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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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)”
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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UH Press Holiday Schedule, 20–31 December 2010
As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press will be closed on 20–31 December 2010, with the exception of our book order department and warehouse, which will be open on 20–23 December. Regular Press hours will resume on Monday, 3 January 2011. Mahalo for your support and happy holidays!
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.
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