ARTICLES
From Three Possible Iron-Age World-Systems to a Single Afro-Eurasian World-System
Philippe Beaujard, 1
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Author: UH Press
Spring Break Closure
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Biography, vol. 32, no. 4 (2009)
EDITORS’ NOTE, iii
ARTICLES
Reagan’s Back: The Dutch Controversy and American Letters
Emily Bauman, 643
“Reagan’s Back” is a study of the reception surrounding Edmund Morris’s controversial biography of Ronald Reagan, Dutch. I argue that the hostility that greeted Morris’s experiment indicated a resistance to the image of Reagan presented in the book itself, a “free indirect” portrayal enabled by literary fictional techniques antithetical to Reagan iconography as it has developed over the past two decades.
China Review International, vol. 15, no. 4 (2008)
FEATURES
Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, and Georges Métailié, editors. Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft
Reviewed by Nathan Sivin, 455
Yong Deng. China’s Struggle for Status: The Realignment of International Relations
Reviewed by Edward Friedman, 465
Erik Zürcher, translator. Kuoduo richao: Li Jiubiao’s Diary of Oral Admonitions: A Late Ming Christian Journal; W. South Coblin. Francisco Varo’s Glossary of the Mandarin Language
Reviewed by R. Po-chia Hsia, 470
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The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 22, no. 1 (2010)
The Pacific Islands, v
About the Artist: Sue Pearson, vii
articles
From Full Dusk to Full Tusk: Reimagining the “Dusky Maiden” through the Visual Arts
A Marata Tamaira, 1
Continue reading “The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 22, no. 1 (2010)”
Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 26, no. 2 (2009)
From the Editor, iii
PLAY
All Three Fear Their Wives (Sanpaqi): A Post-Midnight Shadow Play
Introduction and translation by Fan Pen Chen, 197
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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 48, no. 2 (2009)
ARTICLES
Palauan Historical Phonology: Whence the Intrusive Velar Nasal?
Robert Blust, 307
One of the more striking features in the historical phonology of Palauan is the addition of a velar nasal before word-initial vowels. Because final vowels were unstressed, and almost always disappeared, it is difficult to determine whether a velar nasal would also have been added after final vowels had they been retained. However, a number of loanwords, mostly from Spanish and English, show the addition of a velar nasal after word-final vowels. The change in native vocabulary is exceptionless, while that in loanwords is irregular. Moreover, the two changes appear to be historically disconnected, yet they suggest a common canonical target that persisted over many generations of speakers.
Continue reading “Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 48, no. 2 (2009)”
Philosophy East and West, vol. 60, no. 1 (2010)
Korean Studies, vol. 33 (2009)
Cultural Change in Korean Films
Transitional Emotions: Boredom and Distraction in Hong Sang-su’s Travel Films
Youngmin Choe, 1
This article explores the cultural significance of boredom and distraction in postmodern Korea by focusing on Hong Sang-su’s holiday films. It posits that Hong’s films about characters attempting to escape from the banalities of urban life can be seen to reveal, stylistically and thematically, the emotions and anxieties unleashed by excessive leisure in neoliberal Korea. By re-casting the absence of events in Hong’s films as an existing affect of lacking, it challenges the adequacy of pre-existing affective paradigms in the understanding of boredom in neoliberal Korea. In recognition of the transient stage in which boredom as emotion finds itself, it proposes categorizing emotions at such historical junctures as ‘‘transitional emotions,’’ drawing on theories that socialize rather than psychologize emotion by locating them as circulating intersubjectively.
Pacific Science, vol. 64, no. 1 (2010)
Potential Economic Damage from Introduction of Brown Tree Snakes, Boiga irregularis (Reptilia: Colubridae), to the Islands of Hawai‘i
Stephanie A. Shwiff, Karen Gebhardt, Katy N. Kirkpatrick, and Steven S. Shwiff, 1-10
The Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis) has caused ecological and economic damage to Guam, and the snake has the potential to colonize other islands in the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading “Pacific Science, vol. 64, no. 1 (2010)”