new forms of cultural expression. Japan represents one key node of movements and crossings in the Asia-Pacific: a point of departure for outbound Japanese/Okinawan diasporas, and a destination, provisional or permanent, for Zainichi Korean and other minority communities. In addition to its geographical locality, Japan is also a symbolic site of cultural affiliation and aspiration, shaping experiences and molding identities in diasporic communities around the world. The aim of this special issue is to explore the ways that border-crossings associated with Japan’s colonial and post-colonial histories and legacies, both positive and negative and often ambivalent, exert a gravitational effect on the formations of identity, memory, and expression across global space.

This issue is thematically linked to the 2023 special issue of the Review of Japanese Culture and Society, titled “(Dis)Locating Zainichi: Transcending and Transgressing the Borders of ‘Japan,’” edited by Andre Haag and Cindi Textor. In that issue, the authors collectively consider Zainichi identity and cultural production as fixed neither entirely inside or outside Japan, but rather continuously shaped by cross-border movements over multiple localities in which Zainichi subjects live, write, and are represented. Even the title of this special issue, “Empires in Motion, Cultures of Crossing,” derives from their collaborations: “Cultures of Crossing: Transpacific and Inter-Asian Diaspora” was a symposium held in 2021 at the University of Utah, and “Empires in Motion: Colonial Diasporas and Cultural Production in the Shadow of the Japanese Empire” a conference at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2022, both held in preparation for “(Dis)Locating Zainichi.”

Find this introduction, articles, translations, and more at Project MUSE.

Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers

Volume 87 (2025)

Editor Craig S. Revels discusses the issue, annual meeting, and cover, stating:

It is my great pleasure to present the eighty-seventh volume of the Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Looking back at the first volume of the Yearbook, published in 1935 as the proceedings of the inaugural meeting of the Association, it is remarkable how encompassing and occasionally eclectic our collective endeavors have remained throughout our long history, and I believe each new volume reflects that tradition. As always, in addition to the usual selection of original research, this volume highlights our well-hosted 2024 gathering in Arcata, California. At that meeting, Fernando Bosco’s Presidential Address introduced us to the concept of gastro poles, a novel adaptation of the classic growth pole theory of economic development. Carefully exploring the relationships between food, gentrification, and place identity in Buenos Aires, he shows us how food-led development has reshaped the urban fabric and has become entwined with larger questions of identity for residents and tourists alike.

Find this introduction, research articles, biographies, book reviews, meeting reports, awards, abstracts, and more at Project MUSE.

Korean Studies Celebrates the Journal’s 50th Anniversary!

Posted on December 12, 2025March 25, 2026 by mmyama

The University of Hawai‘i Press is honored to join the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Center for Korean Studies in celebrating Korean Studies journal on its 50^th year of publication. Korean Studies has been the oldest continuously published academic journal exploring Korean studies outside the Korean peninsula. The journal has proudly presented research articles, review articles, commentaries, and book reviews on Korea-related topics since 1977. With its 50^thissue, Korean Studies will shift from an annual to a semiannual publication. Korean Studies: Global Research & Critique, Volume 50, Number 1 will debut in April 2026.

Editor Cheehyung Harrison Kim recognizes Korean Studies history, new title, and cover in the introduction stating:
This issue marks the fiftieth year of Korean Studies. We are the oldest continuously published academic journal in the field of Korean studies existing outside the Korean peninsula, the first issue coming out in mid-1977. The field today has many excellent journals, and we are fortunate and proud to have stayed relevant for the past five decades…
As the journal embarks on another fifty years, we unveil major changes in the name, design, and formatting. The journal is now called Korean Studies: Global Research & Critique. The cover features an elegant font on a matte navy background, and each issue will showcase an image from one of the articles. The original symbol of the lotus wadang (the circular roof-end tile) has been preserved, in a more integrated way. We are also going two issues per year, with the Fall issue reserved for a special issue.
A major change in formatting is that we are bringing back the footnotes. I am sure many researchers will welcome the return of footnotes.
This commemorative issue features four research articles (by Sang Mee Oh, Kyounghwa Lim, Wonseok Lee, and David Kwon), a commentary (by Eun-Young Kim), three book reviews (by Yejun Kweon, Kyu-hyun Jo, and Holly Stephens), and the reprint of Pihl’s 1977 article. These pieces represent the robustness and sophistication of what the journal strives to achieve in each issue.
Fifty years ago, the inaugural editor Dae-Sook Suh wrote that the
journal is dedicated to promoting “interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to Korean studies.” Our new name reflects this original vision. The journal renews its pledge to publish excellent research on Korea by scholars from across the world.

Volume 50
Table of Contents

Editor’s Note
Cheehyung Harrison Kim

Articles

Engineers of the Human Soul: North Korean Literature Today
Marshall R. Pihl

Carving Out Space for Korean History: Contributions of Korean Scholars in East
Asian Studies in the United States, 1955–1965
Sang Mee Oh

Women Divers Resisting Oppression: A Brief History of Jeju Divers and Their
Representations in North Korea’s Literature, Performance Art, and Screen Culture
Kyounghwa Lim

From Policy to Pop: Navigating South Korean Cultural Policies and Their Impact on
Korean Popular Music
Wonseok Lee

Korea’s Path of Liturgical Inculturation: Ancestral Rites in Confucian-Christian
Interplay, Social Change, and Women
David Kwon

Commentary

Coming (Out) to Terms with Queerness in Korea: Language Matters
Eun-Young Julia Kim

Book Reviews

Park Nohae’s Dawn of Labor
Reviewed by Yejun Kweon

Vladimir Tikhonov’s The Red Decades: Communism as Movement and Culture in Korea, 1919–1945
Reviewed by Kyu-hyun Jo

Andre Schmid’s
North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung,
1953–1965
Reviewed by Holly Stephens

Volume 50 can be found on Project MUSE in April 2026.

Please also visit our UH Press Korean Studies site for more information on this fantastic journal!

Journals: Asian Theatre Journal, biography, Contemporary Pacific, Journal of Korean Religions, +more

Posted on December 10, 2025December 10, 2025 by mmyama

Asian Theatre Journal

Volume 42, Number 2 (2025)

This issue includes as Special Section: South and Southeast Asian Ecotheatre with an introduction by Catherine Diamond who discusses the issue stating:

Ecology, the science of the complex web of relationships between organisms and their environment, became codified in the mid-nineteenth century. It originally centered on biological mutualism and excluded humanity, yet it has since been appropriated by the arts and humanities to foreground human–nonhuman relations. Derived from the Greek oikos, meaning household or hearth, or in a broader sense, “home,” this derivation might make it closer to cultures that do not think of nature in exclusively scientific terms. But even returning to ecology’s original scope, for rural and economically marginalized communities, ecological awareness paired with protecting their proximate environments is often a matter of immediate physical and cultural survival, while for those in the cities, it can be a more abstract global ideology that insists current economic and production systems are at odds with the planet’s capacity to thrive and provide. This ATJ special volume includes essays exploring performances dealing with both the rural and urban perspectives toward human-wrought environmental changes.

Find this introduction, translations, emerging scholars, book reviews and more at Project MUSE.

Contemporary Pacific

Volume 36, Number 2 (2024)

This latest issue features artwork by Edith Amituanai. Amituanai’s work is discussed in About the Artist stating:

Edith Amituanai is a New Zealand–born Samoan photographer working from Tāmaki Makaurau. From interiors to driveways to communities, Amituanai’s practice is concerned with environments that shape who we are. Her ongoing study of the Samoan transnational community and their homes has taken her across New Zealand, Sāmoa, France, Italy, Canada, and the United States. In 2008, Amituanai was nominated for the Walters Prize for her series Déjeuner, which examined a new diaspora: expatriate New Zealand–Samoan rugby players living and working in France and Italy. Her first foray outside of her Samoan community was the series La Fine Del Mondo (2009-2010), which focused on helping the Lai family, Chin refugees from Myanmar, settle into their new home in Massey, West Auckland. Amituanai’s interest in embedding herself in the environment she is working in means she often takes on different roles in the community, from sports team manager and youth worker to freelance photographer.

As a teaching artist, she has led a variety of workshops for art galleries, community groups, and institutions. In 2017, she undertook a six-week residency at Te Kura o Kimi Ora in Flaxmere, which resulted in Keep on Kimi Ora, an exhibition at Hastings Art Gallery featuring photographs taken by students of the school. Amituanai also taught photography in secondary schools in New Zealand as part of the Ministry of Education’s Creatives in Schools program.

Find these articles, book reviews, media reviews, About the Artist, and more at Project MUSE.

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society

Volume 18, Number 2 (2025)

Ablaut Reduplication in Javanese
Grace B. Wivell

Tonal Geography of the Southern Thai Dialects
Ratchadaporn Phonyarit

Reframing Pre-Modern Language Contact through Trade in Eastern Indonesia: Javanese Linguistic Influence in the Moluccas
Antoinette Schapper and Maria Zielenbach

A Phonological Sketch of Uruangnirin, an Endangered Austronesian Language of Eastern Indonesia
Eline Visser and Artúr Stickl

Review of the Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation by Trang Phan
Trần Phan

Reciprocal Constructions in Bodo
Aleendra Brahma

Find these research papers, data papers, book reviews, and more at EVols.

Journal of World History

Volume 36, Number 2 (2025)

Global History and the Measures of Early Modern Technology: Europe, East Asia, and the Case of Smoothbore Ballistics *
Hyeok Hweon Kang

Beating the Odds: A Survival Story of Chinese Immigrants in Nicaragua *
Rudolph Ng

“Illustrative Cases of Hereditary Degeneracy”: The Use of Family Studies to Support New Zealand’s Eugenic Narrative in the 1920s
Delwyn Blondell

“A One-Woman Expedition to Get to Know Tanzanian Women”: State Socialist Women’s Travelogues about Africa in the 1960s–80s
Réka Krizmanics

Strategies of Belonging in the Bandung Era: Diasporas and Cold War Asia
Chien-Wen Kung, Sayaka Chatani, and Taomo Zhou

Read these research articles, reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

Philosophy East and West

Volume 75, Number 3 (2025)

This issue has an Special Feature: The Life and Work of J.N. Mohanty: A Philosophical Tribute. Berger remembers Mohanty in the Introduction titled Some Memories of my Teachers, J.N. Mohanty stating:

It has been a little more than two years since I, along with many others, learned of the death of a giant in modern philosophy, and the loss still registers, as classical Indian Nyāya philosophers would say, the presence of his absence. Equally significant for his illumination of the thought of Edmund Husserl and of debates in the classical Indian tradition, that giant was Jitendranath Mohanty (1928–2023). I, along with several generations of people in these fields, in India and the United States, had the unmatched privilege and good fortune of being his student. I have written and done conference presentations about my learning experience from Mohanty and about his works in other venues, and so the editors of Philosophy East and West and this special issue have asked me to include my remembrance of him here.

Find this Special Introduction, articles, book reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal

Volume 68 (2025)

No More Longing in Vain: How to Write Women Back into Man’yōshū
Danica Truscott

Mediating Feminism: Newspaper and Magazine Coverage of Sartre and Beauvoir in Japan
Julia C. Bullock

Imperial Women’s Travel Writing in the Japanese Colonial Magazine Taiwan fujinkai (Taiwan Women’s World) 1934-1939
Anne Sokolsky

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Journals: Asian Perspectives, Biography, Journal of Korean Religions + More

Posted on November 3, 2025October 31, 2025 by mmyama

Asian Perspectives

Volume 64, Number 1 (2025)

A Neolithic Lapidary Workshop at the Lower Reaches of Yangtze River: Chaîne Opératoire of Quartzite Ornament Production at Fangjiazhou Site
Wen Yadi, Fang Xiangming, and Shi Yong

Production and Social Meaning of Wheel-Thrown Vessels during the Late Longshan Period in the Wei River Valley (Northern China): A Study of the Kangjia Site
Jiang Chengcheng, Guo Xiaoning, Edward Allen, Miriam T. Stark, and Qin Xiaoli

Pottery Lipids Demonstrating Marine Product Tribute in Early Historic Japan
Natsuki MurakamiI, Alexandre Lucquin, Shou Fujimura, Susumu Kosaki, Yuki Oda, Miho SuzukiI, Hajime Baba, Takayuki Mifine, Oliver E. Craig, and Shinya Shoda

Refining the Cultural Chronology of Rurutu (Austral Islands), Central East Polynesia: Recent Excavations, Radiocarbon Dating, and Bayesian
Jennifer G. Kahn

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Biography

Volume 47, Number 1 (2024)

Editor John David Zuern reflects on the annual International Year in Review in the opening note to this issue:

I was impressed—as I always am—by the variety of life narratives and cultural contexts that the collection represents, and especially by the compassion and insight that our contributors bring to their reviews. This year’s essays introduce us to individual life stories that testify to collective values and freedoms while exploring the political and cultural forces that shape them.

Find this Editors’ Note, articles, and more at Project MUSE.

CHINOPERL

Volume 44, Number 1 (2025)

“I Wondered If It Was My Old Friend Coming”: Performing the Zhiyin Friendship in Tang Xianzu’s The Purple Flute
Jing Zhang

Depictions of Wopao zhuan in Chinese Woodblock Prints
Hua Huang

Lu Da Disposes of the Tyrant: Experiencing the Soundscape of Shandong Fast Tales
Eric Shepherd

Not Celebrating Nationalism: Taiwan Jingju‘s Resistance and Resilience
Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen

The Chinese Edition of Works by Rulan Chao Pian
Bell Yung

Research Note: Introducing a Database on the Translation into English of the Mudan ting (The Peony Pavilion) Compiled in Commemoration of the Life and Career of Cyril Birch (1925–2023)
David L. Rolston

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Journal of Korean Religions

Volume 16, Number 1 (2025)

Transforming the Confucian Canon in the Processual World: T’onggyŏng 通經, A Newly Discovered Text of the Korean Confucian Ch’oe Han-ki
Wonsuk Chang

A Chinese Protestant Literature Tailored for Korean Readers: Gate of Virtue and Wisdom (Tŏkhye immun 德慧入門, 1915)
Goeun Lee

Carpenter-Monks as Crafters of Chosŏn Architecture: Bridging Sacred and Secular Spaces
Maya Stiller

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Oceanic Linguistics

Volume 64, Number 1 (2024)

Voice Choice in Äiwoo and the Symmetrical Voice-to-Transitivity Shift
Sindre Holmen and Åshild Næss

Verb Classes and Valency in Santa Cruz and Proto-Oceanic: A Historical-Comparative Analysis
Valentina Alfarano and Brenda H. Boerger

The Diachrony of Word Prosody in the Maˈya-Salawati Languages of Raja Ampat
Laura Arnold

Loss of Colexification of ‘hand’ and ‘five’ in Austronesian Languages
Russell Barlow

The PAN Voiced Stops and Affricates
Laurent Sagart

Reconstructing the Proto-Pahoturi Consonantal Inventory: Historical Phonology in Southern New Guinea and Beyond
Ryan Chon

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Pacific Science

Volume 79, Number 1 (2025)

Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 17: Lissachatina fulica, the Giant African Snail (Mollusca: Achatinidae; Achatininae)
Wallace M. Meyer III and Robert H. Cowie

A Century of Vegetation Change on an Offshore Islet
Brandon P. C. Najarian, Kevin Faccenda, and Kasey E. Barton

Terrestrial Biodiversity of Manuae Atoll, Cook Islands
Sebastian Steibl, Samuel D. J. Brown, and James C. Russell

Control of Flowering and Factors Affecting Phenology of Endemic Low-Elevation Tree Species at Hawai’i Ka’ūpūlehu
Thomas Cole and Susan Cordell

Distichopora yurupariensis, a New Species of Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) from the Upper Bathyal Tropical Eastern Pacific
Luisa F. Dueñas, Stephen D. Cairns, Juan S. Mayorga, and Juan A. Sánchez

A Revision and Critique of Atoll Numbers Based on Satellite Imagery
Walter M. Goldberg and Eugene C. Rankey

Find these articles and more at Project MUSE.

Open Access issue in Burmese and English, “Histories of Belonging and Identities (Re)Imagined” from The Journal of Burma Studies

Posted on October 24, 2025October 24, 2025 by mmyama

The new special issue of Journal of Burma Studies is openly available on Project MUSE, including four articles in Burmese.

*Photo from Maynadi Kyaw’s “The Appropriation of U Ottama by Japanese Bunkajin in Wartime Propaganda”: An Illustrated Book about U Ottama by Miyashita and Tanaka, 1943.*

As described by co-editors Hitomi Fujimura and Alicia Turner:

This special issue, and the larger collaborative research project, began as small conversation between the two co-editors. Exchanging our experiences of field and archival work, we realized how fruitful interactions between scholars with different backgrounds and academic careers could be to reimagining Burma Studies. Although we both are “scholars from formerly colonizing countries,” our ways of understanding the Burmese language and culture are different because they are produced through scholars’ *own* culture and background. The more we talked, the more we realized that Burma Studies was poorer for lack of such discussions among scholars. While individual connections between scholars of different academic cultures have happened, there has rarely been an attempt to systematically bring these voices together.

Research Articles

The Appropriation of U Ottama by Japanese Bunkajin in Wartime Propaganda
Maynadi Kyaw

Intoxicated Men and Moral Women: How the Multireligious Moral Movements Crafted Gender in Colonial Burma
Hitomi Fujimura

The Emergence of Ethnic Politics in 1940s Myanmar: Karens and Thakin Historiography
Kazuto Ikeda

Reconsidering the “Anti-Footwear Campaign” in Colonial Burma (1916–1920): A Struggle between Religious and Political Interpretations
Kei Nemoto

Direct link to Burmese edition here.

Journal of Polynesian Archaeology and Research, Vol. 2 – available now!

Posted on October 10, 2025October 9, 2025 by mmyama

Photographs taken by TAO students were used to launch the digital database of flowering plants of the Sacred Valley region in “Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) 2023–2024 Field Report: Making Public Archaeology Less about Archaeology and More about Community Engagement” by Shepardson et al. Source: Terevaka Archaeological Outreach.

Co-editors Dr. Mara Mulrooney and Dr. Jillian Swift developed Journal of Polynesian Archaeology and Research to bring together important research and conversations around archaeology, history, and heritage management in Polynesia.

Articles

Native Hawaiians in the Northern Mariana and Ogasawara Islands: An Historical Perspective
Boyd Dixon and Ben Barna

A Pictogram from Anakuakala (Pāhoa Cave) in the Puna District, Hawai‘i Island
Timothy E. Scheffler

Gendered Publishing Patterns and Occupational Trends, Oceania Archaeology 2005–2020: Regional Journal Results
Caroline Donovan and Jennifer G. Kahn

Reports and Commentaries

Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) 2023–2024 Field Report: Making Public Archaeology Less about Archaeology and More about Community Engagement
Britton L. Shepardson, Manuel Aguilar, Margarita Amezquita, Lexy Apaza, Carlos Arriagada, Hiva Atan, Javiera Ayala, José Pablo Ayala, Frank Baca, Mauricio Baca, Manoa Boulineau, Sindbad Boulineau, Antonela Cadagan, Ermelina Calderón, Javi Campos, Mana‘u Cardinali, Azumi Ccanto, Vicente Cifuentes, Isidora Contreras, Jean Cruces, Silvana Cruces, Shomara Cruz, Martín Cuevas, Jhojan Cusihuata, Ma‘aranui Enright, Angélica Figueroa, Pamela Figueroa, Renata Foitzick, Benjamin Fuentes, Fernando Ganga, Gabriel González, Luz González, Andrés Guzman, Maria Homberger, Mata‘u Hugueño, Hitu Icka, Vai Icka, Hanga Ika, Patricio Lagos, Hoa Laharoa, Mary Lopez, Dayana Lovon, Gabriela Maldonado, Mark McCoy, Omar Monares, Fernanda Mondaca, Alison Montoya, Alonso Montoya, Mara Mulrooney, Sofiu Muñoz, Heirangi Olivares, Miru Pakarati, Hiva Iti Pakomio, Apetahi Quiroz, Juan Manuel Quispe, Maryori Quispe, Georgina Riroroko, Repahoa Riroroko, Fernando Rivera, Antonia Rojas, Rocío Rupay, Amado Soto, Dorita Suarez, Rocío Teao, Ukita Teao, Mana Ora Teave, Kio Tuki, Moana Tuki,
Angel Valdes, Josefa Vargas, Gabriel Vera, Valentina Vicencio, and Valentina Wilkins

Book Review

Feathered Gods and Fishhooks, The Archaeology of Ancient Hawai‘i.
Reviewed by Timothy M. Rieth

Special Publications also available!

Special Publication 1: Manual of Hawaiian Fish Remains Identification Based on the Skeletal Reference Collection of Alan C. Ziegler and Including Otoliths

Special Publication 2: Na Mea Kahiko o Kaua’i: Archaeological Studies in Kaua’i

Special Publication 3: Research Designs for Hawaiian Archaeology, Agriculture, Architecture, Methodology

Special Publication 4: Papers in Honor of Dr. Yosihiko Sinoto

Celebrating the Golden Pheasant on Maui in the latest issue of Pacific Science

Posted on July 23, 2025July 28, 2025 by mmyama

This issue features a striking black cover, a deliberate design choice inspired by an article on the dark-throated pheasant and its symbolic contrast with the pale-throated species.

Golden Pheasant of Maui Pacific Scinece 78-4 — Photo: Golden Pheasant (*Chryslophus pictus*) male of the “pale-throated” morph. Compare with the “dark-throated” morph on the front cover. Photographed by Chris Daniels at upper Kīpahulu Valley, Haleakalā National Park, 30 August 2021.

Ten More Years of the Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) on Maui, Hawaiian Islands

Researchers Thane Pratt, Christopher C. Warren, Erika K. Kekiwi, Kerri Fay, and Richard J. Camp explore the fascinating contrasts between the dark-throated and pale-throated Golden Pheasant on Maui. The article discusses the history of these game birds as outlined in the abstract:

Since the introduction of the Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) to
Haleakalā volcano, Maui, three decades ago, subsequent reports have hinted at an expansion of this nascent population. We draw from a variety of data sources to learn about this pheasant’s present status on Maui. First, forest bird surveys conducted every five years revealed that the frequency of Golden Pheasant detections has greatly increased, and the bird has both maintained its former distribution and expanded eastward into Haleakalā National Park (NP). Second, reports to eBird from The Nature Conservancy’s Waikamoi Preserve, where Golden Pheasants first appeared on Maui, demonstrate that the frequency of observations has increased and is strongly seasonal, predominantly in the spring. Third, autonomous recording units monitoring endangered forest birds recorded pheasants too, adding new locations. Finally, trail cameras set to monitor mammals picked up pheasants as well, showing males of two color morphs: original “wild-type” and “dark-throated.” Trail cameras also documented a small juvenile at Waikamoi Preserve and both females and males in Haleakalā NP. By “connecting the dots” of mapped occurrences, we traced the pheasant’s progression through a narrow band of subalpine cloud forest with open understory, extending from Waikamoi Preserve eastward to upper Kīpahulu Valley, a distance of 14 km. In summary, this body of evidence supports the claim that the Golden Pheasant has established a self-sustaining population on Maui, and we propose that the species’ success there may be attributed to the minimal influence of predators and the absence of competing gallinaceous birds in its preferred habitat.

Discover the issue here:

Pacific Science 78-4

Journal of World History Special Issue: Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past – Free!

Posted on June 24, 2025June 24, 2025 by mmyama

This week, the World History Association (WHA) gathers for its 34th Annual Meeting in Louisville, KY. This year’s theme is: Protest, Prohibition, & Pugilism: Louisville & the World.

The Journal of World History offers this accompanying special collection, “Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past” free on the Project MUSE platform. Select World History titles will also be 30% off from July 1 through Sept 30, 2025.

The 11 articles selected by Emily De La Torre, June Bofetiado Tanner, and Laura J. Mitchell in “Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past” provides accessible resources for scholars and teachers worldwide, with content freely available through September 2025.

From George Riello’s “The ‘Material Turn’ in World and Global History” this issue: The ambassadors of the Egyptian Sultan al-Nasir Faraj ibn Barquq present their gifts of tribute, including a giraffe, to Timur (1370–1405). Manuscript of the Zafarnama of Sharaf al-Din ‘Ali Yazdi Shiraz. Iran, 1436. Source: Watercolor, gold, and ink on paper, 24.2 x 17.8 cm. Worcester Museum, Jerome Wheelock Fund, 1935.26.

The trio introduces this free special issue in their introduction, “Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past”:

“[W]as such a thing as a global measure for human perfection even conceivable?” asks Sebastian Conrad, plunging headlong into an exploration of aesthetics. Can something understood as individual, relative, and locally contingent also be a useful category of analysis for world history? If a British observer in the 1750s considered a Muslim woman wearing şalvar (baggy trousers) in Istanbul to be beautiful, but an English woman wearing the same clothes in London to be shocking, can aesthetics offer a productive theoretical entry point for considering connections and disruptions across space and time? The papers in this year’s open-access special issue drawn from the Journal of World History’s backlist answer these questions with a hearty, collective “Yes!”

Explore the special issue

Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past
Emily De La Torre, June Bofetiado Tanner, Laura J. Mitchell

The “Material Turn” in World and Global History
Giorgio Riello

Women’s Fashions in Transition: Ottoman Borderlands and the Anglo-Ottoman Exchange of Costumes
Onur Inal

Consuming Kashmir: Shawls and Empires, 1500-2000
Michelle Maskiell

Migration, Masculinity, and Mastering the Queue: A Case of Chinese Scalping
Rachel K. Bright

Weaving the Rainbow: Visions of Color in World History
Robert Finlay

Globalizing the Beautiful Body: Eugen Sandow, Bodybuilding, and the Ideal of Muscular Manliness at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Sebastian Conrad

The Movement of Chinese Ceramics: Appropriation in Global History
Stacey Pierson

Sartorial Settlement: The Mission Field and Transformation in Colonial Natal, 1850–1897
T.J. Tallie

The Aesthetics of Internationalism: Culture and Politics on Display at the 1935–1936 International Exhibition of Chinese Art
Ilaria Scaglia

Chordophone Culture in Two Early Modern Societies: A Pipa-Vihuela Duet
James A. Millward

Patterns of Artistic Hybridization in the Early Protoglobalization Period
Luís U. Afonso

World History Titles – 30% Discount

Starting July 1 through September 30, get 30% off select World History titles, including ones in the Perspectives on the Global Past series. Use coupon code WHA2025.

Learn more about the WHA conference here.

Behind the Journal: FANHS Hosts Building Bridges Zoom Panel 4/6 – Register Today!

Posted on March 25, 2025March 25, 2025 by mmyama

Join the Filipino American National Historical Society Journal editors for an interactive Zoom event celebrating the recent issue focused on the theme, “Bridges.”

“Bridges” was inspired by Fred Cordova’s classic 1996 published piece, “The Bridge Generation and Building Bridges.” Engage with select authors as they share insights and stories behind their work in a lively talk story session.

Panel: Building Bridges
Date: Sunday, April 6, 2025
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 PM PST
Register here to receive ZOOM link

This session will explore pieces that build connections across the diversity of our community, including generations, geography, and ethnicities.

For more information, please contact [email protected].

Now in Print!

The FANHS Journal is now available digitally via Project MUSE and in print via subscription with the University of Hawai‘i Press.

Read Volume 12

Find the “Bridges” issue online at Project MUSE

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Join Mānoa Journal at AWP 2025 in Los Angeles (March 26-29)

Posted on March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 by mmyama

Mānoa journal will be at AWP 2025 in the Los Angeles Convention Center. Featuring thousands of literary professionals and hundreds of events celebrating the act of writing, the AWP Conference and Bookfair is one of the largest writing events in the world.

Mānoa journal will be present both at the bookfair and hosting special events throughout on their latest two releases (Karahee from the Cane Fields and Always Again) and upcoming issue, Architectures of FuturoPasados.

Bookfair: During the conference, swing by booth 614 in West Hall A from Thurs., March 27 to Sat., March 29.

Panels: Join the panel, Cane & Malunggay: Mānoa Journal Explores South Asian Coolie & Philippine History, from 12:10–1:25pm on Sat., March 29 in room 409AB.

Pau Hana: Mānoa journal will be hosting Pau Hana Friday, an off-site reading event along with the UH Mānoa creative writing program, on Fri., March 28 from 5–7pm at the South Park Commons. Pau Hana Friday will be a grand gathering of UH student voices and vibrant tales created in the heart of the Hawaiian islands. Snacks and drinks will also be provided. Register here.

Learn more, including panels featuring Mānoa journal contributors, here.