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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

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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

Find more special features and articles at Project MUSE.

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.”

Find more reviews and articles at Project MUSE.

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

Find more reviews and articles at Project MUSE.

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

Find more at Project MUSE.

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

Find more articles at eVols.

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

Find more articles and book reviews at Project MUSE.

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

Read more articles and book reviews at Project MUSE .

Profile of Jazz Artist Gabe Baltazar Airs on Voice of America

Posted on February 27, 2014 by UH Press Marketing

The Paul Togawa Quartet, circa late 1950s. L to R: Gabe Baltazar, Paul Togawa, Dick Johnston, Buddy Woodson.

Broadcast journalist Heidi Chang‘s story on Gabe Baltazar Jr. as a pioneering Asian American jazz musician aired internationally on Voice of America. The show is archived on the VOA website; click here to read and listen (and comment!). It reveals just a sampling of what is in Gabe’s autobiography, If It Swings, It’s Music.

NPR Highlights Jazz Musician Gabe Baltazar Jr.

Posted on September 20, 2013 by UH Press Marketing

On September 28, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday will broadcast journalist Heidi Chang‘s profile of Gabe Baltazar Jr. as a pioneering Asian American jazz artist. The piece draws from his UH Press book, If It Swings, It’s Music, and features in-person interviews with the legendary saxophonist and coauthor Theo Garneau, along with some of Baltazar’s musical highlights.

Weekend Edition Saturday is a two-hour program hosted by NPR’s Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon. Please check your local NPR-affiliate listings for air times. For those in Hawai‘i, the Weekend Edition show will be on HPR-2, starting at 5 a.m. HST (O‘ahu listeners can tune in to KIPO 89.3).

UPDATE: The story is archived on the NPR site for listening and viewing. Click here.

To hear more from Gabe, Hawai‘i Public Radio‘s The Conversation aired an interview by Chris Vandercook in August last year.

For a sultry treat, listen to Gabe’s performance of Santana’s “Europa” at the Hawai‘i State Art Museum on July 22, 2012. . .when he was 82—fantastic!

April 2013 Author Events

Posted on April 10, 2013 by UH Press Marketing

Whether you’re in or near New York, Carlsbad, D.C., or Kaunakakai, please join UHP authors at their events!

Thursday, April 11
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Bianca Bosker will be at the China Institute, NYC, to speak on her intriguing new book, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China, and the phenomenon of “duplitecture.” Click here for event details and to purchase tickets ($10 member / $15 non-member).

For more on this fascinating topic:
Read the Atlantic article Duplitectural Marvels: Exploring China’s Replica Western Cities
Listen to an interview of Bianca Bosker by Chris Gondek of Heronandcrane on Portland State’s KPSU.

Saturday, April 13
2:00 p.m.
Head over to the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California for “Sincerely, Ukulele,” featuring Jim Tranquada’s book talk on The ‘Ukulele: A History, followed by a performance by ‘ukulele artist Brittni Paiva. For details and to purchase tickets, click here.

Sunday, April 14
In a mash-up of sorts, two UH Press authors will present short lectures as part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival‘s two-day anime marathon, which will feature all 26 episodes of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo. Both talks are free and will be held in the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art.

11:00 a.m.
“Ukiyo-e Pictures and the World of the Pleasure Quarters”
Julie Nelson Davis, associate professor in the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty.

3:00 p.m.
“Picaresque Tales, Travelers and Lawbreakers”
Constantine Vaporis, professor and director of Asian studies, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus; author of Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan.

Wednesday, April 24
5:30 p.m.
Anwei Law will sign her monumental work, Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory, at Kalele Bookstore & Divine Expressions in the heart of Kaunakakai, Moloka‘i. Currently a resident of Seneca Falls, NY, where she works as the international coordinator of IDEA, she will be visiting Hawai‘i during most of May–watch for a post on next month’s events.

March 2013 Author Events #1: Night at Waialua Library

Posted on March 5, 2013 by UH Press Marketing

This week the Waialua and North Shore community looks forward to this fun fundraiser for their public library.

Thursday, March 7, 6:30 p.m.
O‘ahu North Shore authors will discuss their recently published books at the annual Friends of Waialua Library Authors’ Night. Among the presenters this year is master jazz saxophonist Gabe Baltazar Jr., who will “talk story” on his wonderful memoir, If It Swings, It’s Music, and play a tune or two (or three) with a guitarist friend that is sure to be the highlight of an entertaining evening. As the Friends’ newsletter words it: “We won’t promise, but we are hoping that this gracious and generous man will give us a sampling of the jazz playing that made him famous.” Even without the music, Gabe is a treasure!

Joining Gabe at the same Authors’ Night are fellow Waialua residents George and Willa Tanabe to speak on the subject of their newest book, Japanese Buddhist Temples in Hawai‘i: An Illustrated Guide. The Tanabes could fill (and, in fact, have filled) an entire evening discussing their fascinating work that resulted from researching all 90 extant Japanese Buddhist temples in the Hawaiian islands. Given that the program features two additional authors (Waimea Williams/Aloha, Mozart and Courtnie Chang/Kolohe ‘Iole), they will give an abbreviated version.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call (808) 637-8286.

Conversations with UH Press Authors

Posted on August 30, 2012 by UH Press Marketing

Besides the NPR “Crime in the City” interview with Victoria Kneubuhl that aired August 13, other “talk stories” with UH Press authors took place in the past month:

Hawai‘i Public Radio‘s The Conversation interviewed jazz saxophonist Gabe Baltazar about his memoir, If It Swings, It’s Music. Listen to the “Book ’em, Gabe-o…with a new autobiography” in the HPR archives for August 7.

Gabe was also featured in the “Old Friends” column that appeared in the August 29 edition of MidWeek, mailed to over 270,000 homes in Hawai‘i. Read the online version here.

On August 27, HPR’s The Conversation caught up with Jim Tranquada at Occidental College to talk about The ‘Ukulele: A History. Listen to the “Madeiran melody maker morphs into a jumping flea…” in the archived show.

The editor of MauiTime interviewed author Tom Coffman about his inspiring new book, I Respectfully Dissent: A Biography of Edward H. Nakamura. Read Coffman’s take on Justice Nakamura’s legacy as a labor attorney and Supreme Court justice in the August 23 cover story, “Standing Alone.”