CHINOPERL

While the Korean War may appear as a distant historical event to younger generations, seventy years after the armistice, its impact persists in the lives of South Koreans in ever-changing and menacing forms. The legacy of the war lies at the root of enduring ideological confrontations, provides the rationale for past dictatorships, and fuels present-day social tensions. Korean literature serves as a potent platform for preserving the memory of these historical legacies that continue to reverberate in the present. We extend our gratitude to Professor Seung Hee Jeon for guest-editing this special issue.

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Volume 42, Number 1 (2023)

The new issue includes the following research articles and book reviews:

Memories and Places in Twentieth-Century Suzhou Tanci
Yunjing Xu

Her Feet Hurt: Female Body and Pain in Chen Duansheng’s Zaisheng yuan (Destiny of Rebirth)
Wenting Ji

Religious Ambiguity, ICH, and Mulian Performances in Contemporary Huizhou, China
Wei Liu

Regional Literature and the Transmission of Culture: Chinese Drum Ballads,1800-1937, by Margaret B. Wan (review)
Jiang Hanyang

Dungan Folktales and Legends, trans. and ed. by Kenneth J. Yin (review)
Rostislav Berezkin

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Philosophy East and West

Volume 73, Number 2 (2023)

The new issue includes the following reviews and articles:

Zhuangzi’s Conception of Human Nature (Xing 性)
Ziqiang Bai

Ontological Pluralism in Abhidharma Debates about the Existence of Past and Future Dharmas
Laura P. Guerrero

Phenomenology and the Impersonal Subject: Between Self and No-Self
David W. Johnson

Jizang’s Anti-realist Theory of Truth: A Modal Logical Understanding of Universal Affirmation through Universal Negation
Sangyop Lee

The Sequential Problem of the Eight Human Aims in the Great Learning
Chenyang Li

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Journals: When is a Qin Tomb not a Qin Tomb, Akan Relations in West Africa, the Queen of Kunqu, Kodi Phonology + More

Posted on February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 by mmyama

Asian Perspectives

Volume 61, Number 2 (2022)

The new issue contains the following articles:

A Unique Burial of the Fourth Millennium B.C.E. and
the Earliest Burial Traditions in Mongolia 220
Susanne Reichert, Nasan-Ochir Erdene-Ochir,
and Jan Bemmann

When is a Qin Tomb not a Qin Tomb? Cultural
(De)construction in the Middle Han River Valley
Glenda Chao

Recent Rock Art Sites from West Sumatra, Indonesia
Karina Arifin and R. Cecep Eka Permana

A Ceramic and Plant and Parasite Microfossil Record from
Andarayan, Cagayan Valley, Philippines Reveals Cultigens and
Human Helminthiases Spanning the Last ca. 2080 Years
Mark Horrocks, John Peterson, and Bronwen Presswell

Bioarchaeology in Central Asia: Growing from Legacies to
Enhance Future Research
Elissa A. Bullion, Zhuldyz Tashmanbetova, and
Alicia R.Ventresca Miller

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Asian Theatre Journal

Volume 39, Number 2 (2022)

The new issue includes an Editor’s Note from Editor Siyuan Liu remembering scholar Dr. Po-Hsien Chun who taught and held seminars in theater and performance studies. Chun had recently published a review in Asian Theatre Journal Volume 37 Number 2 (Fall 2020) of Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City by Lorraine Plourde. Liu states:

The third winner of last year’s AAP emerging scholar competition, Po-Hsien Chu, was also scheduled to publish his essay in the current issue, although he decided to postpone the revision to focus on his teaching as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Sadly, we will not have a chance to read his work as he passed away unexpectedly earlier this year. I would like to direct our readers to AAP’s remembrance of Po-Hsien, which describes him as “a brilliant scholar of Sinophone theater and performance, a nurturer of the field of Sinophone Studies, a generous and witty collaborator, a punctilious teacher, and above all, a cherished colleague who made scholarly fellowship into an art.”

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Biography

Volume 45, Number 1 (2022)

Screening Clara Schumann: Biomythography, Gender, and the Relational Biopic
Julia Novak

Textile Auto/biography: Protest, Testimony, and Solidarity in the Chilean Arpillerista Movement
Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

Identity Work, Sexuality, and the Reception of Testimony: On Identification with Anne Frank
Hannah Jakobsen

Autobiographical Convergences: A Cultural Analysis of Books by Swedish Digital Media Influencers
Gabriella Nilsson

Sports Journalism and Women Athletes: Coverage of Coming Out Stories by William P. Cassidy (review)
Michael Tsai

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CHINOPERL

Volume 41, Number 2 (2022)

The new issue contains the following articles, translations, and memorials:

Nightmares, Daydreams, and Sleeplessness: Nighttime Performances and the Uneven End of Early Modernity in China
Andrea S. Goldman

Early Phonograph Records and Music Scores of Jingju: Materialization, Textualization, and Oral Transmission of Tan Xinpei’s Arias
Hai Zhen

Human Doors, Ghost Doors: Entrances and Exits in Qing Court Theater
Judith T. Zeitlin

Pu Songling: The Union of Beast and Beauty
Wilt L. Idema

Baihua ting 百花亭(The Pavilion of One Hundred Flowers), An Anonymous Zaju Play, Part I
Shu-Chu Wei and Catherine Swatek

The Queen of Kunqu—In Memory of Hua Wenyi
Yihui Sheng

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Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society

Volume 15 Number 2 (2022)

The new issue contains the following articles:

Notes on Kodi Phonology
Joseph Lovestrand, Misriani Balle, and Owen Edwards

Identifying (In)Definiteness in Vietnamese Noun Phrase
Trang Phan and Gennaro Chierchia

A Preliminary phonology and Latin-based orthography of Para Naga (Jejara), Northwest Myanmar
Melissa Lubbe, Tiffany Priest, and Sigrid Lew

Examining Main Clause Similarity and Frequency Effects in the Production of Tagalog Relative Clauses
Nozomi Tanaka, Paul Ivan, and Kamil Dean

The Dynamics of Language Shift among Lawa-Speaking Families in Northern Thailand
Rakkhun Panyawuthakrai and Mayuree Thawornpat

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Journal of World History

Volume 33 Number 4 (2022)

The new issue contains the following articles:

Culture Contacts in Ancient Worlds: A Review of Theoretical Debates and Practical Applications
Anke Kein

Interaction and Localization: New Insights into Early Metallurgy in China
Kunlong Chen, Jianjun Mei, Lu Wang, and Anke Hein

Akan Relations, Commercial Networks, and the Portuguese Empire in West Africa, 1482–1637
Edmond Smith and Mariana Boscariol

Connecting Eurasia: Jesuit Experimentation with Overland Mobility Between China and Europe, 1656–1664
Yuval Givon

African Americans and the Lynching of Foreign Nationals in the United States
William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb

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Philosophy East and West

Volume 72, Number 4 (2022)

The new issue contains the following articles:

Remembering Herb Fingarette
Michael Nylan

Abortion in Watsujian Ethics: An Argument for a New Understanding
Steve Bein

A Buddhist Critique of Marx: Unveiling Flaws in “Desire”
Nishanathe Dahanayake

Lives of Pleasure: A Comparative Essay on Cārvāka and Epicurean Ethics
Christopher Paone

Contest, Game, Disgrace: On Philosophy and Buddhism
Rafal K. Stepien

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Honoring David L. Rolsten, Sonic Narratives in Modern Korea + Girls in Japanese Literature

Posted on September 14, 2022September 14, 2022 by mmyama

CHINOPERL

Volume 41, Number 1 (2022)

Special Issue: Honoring David L. Rolston

Associate Editor Catherine Swatek and Editorial Board Member Robert E. Hegel remember Rolston in the following introduction:

Given his publication record, one might assume that David L. Rolston is a scholar of narrative fiction. For his first major publication, David served as editor of How to Read the Chinese Novel, a milestone in providing English-language readers a glimpse of reading practices and practical criticism contemporaneous with Ming and Qing novels themselves. Not merely the compiler of the translations that comprise six of the book’s seven chapters, David’s work can be seen throughout the volume, from adding innumerable notes and explanations to the “How to Read” (dufa讀法) translations; to writing essays on the sources, history, and formal aspects of traditional fiction criticism; to compiling explanatory appendices and an extensive bibliography for each of the masterworks covered. This project was completed before David finished his Chicago doctorate.

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Korean Studies

Volume 46, Number 2 (2021)

Special Section: “Music That Moves: Sonic Narratives in Modern Korea”

This Special Section features discussion on 1960’s protect songs to K-pop idols. Editor Cheehyung Harrison Kim notes:

Culture is at once a medium through which we make sense of the
world (for good or ill), a field of empowerment for the underprivileged, and a source of hegemony for the state and corporations. This cultural complexity is discernible in South Korea’s current political landscape, and it is also the very theme explored in this volume’s Special Section “Music That Moves: Sonic Narratives in Modern Korea,” dexterously guest edited by Dafna Zur and Susan Hwang. In Katherine Lee’s elegant piece on the World Vision Korean Orphan Choir, musical performance is at the heart of transnational religiosity and Cold War politics. Transnationalism is also the framework of Dafna Zur and Yoon Joo Hwang’s original research on children’s music during the colonial period, when the merger between western style of songwriting and Korean emotionality unevenly transpired in the genre of tongyo. Music as a field of popular resistance is the core of Pil Ho Kim’s audacious piece on South Korea’s 1960s protest songs, which, for Kim, is a pre-minjung expression of the multitude. Susan Hwang’s emotionally prodigious article, too, is on the resistive and resilient aspect of music, which, in the aftermath of the 1980 Kwangju Uprising, served as a crucial repertoire for the counter-state. From the opposite side, music as practice of hegemonic efficacy is dealt with in Alexandra Leonzini and Peter Moody’s intricate article on North Korea’s sonic culture, as it is done in Roald Maliangkay’s perspicacious study on South Korea’s use of K-pop in marketing. Whether the hegemonic entity is the state or a corporation, music is, in these two articles, a potent medium of influence.

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U.S. Japan Women’s Journal

Volume 62 (2022)

Special Issue: Girls and Literature

As expressed by authors Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase and Wakako Suzuki in the introduction:

The literary genre shōjo shōsetsu emerged in conjunction with the rise of girls’ education in the Meiji period. Early stories were meant to educate readers to become “good wives and wise mothers.” Accordingly, shōjo shōsetsu endured restrictions on the narratives they could tell, limiting the breadth of their authors’ artistic and literary possibilities. Shōjo shōsetsu evolved and diversified in the postwar era and, especially starting in the 1980s, became a means for young female authors to empower themselves. Shōjo shōsetsu have declined in popularity recently as readers consume stories more broadly across media and genres. The goal of this special issue is to contemplate the function, meanings, and problems of shōjo shōsetsu. Instead of merely confining ourselves to a rigid, unified notion of shōjo shōsetsu, we consider shōjo characters from the wider literary world, investigating their roles, functions, and cultural implications.

The new issue includes the following articles:

Introduction: Girls and Literature
イントロダクション：少女と文学
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase and Wakako Suzuki

Trees That Grow Kimono (1895)
着物のなる木
Wakamatsu Shizuko 若松賤子
Translated by Wakako Suzuki

Kawabata Yasunari’s The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa as the
Territory of the Dispossessed Girl
追い立てられた少女の領域としての『浅草紅団』
Barbara Hartley

Love and Sexuality in Postwar Girls’ Culture: Examining
Tomishima Takeo’s Junior Fictiona
戦後少女文化における恋愛と性愛：富島健夫の
ジュニア小説をめぐって
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

Countdown to the Demise of Girls’ Novels
少女小説のカウントダウンの開始
Kume Yoriko 久米依子
Translated and Introduced by Barbara Hartley

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New Journal Issues: Schooling Journeys in the Southwestern Pacific, #KuToo Online Feminist Movement in Japan, Geographic Analysis of COVID-19 in L.A. + More

Posted on January 14, 2022February 8, 2022 by mmyama

Chinoperl: Journal of Chinese Oral & Performing Literature

Volume 40, Number 2 (2021)

The new issue includes the following articles and reviews:

“Making History”: Metatheatre in the Peach Blossom Fan
Allison Bernard

Passionate Space of a Beijing Theater: Annotated Translation of an Excerpt from The Precious Mirror of Ranking Flowers (Pinhua Baojian)
Naixi Feng

Wu Song Kills the Tiger: Transcription and Translation of a Cantonese Narrative Song from a Live Performance, with an Introduction
Bell Yung

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The Contemporary Pacific

Volume 22, Issue 2 (2021)

Special Issue: Schooling Journeys in the Southwestern Pacific

From the Guest Editors Rachel Emerine Hicks, Debra McDougall, and David Oakeshott in The Promise of Education: Schooling Journeys in the Southwester Pacific:

“Schooling journeys” is more than a metaphor in the southwestern Pacific. To step into a classroom, children and youth often travel hours each day or live for months at a time away from their families. The journey of schooling is rarely direct; it often winds between formal and informal learning and in and out of school, work, and home life. And the journey is expensive; many families struggle mightily to gather the money for fees, school supplies, uniforms, and transportation. Young people embark on these precarious journeys, and their families make sacrifices to support them, because schooling promises a better life—a move away from the backbreaking labor of subsistence agriculture toward a reliable salary that will better support their family and community. Because of the structural inequalities in school and a lack of jobs for those who complete schooling, however, few experience the socioeconomic advancement schooling promises. Still, students and their families continue to hope that schooling will lead to well-paid work. Even more important, though, going to school is seen as key to being a competent and effective person in society—increasingly for both women and men.

Hawaiian Journal of History

Volume 55 (2021)

The new issue includes the following articles, reviews, notes, and queries:

Aloha Space Age: NASA and the Hawaiian Islands, 1957—1970
David A. Smith

The First Attempt to Overthrow Liliʻuokalani
Ralph Thomas Kam

Dr. Richard You and the Golden Age of Hawaiʻi’s Athletics
John D. Fair

Incarcerating a Nation: The Arrest and Imprisonment of Political Prisoners by the Republic of Hawaiʻi, 1895
Ronald Williams Jr.

Hawaiian Women’s Fashions: Kapa, Cotton and Silk by Agnes Terao-Guiala (review)
Linda Arthur Bradley

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U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal

Volume 60 (2021)

The new issue includes the following articles and reviews:

Yosano Akiko in Belle Époque Paris / ベル・エポックのパリの与謝野晶子
Scott Mehl

Wound as Allegory: Forced Incestuous Rape on the Battlefield and Takeda Taijun’s Androcentric Sekai / アレゴリーとしての傷：戦場における近親レイプと武田泰淳の男性中心的「世界」
Junliang Huang

Painful Connections: The “Making” of the #KuToo Online Feminist Movement in Japan / 苦痛なつながり：日本における#KuTooオンラインフェミニスト運動の「形成」
Leng Junxiao

Raising Awareness of Cassandra Syndrome through Manga: Nonami Tsuna’s My Husband, Akira, Has Asperger’s Syndrome / 漫画で語るカサンドラ症候群：野波ツナの「旦那（アキラ）さんはアスペルガー」
Yoshiko Okuyama

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Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers

Volume 83 (2021)

Editor Craig S. Revels reflects over the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has affected geographers and members as he states:

Last year’s volume was published in a time of great uncertainty as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, and this year’s unfortunately arrives under similar conditions, slowly improving though they may be. The tragedies, disruptions, and general state of societal affairs during the pandemic will not soon be forgotten…

Geographers have been at the forefront of research into the spread of COVID-19 since the earliest days of the pandemic, and Steve Graves and Petra Nichols contribute an analytical perspective on infection rates in Los Angeles County. In particular, they statistically identify a causal relationship between infection and a range of key socioeconomic and demographic variables, a relationship influencing the location and rate of spread for the disease. They leave us to consider how those factors must be addressed in any preparations for future public health crises.

In a significantly different context, Ray Sumner and John Menary
demonstrate that taking students into the field, always a valuable exercise, is even more rewarding when it leads to unexpected discoveries and challenges our carefully laid plans. In this case, a straightforward field methods class oriented around the Los Angeles River instead became an open-ended, student-driven exploration into the social dimensions of heritage, ethnicity,
culture, and urban development.

University of Hawai‘i Press to Publish CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral & Performing Literature

Posted on May 5, 2020May 6, 2020 by journals

The University of Hawai‘i Press partners with The Permanent Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature for the continued publication of CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral & Performing Literature, starting with the summer 2020 issue.

An interdisciplinary journal, CHINOPERL has been published continuously since 1969 and is the only Western-language journal in its field. The interplay between orality, performance, and written traditions is a question that concerns anyone who studies China, and the journal focuses on literature connected to oral performance, either formally on stage or as a means of everyday communication. This literature ranges from proverbs to poetry, folk songs to hip-hop.

“We are excited to work with the University of Hawai‘i Press, which has a well-deserved reputation for excellence,” said editor Margaret B. Wan. “CHINOPERL welcomes diverse contributions to Chinese performance studies. Recent issues have explored Chinese performance in diaspora, the intersection of social and cultural history, and new approaches from media studies, gender studies, religious studies, and digital humanities.”

The forthcoming issue is a special issue on Regional Language and Performance Texts in the Qing, co-edited by Margaret B. Wan and Catherine Swatek. The issue grew out of a panel at the Association of Asian Studies meeting in 2017. The new issue will also feature a newly designed cover.

“CHINOPERL’s interdisciplinary and global approach makes this title a great addition to our journals list,” said Joel Cosseboom, UH Press Interim Director and Publisher.

CHINOPERL joins the established Asian Studies journals published by UH Press, including Azalea, Asian Theatre Journal, and China Review International, among others.

The journal welcomes submissions on Chinese oral and performing literature, whether historical, descriptive, theoretical, or interdisciplinary in nature. Submission and subscription information can be found at uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/chp. All 38 volumes of CHINOPERL’s archive are also now available on Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/chinoperl).

About Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (中國演唱文藝研究會)

CHINOPERL (chinoperl.osu.edu) is an organization that is devoted to the research, analysis, and interpretation of oral and performing traditions, broadly defined, and their relationship to China’s culture and society. Its membership consists of scholars in the humanities and the social sciences who recognize the significance of oral performance to Chinese literature and culture. CHINOPERL celebrated its 50th anniversary at the 2019 CHINOPERL Conference. CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature is its official publication.