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Rickshaw is a new translation of the twentieth-century Chinese classic Lo-t'o Hsiang Tzu, the first important study of a laborer in modern Chinese literature. While the rest of the Chinese literary world debated hotly, and for years, the value of proletarian literature, Lao She wrote the novel that the left wing insisted on but failed to produce.

From earliest times, the chanting of poetry served the Hawaiians as a form of ritual celebration of the things they cherished. This anthology embraces a wide variety of compositions: it ranges from song-poems of the Pele and Hiiaka cycle and the pre-Christian Shark Hula for Ka-lani-opuu to postmissionary chants and gospel hymns.

The present translation is based on the standard version by Menzan Zuihao as edited by Watsuji Tetsurao.

Between 1886 and 1924 thousands of Japanese journeyed to Hawaii to work the sugarcane plantations. First the men came, followed by brides, known only from their pictures, for marriages arranged by brokers. This book tells the story of two generations of plantation workers as revealed by the clothing they brought with them and the adaptations they made to it to accommodate the harsh conditions of plantation labor. Barbara Kawakami has created a vivid picture highlighted by little-known facts gleaned from extensive interviews, from study of preserved pieces of clothing and how they were constructed, and from the literature. She shows that as the cloth preferred by the immigrants shifted from kasuri (tie-dyed fabric from Japan) to palaka (heavy cotton cloth woven in a white plaid pattern on a dark blue background) so too their outlooks shifted from those of foreigners to those of Japanese Americans. Chapters on wedding and funeral attire present a cultural history of the life events at which they were worn, and the examination of work, casual, and children's clothing shows us the social fabric of the issei (first-generation Japanese). Changes that occurred in nisei (second-generation) tradition and clothing are also addressed. The book is illustrated with rare photographs of the period from family collections.

Explores the possibilities and limits of terms such as "body", "woman", "gender", and "agency" to analyse texts that come out of altogether different temporal and cultural contexts. Through close textual readings of a wide range of classical and medieval narratives, Rajyashree Pandey offers new ways of understanding such terms within the context of medieval Buddhist knowledge.

This "root dictionary" of Korean for second language learners contains more than 1500 vocabulary lists consisting of words built from a shared root. Upon encountering a word, the student can consult the list for its component roots and discover other semantically related words.

Together, the five stories and novella in this collection follow the lives of first- and second-generation Indian Americans living in contemporary California. The characters share a similar sensibility: a sense that immigration is a distant memory, yet an experience that continues to shape the decisions they make in subtle and surprising ways.

Spotlights four categories of cross-cultural interaction - war, diplomacy, piracy, and trade - over a period of eight hundred years to gain insight into several questions about Japan and its place in the world: How did Hakata come to serve as the country's ""front door""? Has Japan been historically open or closed to outside influence? And more.

Tells the stories of some "1.5" and second-generation Koreans who experienced life in Hawaii or on the US mainland since childhood. Some tales are humorous, some sad. Their stories were captured from nearly a hundred interviews taken by co-author Roberta Chang. Their stories are filled with amazing personal accomplishments, family love, and unique community life.

This is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan's history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan's role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries.

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.

This is a novel about a Korean American, Nam Ki Han, who is born and raised on a Hawaiian plantation, becomes a Christian fanatic, and following his older brothers advice that he must serve his country, joins the Army and fights on a front in the Korean

Hawai`i's legendary jazz musician Gabe Baltazar Jr. has thrilled audiences since the late 1940s with his powerful and passionate playing. In this, the first book on his life and career, Gabe takes readers through the highs, lows, and in-betweens on the long road to becoming one of the very few Asian Americans who has achieved worldwide acclaim as a jazz artist.

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.