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Journals: Biography International Year in Review, Journal of Burma Studies Contribution to Pyu Studies + more 

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Front cover of Biography volume 46 number 1 (2023)

Biography

Volume 46 Number 1 (2023)

International Year in Review

Shame, Trauma, and the Body After #MeToo: The Year in Australia
Emma Maguire

Micro Life in Macro History: The Year in China
Chen Shen

Vientos de cambio: El año en Colombia
Gabriel Jaime Murillo Arango

Did We Forget about Climate Change during the COVID-19 Pandemic?: The Year in Denmark
Marianne Hoyen

Responsibility and Confronting the Holocaust in Memoir: The Year in Hungary
Gergely Kunt

Autobiographical Verse, Demythologizing Motherhood: The Year in Lebanon
Sleiman El Hajj

Find these articles and the Annual Bibliography of Works About Life Writing at Project MUSE.

Journal of Burma Studies

Special Issue: Five Contributions to Pyu Studies

Volume 28, Number 1 (2024)

Studies in Pyu Epigraphy II. Pyu Inscriptions on Molded Tablets: A Way Forward?
Marc Miyake and Julian Wheatley

Chinese Reports about Buddhism in Early Burma
Max Deeg

Funerary Practices at Pyu Sites in Myanmar and the Appearance of Buddhist Artifacts from the Fifth to Sixth Century CE Period
Bob Hudson

The “Hidden Hand” Orchestrating Communal Violence: Peacekeeping through Contested Framing in Central Myanmar, 2011–2021
Nathaniel J. Gonzalez

Monthly Observation Research by Community Researchers: Coping with Dangerous Situations and Multiple Crises in Postcoup Myanmar
Aredeth Maung Thawnghmung and Su Mon Thazin Aung

Find these articles, reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

Journal of Daoist Studies

Volume 17 (2024)

An Integrated Theory of Happiness: The Yang Zhu Chapter of the Liezi
Devin Joshi

Mystery upon Mystery: Wang Bi on the Meaning of Xuan 玄
Alex T. Hitchens

Lingzhi: Mushrooms, Immortality, and Order
Ezra Kohn

Personal Quest and Anomic Events: Conversions to Daoism in Late Imperial China
Jacopo Scarin

The Dao of Dialogue: Daoism, Psychology, and Psychotherapy
Elliot Cohen

By Name and by Nature: Two Stories of People Named Unattractive in Daoist and Rabbinic Literature
Aryeh Amihay and Lupeng Li

Find these articles, forums, news and more at Project MUSE.

Journal of World History

Volume 35, Number 1 (2024)

Colonial City, Global Entanglements: Intra- and Trans-Imperial Networks in George Town, 1786–1937
Bernard Z.Keo

Inter-Imperial Entanglement: The British Claim to Portuguese Delagoa Bay in the Nineteenth Century
Anjuli Webster

Between World-Imagining and World-Making: Politics of Fin-de-Siècle Universalism and Transimperial Indo-U.S. Brotherhood
Sophie-Jung Hyun Kim

Britain’s Atomic Energy Strategy toward Japan: The Anglo-American “Special Relationship,” 1945–1959
Kenzo Okuda

The Value and Prospect of the Needham Question: A Historiographical Reflection and Elaboration
Wensheng Wang

Find these articles, reviews, and more at Project MUSE.

Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Ecowriting

Mānoa

Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Writing

Volume 35 Number 2 (2023)

Guest Editors Rina Garcia Chua, Esther Vincent Xueming, and Ann Ang discussion their vision with this unique collection of writing:

This anthology represents a chorus of offerings, first and foremost to the land and the sea, and second to you, our readers, as an invitation to attend to the urgencies and travails of our homes. On the one hand, while the anthology is comprised mostly of anglophone texts, which reflect the aspirations of regional writers to speak across borders and to the globe at large, the English of these pages is inhabited by meanings and associations that make the language our own. This can be seen in the use of indigenous names of plants and places in the works of Annisa Hidayat, Diana Rahim, and Mohamed Shaker, or through rhymes and sounds in the poems of Natalie Foo Mei-Yi and Teresa Mei Chuc. At other times, the native language emerges like weeds, surprising and demanding to be noticed, as in Enbah Nilah’s use of Tamil, which persists as linguistic, cultural, and historical memory in a legacy of erasure.

Find this editorial note, poems, statements, art, and more at Project MUSE.

Journal of World History Special Issue: Global Travel, Exploration, and Comparative Study of Empire

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A new special issue from the Journal of World History is now available to readers on Project MUSE. 

This new special issue features guest editor Scott C. M. Bailey. Since 2018, Bailey has been fortunate to have support of a research grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). This has allowed him to explore the history of travel and exploration in a global context. He is now focusing on this topic in relation to the area around the Sea of Okhotsk and am preparing a book manuscript now on this topic.

We had the opportunity to speak to Bailey about this special issue:

University of Hawai‘i Press: Tell us how this special issue came together and why is this issue different from what JWH has published in the past?

Scott C. M. Bailey: My idea for this special issue originated in spring 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. As countries closed borders and international travel was drastically curtailed, it led me to think more about the history of long-distance travel. I wanted to understand better how the international movement of people for business, tourism, research pursuits, and many other reasons today, which has become so routinized (and was also so disrupted during the pandemic), existed in an earlier form in the late nineteenth century world.

I thought that a comparative global analysis of the accounts of travelers from the “age of imperialism” in the late nineteenth century could forward our collective understanding of empires of the time, while also shining light on the degree to which long-distance travel reflected inequalities while also being done to serve commercial and political elites’ interests. I was fortunate that the colleagues who approached me with their ideas for papers each had very interesting examples from their own research backgrounds to work with, and that they were all excited to explore their topics through a new comparative framework.

“‘Mr Dooley’ on Sir Aleck”, New York Times February 3, 1907. Public domain. Featured in "Passing the Torch? Anglo-American Encounters in the British West Indies and Negotiating White Supremacy, c. 1865–1914" by Alex Goodall.
“‘Mr Dooley’ on Sir Aleck”, New York Times February 3, 1907. Public domain. Featured in “Passing the Torch? Anglo-American Encounters in the British West Indies and Negotiating White Supremacy, c. 1865–1914” by Alex Goodall.

UHP: What were some of the challenges with this issue? Is the pandemic still an issue with the creation of these articles and research?

SB: The pandemic has of course made historical research more difficult in many ways, curtailing travel to some locations and restricting access to materials that need to be accessed in person. But to some degree the technological changes which the pandemic brought have helped make some research easier, since so many rare historical sources that could only be found in specific archives or libraries are becoming available to access online, as many institutions have moved or are moving towards digitization of their collections in the last few years. I think the pandemic has made us all adapt in many ways to the new circumstances, and our research has been in some ways strengthened by that. Regardless, I think most historians are happy that they can get back to in person research again. There’s no replacement for the unique experience of being in libraries and archives.

UHP: Is there anything that is not to miss in this volume?

SB: I think when you read this collection of articles together, you will find that each of them highlights these issues well. This special issue will probably be very interesting for those in more traditional area studies backgrounds, too, since each article has a regional focus of sorts (although always with external/global examples to compare those regional examples with).

 UHP: Is there anything else you would like our readers to know?

SB: I hope that readers will continue the work that our authors in this special edition have done with employing a comparative lens to the study of late nineteenth century travel. As I mention in my introductory piece for the special edition, I think that there is potential for many more studies that take a similar approach, given the high volume of existing travel accounts from that era. I hope some will be inspired by this collection to locate aspects of their own research topics that could benefit from taking this kind of comparative approach. I would be very pleased to read future articles in the Journal of World History which take this comparative approach to exploring the relationships between empire and long-distance travel.

Read the special issue here on Project MUSE.

cover Journal of World History 34-1

Volume 34, Issue 1

Table of Contents

Introduction: Global Travel, Exploration, and Comparative Study of Empire
Scott C. M. Bailey

Passing the Torch? Anglo-American Encounters in the British
West Indies and Negotiating White Supremacy, c. 1865–1914
Alex Goodall

Unobvious Parallels: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Wacław
Sieroszewski, and Their Role in Gathering Imperial Knowledge
in Sumatra and Yakutia in the 1890s
Darius Kołodziejczyk and Igor Iwo Chabrowski

Mobility in an Age of Imperialism, Nation-Building, and
Revolution: Kawata Masazō’s Late-Nineteenth-Century
Pacific World
Catherine l. Phipps

Anthropology, Opportunity, and Empire: Collecting Expeditions
in Sarawak and the Philippines, 1898–1909
Matthew J. Schauer

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The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 30 no. 2 (2018): Repossessing Paradise

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“Repossessing Paradise,” the new special issue from The Contemporary Pacific, opens with an introduction from guest editors Kalissa Alexeyeff and Siobhan McDonnell, “Whose Paradise? Encounter, Exchange, and Exploitation.” They write:

This collection arose from thinking about how Pacific Islanders utilize the trope of paradise to describe their lives and the places they call home. Like the many studies that precede this, our work demonstrates how paradise has come to define the Pacific through certain kinds of generic, infinitely reoccurring, and highly substitutable images: beautiful beaches, verdant foliage, and exotic peoples and customs. We show how these images enable possession (from early exploration, through colonial settlement, and including contemporary tourism) and how this is twinned with the dispossession of land, Indigenous peoples, and their epistemologies. What distinguishes this collection from most previous literature is that we combine analyses of contemporary possession with repossession in our exploration of the ways in which Indigenous people reimagine or repurpose paradise for their own needs and desires. Continue reading “The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 30 no. 2 (2018): Repossessing Paradise”

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