Eleanor Nordyke is featured in the January issue of Hana Hou!, the in-flight magazine of Hawaiian Airlines. Ms. Nordyke is the author of the recently published second edition of Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook’s Third Voyage and the longtime bestseller The Peopling of Hawaii, both available from UH Press.
Photo: Charles E. Freeman/Hana Hou!
Bookstore appearances are scheduled in January 2010 for business executive David Heenan to sign his newest title, Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours: Turning Adversity into Success. The Campbell Estate trustee presents ten stories of individuals who applied winning strategies in their personal or professional lives and examines how they used them to overcome difficult life situations. Heenan spent the past four months teaching at Georgetown University and returned to Honolulu at the end of December. His three scheduled signings include:
Wednesday, January 20, 12 noon-1 p.m.: Bestsellers, 1003 Bishop Street, phone: 528-2378
Saturday, January 23, 2:00-3:00 p.m.: Borders-Ward Centre, phone: 591-8995
Saturday, January 30, 1:00-2:00 p.m.: Barnes & Noble, Kahala Mall, phone: 737-3323.
Nationally acclaimed author Jon Shirota returns to Maui this month! Shirota’s 1965 classic Lucky Come Hawaii, the first novel by an Asian American writer in Hawai‘i to become a national bestseller, was recently issued in a newly revised edition by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing and University of Hawai‘i Press.
Thursday, January 14, 7 p.m., Maui Okinawa Cultural Center: Jon Shirota will give a free public talk hosted by the Maui Okinawa Kenjin Kai (MOKK). Please RSVP by calling MOKK at 808-242-1560.
Friday, January 15, and Saturday, January 16, 7:30 p.m., McCoy Studio Theater of the Maui Arts and Cultural Center: Kumu Kahua Theatre presents Shirota’s latest play, Voices from Okinawa. For more information, call the McCoy box office at 808-242-7469 or write boxoffice@mauiarts.org.
Saturday, January 16, 2-3:30 p.m., Borders-Kahului, Maui Marketplace: Shirota will be signing copies of his books. For more information, call Borders-Kahului at 808-877-6160.
Known as Asia’s “evangelical superpower,” South Korea today has some of the largest and most dynamic churches in the world and is second only to the United States in the number of missionaries it dispatches abroad. Understanding its evangelicalism is crucial to grasping the course of its modernization, the rise of nationalism and anticommunism, and the relationship between Christians and other religionists within the country. Born Again: Evangelicalism in Korea, by Timothy S. Lee, is the first book in a Western language to consider the introduction, development, and character of evangelicalism in Korea—from its humble beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century to claiming one out of every five South Koreans as an adherent at the end of the twentieth.
“This book is important because Christianity in Korea is important. Korea is the most Protestant nation in Asia; Korean Christians are behind only Americans in the number of missionaries they dispatch abroad; and the number of Korean Christian churches established in North America has grown large enough to begin to influence Christianity on this side of the Pacific. In this accessible and clearly argued study of evangelical Christianity in Korea, Timothy Lee provides an explanation both of why Christianity has been successful in Korea and why evangelical Christianity has been more successful than other forms. He has mined materials in Korean and English that no one else has used in the same way and presents his findings in a manner that will appeal to scholars of Korean studies and religious studies as well as to laypeople seeking to understand a phenomenon that has grown so visible on the world stage.” —Don Baker, University of British Columbia
December 2009 / ISBN 978-0-8248-3375-6 / $40.00 (CLOTH)
On Friday, December 11, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Warren S. Nishimoto, and Cynthia A. Oshiro, coeditors of Talking Hawai‘i’s Story: Oral Histories of an Island People, will sign books at Barnes & Noble-Kāhala Mall. (For store information, call 737-3323.) Talking Hawai‘i’s Story presents a rich sampling of the landmark work done by the Center for Oral History by making available 29 first-person narratives that until now only appeared in the COH’s semi-annual newsletter.
The editors will also participate in the Saturday, December 12 Holiday Book Fair at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, 2454 So. Beretania Street, that will take place from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Community Gallery & Gift Shop. This event is free and open to the public.
Talking Hawai‘i’s Story is published by University of Hawai‘i Press for the Center for Oral History and the Center for Biographical Research. The softcover book retails for $19.00 and is generally available at island bookstores or can be ordered from UH Press by phone: 956-8255, toll free: 1-888-847-7377; email: uhpbooks@hawaii.edu; or online: www.uhpress.hawaii.edu. For event information, call 956-8697.
On Thursday, December 10, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Center for Korean Studies, UH-Mānoa (1881 East-West Road), award-winning translators Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton will give a talk on their new work, The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea. The two are visiting from western Canada, where Bruce Fulton is associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. The Red Room brings together stories by three canonical Korean writers who examine trauma as a simple fact of life. Copies of The Red Room will be available for purchase, as will MĀNOA journal’s Enduring War: Stories of What We’ve Learned, which includes a translation by Fulton. Light refreshments will be provided and the event is free and open to the public.
Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of contemporary Korean fiction, including Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-won and The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui, both also published by University of Hawai‘i Press. The Red Room retails for $15.00 and can be ordered from UH Press by phone: 956-8255, toll free: 1-888-847-7377; email: uhpbooks@hawaii.edu; or online: www.uhpress.hawaii.edu. For event information, call 956-8697.
Tuesday, November 10, 11:30-1:00, UH-Manoa Bookstore
UH Bookstore will host a multi-author book signing event, which will include UH Press authors Carlos Andrade (Ha‘ena), Ann Shea Bayer (Going Against the Grain), James Brandon (Kabuki’s Forgotten War), and Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Warren Nishimoto, and Cynthia Oshiro (Talking Hawai‘i’s Story).
Wednesday, November 11, 2:00-3:30, Hawai‘i Okinawa Center
Readings from Uchinanchu: A History of Okinawans in Hawaii. Light refreshments will be served, free parking available. This event is co-sponsored by the Hawai‘i United Okinawa Association and UH’s Center for Oral History, Center for Okinawan Studies, and Center for Japanese Studies. For more information, contact the Center for Oral History (phone: 956-6165; email: kodamani@hawaii.edu).
Saturday, November 14, 9:00-12 noon, Oahu Urban Garden Center
“Second Saturday at the Garden” will feature landscape architect and horticultural expert Paul Weissich, who will answer questions and sign copies of Small Trees for the Tropical Landscape (also available for purchase).
And don’t forget… also this month:
—UH Press authors signing at the Daughters of Hawai‘i Annual Book Day
—book launch for Chinese Pioneer Families of Maui, Molokai, and Lanai
—talks, signings, and performances celebrating novelist and playwright Jon Shirota
University of Hawai‘i Press authors Gavan Daws, Eleanor Nordyke, Art Whistler, and Bob Dye will be among the writers attending the Daughters of Hawai‘i 4th Annual Book Day, Friday, November 6, 3:00-6:00 pm, at Queen Emma Summer Palace. Purchase books at a discount and get your copies signed in time for the holidays! All proceeds from the event will go to the Daughters of Hawai‘i, in support of their mission to preserve Queen Emma Summer Palace and Hulihe‘e Palace in Kailua-Kona.
Refreshments will be served. There will be a special performance by the Queen Emma Summer Palace Ukulele Club and free tours of the Summer Palace will take place from 3:00-4:00 pm, so be sure to come early!
Join the Hawaii Chinese History Center, the Associated Chinese University Women, and United Chinese Society of Hawaii in celebrating the publication of Chinese Pioneer Families of Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.
Sunday, November 8, 1:00-3:00 pm, Kilauea Recreation Center, 4109 Kilauea Avenue, Honolulu: Co-editor Ken Yee and several of the oral history participants will be on hand to sign books. Festivities will include a lion dance, Hawaiian music of Maui and Molokai place-name songs, and simple refreshments.
Please RSVP by email (ginny96825@yahoo.com) by October 30.
Chinese Pioneer Families of Maui, Molokai, and Lanai is distributed by University of Hawai‘i Press.
Nationally acclaimed author Jon Shirota, whose Lucky Come Hawaii was the first novel by an Asian American Hawai‘i author to become a bestseller, will be back in the Islands for several public appearances sponsored by the Manoa Foundation. Lucky Come Hawaii will be released in a new, revised edition in late November by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing and University of Hawai‘i Press.
Thursday, November 5, 3:00-4:30 pm: University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Kuykendall Hall, Room 410. Shirota will talk on the Okinawan sense of place in his writings, including those in the latest Manoa journal, Voices from Okinawa.
Thursday, November 5–Sunday, December 6, various times: Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street, Downtown Honolulu. Performances of Shirota’s play, Voices from Okinawa.
Monday, November 9, 5:00-6:00 pm: UH-West O‘ahu, Kuhialoko Lanai (E-Building). Shirota’s talk, “Akisamiyo! From a Pig Farmer to a Writer” will follow a reception at 4:00. This event is part of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the UHM Center for Okinawan Studies.
Friday, November 13, 7:00 pm: Kapi‘olani Community College, Ohi‘a Building. “A Conversation with Jon Shirota” will be hosted by Chancellor Leon Richards; part of KCC’s International Week celebration. Entertainment by Okinawan dance and sanshin performers.
Visit Voices from Okinawa Online for more information on Jon Shirota and his work.
Christopher Ives, author of Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics, will give a talk and sign copies of his book at the Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA; 617-566-6660) on Thursday, November 12, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
