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
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Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. 4 (2010)

Contributions to LD&C are now published upon acceptance. Here are all the contributions accepted for volume 4.

Articles

Why Revisit Published Data of an Endangered Language with Native Speakers? An Illustration from Cherokee
Durbin Feeling, Christine Armer, Charles Foster, Marcellino Berardo, and Sean O’Neill, pp. 1-21

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Manoa journal receives NEA grant

Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for the coming fiscal year. NEA grants are highly competitive. NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that Mānoa had been approved for a $10,000 grant to support publication of two issues during fiscal year 2011.

For further details, see News@UH.

Journal of World History, vol. 21, no. 3 (2010): Cosmopolitanism in World History

SPECIAL ISSUE: COSMOPOLITANISM IN WORLD HISTORY

ARTICLES

Cosmopolitanism: Its Pasts and Practices
Glenda Sluga and Julia Horne, 369
Historians are returning to cosmopolitanism as a significant historical theme. This introductory essay briefly surveys some of the latest trends that mark this new interest, including its interdisciplinary influences and its focus on both cultural and political forms of cosmopolitanism.

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China Review International, vol. 16, no. 2 (2009)

FEATURES

China’s Rising Presence in Africa (reviewing Sarah Raine, China’s African Challenges; Chris Alden, Daniel Large, and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, editors, China Returns to Africa: A Rising Power and Continent Embrace)
Reviewed by Ian Taylor, 155

Continuing the Reevaluation: Four Studies of the Cultural Revolution (reviewing Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution; Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun, The End of the Maoist Era: Chinese Politics during the Twilight of the Cultural Revolution, 1972–1976; Mobo Gao, The Battle for China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution; Paul Clark, The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History)
Reviewed by John A. Rapp, 160

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Asian Perspectives, vol. 48, no. 2 (2009)

ARTICLES

Environment, Ecology, and Interaction in Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East: the Millennial History of a Japan Sea Oikumene
C. Melvin Aikens, Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya, and Song Nai Rhee, 207

Encircling the Sea of Japan, or East Sea in Korean terms, is a north-temperate landscape that includes thousands of miles of deeply indented seacoast, mountains, and plains, all covered by variously mixed woodlands. The Japanese archipelago comprises its eastern edge, fronting the Pacific Ocean, while the great Amur-Ussuri-Sungari riverine plain forms its far west. We perceive the region comprised by modern Korea, Japan, and the Russian Far East as a “Japan Sea Oikumene,” and review culture-historical and environmental evidence to show that—contrary to earlier historical and archaeological impressions—the region has a long-lived ecological and technological unity as a distinctive “cultural world” that can be traced continuously from late Pleistocene into recent times.

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Philosophy East and West, vol. 60, no. 4 (2010)

ARTICLES

Cartesian Intuitions, Humean Puzzles, and the Buddhist Conception of the Self
Alan Tomhave, 443

The Cartesian conception of the self is of an essentially thinking thing, a robust “I,” one that wills, feels, et cetera. This Cartesian self is often taken as opposed to the Buddhist conception of the self, which includes the doctrine of anatta, or “no soul.” Continue reading “Philosophy East and West, vol. 60, no. 4 (2010)”

Pacific Science, vol. 64, no. 4 (2010)

Pacific Science 64.4 cover
Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 6. Prosopis pallida and Prosopis juliflora (Algarroba, Mesquite, Kiawe) (Fabaceae)
Timothy Gallaher and Mark Merlin, 489-526

Prosopis pallida and P. juliflora (commonly referred to as algarroba, mesquite, or kiawe) were introduced from South America to areas in Oceania, Asia, and Africa during the early nineteenth century. In many cases, they naturalized and became widespread. Continue reading “Pacific Science, vol. 64, no. 4 (2010)”

Buddhist-Christian Studies, vol. 30 (2010)

EDITORIAL by Mahinda Deegalle, v

ARTICLES

The Prospects for a Mahāyāna Theology of Emptiness: A Continuing Debate
John P. Keenan, 3

“Till Death Do Us Part”? Buddhist Insights on Christian Marriage
Wioleta Polinska, 29

AUTHORITY IN BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
ENBCS Conference Papers
edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel

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