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Cross-Currents, vol. 5, no. 1 (2016)

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Tiles from the proposed version of reformed mahjong mentioned in “The Game People Played” by Maggie Greene in this issue. From the right, tiles include government types, classes of citizens, countries, continents, oceans, and technology.

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review volume 5, number 1 is now available and features the following articles:

  • The Game People Played: Mahjong in Modern Chinese Society and Culture by Maggie Greene
  • The Afterlives of An Chunggŭn in Republican China: From Sinocentric Appropriation to a Rupture in Nationalism by Inhye Han
  • Against the Nihilism of Suffering and Death: Richard E.K. Kim and His Works by Jooyeon Rhee
  • Street Theater and Subject Formation in Wartime China: Toward a New Form of Public Art by Xiaobing Tang
  • Domesticating Hybridity: Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage Projects in Malaysia and Singapore by Karen M. Teoh
  • A Russian Radical and East Asia in the Early Twentieth Century: Sudzilovsky, China, and Japan by Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja)
  • Imagining Urban Community: Contested Geographies and Parallax Urban Dreams on Cheju Island, South Korea by Tommy Tran

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Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, vol. 9 (2016)

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From Kim Jung Soo’s paintings in this issue of Azalea.

Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture volume 9 features the following writings, poetry, and artwork:

CONTENTS:

Editor’s Note

Writer in Focus: Song Sokze

Sora Kim-Russell, Jenny Wang Medina, Jae Won Chung
Translator’s Roundtable with Song Sokze

Song Sokze
A Real Piece of Work
Tale of Cho Tong-gwan
Roughing It Continue reading “Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, vol. 9 (2016)”

Journal of Korean Religions, vol. 7, no. 1 (2016)

Journal of Korean Religions vol. 7, no. 1 features the following articles by scholars:

Research Articles

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AAA, vol. 66, no. 1 (2016)

FIG. 2. Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara, Mogao Cave 14, south wall, Tang dynasty, mid-9th–early 10th century. Dunhuang, China, mural painting. From Liang Weiying, Dunhuang shiku yishu: Mogao ku di shisi ku (wan Tang) (Nanjing: Jiangsu meishu chubanshe, 1996), pl. 94. By permission of the Dunhuang Research Academy.
Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara, Mogao Cave 14, mid-9th–early 10th century. Dunhuang, China. From The Thousand-armed Manjusri at Dunhuang and Paired Images in Buddhist Visual Culture in this issue. By permission of the Dunhuang Research Academy.

Archives of Asian Art, volume 66, number 1 features the following essays and works:

The Expanse of Archaeological Remains at Nalanda: A Study Using Remote Sensing and GIS
M. B. Rajani

The Literati, the Eunuch, and a Memorial: The Nelson-Atkins’s Red Cliff Handscroll Revisited
Lei Xue Continue reading “AAA, vol. 66, no. 1 (2016)”

Journal of World History, vol. 26, no. 2 (2015)

The Journal of World History volume 26 number 2 features the following articles by world history scholars:

  • Nutritional Standards of Living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), circa 1644-circa 1840: Clarifying Data for Reciprocal Comparisons, by Kent Deng and Patrick O’Brien
  • The Soviet Union, the United States, and Industrial Agriculture, by Aaron Hale-Dorrell
  • Collective Learning: A Potential Unifying Theme of Human History, by David Baker
  • On the Precipice of Ruin: Consumption, Sumptuary Laws, and Decadence in Early Modern Portuguese India, by Nandini Chaturvendula
  • Book Reviews

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 55, no. 1 (2016)

The location of languages of Timor, Map1 from the Oceanic Linguistics vol. 55 no. 1 article, “Parallel Sound Correspondences in Uab Meto” by Owen Edwards.

ARTICLES in Oceanic Linguistics Vol. 55, No. 1:

  • Time as Space Metaphor in Isbukun Bunun: A Semantic Analysis by Shuping Huang
  • Pluractionality in Ranmo by Jenny Lee
  • Parallel Sound Correspondences in Uab Meto by Own Edwards
  • Indirect Possessive Hosts in North Ambrym: Evidence for Gender by Michael Franjieh
  • Raising out of CP in Mod-Asp Adverbial Verb Constructions in Amis by Yi-Ting Chen
  • The Noun-Verb Distinction in Kanakanavu and Saaroa: Evidence from Pronouns by Stacy F. Teng and Elizabeth Zeitoun
  • Reassessing the Position of Kanakanavu and Saaroa among the Formosan Languages by Elizabeth Zeitoun and Stacy F. Teng
  • Magi: An Undocumented Language of Papua New Guinea by Don Daniels
  • On the Development of the Lexeme aya in Paiwan by Fuhui Hsieh
  • Kelabit-Lun Dayeh Phonology, with Special Reference to the Voiced Aspirates by Robert Blust
  • Reviews by Victoria Chen, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Gary Holton, and Tyler Heston

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Biography Vol. 38 No. 4 (2015)

Martin Edmond, from the article “something else is going on, an interaction, an exchange”: Martin Edmond’s Lives.” © Copyright and used by permission of the photographer, Matt Bialostocki.

In this new issue, Ingrid Horrocks’ essay “something else is going on, an interaction, an exchange: Martin Edmond’s Lives,”

analyzes New Zealand-born essayist and biographer Martin Edmond’s evolving biographical practice, and argues that it is revealing because it both maintains the centrality of the first person singular so common to life writing, and works to stretch to its limits the very idea of what it is to be a person.

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China Review International, vol. 20, nos. 3 & 4 (2013)

This double issue of China Review International, vol. 20, nos. 3 & 4, includes the following works:

FEATURES

Political Development in China: State, Law, and Democracy
(Reviewing Mireille Delmas-Marty, Pierre-Etienne Will, editors, Naomi Norberg, translator, China, Democracy, and Law: A Historical and Contemporary Approach; Peter Zarrow, editor, After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924)
Reviewed by Douglas Howland

Writing a Chronicle History of One-Child Policy: Three Books by Susan Greenhalgh
(Reviewing Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin Winckler, Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics; Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China; Susan Greenhalgh, Cultivating Global Citizens: Population in the Rise of China)
Reviewed by Xiying Wang Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 20, nos. 3 & 4 (2013)”

Archives of Asian Art – Sale on issues.

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Special Offer on issues of Archives of Asian Art

Single back issues are regularly $35 each but you may order now at the special rate of $25 each. The special double issue (vol. 65) is priced at only $40.

Postage is included for mailing addresses within the USA. For shipping outside the USA, please add $5.00 per issue ordered.

We are also offering a special discounted individual subscription rate if you renew now for Volume 66, 2016 (in production).  Regularly $60, now only $50 and includes shipping within the USA.

This special offer expires August 1, 2016. Please order soon for best selection! Continue reading “Archives of Asian Art – Sale on issues.”

Asian Perspectives, vol. 54, no. 2 (2015)

Fig. 10. The curious depiction of the “steamship”: 1) square block amidships; 2) line linking the foreward section of the boat to the bow; 3) thick horizontal line at the stern; 4) cabin; 5–7) cabin sections. Photograph by Noel Hidalgo Tan. "The Curious Case of the Steamship on the Mekong" The depiction of the steamship in Tham Phum, a sacred cave with a long religious tradition and connections with the royal court in Luang Prabang, suggests the painting had some sort of commemorative function. We speculate that it may have been painted to memorialize the sinking of La Grandière in 1910 or the Trentinian in 1928.
Photo by Noel Hidalgo Tan
The “steamship” as mentioned in The Curious Case of the Steamship on the Mekong in this issue. The article speculates that the depiction of the steamship in Tham Phum, a sacred cave with a long religious tradition, might have been painted to memorialize the sinking of La Grandière in 1910 or the Trentinian in 1928.

This issue of Asian Perspectives features the following scholarly works:

Articles

Landscape Evolution and Human Settlement Patterns on Ofu Island, Manu’s Group, American Samoa
Seth Quintus, Jeffery T. Clark, Stephanie S. Day, and Donald P. Schwert

Obscuring the Line between the Living and the Dead: Mortuary Activities inside the Grave Chambers of the Eastern Han Dynasty,
Zhou Ligang

The Curious Case of the Steamship on the Mekong
Noel Hidalgo Tan and Veronica Walker-Vadillo Continue reading “Asian Perspectives, vol. 54, no. 2 (2015)”