COVER ART: Kita Kannon Yama during yoiyama (photograph by Elisabetta Porcu). From the cover of Negotiations of the Sacred: Kyoto’s Gion Matsuri and the Shifting Boundaries of a Japanese Festival (page 8).
MARCHMARCH 20262026
312 pages, 9 x 11, color illustrations Cloth 9798880704361 $ $85.0085.00s HawaiHawaiʻi / ArtArt / / MaterialMaterial CultureCulture
Cloth 9798880701421 $ $70.00 70.00 s Pacific / History History
Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland is a professor in the Department of Modern Language Studies at Texas Christian University where he teaches French and Japanese languages, literatures, and histories.
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Voices Beyond the Grave Japanese Internment in the French Pacific
BENJAMIN HIRAMATSU IRELAND
Voices Beyond the Grave uncovers critically understudied histories of Japanese internment and labor diasporas in the French Pacific. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, French colonial authorities, following Charles de Gaulle’s orders, detained over a thousand Japanese civilians residing across French-Pacific island territories and deported them to Australian internment camps. France’s logics of colonial racial capitalism maintained far-reaching impacts on wartime Japanese emigrant communities in the francophone territories of Tahiti, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and New Caledonia. In this book, New Caledonia, a strategic outpost in de Gaulle’s Free French empire and a U.S. stronghold during World War II, is a focal point for exploring the complex structures of power and resistance that arose from settler colonialism, Native dispossession, and the mass incarceration of Japanese civilians.
Through rare letters from Japanese internees and interviews with their descendants, Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland unveils the emotional and political struggles of mixed-race, Japanese-Melanesian children and families caught in the crossfire of racial settler coloniality Drawing from military archives in Japanese, French, and English languages, this work also connects the internment of the French-Pacific Japanese to broader, global economies of racialized incarceration and labor, extending to Japanese American internees in the United States. Finally, the author delves into the fate of Japanese detainees sent to Australia, tracing their harrowing experiences from being perceived as enemy aliens during the war to displaced strangers in their postwar lives in Japan.
This book goes beyond history—it is a call for racial justice. At the heart of Voices Beyond the Grave is the author’s global humanitarian project that has reunited descendants of Japanese internees living in Japan with their long-lost families in New Caledonia, resolving eighty-year-old historical enigmas while healing the wounds of wartime injustice Voices Beyond the Grave sits at the interdisciplinary nexus of empire history and decolonial activism, charting new directions in transpacific studies. With insights into the lives of the Melanesian, Japanese, and French children and families that the vicissitudes of World War II irrevocably shaped, this book reveals the Indigenous and Japanese afterlives that have haunted the French Pacific.
APRIL 2026
458 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, 139 b&w illustrations Paper 9780824899592 $ $65.00 65.00 s Pacific / Geography Geography / Natural History History
Moshe Moshe Rapaport is an independent scholar with a PhD in geography from the University of Hawai‘i.
The Pacific Islands Environment and Society, Third Edition
EDITED BY MOSHE RAPAPORT
The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity Early seafarers, skilled in navigation, discovered diverse habitats and biotas extending across a third of the globe. In this “ sea of islands,” they established thriving communities where they lived for thousands of years. Today, although island ecosystems and cultures are facing great change, Pacific Island peoples remain resilient.
This new edition of a popular text reviews the diverse landforms, climates, ecosystems, societies, and cultures of the Pacific region. Seventy-five contributors—including numerous Indigenous scholars—address two key themes: (1) environmental dilemmas and possibilities, and (2) demographic, economic, and political challenges facing the people of the region.
New chapters highlight hydrology, ecosystem disturbance, conservation, Indigenous origins and activism, social media, ethnography, kava, contemporary dance, theater, and the cultural impact of globalization.
Other noteworthy chapters are significantly updated: biogeographical dynamics, prehistory of Near and Remote Oceania, fisheries and aquaculture, the fluidity of gender, mobility and urbanization, tourism as encounter, island economies, shifts in literary trends, Pacific music, water and development, and a new overview of land, marine, and water tenure.
The book concludes with a reflective essay Pacific Island societies have been coping with environmental and demographic challenges for millennia; surviving societies have much to teach us about sustainable living, social justice, and reconciliation.
Policy makers, educators, students, and the general public will find this book an indispensable resource for understanding the region's past, present, and future.
APRIL APRIL 2026 2026
344 pages, 6 x 9, 20 b&w illustrations, 2 maps
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Asia / / Pacific / / Anthropology / Religion Religion
Aike Aike P. Rots Rots is a professor of East Asian religions at the University of Oslo who specializes in rituals, heritage, and the environment.
Florence Durney Durney is an environmental anthropologist and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo.
Lindsey DeWitt DeWitt Prat is a director of research at Bold Insight and conducts research on language, culture, and religion in Japan and globally.
Sonja Åman is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Oslo Center of Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo.
Water Powers Sacred Aquatic Animals of the Asia-Pacific
EDITED BY AIKE P. ROTS, FLORENCE DURNEY, LINDSEY DEWITT PRAT, AND SONJA ÅMAN
Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals—from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales—and environmental change Contributors examine the past and present significance of these creatures in Nepal, India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Japan, Okinawa, Indonesia, and Aotearoa-New Zealand to explore the diverse relationships between animals, deities, humans, and bodies of water In so doing, they challenge narratives about disenchantment as a core aspect of modernization, seeking to give the sacred creatures and the rituals associated with them a more central place in debates about environmental degradation and conservation initiatives. Their work converges around three core themes: (1) divine embodiment and materiality (how sacred beings manifest themselves and act in the world); (2) making and crossing boundaries (how aquatic animals are constrained by but also challenge physical, ontological, and conceptual boundaries); and (3) crises and relationality (how more-than-human relationships change in response to environmental and other crises).
Water Powers will appeal to scholars and students across multiple fields, including anthropology, religious studies, environmental humanities, geography, development studies, history, and archaeology. The book will also interest development experts, conservationists, museum curators, and readers engaged with culture, religion, and environmental change in the Asia-Pacific region.
APRIL 2026
360 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 9798880702633 $ $80.00 80.00 s Buddhism / / Medicine
C. Pierce Salguero Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He teaches at Penn State University’s Abington College and has been editor-in-chief of Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine since 2016.
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Meditation Sickness
A Sourcebook on the Dangers of Buddhist Practice
EDITED BY C. PIERCE SALGUERO
“Meditation Sickness provides a much-needed corrective to an idealized view of meditation by documenting the long history of Asian Buddhist discourse around the etiology, symptoms, and treatments for meditation-related difficulties. The context and perspectives presented across its chapters lay to rest the myth that the ‘dangers’ of meditation are due to incorrect practice or a flawed practitioner, while also offering guidance that could help meditators-in-distress today. The book authoritatively sets the record straight: meditation has never been without risks or harms, and difficulties can arise even under optimal circumstances.” Nicholas Canby Canby, Brown University; Senior Clinician, Cheetah House
“I wish Meditation Sickness had been out twelve years ago when I started researching the effects of meditation. It should be mandatory reading for all mindfulness researchers, clinicians, and teachers. Reports and discussion of meditation's adverse effects have a long history that takes us back to early Buddhism. The older accounts translated here are impressively similar to many contemporary ones and offer us a wonderful opportunity to better understand human consciousness.” Miguel Miguel Farias Farias, University of Oxford, author of The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Change You?
“This volume is of not only great importance as it will help support a necessary conversation about the adverse effects of meditation but also great value because it compiles in one place a truly arresting array of texts, interviews, and ethnographic material on the subject. The result is a refreshing and original approach in Buddhist studies.” Amy Langenberg Langenberg, Eckerd College
Everyone knows that meditation is good for your health and wellbeing However, a percentage of people practicing meditation experience psychotic breaks and related adverse mental and physical side-effects. While contemporary scientific literature is just beginning to document such phenomena, Buddhist communities have for centuries warned practitioners about “meditation sickness,” “wind illness,” “demonic attack,” and other potential dangers. Here, for the first time, historical and contemporary teachings on the topic from around the Buddhist world have been brought together The works not only identify these ailments as possible side-effects of meditation practice, but also explain why they arise and how they can be effectively prevented and treated
FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 2026 2026
286 pages, 6 x 9, 13 b&w photographs
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Japan Japan / History / / Sports
James J. J. Orr is associate professor of East Asian Studies at Bucknell University
Rounding the Bases
The Story of Little League Baseball in Japan
JAMES J. ORR
Rounding the Bases offers the first comprehensive history of Japanese Little League, tracing its origins near U.S. military bases in the 1950s to its rise as one of the world’s most successful youth sports programs. Drawing on interviews with American and Japanese figures, along with diverse archival materials, the book uncovers overlooked individuals and forgotten facts, including early organizational challenges and uneven World Series participation after its 1964 founding in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
The emergence of the West Tokyo league and a strong regional association in Osaka contributed to World Series championships in 1967 and 1968. Lasting corporate support for Japanese Little League from Mitsui Bussan and Fuji-Sankei followed. The narrative unfolds at ground level—detailing who did what, when, and why—while situating Little League within the broader landscape of Japanese baseball, from nanshiki rubber-ball leagues to school teams to the professional game The book challenges cultural stereotypes and highlights structural differences from the American model It also explores how this U.S. import intersected with postwar Japanese history: Cold War cultural policy, revived national pride and a return to bushidō (Samurai moral code) ideals, growing middle-class affluence and corporate influence, and more liberal societal attitudes in the late twentieth century
Rounding the Bases is a unique contribution to baseball history and will appeal to both casual fans and serious scholars of the game
JANUARY 2026 2026
272 pages, 6 x 9, 17 b&w illustrations, 3 maps
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Japan Japan / / Southeast Southeast Asia Asia / Pacific / History History
Robert Cribb Cribb is emeritus professor of Asian history at the Australian National University and lives in Canberra.
Sandra Wilson Wilson is professor of history at Murdoch University in Western Australia.
Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away
ROBERT CRIBB AND SANDRA WILSON
In Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson tell the stories of twelve people who were convicted of war crimes in Allied courts in the Asia-Pacific region after the Second World War Included is the story of one man who escaped prosecution. The crimes were committed in the Philippines, Burma, Thailand, Java, Malaya, Singapore, the Maluku islands, New Guinea, and Japan. The characters examined range from senior figures—General Honma Masaharu, who was convicted for the Bataan “death march,” and Japan’s wartime prime minister, Tōjō Hideki—to lower ranking and lesser known people: a POW camp commander, a camp doctor, a Korean guard, a nurse charged with assisting in vivisection, a doctor convicted of cannibalism, a pimp, a Taiwanese interpreter, a businessman convicted of assault, an officer convicted of massacre, and another convicted of a single execution. Tsuji Masanobu, the man who escaped, was responsible for at least two massacres. He was eventually elected to parliament, indicating the willingness of some elements in postwar Japanese society to overlook wartime atrocities.
The book examines the backgrounds and careers of each character and explains how he or she came to commit the acts for which they were convicted It also considers their subsequent careers, if they survived—several were executed for their crimes. Based on years of meticulous research, the book brings to life the texture of individual action and experience in the tumultuous years of conflict and occupation during the Pacific War The authors recognize Japanese cruelty but also suggest that most of the convicted war criminals were not inherently evil. Some were out of their depth or were forced into circumstances where they made bad decisions; some obeyed illegal orders or were caught in impossible situations in a war that Japan fought with insufficient resources. Ironically, the one who got away was probably the worst of them all
APRIL APRIL 2026 2026
240 pages, 6 x 9, 13 b&w illustrations
Cloth 9798880701971 $ $75.00 75.00 s
Japan Japan / Anthropology / Religion
Elisabetta Porcu Porcu is professor of Asian religions and Head of the Department for the Study of Religions at University of Cape Town.
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Negotiations of the Sacred Kyoto’s
Gion Matsuri and the Shifting Boundaries of a Japanese Festival
ELISABETTA PORCU
“Negotiations of the Sacred is an insightful, theoretically sophisticated analysis of one of the most historically important (and famous) matsuri in Japan. Even while attending to the concerns of individual residents in local neighborhoods, the author situates the festival in a broader national and global context, dealing with critical issues such as gender, tourism, and UNESCO heritage policy.” Michael Michael Dylan Foster Foster, University of California, Davis
“In this richly documented ethnographic account of the Gion Matsuri, Elisabetta Porcu deftly examines the festival as a mirror reflecting the ways that the sacred and the secular, tradition and tourism, are negotiated and variously contested in the fabric of Kyoto society today.” Jennifer Prough Prough, Valparaiso University
Negotiations of the Sacred offers a fresh perspective on one of Japan’s most famous festivals, the Gion Matsuri, held in Kyoto in July. Dating back more than a thousand years, the festival today features the parading of dozens of elaborate floats and portable Shinto shrines, accompanied by thousands of participants, through more than thirty downtown neighborhoods linked to Yasaka Shrine. Based on extensive fieldwork, this is the first book-length socio-anthropological analysis of the celebrated festival, one that examines it during a critical moment in its recent history: the 2014 reinstatement of the Gion’s second float procession (ato matsuri) after a fifty-year hiatus.
Elisabetta Porcu follows the complex negotiations behind the festival and the reinstatement of the ato matsuri as she investigates the boundaries between sacred and secular geographies and the areas where these boundaries blur, such as the constitutional separation of religion and the state Because tourism and traditional culture—and the Gion Matsuri in particular—play a prominent role in the promotion of Kyoto, Porcu’s study places the festival within glocalization processes to reveal the ways in which global influences are absorbed and reinterpreted according to local specifications and traditions. Throughout, she explores how power dynamics intersect with claims of authority, ownership, and distribution of the sacred
As a woman scholar conducting research in the Gion Matsuri’s overtly male environment, she enriches the theoretical framing of her work by offering innovative insights on methodological issues related to gendered fieldwork, hegemonic power relations, and patterns of exclusion and control within contested spaces.
APRIL 2026
280 pages, 6 x 9, 14 b&w illustrations Cloth 9798880702565 $ $75.00 75.00 s Food in Asia and the Pacific Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Japan Japan / / Food Studies / History History
Joshua Schlachet Schlachet is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona.
Nourishing Life
Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern
Japan
JOSHUA SCHLACHET
“Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan offers a deep, thoughtful, and erudite cultural history of ideas about eating that bridges the early modern–modern divide. Schlachet arrives at meaningful conclusions about the role of changing discourses and ideas about food in the social life of Japan during a long period of tremendous political and cultural change. He does so respectfully and also critically, which can be a difficult balance to maintain.” Morgan Morgan Pitelka Pitelka, University of North Carolina
“Written in lucid and witty prose, Nourishing Life offers a fascinating glimpse into the transformation of dietary and health culture during the Edo period and beyond. It tells a crucial story about the spread of popular print culture, in which new ideas about food and health represented and responded to anxieties across all levels of society. It will be essential reading for scholars of Japan and it makes important interventions into food studies, the history of science and medicine, and media studies more broadly.” Timothy Timothy Yang Yang, University of Georgia
Can food determine your fate? Could indulging in delicacies bring calamity to your community? Nourishing Life reevaluates the history of Japanese food culture by examining how ideas of healthy eating became both a popular phenomenon and a matter of grave concern among trained medical experts and amateur culinary enthusiasts alike. Beginning in the eighteenth century, Japan witnessed an unprecedented explosion of popular interest in dietary advice, compiled in commercially printed manuals, pamphlets, and guides to household know-how, dedicated to practices for promoting well-being known collectively as “nourishing life”
Joshua Schlachet argues that diet was never value-free, nor was it reducible to an objective relationship between nutrients and their physiological outcomes in the body Instead, guidance on dietetics conveyed priorities about how well-nourished bodies were meant to act in the world, whether as agricultural workers, samurai bureaucrats, or merchant consumers. The book reveals an early modern dietetic revolution in the making, which disrupted older forms of expertise and provided a venue to critique official policies on eating and living right, prior to the introduction of modern scientific nutrition.
MAY MAY 2026 2026
376 pages, 6 x 9, 10 b&w illustrations
Cloth 9798880701995 $ $75.00 75.00 s Japan Japan / History / / Medicine / Religion Religion
Andrew Macomber Macomber is assistant professor of East Asian religions at Oberlin College.
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Cadaverous Postmortem Contagion and Ritual Immunity in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
ANDREW MACOMBER
“Cadaverous had me absolutely riveted. The book is engaging and provocative in its framing, asking questions that have not been asked before. Macomber's training and expertise open new avenues to understanding the role of religious ideas and practices in Japanese history.” Hank Hank Glassman Glassman, Haverford College
“Cadaverous makes a major contribution to the field of Japanese religions as well as the history of medicine. Macomber has an impressive, almost encyclopedic knowledge of all of the relevant primary and secondary sources. Richly researched and compellingly argued, this book will establish him as not only the leading scholar of Japanese Buddhism and medicine, but also one of the most exciting new voices in the fields of Japanese religions and Buddhist studies more generally.” Bryan D. D. Lowe Lowe, Princeton University
From the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, Japanese aristocrats attributed their afflictions to vengeful spirits of the deceased But in the late twelfth century, a new and anomalous ailment, caused not by spirits but the material dead, crept into their consciousness. “Corpse-vector disease,” as it was called, emerged as a new form of “postmortem contagion”—diseases tethered to death that reanimated in pathogenic forms such as ghosts, noxious qi, corpse-worms, and disease-causing demons. In response, Tendai Buddhist monks of the Jimon branch at Onjōji temple engaged creatively with esoteric rites, medical texts, and Daoist scriptures to craft a healing ritual for their patients. Cadaverous is the first book-length work to examine this ritual and its extant manuscripts. Bridging religious studies and medical history, it analyzes Buddhist ritual healing in Japan through the lens of “ritual immunity”—the complex, experimental processes through which monks identified disease agents, demarcated boundaries between self and pathogen, and designed therapeutic interventions.
By exploring the social, moral, material, and ritual dynamics that shaped new disease concepts, Cadaverous reveals how corpse-vector disease reflected growing anxieties surrounding death and pollution in a capital increasingly crowded with corpses. The book offers an unprecedented tour of the therapeutic and ritual culture of early medieval Japan, illuminating how that culture was haunted by darker preoccupations with disease, death, and defilement.
MAY MAY 2026 2026
440 pages, 7.5 x 10, 193 color & b&w illustrations
Cloth 9780824899554 $ $90.00 90.00 s Japan Japan / / Religion
Bernard Faure Faure is Emeritus Kao Professor in Japanese Religion at Columbia University and Emeritus George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
Lords of Life Gods of Medieval Japan, Volume 5
BERNARD FAURE
Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, Lords of Life is the fifth and last book of a multivolume project that stands as a milestone in our understanding of the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhism—specifically the nature and roles of deities within the religious landscape of medieval Japan and beyond Bernard Faure introduces readers to medieval Japanese religiosity, highlighting the central role of gods in religious discourse and ritual In doing so, he departs from traditional textual, historical, and sociological approaches that constitute the “method” of current religious studies. Instead, Faure draws on theoretical insights from structuralism, post-structuralism, and Actor-Network Theory to retrieve the “implicit pantheon” (as opposed to the “explicit orthodox pantheon”) of esoteric Japanese Buddhism (Mikkyō).
In the earlier volumes—The Fluid Pantheon and Predators and Protectors—Faure argued against a polarity or dichotomy between buddhas and kami by emphasizing the existence of deities that did not belong to either category, and he rejected the retrospective notion of “hybridity” In Rage and Ravage, he made a similar case about the reified distinction between gods and demons to show that, due to the fluid nature of the Japanese pantheon, these terms do not represent stable identities: gods can become demons, and demons are sometimes deified From Stars to Stones, the fourth volume, showed how mythological notions influenced (and in return were transformed by) medieval Japanese religion and the performing arts (geinō) In this final book, Lords of Life, Faure explores the concept of surveillance in Daoism and Buddhism, the significance of the gods of destiny, and how they transform the official, or frontal, Buddhist doctrine of karma. This perspective offers a distinctive view of Buddhism, approaching it as if through a “back door”
Throughout this monumental series, Faure expertly weaves together religion's various strands to underscore his argument that Japanese religion cannot be fully understood by relying solely on abstract categories like “Buddhism” and “Shintō,” despite convention and convenience.
JANUARY 2026
208 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 9798880702015 $ $68.00 68.00 s Korea / / Poetry
David Krolikoski Krolikoski is assistant professor of Korean literature at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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Lyrical Translation The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea
DAVID KROLIKOSKI
“Lyrical Translation makes a significant contribution to Anglophone scholarship on Korean literature under Japanese colonialism. It appears at a critical moment and joins other studies on bilingualism, colonialism, and translation that are collectively transforming the critical discourse on literary transculturation across Japan, Korea, and the U.S.” Nayoung Aimee Kwon Kwon, author of Intimate Empire
“This is a brilliant account of the creative experiments involved in the early years of the emergence of modern lyrical poetry in the Korean language. It's a literary history that transcends the genre with close, attentive readings that reveal how central acts of translation were to the emergence of that poetry.” Janet Janet Poole Poole, University of Toronto
Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development through translation. As the use of Korean became increasingly restricted during the Japanese occupation, translation was not a choice but a necessity for higher education and intellectual labor Yet it also had an expansive, creative function: Korean poets wielded it as an instrument to reimagine their literature Around the turn of the twentieth century, intellectuals began abandoning classical Chinese as the default written language to embrace a new vernacular style in prose and verse that was closer to everyday speech. Pushing back against the perception of translation as a process of simple replication, Lyrical Translation reveals how poets used it to forge an entirely new mode of poetic composition.
Drawing on a vast collection of primary materials in Korean and Japanese, David Krolikoski situates close readings of major poems against critical writing (editorials, essays, and articles) from the period. His discussion of translation illuminates the ways writers crossed linguistic and cultural boundaries in pursuit of a new idiom. In some cases, poetic composition took the form of interlingual translation as poets reworked verse by the likes of Baudelaire and Verlaine into vernacular Korean verse In other situations, it involved the adaptation of foreign literary forms such as the prose poem. And in still other instances, translation meant composing one ’ s own poems in two languages to address multiple readerships. Krolikoski's interpretations pay close attention to the nuances of form and language, which were in a state of flux due to the embryonic state of modern verse, and approach poetry of the era as serious expressions of political sentiments seeking to address the anxieties of modern life
APRIL 2026
368 pages, 6 x 9, 15 b&w illustrations
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Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
Korea / History History / Anthropology
Jisoo M. M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University.
Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture
EDITED BY JISOO M. KIM
This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources—including memoirs, diplomatic letters, newspapers, films, video diaries, photographs, and ethnographic interviews—the volume examines how emotions intervene in public discourse and how affect is shaped, intensified, and managed through expressive practices. Each contributor’s critical intervention lies in offering a non-essentializing approach to studying emotions and affect in Korea. Rather than positing uniquely “Korean” feelings such as han or hwabyŏng as inherent or fixed emotional traits, the contributors argue that what is culturally distinctive is not the emotions themselves but how they have been expressed, mediated, and interpreted within specific social relationships and historical experiences. In this framework, emotions and affect are not static or universal but are historically and discursively produced.
Emotions, Affects, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture also contends that to understand the present, we must critically engage with the emotional content of the past. By analyzing how different historical actors and social groups expressed particular feelings at specific moments, the essays illuminate how emotions and affect were used to narrate lived experiences and construct discourses in textual, literary, and visual forms. Together, these studies reveal how emotions and affect have functioned as a powerful medium for shaping collective memory, identity, and political subjectivity in Korea. Structured in three parts, each contributor delves into the intricate ways emotions and affects have molded and transformed through narratives across historical epochs and social milieus in Korea. The volume contributes to the dynamic field of emotion studies by adding important Korean examples.
MARCH 2026
280 pages, 6 x 9, 10 b&w maps
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Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials Korea / / History
Kenneth Kenneth R. Robinson Robinson is an independent scholar. He has published numerous articles and translations on Korean-Japanese relations from the late fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
Korean Relations with Japan and Ryūkyū in the Early Chosŏn Period
A Translation of Sin Sukchu’s Haedong chegukki
TRANSLATED, ANNOTATED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KENNETH R ROBINSON
Between 1392 and 1592—a period bounded by Japanese pirate raids along the Korean coast and Japan’s invasion of Chosŏn Korea—more than 4,600 Japanese trade missions were recorded by the Chosŏn government. In response to these missions, the famous official Sin Sukchu compiled regulations, detailed information about Japanese contacts, and other material, which was printed in 1472 as the Haedong chegukki Additional information was added in 1512, creating a still more detailed report for overseeing Japanese and Ryukyuan diplomacy and trade with the Chosŏn government. The 1512 text, which is translated here into English for the first time, shows in rich detail how Korea managed these foreign relations for some two centuries. The regulations illustrate the depth of the management of contact, trade, movement, and other aspects of presence in Chosŏn. Korea-Japan trade practices are depicted in numerous profiles of Japanese contacts from Tsushima to Kyoto, including the use of impostor identities designed in Japan for trade and diplomacy in the second half of the fifteenth century and sixteenth century
Copious notes and explications supplement the present translation of the Haedong chegukki and supply the reader with the background information necessary to identify the names and places mentioned and understand their relation to Korean and Japanese political history and the structure of relations that linked the two countries. Historians of Korea, Japan, and East Asian foreign relations will find the translation a most valuable resource.
APRIL 2026
552 pages, 6 x 9
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Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials
Korea / Poetry / / History History
Remco Remco E. Breuker Breuker is professor of Korean studies at Leiden University.
Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated
Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip
TRANSLATED, ANNOTATED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY REMCO E. BREUKER
Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated is a miscellany of work from his Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip, a collection containing more than two thousand texts and considered the earliest substantial oeuvre of a Koryŏ writer to date. The present work comprises translations of poems, tales, letters, epitaphs, and funeral orations, as well as “The Cantefable of King Tongmyŏng,” Yi’s famous poem chronicling Koryŏ’s mythological past. Also included are forewords and afterwords to books no longer extant that shed light on the intellectual, literary, and printing habits of the time
Yi is best remembered as a literary figure, but for much of his career, he served as a composer of official government texts. Accordingly, a large number of his writings tell us about Yi the bureaucrat and administrator and military rule in early thirteenth-century Koryŏ Many of the administrative changes brought about during this period of intense transformation are recounted in Yi’s writings, such as the dethroning and enthroning of rulers by the Ch’oe military and the government’s official reaction to the collapse of the Jurchen Jin state, Koryŏ’s nominal suzerain. Almost up until the day he died, Yi remained the main author of diplomatic texts sent to the invading Mongol armies. Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated not only reveals the existential truths of human life as recorded by the brush of medieval Korea’s most gifted poet, but also offers a many-faceted view of a formative period in Korean history
APRIL APRIL 2026 2026
568 pages, 6 x 9
Cloth 9798880702053 $ $80.00 80.00 s Korea / / Buddhism
Jin Jin Y. Y. Park is William Fraser McDowell Chair Professor of Philosophy and Religion and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, American University.
Sumi Sumi Lee is assistant professor of East Asian philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Duksung Women’s University, Seoul.
Korean Buddhism
Selected Readings from Primary Texts
EDITED BY JIN Y. PARK AND SUMI LEE
This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to Korean Buddhism through twenty-five key primary texts spanning the seventh to twenty-first centuries. All have been expertly translated by leading scholars in the field. The volume introduction provides an overview of major themes that illuminates the diverse sources that follow The texts, each prefaced by a brief introduction and list of recommended reading, delve into core Buddhist teachings, meditation practice, pilgrimage, intercultural exchanges, and interreligious conflict. Several touch on contemporary concerns, such as social engagement, colonialism, moral psychology, and conflict resolution, and Buddhism’s contribution to women ’ s liberation and engagement with marginalized communities. Others present insights into the ways in which Buddhism becomes distinctly Korean and the effects of modernity and colonialism on Korean Buddhism, in addition to overarching concerns like the nature of reality and embodying truth in our lives.
Accessible and wide-ranging, Korean Buddhism: Selected Readings from Primary Texts serves not only students and those relatively new to the subject, but also scholars interested in the intersection of Korean religious thought and global philosophy. It is an essential resource for Korean religious studies, Buddhist studies, and spiritual exploration alike
MAY MAY 2026 2026
288 pages, 6 x 9, 8 color, 6 b&w illustrations
Cloth 9798880701988 $ $70.00 70.00 s
Perspectives on the Global Past China / History History
Hilde De De Weerdt is professor of Chinese and early modern global history at KU Leuven and senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
The Arts of Governance
Sinitic Political Advice Literature from Medieval Times to the Present
HILDE DE WEERDT
The Arts of Governance offers a global history of the creation, uses, and adaptations of the political advice literature produced at the court of or about the reign of Tang Emperor Taizong (r 626–649). This book is the first to place the history of Sinitic mirror texts in a global and comparative historical framework. De Weerdt interprets medieval political advice literature as an administrative technology attested throughout Afro-Eurasia whose history is shown to have been cross-cultural from inception through the present. The five chapters explain key moments in the longue-durée global history of the Taizong mirror literature and do so by describing their global and comparative contexts as well as by probing the specific models of governance and the political agendas that were at play during each of these moments. The first chapter documents the use of political metaphors of the body and the mirror in Sinitic political advice literature and explains the early medieval construction of “the arts of governance ” as a model through these metaphors. Subsequent chapters show how later medieval Neo-Confucian politicians developed the “learning of emperors ” as a model to respond to the early fourteenth-century Mongol infatuation with the Taizong mirror literature, and ask why the Tang mirror texts, after having been long overshadowed by Neo-Confucian alternatives, were adapted in various genres and different media at early modern East Asian and West European courts and broadly circulated in print. The fifth and final chapter delves into the remarkable phenomenon of the explosion of vernacular East Asian translations of these mirror texts (over forty unique modern Chinese translations) from the late twentieth century to the present.
The Arts of Governance vividly depicts the continuities and transitions in the longue-durée history of East Asian mirror literature, and challenges temporal and spatial divides such as medieval arts of governance/modern political theory and Euro-Mediterranean mirror literature/East Asian classics and commentary It also invites readers to rethink the chronologies and modalities of vernacularization and the global exchange of administrative knowledge and technologies.
FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 2026 2026
288 pages, 6 x 9, 6 b&w illustrations
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Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism No. 32
China / Buddhism Buddhism / / Religion
Yi Ding Ding teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University.
Observances, Feasts, and Scripts
The Varieties of Zhai in Chinese Buddhism from the Second to the Tenth Century
YI DING
“This is a rich, innovative study on the evolution of Chinese Buddhist rituals in which laypeople made offerings to monks and spirits by sponsoring feasts. Lay-monk interaction is an important issue across Buddhist Asia, and the question is particularly crucial for the early medieval Chinese case. Yi Ding does an impressive job of digging up, combing through, and making sense of a large variety of materials in Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan to shed important light on how local monks helped define the practice by authoring (and copying and performing) the scripts used during the feasts.” Stephen Stephen F. Teiser Teiser, Princeton University
Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is the first monograph written in English to offer a comprehensive analysis of the varieties of zhai, a multifaceted term with deep historical and religious significance in Chinese Buddhism. Drawing on a wide array of sources—including canonical texts, apocryphal writings, hagiographies, and ritual documents—this book unveils zhai as a ritual complex encompassing temporary observances, communal feasts, and modes of interaction between the seen and unseen realms. These practices, rooted in both lay and monastic traditions, illustrate the intricate interplay between food, community, and ritual in Indian and Chinese Buddhism.
Part I traces how Indian Buddhist temporary observances were adapted, debated, and reimagined in the Chinese context. Part II explains the sponsored feast as a mechanism for lay-monastic interaction and merit-making It also examines how Buddhists engaged with deities and spirit saints through remote invitations and ritual offerings. Part III focuses on “scripts” used for receiving the Eightfold Observance and conducting sponsored feasts, thus revealing their evolution from simple master-disciple interactions to complex communal events.
Observances, Feasts, and Scripts is an essential resource for scholars interested in food-related religious practices and the history of Buddhism. Through its meticulous examination of Chinese, Pāli, Sanskrit, and Tibetan materials, the book offers a fresh perspective on Chinese Buddhism as an intercultural endeavor It sheds light on relevant scholastic debates, the creation of apocrypha, translation strategies, and ritual innovations in medieval China. By moving beyond teleological frameworks such as Sinicization, it emphasizes the agency of cultural, doctrinal, and social factors in shaping these practices. Additionally, it engages with the cognitive dimensions of ritual and highlights ritual logic as a cross-cultural analytical lens.
FEBRUARY 2026
272 pages, 6 x 9, 15 b&w illustrations
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Japan Japan / History
Lonny Lonny E. Carlile is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and former director of the university’s Center for Japanese Studies.
L. Ayu Ayu Saraswati is professor in women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Hawai‘i.
Leng Leng Leng Thang Thang is associate professor and deputy head of the Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore.
The Contours of Endearment
Exploring New Dimensions in Southeast Asia–Japan Relations
EDITED BY LONNY E. CARLILE, L. AYU SARASWATI, AND LENG LENG THANG
The Contours of Endearment offers a fresh, Southeast Asia–centered perspective on the complex and evolving relationship between Japan and the nations of Southeast Asia. While much scholarship has emphasized state-to-state political and economic ties, this volume highlights the softer, more nuanced dimensions of these connections—those that emerge through culture, migration, education, and everyday encounters. Through case studies of the original five members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN-5)—Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Thailand—the contributors trace how Southeast Asians themselves have engaged with Japan across multiple arenas. Chapters explore themes such as the historical context of post–World War II relations, the development of Japanese Studies in Southeast Asian universities, labor migration from Indonesia and the Philippines, and the circulation and localization of Japanese popular culture, including anime and manga, in Singapore and Indonesia. Employing an innovative “inter-area studies” approach, the volume shows how Southeast Asia–Japan relations cannot be reduced to simple economic partnerships or geopolitical strategies, but must be understood as multi-layered interactions shaped by local histories, aspirations, and cultural flows. By privileging Southeast Asian experiences, The Contours of Endearment broadens the “Japan + (plus)” model of inquiry and offers new ways of thinking about Japanese Studies that move beyond the Japan-centric frameworks that have long dominated the field
This timely collection not only deepens understanding of Southeast Asia–Japan relations but also demonstrates how area studies can evolve beyond Eurocentric limitations to embrace more dynamic, multidirectional perspectives. Rich in detail and comparative insight, it will appeal to scholars and students of Japanese studies, Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies, migration, and international relations.
MARCH 2026
296 pages, 6 x 9, 20 b&w illustrations Cloth 9798880701476 $ $75.00 75.00 s Southeast Asia / Sociology Sociology / Urban Planning Planning
Deden Rukmana Rukmana is a professor and the director of the Master of City and Regional Planning program at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Sonia Roitman Roitman is associate professor in development planning at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Growth of a Megacity Planning
Jakarta in the Post-Suburban Era
EDITED BY DEDEN RUKMANA AND SONIA ROITMAN
Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia, has grown from 150,000 residents in the first half of the twentieth century to more than 31 million in 2024. This explosive growth has reshaped the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA), also known as Jabodetabek, presenting complex challenges and highlighting the critical role of urban planning This edited volume explores Jakarta’s evolving urban landscape through the lens of post-suburbanization. While the city exhibits traits of post-suburban development, its central areas continue to attract population and investment, suggesting a unique, early-stage form of post-suburban growth. Across the inner city and surrounding suburbs, physical, social, and economic transformations are underway—marked by uneven patterns of inclusion, displacement, and redevelopment.
The book adopts a multi-dimensional perspective, examining changes in residential, industrial, and commercial development, alongside impacts on employment, infrastructure, environmental degradation, and social dynamics such as segregation and gentrification. As the first comprehensive study of Jakarta’s post-suburbanization, this volume brings together twenty-two contributors, including academics, planners, urban designers, and architects, to assess planning practices and policy responses. Organized into four thematic sections—economic development, environmental challenges, housing and public space, and gentrification and displacement—it offers critical insights and forward-looking strategies for shaping the JMA over the next twenty years.
A vital contribution to urban planning literature in Indonesia, Growth of a Megacity provides a timely and accessible analysis for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners navigating Jakarta’s complex urban future
MARCH 2026 2026
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Anthropology Anthropology / / Medicine Medicine / / Religion Religion
Céline Coderey is research fellow with the Asia Research Institute and lecturer at Tembusu College, National University of Singapore.
The Power of Remainder
Politics and Poetics of Healing in Buddhist Myanmar
CÉLINE CODEREY
“The Power of Remainder offers a groundbreaking perspective on Myanmar’s medical field, addressing a significant gap in our understanding of the country’s health system and of medical pluralism more broadly. Coderey bridges disciplinary divides between medical and religious studies to reveal how therapeutic practices, astrological expertise, Buddhist ethics, esoteric knowledge, and ritual activity intersect in everyday life. Grounded in extensive ethnographic research in a peripheral locality, this study offers rich insight into the complex entanglements of healing and belief in contemporary Myanmar.”
Bénédicte Brac Brac de la Perrière Perrière, Centre Asie du Sud-Est
In The Power of Remainder, Céline Coderey redefines how we understand health, healing, and marginality in Myanmar Focusing on the Buddhist communities of Rakhine, she explores their rich and diverse “medical repertoire” and argues that this repertoire reflects an intricate interplay of biological, social, cosmological, and political forces. Based on thirty months of fieldwork between 2004 and 2019, this ethnographic study reveals the interconnectedness between plurality, positionality, and efficacy The necessity for diverse healing approaches is driven not only by the desire to live and thrive, but also by the categorizations and hierarchies imposed on medical practices, knowledge, and people These categorizations—shaped by governance and nation-building—affect how healers deploy resources and how users access them, ultimately influencing their effectiveness.
At the heart of this work lies the innovative concept of "remainder," which reimagines healing as a process of navigating what is left behind, left out, or left unresolved. Far from being merely constraining, these remainders offer a creative space for resilience, adaptability, and hope This duality—where marginalization gives rise to innovation—positions The Power of Remainder as a bold challenge to conventional understandings of healing
By bridging religious studies and medical anthropology, Coderey dismantles traditional disciplinary silos, showing how the boundaries of medicine and Buddhism are locally constructed, negotiated, and transcended, reflecting and affecting values and therapeutic actions. The Power of Remainder redefines the frameworks through which we view health, agency, and the possibilities of healing
MAY MAY 2026 2026
180 pages, 7 x 10
Paper 9798880704538 $ $24.99 24.99
Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing South Asia Asia / / Literature
K. Satyanarayana Satyanarayana is professor of Cultural Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He teaches and publishes widely in Dalit studies and Dalit intellectual and literary history. He has co-edited No Alphabet in Sight (2011), Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (2013), Dalit Studies (2016), Dalit Text (2020), and Concealing Caste (2023).
S. Shankar Shankar is a novelist, literary and cultural critic, and translator. He is professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and editor of Mānoa journal, and he served on the Board of External Experts advising the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature (2022–2025). His books include the novel Ghost in the Tamarind (2017), with The Cost of Living: Poverty Abolition and Cultural Fictions of the Poor forthcoming.
Touchable/Untouchable
Dalit Literature from India in Translation
EDITED BY K. SATYANARAYANA AND S. SHANKAR
Touchable/Untouchable showcases extraordinary Dalit writing from India in translation. Dalit is the preferred term for the caste-oppressed communities in India formerly known as “untouchables.” Though untouchability has been outlawed in the Constitution of independent India since the middle of the twentieth century, Dalits continue to experience tremendous violence and social marginalization, including in the literary sphere
Edited by guest editor K. Satyanarayana and series editor S. Shankar, Touchable/Untouchable presents, for the first time in English, work from five celebrated contemporary Dalit writers—poems by Tamil writer Sukirtharani, translated by Anushiya Ramaswamy; two excerpts from the Telugu novel Panchatantram by Bojja Tharakam, translated by Shirisha Amme; two works in Marathi, a creative/critical essay by iconic writer Baburao Bagul and a long poem by Pradnya Daya Pawar, both translated by Maya Pandit; and an excerpt from Murdahiya, an autobiography in Hindi by Tulsiram, translated by Joel Lee.
In the last twenty-five years, Dalit literature has experienced a boom in publication in India. Only a small portion of this boom has found its way outside India in translation. In publishing the five works, Mānoa joins in amplifying Dalit voices in the global literary scene The works included reveal the diversity of genres, styles, and political orientations in a literary movement shaking the foundations of Indian writing and reshaping Indian literature in unprecedented ways. Dalit writing is a literature of witnessing as well as aesthetic experimentation. The spectacular works gathered here are presented in English versions through the creative labor of five translators who have deep knowledge about the languages, histories, and cultures from which the works emerge Touchable/Untouchable gathers substantial work from each of five important Dalit writers, providing readers a sustained look at their literary achievement and honoring the distinctiveness of authorial voices drawn from different regions of India.
An introduction by K. Satyanarayana and S. Shankar presents an overview of Dalit literature, and each writer is introduced by a translator’s note
S. Rajaratnam, The Authorised Biography, Volume Two
The Lion’s Roar
Irene Ng
JULY 2024
776 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Biography Biography
Rising China’s Soft Power in Southeast Asia
Impact on Education and Popular Culture
Leo Suryadinata, editor
JULY JULY 2024 2024
282 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics Politics & & Government
Kazakhstan and Role of the Middle Powers
Fostering Security, Stability and Sustainable Development
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
JULY 2024
32 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Business Business & & Economics Economics
Social Media and Political Communities in Malaysia
James Chin and Pauline Pooi Yin Leong, editors
AUGUST AUGUST 2024
248 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Southeast Asia / / Politics & & Government
Praetorian Kingdom
A History of Military Ascendancy in Thailand
Paul Chambers
SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 2024 2024
706 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia Asia / / History History
A Myanmar Miscellany
Selected Articles, 2007-2023
Andrew Selth
OCTOBER OCTOBER 2024 2024
472 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
Governing Urban Indonesia
Edward Aspinall and Amalinda Savirani, editors
OCTOBER OCTOBER 2024
340 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Southeast Asia / / Social Social Science
The Power of Sustainable Development in Vietnam
Environmental Narratives, NGOs and the State’s Environmental Rule
Julia L. Behrens
DECEMBER 2024
190 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
A Vision for Korean Unification Toward a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region
Yoon Suk Yeol
JANUARY 2025
34 pages, 6 × 9
Paper 9789815306132 $ $26.00 26.00 s Korea / / Economics
Learning from Covid-19 in Southeast Asia
Restriction, Relief, Recovery
Lee Hwok Aun, Siwage Dharma Negara, and Jayant Menon, editors
MARCH MARCH 2025 2025
580 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Social Social Science
Blue Pawn, Red Pawn and the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Gambit for Legitimacy
Nguyen Hoang Thanh Danh
MARCH 2025
338 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics Politics & & Government
Towards the Indonesian Republic
Marxist Lineages in the National Revolution
Geoffrey Gunn
MAY MAY 2025 2025
426 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia / History History
Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia
The Kremlin’s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War
Ian Storey
MAY 2025 2025
504 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Energy and Decarbonization in Southeast Asia, volume 2
Mirza Sadaqat Huda, Sharon Seah, and Qiu Jiahui, editors
MAY 2025
272 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Environment / / Politics Politics & Government
The Jokowi Presidency
Indonesia’s Decade of Authoritarian Revival
Sana Jaffrey and Eve Warburton, editors
JULY 2025
312 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
The Mango Flavour
India and ASEAN After a Decade of the Act East Policy
Gurjit Singh
AUGUST AUGUST 2025
284 pages, 6 × 9
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South South Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
President, Diplomat, Journalist and a True Singaporean
Cheong Suk-Wai
SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 2025 2025
214 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Biography
Shariah,
Society and Stratification
Muslim Lifestyles in Southeast Asia
Norshahril Saat and Sharifah Afra
Alatas, editors
SEPTEMBER 2025
230 pages, 6 × 9
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Social Social Science Science
Southeast Asian Affairs 2024
Daljit Singh and Hoang Thi Ha, editors
MAY MAY 2024
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Southeast Southeast Asia / / Politics & & Government
Southeast Asian Affairs 2025
Terence Chong and Daljit Singh, editors
MAY 2025 2025
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Wee Kim Wee
Who’s Doing What?
A Closer Look at Methane Climate Impact and Commitments in Southeast Asia’s Energy Sector
Qiu Jiahui
JUNE 2020 2020
40 pages, 5 7/8 × 8 1/4
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Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
From Paper to Practice
Utilizing the ASEAN Guide on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and Ethics
Kristina Fong
JUNE 2020
26 pages, 5 7/8 × 8 1/4
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Generational Divides in Understanding Thailand’s History Grow Amid Political Polarization
Panarat Anamwathana
AUGUST 2024 2024
27 pages, 5 7/8 × 8 1/4
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics Politics & & Government
The Evolution of Economic Reforms across Myanmar's Administrations
Winston Set Aung
AUGUST AUGUST 2024 2024
42 pages, 5 7/8 × 8 1/4
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Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
Mitigating
Carbon Emissions and Haze in Southeast Asia’s Peatlands
Opportunities and Challenges in Integrating Policy and Governance
Helena Varkkey, Matthew Ashfold, Gusti Anshari, Alex M. Lechner, Sharon
Seah, Nurisa Wijayanti, Fatimah
Tuzzahara Alkaf and Siti Asdiah
Masran
SEPTEMBER 2024
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Prospects and Challenges in Promoting Humanitarian Islam
Nahdlatul Ulama’s International Social Partnerships
Sara Loo and A'an Suryana
SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 2024 2024
42 pages, 5 7/8 × 8 1/4
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics Politics & & Government
Learn from Your Comrades
Understanding Authoritarian Diffusion between Vietnam and China
Nguyen Khac Giang
NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 2024 2024
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
The Rising Role of Chinese Firms in Southeast Asia’s Automotive Supply Chain
John Lee
NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 2024
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Southeast Southeast Asia / / Politics & & Government
Managing State-Federal Relations
Growing Pressure on Malaysia’s Madani Administration
Tricia Yeoh
NOVEMBER 2024 2024
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Malaysia’s Motorcycle Sector
Past and Present Possibilities in an Era of Energy Transition
Sara Loo
DECEMBER 2024
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
Building upon Deep Trust
ASEAN-Japan Ties at a Crossroads
Joanne Lin
DECEMBER DECEMBER 2024 2024
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Southeast Southeast Asia / / Politics & & Government
Autonomy in Sarawak and Sabah
Different Paths and Diverging Outcomes
Arnold Puyok
DECEMBER 2024
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Online Campaign
Narratives in Thailand’s 2023 General Election
An Ecosystem Analysis
Surachanee Sriyai
JANUARY 2025
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Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
Youth
and Civic
Engagement in Southeast Asia
A Survey of Undergraduates in Six Countries
Norshahril Saat, Iim Halimatusa'diyah, Panarat Anamwathana, Syaza Shukri, and Veronica L. Gregorio
JANUARY JANUARY 2025 2025
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Retelling the Tale of Two Democracies
How Shifting Urban-Rural Dynamics
Shaped Thailand’s 2023 General Election
Napon Jatusripitak
JANUARY 2025
36 pages, 5 7/8 × 8 1/4
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics Politics & & Government
Indonesia’s Political Volunteer Organizations
Tools of Mobilization and of Patronage
Made Supriatma
MARCH 2025
30 pages, 5 7/8 × 8 1/4
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Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
Revolutionary Regimes
Emerging Forms of Governance in Post-Coup Myanmar
Ardeth Maung
Thawnghmung and Ashley South
APRIL 2025
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Higher Education in Malaysia
A History Plagued by Fluctuations
Wan Chang Da
APRIL 2025 2025
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics Politics & & Government
Current Perspectives on Geopolitics among Southeast Asian Youths
Sharon Seah and Eugene R L Tan
APRIL 2025
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
Localization of the United States-China Rivalry
Cases from the Philippines
Aries Arugay, Miguel Antonio V. Hermo, Edcel John A. Ibarra, and Aletheia Kerygma B. Valenciano
MAY MAY 2025
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Southeast Southeast Asia / / Politics & & Government
Economic Governance of Non-State Authorities in Myanmar
Potentials and Pitfalls
Jared Bissinger
MAY MAY 2025 2025
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Southeast Southeast Asia / Politics Politics & Government Government
Disinformation and Election Propaganda
Impact on Voter Perceptions and Behaviours in Indonesia’s 2024
Presidential Election
Maria Monica Wihardja, Burhanuddin Muhtadi, and Lee Sue-Ann
JUNE JUNE 2025
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Southeast Southeast Asia / / Politics & & Government
Striking While the Iron Is Hot
Sarawak and Federal-State Dynamics in Today’s Malaysia
Francis E Hutchinson and Lee Poh Onn
MAY 2025 2025
54 pages, 5 7/8 × 8 1/4
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
A Historical Note on Economic Reforms in Myanmar, 2006 to 2016
Lex Rieffel
JUNE JUNE 2025 2025
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Malaysia Chairs ASEAN at a Strategic Crossroads
Priorities, Opportunities and Challenges
Joanne Lin, Kristina Fong, and Melinda Martinus
JUNE 2025 2025
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Reviving UMNO
Party Institutionalization and Coalition Management in Selangor and Malacca
Tricia Yeoh
JUNE 2025
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Nuclear Energy Developments in Southeast Asia
Sharon Seah, Christopher Len, and Alvin Chew
JULY JULY 2025 2025
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Myanmar’s Uncharted Territories
Pitfalls and Prospects in Emergent Forms of Governance
Ardeth Thawnghmung and Gwen
Robinson
JULY 2025
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Youth Perceptions
of Income Inequality in Six Southeast Asian Countries
Iim Halimatusa'diyah and Syaza Shukri
JULY 2025
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics & & Government
Obstacles to Reform in Myanmar
Lessons from the Past, for a Better Future
Winston Set Aung
AUGUST 2025 2025
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Southeast Asia Asia / / Politics Politics & & Government
The
Democratic Action Party at Sixty
Struggles over Seniority, Structure, and Strategy
Francis E Hutchinson
AUGUST AUGUST 2025
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Nahdlatul Ulama and its Political Engagement with Indonesian Presidents
A'an Suryana
AUGUST AUGUST 2025
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Southeast Southeast Asia / / Politics & & Government
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Korean Studies is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal founded at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Center for Korean Studies.
Korean Studies Global Research and Critique
EDITOR: CHEEHYUNG HARRISON KIM (UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA)
Marking its 50th volume in 2026, Korean Studies expands from annual to semiannual publication. Published by University of Hawai‘i Press in partnership with the Center for Korean Studies at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the journal continues to feature robust research from scholars worldwide, merging scholarship and critique to better understand the world through Korea. In addition to its open forum issues, each year will feature a new special issue relevant to the field to highlight and inform emerging trends. A redesigned cover debuts with this milestone year, featuring images drawn from each issue The new subtitle—Global Research and Critique—emphasizes the mission of Korean Studies at this juncture in its history. For more information, visit uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/ks. Submissions welcome at ks.msubmit.net.
VOLUME 1 1 (2025)
Open Access
Annual, electronic only
Section of Language Documentation & Conservation
E-ISSN 1934-5275
LD&C publishes papers on all topics related to language documentation and conservation, including, but not limited to, the goals of language documentation, data management, fieldwork methods, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality, biocultural diversity, archiving matters, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports on endangered or underdocumented languages, reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization efforts, plus reviews of software, hardware, books, and data collections.
Indigenous Language Rights & Realities, a new section of Language Documentation & Conservation
EDITORS: CANDACE KALEIMAMOOWAHINEKAPU GALLA (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA) AND SHANNON BISCHOFF (PURDUE UNIVERSITY)
Language Documentation & Conservation has launched the special section, Indigenous Language Rights & Realities (ILR&R) ILR&R privileges and centers the work of Indigenous and non-dominant scholars, including elders, language speakers and learners, knowledge holders, cultural practitioners, educators, researchers, and advocates from various cultural, intellectual, and institutional traditions and practices. ILR&R focuses on disseminating work derived from ethical, community-led initiatives. Publications highlight the rights and realities of Indigenous and non-dominant peoples and all aspects of their language use across all domains of society, including home, community, school, work, government, online, and digital Guided by an Advisory Circle that includes Pius W Akumbu, Noro Andriamiseza Ingarao, Mary Elizabeth Imatani Bischoff, Amaia Gabantxo, Amanda Holmes, Dev Kumar Sunuwar, Lizbeth Maritza Chico Lema, Daryn McKenny, Maria Del Carmen Parafita Couto, Alexy Tsykarev, and Jasmine Tintut Williams, the section debuted on International Mother Language Day 2025 with five inaugural articles and now publishes on a rolling basis, with special publications also planned Established in 2007, Language Documentation & Conservation is a free, double-blind peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published exclusively in electronic form by the University of Hawai‘i Press. For more information, visit https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ilrr/.
Asian Perspectives
The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific FRANCIS ALLARD, BÉRÉNICE BELLINA-PRYCE, AND JULIE S. FIELD, EDITORS
Asian Perspectives is the leading peer-reviewed archaeological journal devoted to the prehistory of Asia and the Pacific region. In addition to archaeology, it features articles and book reviews on ethnoarchaeology, palaeoanthropology, physical anthropology, and ethnography of interest and use to the prehistorian. International specialists contribute regional reports summarizing current research and fieldwork, and present topical reports of significant sites. Occasional special issues focus on single topics. Available online and in print.
VOLUME 65 65 (2026)
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Individuals: $ $45.00 45.00
Semiannual, 7"x10"
Print ISSN: 0066-8435
E-ISSN: 1535-8283
Asian Theatre Journal
The Official Publication of the Association for Asian Performance
SIYUAN LIU, EDITOR
Asian Theatre Journal is dedicated to the performing arts of Asia, focusing upon both traditional and modern theatrical forms. It aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge throughout the international theatrical community for the mutual benefit of all interested scholars and artists. This engaging, intercultural journal offers descriptive and analytical articles, original plays and play translations, book and audiovisual reviews, and reports of current theatrical activities in Asia. Full-color and black-and-white photographs illustrate each issue. Available online and in print.
VOLUME VOLUME 43 43 (2026)
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Print ISSN: 0742-5457
E-ISSN: 1527-2109
Biography
An Interdisciplinary Quarterly CYNTHIA FRANKLIN, CRAIG HOWES, L. AYU SARAWATI, AND JOHN ZUERN, EDITORS
For over forty years, Biography has been an important forum for well-considered biographical scholarship. It features stimulating articles that explore the theoretical, generic, historical, and cultural dimensions of life-writing; and the integration of literature, history, the arts, and the social sciences as they relate to biography Each issue also offers insightful reviews, concise excerpts of reviews published elsewhere, an annual bibliography of works about biography, and listings of upcoming events, calls for papers, and news from the field Available online and in print.
VOLUME 49 (2026)
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Print ISSN: 0162-4962
E-ISSN: 1529-1456
Buddhist-Christian Studies
The Official Publication of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
THOMAS CATTOI AND KRISTIN JOHNSTON LARGEN, EDITORS
A scholarly journal devoted to Buddhism and Christianity and their historical and contemporary interrelationships, Buddhist-Christian Studies presents thoughtful articles, conference reports, and book reviews. It also includes sections on comparative methodology and historical comparisons, as well as ongoing discussions from two dialogue conferences: the Theological Encounter with Buddhism, and the Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. Subscription is also available through membership in the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. Available online and in print.
VOLUME 46 46 (2026) (2026)
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Print ISSN: 0882–0945
E-ISSN: 1527-9472
Chinese Studies International
A Scholarly Review Journal (previously titled China Review International)
MING-BAO YUE, EDITOR
Chinese Studies International presents timely, English-language reviews of recently published China-related books and monographs from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere Its multidisciplinary scope and international coverage make it an indispensable tool for all those interested in Chinese culture and civilization, and enable the sinologist to keep abreast of cutting-edge scholarship in Chinese studies.
VOLUME VOLUME 30 30 (2026) (2026)
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E-ISSN: 2996-8593
CHINOPERL
Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
JING
SHEN, EDITOR
The journal welcomes submissions on Chinese oral and performing literature, whether historical, descriptive, theoretical, or interdisciplinary in nature. Submission and subscription information can be found at uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/chp. CHINOPERL’ s 50-year archive is also now available on Project MUSE (https://muse.jhu.edu/ journals/chinoperl).
Individual access to the journal is only through society membership. This option includes both print and online subscriptions to the journal Shipping charges applicable to international addresses. An online-only option is available to forgo shipping charges.
VOLUME VOLUME 45 (2026)
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Semiannual, 7” x 9.875”
Print ISSN: 2835-317X
E-ISSN: 2835-3188
The Contemporary Pacific
An Interdisciplinary Journal
KATERINA TEAIWA, EDITOR
With editorial offices at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, The Contemporary Pacific covers a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It features refereed, readable articles that examine social, economic, political, ecological, and cultural topics, along with political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section with interviews and short essays. Each issue highlights the work of a Pacific Islander artist. Available online and in print.
VOLUME 38 38 (2026)
, Pacific Pacific Islands Islands (other than Hawai‘i, New Zealand, and Australia)
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Individuals: $ $31.00 31.00
Rest of of World World—Inst.$114.00 $114.00; Indiv.
$43.00
Semiannual, 7"x10"
Print ISSN: 1043–898X
E-ISSN: 1527-9464
Filipino American National Historical Society Journal
PATRICIA ESPIRITU HALAGAO AND TERESE GUINSATAO MONBERG, EDITORS
The Filipino American National Historical Society Journal is the only journal devoted exclusively to the identification, gathering, preservation, and dissemination of Filipino American history and culture in the U.S. The society was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1982 by Dorothy Laigo Cordova and Fred Cordova, and now hosts 40+ regional chapters nationwide
The society and journal have long served as a primary informational resource for community organizations and educational institutions on Filipino American history As an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, each issue includes research by community-based and academic historians as well as personal histories.
VOLUME VOLUME 13 13 (2025)
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Print ISSN: 2994–5658
E-ISSN: 2994-5666
The Hawaiian Journal of History
KELLI Y. NAKAMURA AND BLAINE NAMAHANA TOLENTINO, EDITORS
The Hawaiian Journal of History is an annual journal devoted to original articles on the history of Hawai‘i, Polynesia, and the Pacific area. Each issue includes articles on a variety of subjects; illustrations; book reviews; notes and queries; and a bibliography of recent Hawaiiana titles of historical interest. Individual subscription is through membership in the Hawaiian Historical Society. Available online and in print.
VOLUME 60 (2026)
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Published by the University of Hawai‘i Press for the Hawaiian Historical Society
Annual, 6"x9"
Print ISSN: 0440-5145
E-ISSN: 2169-7639
The Journal of Burma Studies
AURORE
CANDIER, GENERAL EDITOR
Established in 1996, The Journal of Burma Studies is the premier peer-reviewed academic print journal that focuses exclusively on Burma. JBS is jointly sponsored by the Burma Studies Group and the Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University JBS seeks to publish the best scholarly research focused on Burma/Myanmar, its ethnic nationality, stateless and diasporic cultures from a variety of disciplines, ranging from art history and religious studies, to economics and law. The journal draws together research and critical reflection on Burma/Myanmar from scholars across Asia, North America, and Europe.
Journal of Korean Religions
SEONG-NAE KIM AND DON BAKER, EDITORS
The Journal of Korean Religions is the only English-language academic journal dedicated to the study of Korean religions. It aims to stimulate interest in and research on Korean religions across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Launched in 2010 by the Institute for the Study of Religion at Sogang University in Korea, it is peer-reviewed and published twice yearly, in April and October
VOLUME VOLUME 17 17 (2026) (2026)
Institutions: $ $165.00 165.00
Individuals: $ $82.00 82.00
Semiannual, electronic only
E-ISSN: 2167-2040
Journal of Polynesian Archaeology and Research
JILLIAN SWIFT, EDITOR
The Journal of Polynesian Archaeology and Research is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal co-sponsored by the Easter Island Foundation (EIF) and the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology (SHA). This journal serves as a forum to bring together important research and conversations around archaeology, history, and heritage management in Polynesia, and aims to align several shared goals of the EIF and SHA. The journal will publish research articles, commentaries, and reviews that are of relevance to stakeholders and practitioners of archaeology and related research in Polynesia.
VOLUME VOLUME 3 (2026)
Open Access Access Journal Journal
Annual, electronic only
E-ISSN: 2997-0164
VOLUME 30 30 (2026) (2026)
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Individuals: $ $53.00 53.00
Semiannual, 6"x9"
Print ISSN: 1094-799X
E-ISSN: 2010-314X
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
MARK J. ALVES, EDITOR
JSEALS is the peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society JSEALS accepts submissions written in English that deal with general linguistic issues which further the lively debate that characterizes the annual SEALS conferences. Devoted to a region of extraordinary linguistic diversity, the journal features papers on the languages of Southeast Asia, including Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Tibeto-Burman and Tai-Kadai
VOLUME 19 19 (2026)
Open Open Access Access Journal Journal
Semiannual, electronic only
E-ISSN: 1836-6821
Journal of World History
The Official Journal of the World History Association
LAURA J. MITCHELL, EDITOR
The Journal of World History publishes research into historical questions requiring the investigation of evidence on a global, comparative, cross-cultural, or transnational scale. It is devoted to the study of phenomena that transcend the boundaries of single states, regions, or cultures, such as large-scale population movements, long-distance trade, cross-cultural technology transfers, and the transnational spread of ideas. Individual subscription is by membership in the World History Association. Available online and in print.
VOLUME VOLUME 37 37 (2026)
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Print ISSN: 1045–6007
E-ISSN: 1527-8050
Language Documentation & Conservation
RACQUEL-MARÍA SAPIÉN, EDITOR
Language Documentation & Conservation is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published exclusively in electronic form by the University of Hawai‘i Press, with papers on all topics related to language documentation and conservation, including, but not limited to, the goals of language documentation, data management, fieldwork methods, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality, biocultural diversity, archiving matters, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports on endangered or underdocumented languages, reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization efforts, plus reviews of software, hardware, books, and data collections. The journal is available at www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ ldc
VOLUME 20 (2026)
Open Access Access Journal Journal
Annual, electronic only
E-ISSN: 1934-5275
Mānoa
A Pacific Journal of International Writing
S. SHANKAR, EDITOR
MĀNOA is a unique, award-winning literary journal that includes American and international fiction, poetry, artwork, and essays of current cultural or literary interest. An outstanding feature of each issue is original translations of contemporary work from Asian and Pacific nations, selected for each issue by a special guest editor Beautifully produced, MĀNOA presents traditional alongside contemporary writings from the entire Pacific Rim, one of the world’s most dynamic literary regions. Available online and in print.
VOLUME 38 38 (2026) (2026)
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Semiannual, 7"x10"
Print ISSN: 1045-7909
E-ISSN: 1527-943X
Oceanic Linguistics
ALEXANDER ADELAAR, OWEN EDWARDS, ALEXANDER D. SMITH, EDITORS
Oceanic Linguistics is the only journal devoted exclusively to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia. The thousand-odd languages within the scope of the journal are the aboriginal languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family. Articles in Oceanic Linguistics cover issues of linguistic theory that pertain to languages of the area, report research on historical relations, or furnish new information about inadequately described languages. Available online and in print.
VOLUME VOLUME 65 65 (2026) (2026)
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Print ISSN: 0029–8115
E-ISSN: 1527-9421
Pacific Science
A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region
STEPHEN L. YOUNG, EDITOR
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. In addition to publishing original research, the journal features review articles providing a synthesis of current knowledge. Individual subscribers also become members of the Pacific Science Association. Available online and in print.
VOLUME VOLUME 80 (2026)
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Print ISSN: 0030–8870
E-ISSN: 1534-6188
Palapala
He puke pai no ka ‘ōlelo me ka mo‘olelo Hawai‘i
A Journal for Hawaiian Language and Literature
JEFFREY (KAPALI) LYON, EDITOR
Palapala publishes scholarly, refereed articles on the full range of topics in the field of Hawaiian language: new research in Hawaiian language and literature; reviews of new work related to Hawaiian; critical reviews of older, standard works of reference; transcriptions and reprints of older materials; problems and guidelines in interpretation; analysis of individual texts, genres, authors, schools, and periods; comparative Polynesian literature; education in Hawaiian Language and literature; use of Hawaiian texts in different fields.
The journal will also include reviews of any significant technologies relating to research in Hawaiian language and literature as well as book reviews and reports on the state of Hawaiian literature publications, courses, personnel, projects and more
VOLUME 3 3 (2024) (2024)
Open Open Access Access Journal Journal Electronic only
E-ISSN: 2381-2478
Philosophy East and West
A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy
FRANKLIN PERKINS, EDITOR
Promoting academic literacy on non-Western traditions of philosophy, Philosophy East and West has for over half a century published the highest-quality scholarship that locates these cultures in their relationship to Anglo-American philosophy Philosophy defined in its relationship to cultural traditions broadly integrates the professional discipline with literature, science, and social practices. Each issue includes debates on issues of contemporary concern and critical reviews of the most recent publications. Available online and in print.
VOLUME VOLUME 76 76 (2026)
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Print ISSN: 0031–8221
E-ISSN: 1529-1898
Review of Japanese Culture and Society
MIYA ELISE MIZUTA, EDITOR
The Review of Japanese Culture and Society is devoted to the scholarly examination of Japanese art, literature, and society. Published annually in English, it provides a venue for the encounter of diverse perspectives on various aspects of Japanese culture and society Each issue addresses a particular theme and seeks to provide a broad perspective by combining the work of Japanese scholars and critics with that of non-Japanese writers. Dedicated to the translation of works written originally in Japanese, each issue also includes an original translation of a Japanese short story Available online and in print.
VOLUME 36 (2024)
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E-ISSN: 2329-9770
U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal
NORIKO MIZUTA, EDITOR
U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal aims to promote scholarly exchange on women and gender between the U.S., Japan, and other countries, to enlarge the base of information available in Japan on the status of American women as well as women in other countries, to disseminate information on Japanese women to the U.S. and other countries, and to stimulate the comparative study of women ’ s issues. Until 2000, the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal was published in both Japanese (as Nichibei Josei Journal from 1988) and English (as a supplement from 1991). Sponsored by the International Institute for Media and Women’s Studies. Available online and in print.
NUMBER 69-70 69-70 (2026) (2026)
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Individuals: $ $37.00 37.00
Semiannual, 7"x10"
Print ISSN: 1059-9770
E-ISSN: 2330-5029
Yearbook of the APCG Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
CRAIG S. REVELS, EDITOR
Founded in 1935, the APCG has a rich history of promoting geographical education and research. Yearbook includes abstracts of papers from its annual meetings, a selection of full-length peer-reviewed articles, and book reviews. Since 1952 the APCG has also been the Pacific Coast Regional Division (including Hawai‘i) of the Association of American Geographers. Available online and in print. Individual subscription is by membership in the APCG.
VOLUME VOLUME 88 88 (2026) (2026)
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Print ISSN: 0066-9628
E-ISSN: 1551-3211
Title & Author Index
A Historical Note on Economic Reforms in Myanmar, 2006 to 2016 35
A Myanmar Miscellany 29
A Resource for Korean Grammar Instruction 25
A Vision for Korean Unification Toward a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region 30
Adelaar, Alexander 45
Alatas, Sharifah Afra 31
Alkaf, Fatimah Tuzzahara 32
Allard, Francis 40
Alves, Mark J 44
Anamwathana, Panarat 32, 34
Anshari, Gusti 32
Arugay, Aries 35
Asaba, Yuiko 24
Ashfold, Matthew 32
Asian Perspectives 40
Asian Theatre Journal 40
Aspinall, Edward 29
Aun, Lee Hwok 30
Aung, Winston Set 32, 36
Autonomy in Sarawak and Sabah 33
Åman, Sonja 4
Āloha Kāua 26
Baker, Don 43
Behrens, Julia L. 29
Bell, Joshua A. 23
Bellina-Pryce, Bérénice 40
Biography 40
Bischoff, Shannon 39
Bissinger, Jared 35
Black, Hona 26
Blue Pawn, Red Pawn and the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Gambit for Legitimacy 30
Breuker, Remco E. 15
Buddhist-Christian Studies 41
Building upon Deep Trust 33
Bylander, Maryann 25
Cadaverous 10
Calculus 28
Calman, Ross 27
Candier, Aurore 43
Carlile, Lonny E. 19
Cattoi, Thomas 41
Chambers, Paul 29
Chew, Alvin 36
Chin, James 29
Chinese Studies International 41
CHINOPERL 41
Chong, Terence 31
Christophe, Alice 1
Coderey, Céline 21
Cribb, Robert 7
Current Perspectives on Geopolitics among Southeast Asian Youths 35
Da, Wan Chang 34
Danh, Nguyen Hoang Thanh 30
De Weerdt, Hilde 17
Ding, Yi 18
Disinformation and Election Propaganda 35
Dodging and Confronting Stigma 24
Dowling, Peter 26
Durney, Florence 4
Early Ryukyuan History 25
Economic Governance of Non-State Authorities in Myanmar 35
Edwards, Owen 45
Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture 13
Energy and Decarbonization in Southeast Asia, volume 2 30
Epistemology of the Past 25
Eye of Heaven 27
Faraway Hometown 27
Faure, Bernard 11
Field, Julie S. 40
Filipino American National Historical Society Journal 42
Fong, Kristina 32, 36
Forbes, David W 23
Franklin, Cynthia 40
From Paper to Practice 32
Galla, Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu 39
Generational Divides in Understanding Thailand’s History Grow Amid Political Polarization 32
Giang, Nguyen Khac 33
Goodwin, Janet R 24
Governing Urban Indonesia 29
Great Cessation-and-Contemplation Volume I 28
Great Cessation-and-Contemplation Volume II
28
Gregorio, Veronica L. 34
Growth of a Megacity 20
Gunn, Geoffrey 30
Ha, Hoang Thi 31
Halagao, Patricia Espiritu 42
Halimatusa’diyah, Iim 34
Halimatusa’diyah, Iim 36
Halvaksz II, Jamon Alex 23
Hammond, Joyce D 23
Hawai‘i 1
Helelā, Noalani 26
Heller, Natasha 23
Hermo, Miguel Antonio V 35
Higher Education in Malaysia 34
Hill, Kevin T 27
Howes, Craig 40
Huda, Mirza Sadaqat 30
Hutchinson, Francis E 35, 37
Ibarra, Edcel John A. 35
In Haste with Aloha 23
Indigenous Language Rights & Realities, a new section of Language Documentation & Conservation 39
Indonesia’s Political Volunteer Organizations 34
Ireland, Benjamin Hiramatsu 2
Jaffrey, Sana 31
Jatusripitak, Napon 34
Jiahui, Qiu 30, 32
Journal of Korean Religions 43
Journal of Polynesian Archaeology and Research 43
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 44
Journal of World History 44
Jōo, Fumiko 24
Kazakhstan and Role of the Middle Powers 29
Kim, Cheehyung Harrison 38
Kim, Jisoo M. 13
Kim, Seong Uk 24
Kim, Seong-nae 43
Kim, Tae Hyun 27
Korean Buddhism 16
Korean Neo-Confucian Perspectives on Laozi and Zhuangzi 27
Korean Relations with Japan and Ryūkyū in the
Early Chosŏn Period 14
Korean Studies 38
Krolikoski, David 12
Kuplowsky, Adam 25
Kuramoto, Ryosuke 25
Language Documentation & Conservation 44
Largen, Kristin Johnston 41
Learn from Your Comrades 33
Learning from Covid-19 in Southeast Asia 30
Lechner, Alex M. 32
Lee, John 33
Lee, Sumi 16
Len, Christopher 36
Leong, Pauline Pooi Yin 29
Lin, Joanne 33, 36
Literature for Little Bodhisattvas 23
Literature for the Masses 24
Liu, Siyuan 40
Living with the Vinaya 25
Localization of the United States-China Rivalry 35
Loo, Sara 32, 33
Lords of Life 11
Lyon, Jeffrey (Kapali) 46
Lyrical Translation 12
Macomber, Andrew 10
Malaysia Chairs ASEAN at a Strategic Crossroads 36
Malaysia’s Motorcycle Sector 33
Managing State-Federal Relations 33
Martinus, Melinda 36
Masran, Siti Asdiah 32
Meditation Sickness 5
Menon, Jayant 30
Mitchell, Laura J 44
Mitigating Carbon Emissions and Haze in Southeast Asia’s Peatlands 32
Mizuta, Miya Elise 46
Mizuta, Noriko 47
Moana Oceania: Fiji Viti 26
Moana Oceania: Niue 26
Monberg, Terese Guinsatao 42
Monks and Literati 24
Mothers Against War 24
Muhtadi, Burhanuddin 35
Murphy-Fell, Te Aorangi 26
Myanmar’s Uncharted Territories 36
Myhre, Stephen 27
Mānoa 45
Māori Rafter & Tāniko Designs 26
Nahdlatul Ulama and its Political Engagement with Indonesian Presidents 37
Nakamura, Kelli Y 42
Naturalist Histories 23
Negara, Siwage Dharma 30
Negotiations of the Sacred 8
Nemaia, Mele Fakatali 26
New Zealand Place Names 26
Ng, Irene 28
Ngā Hapa Reo 26
No Island Is an Island 23
Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated 15
Nourishing Life 9
Nuclear Energy Developments in Southeast Asia 36
Observances, Feasts, and Scripts 18
Obstacles to Reform in Myanmar 36
Oceanic Linguistics 45
Online Campaign Narratives in Thailand’s 2023
General Election 34
Onn, Lee Poh 35
Orr, James J 6
Pacific Science 45
Palapala 46
Park, Jin Y 16
Park, Mee-Jeong 25
Peony Lantern Tales 24
Perkins, Franklin 46
Phillipps, W.J 26
Philosophy East and West 46
Porcu, Elisabetta 8
Praetorian Kingdom 29
Prat, Lindsey DeWitt 4
Prospects and Challenges in Promoting Humanitarian Islam 32
Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia 30
Puyok, Arnold 33
Rapaport, Moshe 3
Reed, A.W 26
Reichert, James 24
Retelling the Tale of Two Democracies 34
Revels, Craig S. 47
Review of Japanese Culture and Society 46
Reviving UMNO 36
Revolutionary Regimes 34
Rieffel, Lex 35
Riley, Jessica Arlene 27
Rising China’s Soft Power in Southeast Asia 28
Robinson, Gwen 36
Robinson, Kenneth R 14
Roitman, Sonia 20
Rots, Aike P 4
Rounding the Bases 6
Rukmana, Deden 20
Russell, Terence 28
S. Rajaratnam, The Authorised Biography, Volume Two 28
Saat, Norshahril 31, 34
Salguero, C. Pierce 5
Sapién, Racquel-María 44
Saraswati, L. Ayu 19
Sarawati, L. Ayu 40
Satyanarayana, K. 22
Savirani, Amalinda 29
Schlachet, Joshua 9
Seah, Sharon 30, 32, 35, 36
Selth, Andrew 29
Shankar, S. 22, 45
Shariah, Society and Stratification 31
Shen, Jing 41
Shukri, Syaza 34, 36
Singh, Daljit 31, 31
Singh, Gurjit 31
Smith, Alexander D. 45
Smits, Gregory 25
Social Media and Political Communities in Malaysia 29
Sohn, Sung-Ock S. 25
South, Ashley 34
Southeast Asian Affairs 2024 31
Southeast Asian Affairs 2025 31
Sriyai, Surachanee 34
Storey, Ian 30
Strausz, Michael 23
Striking While the Iron Is Hot 35
Sue-Ann, Lee 35
Suk-Wai, Cheong 31
Supriatma, Made 34
Suryadinata, Leo 28
Suryana, A’an 32
Suryana, A’an 37
Swanson, Paul 28, 28
Swift, Jillian 43
Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series, No 53 28
Takenaka, Akiko 24
Tan, Eugene R L 35
Tango in Japan 24
Teaiwa, Katerina 42
Teru, Hasegawa 25
Thang, Leng Leng 19
Thawnghmung, Ardeth Maung 34
Thawnghmung, Ardeth 36
The Arts of Governance 17
The Contemporary Pacific 42
The Contours of Endearment 19
The Democratic Action Party at Sixty 37
The Evolution of Economic Reforms across Myanmar’s Administrations 32
The Hawaiian Journal of History 42
The Jokowi Presidency 31
The Journal of Burma Studies 43
The Mango Flavour 31
The Pacific Islands 3
The Power of Remainder 21
The Power of Sustainable Development in Vietnam 29
The Rising Role of Chinese Firms in Southeast Asia’s Automotive Supply Chain 33
The Trade-Offs of Legal Status 25
The Treaty of Waitangi 27
Thun, Theara 25
Tokayev, Kassym-Jomart 29
Tolentino, Blaine Namahana 42
Touchable/Untouchable 22
Towards the Indonesian Republic 30
Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan 23
Tsai, Ya-Ju 28
Tsoi, Kwok-Wing 28
Tu, Kuo-ch’ing 28
Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away 7
Tīfaifai and Quilts of Polynesia 23
U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal 47
Valenciano, Aletheia Kerygma B 35
Varkkey, Helena 32
Voices Beyond the Grave 2
Vunidilo, Tarisi 26
Wang, Zhihua 27
Warburton, Eve 31
Water Powers 4
Wee Kim Wee 31
Welker, James 23
Whispers from a Storm 25
Who’s Doing What? 32
Wihardja, Maria Monica 35
Wijayanti, Nurisa 32
Wilson, Sandra 7
Wood Carving 27
Wu, Baolin 27, 27
Wulf, Brent Christopher 27
Wu-Style Bone-Setting and Massage 27
Yearbook of the APCG 47
Yeoh, Tricia 33, 36
Yeol, Yoon Suk 30
Young, Stephen L. 45
Youth and Civic Engagement in Southeast Asia 34
Youth Perceptions of Income Inequality in Six Southeast Asian Countries 36
Yue, Ming-Bao 41
Zuern, John 40
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