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FAHNS Call for Submissions

Posted on July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 by mmyama

The FANHS Journal Editorial team invites you to submit to the FANHS Journal (Volume 14), which will focus on the theme of “Mixed Race”. Former FANHS Trustee and National Scholar Rudy Guevarra and Alejandro Acierto will be the Guest Editors for Volume 14, which is expected to be published in Fall 2026.

Call for Submissions

We envision this volume of the FANHS Journal to reflect the theme of “Mixed Race” through both the content itself and the means through which contributors and editors have collaborated to create that content. “Mixed Race” calls forth those who identify and/or create content on what it means to be of mixed race (from multiple racial, ethnic, and/or Indigenous) ancestries. These identities and explorations into one’s multiplicity can be done through historical and/or contemporary experiences. What makes Filipino Americans unique in telling stories of mixed race identity, for example, is the longstanding history of racial mixing in the Philippines, during the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade with Mexico, and within the context of living, working, and building communities in the United States (See Call for Submissions for complete description of theme).

Contributions to this volume may encompass mixed race across:

·      Multiple generations and collaborations of mixed race experiences
·      Histories of colonialism and resistance that have forged mixed race communities and individuals over time
·      Laws and other actions meant to deny Filipino interracial marriages and recognize children of mixed ancestry
·      Academic and community approaches to telling our mixed race histories and stories
·      The diverse experiences of how mixed-race Filipino Americans have navigated their multiplicity
·      The marginalization of mixed race Filipino Americans within their own community through issues such as colorism, discrimination, racism, etc.
·      How mixed race Filipino Americans have embraced their multiplicity and created new terminology to express those mixed race experiences (e.g., Mexipino, Blackapina, Indopino, etc.)
·      Multigenerational mixed race experiences (e.g, descendants of the Louisiana Manila Men)
·      Geographic diversity of mixed race communities
·      Moving beyond the “celebration” and exotification of mixed race Filipino Americans
·      Cultural authenticity surrounding phenotype and language proficiency

We are looking for contributions that address the following Journal sections: Artwork, Collaborating with our Ancestors, Talk Stories, Community Research, Academic Articles, Reviews, and FANHS in Action, but would be particularly excited to see contributions that address histories in the following areas:

·      Book Reviews
·      Artistic contributions
·      Youth-generated work, including the use of social media platforms for storytelling

Finally, we welcome contributions in multiple formats and modalities, including:

·      Written work (e.g,. essays, poems, articles)
·      Visual work (e.g., photo essays, prints, and other artistic work, video)
·      Mixed modalities (e.g,. pictorial essays, prints, zines)
·      Audio (e.g., recorded monologues, abridged oral histories, and accompanying article)

Please see Call for Submissions and Author Guidelines for theme description and instructions on how to upload your materials, as well as deadlines and the production timetable. Your work will be shared for peer review within our community.

Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2026.

For more information or questions, please do not hesitate to contact [email protected]

In community,

FANHS Journal Editorial Team

Journals: Asian Theatre Journal, Biography, The Contemporary Pacific, Mānoa and more.

Posted on July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 by mmyama

Asian Theatre Journal

Volume 43, Number 1 (2026)

Editor Siyuan Liu signs off as we introduce a new editor Man He in From the Editor stating:

After eight years as ATJ editor, I am stepping down after this issue. Man He will take over as the new editor. It has been a tremendous learning experience. I am grateful to everyone who helped make the task possible, from the authors, editors, reviewers, editorial assistants, and the editors and production teams at the UH Press to our readers.

With the exception of Emerging Scholar Essays, which always appear in the fall issue, this issue is complete with every regular format in ATJ: translation, article, report, performance review, and book review.

Find this From the Editor, translations, review essays, articles and more at Project MUSE.

Biography

Volume 47, Number 3 (2024)

Craig Howes discusses the new issue in the Editor’s Note stating:

When George Simson decided in 1978 to call Biography an Interdisciplinary Quarterly, he was optimistic, but determined. Although the vast majority of the journal’s contributors were housed in literature and history departments, with a decided bent toward textual studies, the masthead listed an ambitious range of recruited editors, ready to evaluate essays emerging from many academic disciplines. As we approach our fiftieth anniversary, this issue of Biography suggests that George’s hopes for the journal have come closer to being realized.

The editors, reviewers, and essayists represented include archaeologists, psychiatrists, theatre and performance scholars, and specialists in American, Russian, Carribean, Jewish, and Arab American Studies. Black Studies, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Disability Studies are also represented. And even while still situated in literature and language departments, as the contributor biographies bear out, many are interdisciplinary scholars.

This state of affairs points to the nature of lifewriting as a field with permeable boundaries. Whenever the course of human events figures into research, policy, ethics, or instruction, lifewriting or life narrative in the broadest sense is a factor to be considered. Biography has published such considerations, regardless of field, and will continue to do so.

Find this Editor’s Note, forum articles, reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

The Contemporary Pacific

Volume 37, Number 1 (2025)

Seeking Peace in Religious Teachings: Women’s Responses to Domestic Violence in Rural Vanuatu
Donna Jella Tagaro and Naohiro Nakamura

Pacific Studies: Engaging Law, Anthropology, Archives, and the Arts
Katerina Teaiwa, Terence Wesley-Smith, and Talei Luscia Mangioni

Pacific Studies and Anthropology: Articulations and Disarticulations
April K Henderson

Unsettling Legal Imperialism and Cultivating Homegrown Law: Why Law Schools Need Pacific Studies
Rebecca Monson, Dylan Asafo, Joseph D Foukona, and Bridget Fa‘amatuainu

Citing Ourselves
Talei Luscia Mangioni and Lisa Hilli

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

Journal of World History

Volume 37, Number 2 (2026)

Kita Ikki and Zeng Qi: National Socialism in East Asia, Late 1910s–Early 1930s
Nagatomi Hirayama

The Spanish Naval Station in the Pacific: A Frustrated Project of Global Regeneration (1833–1866)
Rodrigo Escribano Roca and Mikel Gómez Gastiasoro

Koreans Skilled Workers in Japan after the East Asian War of 1592–1598: Pak Hoin and Tofu in Early Modern Tosa Domain
Floris van Swet

Industrial Lessons Abroad: Chinese Engineers in Britain, 1933–1948
Qing Chen

Anti-Colonial Activism and Multi-Imperial Entanglements: Reassessing the 1932 Hongkou Bombing Incident in Interwar Shanghai
Taoyu Yang

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

Touchable/Untouchable: Dalit Literature from India in Translation

Mānoa

Volume Volume 37, Number 2 (2026)

Touchable/Untouchable Dalit Literature from India in Translation

Guest Editors K. Satyanarayana and S. Shankar discuss their inspiration for these translations stating:

This issue of Mānoa presents Dalit literature from India in translation to a global audience of readers in English.

Why should readers outside India care about Dalit literature? For one thing, contemporary Dalit literature is among the most interesting and vibrant of literary enterprises currently underway in India. Contemporary Dalit literature has at one and the same time borne gripping witness to the centuries-old atrocious institution of exclusion and oppression known as caste, at the bottom of which Dalits are located as the most excluded and the most oppressed, and broken invigorating new literary ground. For these reasons alone, the value of reading Dalit literature should be evident. Dalit literature deserves a global audience, which it has begun to receive in recent years. This issue adds to Dalit literature’s global reach in significant ways.

Find these editors’ notes, art, poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, and more at Project MUSE.

Oceanic Linguistics

Volume 65, Number 1 (2026)

Suprasegmental Adaptation of Japanese Loanwords in Isbukun Bunun
Hui-shan Lin

Observations on Malagasy Presentatives
Ileana Paul, Vanilla Diane Dimisy, Baholisoa Simone Ralalaoherivony, Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson, Lisa Travis

Contact or Inheritance? New Evidence on the Proto-Philippines Hypothesis
Victoria Chen, Maria Kristina Gallego, Jonathan Kuo, Isaac Stead, and Benjamin van der Voorn

The Languages of Atauro Island
Christoph Bracks and Owen Edwards

Gender Vocalism in the South Bird’s Head Languages in Comparative Perspective
Lourens de Vries

Find these articles, squibs, memoriams and more at Project MUSE.

Pacific Science

Volume 79 Number 4 (2025)

We bid a fond farewell to David Duffy as he departs from his role of Editor in Chief at Pacific Science who shares these words:

Pacific Science will be publishing its 80th volume next year, so it has survived much and is likely to persist. A new editor will bring fresh ideas and stamina. We are lucky to have Steve Young taking over the next volume. He received his degree from the University of California, Davis, working on plant and soil interactions related to the restoration of arid grasslands in the western US. He has spent time at the University
of Nebraska, Cornell, Utah State University, and most recently the USDA before taking a position at Oregon State about an hour north of me. I expect we will have future opportunities to get together to exchange war stories about editing this journal. I will leave it to him in the next issue to share his hopes and aspirations for
Pacific Science. “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”—Garrison Keillor

Find research articles and more at Project MUSE.

Philosophy East and West

Volume 76, Number 2 (2026)

The Confucian Perspective on Friendship: Healing from Trauma, Moral Disruption, and Disconnection
Mark Kevin S. Cabural

Translating Science into New Dictates of the Way: The Tianyan Cosmology and Yan Fu’s Ethical Imaginings
Limin Chi

Guo Xiang’s Value Monism
Jason Dockstader

Intelligibility or Meaning: Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming on Cosmic Life
Timo Ennen

What Is an Emotion? An Early Chinese Perspective in the Xing Zi Ming Chu
Wenqing Zhao

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

Journal of World History Special Issue: Found in Translation: Linguistic Dimensions and Cultural Intersections — free!

Posted on June 24, 2026June 25, 2026 by mmyama

The World History Association hosts its annual meeting in Incheon, South Korea from June 25 to 27, with the theme “Closed Borders and Global Connections: Being Global after Globalization.” The Journal of World History offers this accompanying special collection, “Found in Translation: Linguistic Dimensions and Cultural Intersections,” for free on the Project MUSE platform through September 30. Select world history titles will also be 30% off from July 1 through September 30, 2026 using coupon code WHA2026.

The ten articles collected in “Found in Translation: Linguistic Dimensions and Cultural Intersections” dare to ask: how can we write, teach, and think about world history in a moment characterized both by global entanglement and anti-globalist politics ? What historical precedents—such as empires, invasions, epidemics, diasporas, trade routes, or cross-cultural encounters—might help us imagine a world that is connected but not necessarily globalized in the modern sense?

From Stefan Hübner “Images of the Sportive ‘Civilizing Mission’: The Far Eastern Championship Games (1913–1934) and Visions of Modernization in English-Language Philippine Newspapers” this issue: *Le Petit Journal*’s cartoon “En Chine” (1898) was published at p. 24 of the Sunday Supplement on 16 January 1898 shortly after China accepted Germany’s lease of Jiaozhou Bay.

In their introduction Sonali Chadha, Gideon Choi, Emily De La Torre, Wonjun Kang, Leeanna See and editor Laura J. Mitchell introduce special issue, “Found in Translation: Linguistic Dimensions and Cultural Intersections”:

“Translation gets taken for granted in historical research. It’s omnipresent, yet hidden when done well. The language and ethos of past societies come to life for present-day audiences when readers in China are immersed in the Mughal court or French students hear a lecture on Aztec agriculture. Filters of language, culture, and period fade as skilled communicators make clear the dynamics of people and places distant in time and space. These interpretive acts are inherent to everything we do as learners, teachers, and researchers, but historians rarely focus on the processes, forms, or implications of translation. The 2026 digital-only special issue of the Journal of World History calls attention to the possibilities lurking in this oversight. This collection of previously published articles highlights the benefits of paying close attention to methods and ways of thinking that we sometimes overlook. These articles frame translation as a state’s or people’s desire for influence, power, or resistance. Language played a central role in universal claims to knowledge. Exploring these claims through the lens of translation exposes tension between the desire among the powerful to universalize knowledge—expressed through a dominant language—and subalterns’ desire to belong, catch up, and sometimes appropriate the power rooted in claims to universality. In this clash of desires, we see multiple roles for language: sometimes literal, sometimes abstract. This spectrum of roles includes the physical circulation of books and tangible translator training—long-term processes that afforded access to specific forms of knowledge.”

Read the special issue here.

University of Hawai‘i Press is proud to sponsor the 2026 Annual Meeting of the World History Association, taking place June 25–27, 2026 in Incheon, South Korea!

As publisher of the Journal of World History, the official journal of the World History Association, we are honored to support scholarship that explores history on a global, comparative, and transnational scale. In addition, explore our Perspectives on the Global Past series, which showcases innovative approaches to world history, cross-cultural encounters, global themes, and large-scale historical processes.

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Found in Translation:

Linguistic Dimensions and Cultural Intersections

Found in Translation: Linguistic Dimensions and Cultural Intersections
Sonali Chadha, Gideon Choi, Emily De La Torre, Wonjun Kang, Leeanna See and Laura J. Mitchell

Cultural Translation and the Transnational Circulation of Books
Mark Gamsa

Desire, Disguise, and Distaste: Robert Morrison, the British East India Company, and Early Missionary and Merchant Negotiations in Guangzhou, China
Kristin Bayer

The Establishment of the Tongwen Guan and the Fragile Sino-British Peace of the 1860s
Melissa Mouat

Images of the Sporting “Civilizing Mission”: The Far Eastern Championship Games (1913–1934) and Visions of Modernization in English-Language Philippine Newspapers
Stefan Hübner

Cross-Cultural Friendship and Legal Pluralities in the Early Pacific Salt-Pork Trade
Alecia Pru Simmonds

Daud Shah and Dar ul-Islam: Transnational Elements of Socio-religious Reforms among Muslims in the Madras Presidency
Sundara Vadlamudi

Script Charisma in Hebrew and Turkish: A Comparative Framework for Explaining Success and Failure of Romanization
İlker Aytürk

Translation as Self-Consciousness: Ancient Sciences, Antediluvian Wisdom, and the ‘Abbāsid Translation Movement
Hayrettín Yücesoy

When Greek Was an African Language: The Role of Greek Culture in Ancient and Medieval Nubia
Stanley M. Burstein

Homo sapiens Populates the Earth: A Provisional Synthesis, Privileging Linguistic Evidence
Patrick Manning

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

Find these research articles and more at Project MUSE.

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

Find these articles and more at Project MUSE.

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

Find these reviews and more at Project MUSE.

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

Find these research articles and more at Project MUSE.

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, 2025July 16, 2026 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

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

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

Find these research articles and research notes and more at Project MUSE.

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

Read these research articles and more at Project MUSE.

Oceanic Linguistics

Volume 64, Number 1 (2026)

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

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

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

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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.

Touchable/Untouchable Dalit Literature from India in Translation

Read the special issue here.

Found in Translation:

Linguistic Dimensions and Cultural Intersections

Special Issue: Soundscapes of Twentieth-Century China

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

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

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

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Articles

Commentary

Book Reviews

Research Articles

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Special Publications also available!

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

Explore the special issue

World History Titles – 30% Discount

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