Pacific Science

Asian Theatre Journal

Volume 43, Number 1 (2026)

Editor Siyuan Liu signs off as we introduce a new editor Man He in From the Editor stating:

After eight years as ATJ editor, I am stepping down after this issue. Man He will take over as the new editor. It has been a tremendous learning experience. I am grateful to everyone who helped make the task possible, from the authors, editors, reviewers, editorial assistants, and the editors and production teams at the UH Press to our readers.

With the exception of Emerging Scholar Essays, which always appear in the fall issue, this issue is complete with every regular format in ATJ: translation, article, report, performance review, and book review.

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Biography

Volume 47, Number 3 (2024)

Craig Howes discusses the new issue in the Editor’s Note stating:

When George Simson decided in 1978 to call Biography an Interdisciplinary Quarterly, he was optimistic, but determined. Although the vast majority of the journal’s contributors were housed in literature and history departments, with a decided bent toward textual studies, the masthead listed an ambitious range of recruited editors, ready to evaluate essays emerging from many academic disciplines. As we approach our fiftieth anniversary, this issue of Biography suggests that George’s hopes for the journal have come closer to being realized.

The editors, reviewers, and essayists represented include archaeologists, psychiatrists, theatre and performance scholars, and specialists in American, Russian, Carribean, Jewish, and Arab American Studies. Black Studies, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Disability Studies are also represented. And even while still situated in literature and language departments, as the contributor biographies bear out, many are interdisciplinary scholars.

This state of affairs points to the nature of lifewriting as a field with permeable boundaries. Whenever the course of human events figures into research, policy, ethics, or instruction, lifewriting or life narrative in the broadest sense is a factor to be considered. Biography has published such considerations, regardless of field, and will continue to do so.

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The Contemporary Pacific

Volume 37, Number 1 (2025)

Seeking Peace in Religious Teachings: Women’s Responses to Domestic Violence in Rural Vanuatu
Donna Jella Tagaro and Naohiro Nakamura

Pacific Studies: Engaging Law, Anthropology, Archives, and the Arts
Katerina Teaiwa, Terence Wesley-Smith, and Talei Luscia Mangioni

Pacific Studies and Anthropology: Articulations and Disarticulations
April K Henderson

Unsettling Legal Imperialism and Cultivating Homegrown Law: Why Law Schools Need Pacific Studies
Rebecca Monson, Dylan Asafo, Joseph D Foukona, and Bridget Fa‘amatuainu

Citing Ourselves
Talei Luscia Mangioni and Lisa Hilli

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Journal of World History

Volume 37, Number 2 (2026)

Kita Ikki and Zeng Qi: National Socialism in East Asia, Late 1910s–Early 1930s
Nagatomi Hirayama

The Spanish Naval Station in the Pacific: A Frustrated Project of Global Regeneration (1833–1866)
Rodrigo Escribano Roca and Mikel Gómez Gastiasoro

Koreans Skilled Workers in Japan after the East Asian War of 1592–1598: Pak Hoin and Tofu in Early Modern Tosa Domain
Floris van Swet

Industrial Lessons Abroad: Chinese Engineers in Britain, 1933–1948
Qing Chen

Anti-Colonial Activism and Multi-Imperial Entanglements: Reassessing the 1932 Hongkou Bombing Incident in Interwar Shanghai
Taoyu Yang

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Touchable/Untouchable: Dalit Literature from India in Translation

Mānoa

Volume Volume 37, Number 2 (2026)

Touchable/Untouchable Dalit Literature from India in Translation

Guest Editors K. Satyanarayana and S. Shankar discuss their inspiration for these translations stating:

This issue of Mānoa presents Dalit literature from India in translation to a global audience of readers in English.

Why should readers outside India care about Dalit literature? For one thing, contemporary Dalit literature is among the most interesting and vibrant of literary enterprises currently underway in India. Contemporary Dalit literature has at one and the same time borne gripping witness to the centuries-old atrocious institution of exclusion and oppression known as caste, at the bottom of which Dalits are located as the most excluded and the most oppressed, and broken invigorating new literary ground. For these reasons alone, the value of reading Dalit literature should be evident. Dalit literature deserves a global audience, which it has begun to receive in recent years. This issue adds to Dalit literature’s global reach in significant ways.

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Oceanic Linguistics

Volume 65, Number 1 (2026)

Suprasegmental Adaptation of Japanese Loanwords in Isbukun Bunun
Hui-shan Lin

Observations on Malagasy Presentatives
Ileana Paul, Vanilla Diane Dimisy, Baholisoa Simone Ralalaoherivony, Jeannot Fils Ranaivoson, Lisa Travis

Contact or Inheritance? New Evidence on the Proto-Philippines Hypothesis
Victoria Chen, Maria Kristina Gallego, Jonathan Kuo, Isaac Stead, and Benjamin van der Voorn

The Languages of Atauro Island
Christoph Bracks and Owen Edwards

Gender Vocalism in the South Bird’s Head Languages in Comparative Perspective
Lourens de Vries

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Volume 79 Number 4 (2025)

We bid a fond farewell to David Duffy as he departs from his role of Editor in Chief at Pacific Science who shares these words:

Pacific Science will be publishing its 80th volume next year, so it has survived much and is likely to persist. A new editor will bring fresh ideas and stamina. We are lucky to have Steve Young taking over the next volume. He received his degree from the University of California, Davis, working on plant and soil interactions related to the restoration of arid grasslands in the western US. He has spent time at the University
of Nebraska, Cornell, Utah State University, and most recently the USDA before taking a position at Oregon State about an hour north of me. I expect we will have future opportunities to get together to exchange war stories about editing this journal. I will leave it to him in the next issue to share his hopes and aspirations for
Pacific Science. “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”—Garrison Keillor

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Philosophy East and West

Volume 76, Number 2 (2026)

The Confucian Perspective on Friendship: Healing from Trauma, Moral Disruption, and Disconnection
Mark Kevin S. Cabural

Translating Science into New Dictates of the Way: The Tianyan Cosmology and Yan Fu’s Ethical Imaginings
Limin Chi

Guo Xiang’s Value Monism
Jason Dockstader

Intelligibility or Meaning: Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming on Cosmic Life
Timo Ennen

What Is an Emotion? An Early Chinese Perspective in the Xing Zi Ming Chu
Wenqing Zhao

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Dr. Dieter Mueller-Dombois at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. Photograph taken by Nicholas Tomasello

The new issue of Pacific Science pays tribute to Dr. Dieter Mueller-Dombois, who is best known for his work studying the ōhi‘a forests of Hawai‘i for over fifty years.

The double issue complies new articles reflecting Mueller-Dombois’s research, with many papers written by his students and those influenced by his work. Editor David Duffy—along with researchers James D. Jacobi, Donald R. Drake, Kanehiro Kitayama and Peter Vitousek—remembers Mueller-Dombois in this volume:

“We were all saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois on July 19, 2022. He was a giant in the field of ecology and an inspiration to countless students, colleagues, and friends to learn to appreciate and work to preserve the composition, structure, and function of our natural ecosystems…

He was also a passionate teacher and his classes and field trips at the university were highly popular and focused on teaching appreciation of Hawai‘i’s natural ecosystems and methods to study vegetation. During his time at the University of Hawai‘i he taught thousands of undergraduate students and successfully chaired 17 MS and 18 PhD graduate students…

During his career he served as an inspirational model for a new generation of people involved with conservation in Hawai‘i, as well as throughout the Pacific. Many of those that he mentored are now continuing to expand his legacy as they serve in important natural resource research, management, and administration roles. While his knowledge, leadership, and friendship will be sorely missed, we all need to build upon his inspiring career and continue to strive to ensure that natural ecosystems conservation is appreciated and effective throughout Hawai‘i, the greater Pacific island nations, as well as globally.”

Call for Submissions

Pacific Science is the official journal of the Pacific Science Association. Appearing quarterly since 1947, Pacific Science is an international, multidisciplinary journal reporting research on the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific basin. It focuses on biogeography, ecology, evolution, geology and volcanology, oceanography, paleontology, and systematics. Manuscript submissions on topics such as Pacific biodiversity, conservation, and sustainability are also encouraged. In addition to publishing original research, the journal features review articles providing a synthesis of current knowledge.

Contributions to the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific area are welcomed from authors in all parts of the world. Manuscripts should be submitted online. Authors will receive a confirmation of their submission.

Electronic Submissions
Submit manuscript online at https://pacificscience.msubmit.net/