Books published by University of Hawai'i Press

This is a study of the Incense Light order, a single sex Buddhist community in contemporary Taiwan. The work is based on the authors participant observation of the nuns as well as on documentary materials gathered about the group.

The story of the life of Father Damien from his boyhood in rural Belgium to his death at the leper settlement after 16 years as a missionary in Hawaii. To his spiritual ministry he added the practice of medicine and the skill of a master builder of chapels, churches and houses.

The great noh actor, theorist, and play-wright Zeami Motokiyo (ca. 1363-1443) is one of the major figures of world drama. His critical treatises have attracted international attention ever since their publication in the early 1900s. His corpus of work and ideas continues to offer a wealth of insights on issues ranging from the nature of dramatic illusion and audience interest to tactics for composing successful plays to issues of somaticity and bodily training. Shelley Fenno Quinn's impressive interpretive examination of Zeami's treatises addresses all of these areas as it outlines the development of the playwright's ideas on how best to cultivate attunement between performer and audience. Quinn begins by tracing Zeami's transformation of the largely mimetic stage art of his father's troupe into a theater of poiesis in which the playwright and actors aim for performances wherein dance and chant are re-keyed to the evocative power of literary memory. Synthesizing this remembered language of stories, poems, phrases, and their prosodies and associated auras with the flow of dance and chant led to the creation of dramatic prototype that engaged and depended on the audience as never before. Later chapters examine a performance configuration created by Zeami (the nikyoku santai) as articulated in his mature theories on the training of the performer. Drawing on possible reference points from Buddhist and Daoist thought, the author argues that Zeami came to treat the nikyoku santai as a set of guidelines for bracketing the subjectivity of the novice actor, thereby allowing the actor to reach a certain skill level or threshold from which his freedom as an artist might begin.

An intermediate-level reader in Korean. Each of the 24 lessons consists of: a main text; a dialogue; a discussion of new word usage and structural patterns; substitution and grammar drills; exercises; and a vocabulary list. Chinese characters found in each lesson are also introduced.

The plays presented here were first performed between 1769 and 1832, a time when the Japanese puppet theatre known as Bunraku was beginning to lose its pre-eminence to Kabuki. During this period, however, several important puppet plays were created that went on to become standards in both the Bunraku and Kabuki repertoires; three of the plays in this volume achieved this level of importance.

This book attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant moment in Hawaiis history. It takes an unprecedented look at the Hansens disease outbreak (18651900) almost exclusively from the perspective of patients, ninety percent of who was Kanaka

n account of the grammar of Bislama as it is used by ordinary Ni-Vanuatu. It does not aim to describe any kind of artificial written norm butto capture a range of different kinds of ways that Ni-Vanuatu will say things in various contexts.

An examination of medieval Chinese Buddhist thanatonic practices. Bridging area studies and the history of religions, Teiser explores the concerns, practices and beliefs of 9th- and 10th-century Chinese Buddhists.

Consisting of 18 lessons on diverse, stimulating topics such as Korean traditions, culture and society, this textbook is designed for use by students who have completed the fourth-year level in Korean (approximately 500 class hours) or the equivalent. Each lesson consists of six sections.

This collection of essays constitutes a history of modern Japanese aesthetics. It introduces readers through translations to works on the philosophy of art written by major Japanese thinkers from the late-19th century to the present.

Charles H. Hammatt arrived in Hawaii in 1823 and remained long enough to form his own opinions about native society there. He recorded his encounters and observations in his journal, which provides an unexpected and intimate glimpse of life in frontier Hawaii.

A firsthand account of the incarceration of a Hawai'i Japanese during World War II.

Tells the beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of the Minaguchi-ya is a social history of Japan through 400 years, a ringside seat to some of the most stirring events of a stirring period.

Takuan Sho's (1573-1645) two works on Zen and swordsmanship are among the most straightforward and lively presentations of Zen ever written and have enjoyed great popularity in both pre-modern and modern Japan.

This book joins a growing body of work in an area called Animal Studies. Drawing as it does on strong human attachments to non-human animalswhether as pet, specimen, food, or spectacleAnimal Studies is now a vibrant area of interdisciplinary research.

Examines the social worlds and interrelationships of traffickers, victims, and trafficking activists along the Thai-Lao border. It explores local efforts to reconcile international legal concepts, the bureaucratic prescriptions of aid organizations, and global development ideologies with on-the-ground realities of sexual commerce.

Theravada Buddhism is practiced in Sri Lanka and throughout most of Southeast Asia. Introduced in the work in accessible language suitable to the undergraduate or gender reader. It surveys Theravadas basic teachings and contemporary practice in its traditional settings in South and Southeast Asia and discusses the current state of Theravada throughout the world.

An exploration of Buddhism during the Sung Dynasty (960-1279). It asserts, that, far from signalling a decline, the Sung was a period of great efflorescence in Buddhism. The studies presented focus largely on elite figures, elite traditions, and interactions among Buddhists and literati.

This work is an inquiry into the emergence of ""victim consciousness"" as an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity after World War II. It reveals how postwar Japanese elites and American occupying authorities collaborated to structure the parameters of remembrance of the war.

A study of the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. It opens with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West since the 18th-century empiricists and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance.

The Yellow River has long been viewed as a symbol of China's cultural and political development, its management traditionally held as a gauge of dynastic power. This work examines long-term efforts to manage the river, and the nature of the bureaucracy created to do the job.

Provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority.