Biography, vol. 29, no. 3 (2006)

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Editors’ Note, p. iii

ARTICLES

Jaume Aurell
Autobiographical Texts as Historiographical Sources: Rereading Fernand Braudel and Annie Kriegel, p. 425
This article engages autobiographical texts by French historians Fernand Braudel and Annie Kriegal as historiographical sources that help us comprehend the intersection between personal lives and scholarly production. This perspective serves as a reference for comprehending the way historians construct our access to the knowledge of the past to increase our understanding not only of history, but importantly, of the writing of history.

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The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 18, no. 2 (2006): Melanesian Mining

SPECIAL ISSUE: Melanesian Mining Modernities: Past, Present, and Future
Guest Editors: Paige West and Martha Macintyre

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Grass Roots and Deep Holes: Community Responses to Mining in Melanesia, p. 215
Colin Filer and Martha Macintyre

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China Review International, vol. 12, no. 2 (2005)

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Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections
Reviewed by Nathan Sivin, 297

Janet M. Theiss, Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China Reviewed by Robert E. Hegel, 307

John Makeham, Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects
Reviewed by Don J. Wyatt, 311

The Local in the Global: Understanding, Explanation, and System (reviewing Stephen Feuchtwang, editor, Making Place: State Projects, Globalization and Local Responses in China)
Reviewed by Jamie Morgan, 322

Getting Beyond the Boundaries: Zhuangzi’s Ethics of Otherness (reviewing Steven Coutinho, Zhuangzi and Early Chinese Philosophy: Vagueness, Transformation, and Paradox
Reviewed by Shaobo Xie, 332

Peng Guoxiang, Liangzhi xue de zhankai—Wang Longxi yu zhongwan Ming de Yangming xue (The unfolding of the learning of innate knowledge of the good—Wang Longxi and Yangming learning in the mid-late Ming)
Reviewed by On-cho Ng, 342

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Manoa, vol. 18, no. 1 (2006): Beyond Words

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Beyond Words

Beyond Words presents more than two dozen authors from China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Malaysia discussing their particular approaches to writing. The editors have collected their words as they appear in essays, interviews, stories, and poems and have sought diversity in nationality, language, age, gender, and aesthetics.

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Pacific Science, vol. 60, no. 2 (2006)

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Community Structure of Hermatypic Corals at French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Capacity for Resistance and Resilience to Selective Stressors
Jean C. Kenyon, Peter S. Vroom, Kimberly N. Page, Matthew J. Dunlap, Casey B. Wilkinson, and Greta S. Aeby
pp. 153–175
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Biography, vol. 29, no. 2 (2006)

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Hsuan L. Hsu
Personality, Race, and Geopolitics in Joseph Heco’s Narrative of a Japanese, p. 273
Joseph Heco, a Japanese castaway who spent the 1850s working and studying in the US, played a significant role as translator, entrepreneur, and advisor after returning to Japan. This article examines the circum-Pacific contexts and stylistic idiosyncrasies of Heco’s autobiographical Narrative of a Japanese, arguing that its formal flaws reflect disjunctions between the conventions of equality that underwrite Western autobiography and the uneven conditions governing Japan’s forced modernization.

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