University Of Hawaii Press: 52 books
Seeking Order in a Tumultuous Age
The Writings of Chŏng Tojŏn, a Korean Neo-Confucian
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Chŏng Tojŏn, one of the most influential thinkers in Korean history, played a leading role in the establishment of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910). Long recognized for his contributions to the development of Neo-Confucianism in Korea, Chŏng was both a prodigious writer and an influential statesman...
Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark
The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul’s Excerpts on Zen Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual—that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a sequential series of practices. This...
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment
Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth through...
A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea
Xu Jing’s Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryŏ
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
"The king and ministers, superior and inferior, move with ritual and refinement. When the king goes on an inspection tour, everyone has the correct ceremonial attributes and the divine flag [troops] gallop in front while armored soldiers block the road. The soldiers of the Six Divisions all hold...
The Fractal Self
Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Our universe, science reveals, began in utter simplicity, then evolved into burgeoning complexity. Starting with subatomic particles, dissimilar entities formed associations—binding, bonding, growing, branching, catalyzing, cooperating—as “self” joined “other” following universal laws...
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China
State, Village, Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan Province, the author explores how the three major rural actors—local governments,...
Karen Tei Yamashita
Fictions of Magic and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, and Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines...
Beyond Ethnicity
New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference...
Exile in Colonial Asia
Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial...
Food and Power in Hawai‘i
Visions of Food Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In Food and Power in Hawai`i, island scholars and writers from backgrounds in academia, farming, and community organizations discuss new ways of looking at food policy and practices in terms of social justice and sustainability. Each of the nine essays describes Hawai`i’s foodscapes and collectively...
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies
Conversations on Race and Racializations
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities, and the positionalities of scholars involved in Japanese American studies. The book brings together...
Encounters Old and New in World History
Essays Inspired by Jerry H. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historical profession and offering concrete suggestions to develop more interaction between the academy and the public. The twelve contributors, each with their...
A Tokyo Anthology
Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works,...
by Tiantian Zheng, Kevin Carrico, Professor Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings...