The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women’s Higher Education in Japan
Yoshiko Furuki
196 pages
Cloth | 978-0-8248-5339-6 | $31.00

The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko: One Woman’s Transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan
Laura Nenzi
280 pages
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3957-4 | $48.00

Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia
Ellen Rafferty, Molly F. Burns, and Shintia Argazali-Thomas

264 pages
Not for sale in Southeast Asia, Published in association with NUS Press
Volume 1 | 978-0-8248-3478-4 |$27.00
Volume 2 | 978-0-8248-3574-3 | $29.00
Volume 3 | 978-0-5248-3575-0 | $32.00

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A Study of Saisiyat Morphology
Elizabeth Zeitoun, Chu Tai-hwa, and Lalo a tahesh kabaybaw630 pages
Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications, No. 40Paper | 978-0-8248-5042-5 | $40.00

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The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan

Asuka Sango
304 pages
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3986-4 | $54.00

Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma

Alicia Turner
240 pages | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3937-6 | $54.00

Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea

Albert L. Park
320 pages
Cloth | 978-0-8248-3965-9 | $56.00

Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Later Imperial China

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The Jageshwar Valley, Where Death Is Conquered
Nachiket Chanchani, 133

Continue reading “Archives of Asian Art, vol. 63, no. 2 (2013)”

How can we qualify slowness in cinema? What is the relationship between a cinema of slowness and a wider sociocultural “slow movement”? A body of films that shares a propensity toward slowness has emerged in many parts of the world over the past two decades. This is the first book to examine the concept of cinematic slowness and address this fascinating phenomenon in contemporary film culture. 

Providing a critical investigation into questions of temporality, materiality, and aesthetics, and examining concepts of authorship, cinephilia, and nostalgia, Song Hwee Lim offers insight into cinematic slowness through the films of the Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang. Through detailed analysis of aspects of stillness and silence in cinema, Lim delineates the strategies by which slowness in film can be constructed. By drawing on writings on cinephilia and the films of directors such as Abbas Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, he makes a passionate case for a slow cinema that calls for renewed attention to the image and to the experience of time in film. 

Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness will speak to readers with an interest in art cinema, queer studies, East Asian culture, and the question of time. In an age of unrelenting acceleration of pace both in film and in life, this book invites us to pause and listen, to linger and look, and, above all, to take things slowly. 

Written by Song Hwee Lim
2014 | 240 pages | 29 illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3684-9 | $45.00s | Cloth

What are people’s life experiences in present-day Japan? Capturing Contemporary Japan addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household, a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the “professional” housewife, managed the domestic sphere and the children, who were educated in a system that provided a path to mainstream success.

Contributors draw on rich, nuanced fieldwork data collected during the 2000s to examine work, schooling, family and marital relations, child rearing, entertainment, lifestyle choices, community support, consumption and waste, material culture, well-being, aging, death and memorial rites, and sexuality. The voices in these pages vary widely: They include schoolchildren, teenagers, career women, unmarried women, young mothers, people with disabilities, small business owners, organic farmers, retirees, and the elderly.

Edited by Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long

2014 | 376 pages | 12 illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3868-3 | $55.00s | Cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3869-0 | $25.00s | Paper

The table of contents below contains links to the MUSE edition of each article and shows either an abstract or a sample image from each of the main entries.

Exorcism from the Streets to the Tomb: An Image of the Judge and Minions in the Xuanhua Liao Tomb No. 7
Jeehee Hong, 1

As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press will be closed the week of March 25-29, 2013, and will reopen on Monday, April 1.

The table of contents below contains links to the MUSE edition of each article and shows either an abstract or a sample image from each of the main entries.

Updates on Archives of Asian Art
Stanley K. Abe, iv

Behind the Scenes at Archives: An Appreciation of Naomi Noble Richard
Marsha Haufler and John M. Rosenfield, 1
Continue reading “Archives of Asian Art, vol. 62 (2012)”

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