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The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 23, no. 1 (2011)
Biography, vol. 33, no. 4 (2010)
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ARTICLES
American Neoconfessional: Memoir, Self-Help, and Redemption on Oprah’s Couch
Leigh Gilmore, 657
This essay reads the scandal surrounding James Frey’s memoir A Million Little Pieces as part of a developing brand, the American neoconfessional, and questions how memoirs, as part of this brand, present “reading in public” as a mode of civic engagement that teaches readers to consume and judge “similar others.” Continue reading “Biography, vol. 33, no. 4 (2010)”
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As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press Journals Department will be closed from 19 through 27 March 2011. We will reopen on Monday, 28 March 2011. Mahalo for your support!
Journal of World History, vol. 21, no. 4 (2010)
ARTICLES
A Chinese Farmer, Two African Boys, and a Warlord: Toward a Global Microhistory
Tonio Andrade, 573
This article urges world historians to experiment boldly with narrative history and microhistory as a corrective to the field’s heavy emphasis on models and structures. Global microhistory as the author conceives it focuses on human dramas that shed light on intercultural connections and global transformations, and the article offers an example of the genre: a story of a Chinese man, two African boys, two feuding Dutch merchants, and a Chinese warlord, characters thrown together by the great waves of international trade and cross-cultural interaction that swept the world in the seventeenth century. The author hopes that narrative approaches will draw more students and general readers into the field of global history and help make its insights and approaches resonate with a wider public.
Continue reading “Journal of World History, vol. 21, no. 4 (2010)”
Korean Studies, vol. 34 (2010)
Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 49, no. 2 (2010)
ARTICLES
Southern Subanen Aspiration
Jason William Lobel and William C. Hall, 319
Southern Subanen, spoken on the Philippine island of Mindanao, is the only Philippine language known to have contrastive aspiration, which is a rarity in the Austronesian family. While aspirated consonants are common in the world’s languages, Southern Subanen provides us with an uncommon glimpse at how aspirated consonants can develop. Their unique historical derivation in Southern Subanen is such that, in certain environments, aspiration marks semantic contrasts in verbal prefixes and even functions as a marker of nominalization. In this paper, we will analyze the historical sources of this aspiration and its realization in the modern language.
Continue reading “Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 49, no. 2 (2010)”
Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 27, no. 2 (2010)
PLAY
Dorei (Slave): A Play by Tamura Toshiko.
Introduction and translation by Anne Sokolsky and Tim Yamamura, 203
ARTICLES
Performing Indigeneity in the Cordillera: Dance, Community, and Power in the Highlands of Luzon
William Peterson, 246
Continue reading “Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 27, no. 2 (2010)”
Philosophy East and West, vol. 61, no. 1 (2011)
ARTICLES
Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Disembodied Existence
Ramesh Kumar Sharma, 1
This essay starts with a clarification of the assumption that prima facie all experience is lived embodied experience. Continue reading “Philosophy East and West, vol. 61, no. 1 (2011)”
Manoa, vol. 22, no. 2 (2010): Wild Hearts: Literature, Ecology, and Inclusion
Presented by China Review International, vol. 16, no. 3 (2009)
FEATURES
Two Recently Published Histories on the Song Dynasty (960–1279) (reviewing Dieter Kuhn, The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China; Denis C. Twitchett and Paul Jakov Smith, editors, The Cambridge History of China, Volume 5, Part One, The Sung Dynasty and Its Precursors, 907–1279)
Reviewed by James M. Hargett, 293
A Reassessment of Early Confucianism in Light of Newly Excavated Manuscripts (reviewing Liang Tao 梁濤, Guodian Zhujian Yu Simeng Xuepai 郭店竹簡與思孟學派 (The Guodian bamboo manuscripts and the Zisi-Mencian lineage)
Reviewed by Shirley Chan, 304
Manchu Language Resources in the People’s Republic of China: A Comprehensive Review
Reviewed by Chia Ning, 308
Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 16, no. 3 (2009)”
Pacific Science, vol. 65, no. 1 (2011)
Eighty Years of Succession in a Noncommercial Plantation on Hawai‘i Island: Are Native Species Returning?
Joseph Mascaro, 1
Hawai‘i’s forest ecosystems are changing rapidly due to a high level of species introductions, and it is an open question whether native species will be maintained. Continue reading “Pacific Science, vol. 65, no. 1 (2011)”
