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Dougong: The Cultural Geometry of the Chinese Bracket Set
This is the first English-language study devoted to dougong, the block-bracket cluster widely regarded as the epitome of traditional Chinese architecture. For almost two millennia, …
ABC Dictionary of Chinese Proverbs (Yanyu)
This Chinese-English dictionary of proverbs (yanyu) consists of approximately 4,000 Chinese proverbs alphabetically arranged by the first word(s) (ci) of the proverb according to …
The Potent Dead
The dead are potent and omnipresent in modern Indonesia. Presidents and peasants alike meditate before sacred graves to exploit the power they confer, and mediums do good business …
The Mahele of Our Bodies: Nā Moʻolelo Kūpuna Māhū/LGBTQ
"They put up barriers, the same way with our bodies. Our bodies are meant for us to be very expressive. Hawaiians were like that. . . . To me it was an expression of the mahele of …
Chasing Traces
Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan
Mothers Against War examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women's rights in the decades following Japan's defeat in 1945. With a focus on the …
'Ohu'ohu na Mauna o 'E'eka
In ‘Ohu‘ohu na Mauna o ‘E‘eka: Place Names of Maui Komohana, author Cody Kapueola‘akeanui Pata gathers together over 1,600 inoa ‘aina (place name) entries for Maui Komohana—an area …
Peony Lantern Tales: Ghostly Encounters in the Early Modern Sinosphere
"The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, …
Korea and the United States
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Waiwai: Water and the Future of Hawai'i
For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro …
Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement
Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food
Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food is a recipe for a new storytelling tradition that combines critical studies of Filipino food and of the …