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The speed and extent of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic revival make it one of the most extraordinary stories of religious resurgence in post-Mao China. Drawing on the recent ""moral turn"" in anthropology, this volume explores the social and moral dimensions of monastic revival and reform across a range of Geluk monasteries in northeast Tibet.

Essays in this collection are grounded in Australian locales commonly termed ""remote"". By taking a step toward understanding the relation between changing circumstances and changing lives of indigenous Australians, the volume provides a sense of the quality and feel of those lives.

Investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes.

Discusses foreigners in Korea from before the founding of Chosn in 1392 until the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been common to describe Chosn Korea as a monocultural and homogeneous state, Adam Bohnet reveals the considerable presence of foreigners and people of foreign ancestry in Chosn Korea.

Explores the influence of the YMCA's and YWCA's work on highly diverse societies in South, Southeast, and East Asia, North America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. The book provides new insights into the evolution of global civil society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its multifarious, seemingly secular, legacies for today's world.

By the twelfth century, an estate ""system"" permeated much of the Japanese archipelago. This volume examines the system from three perspectives: the land itself; the power derived from and exerted over the land; and the religion institutions and individuals that were involved in landholding practices.

Directly address the linguistic needs and abilities of heritage and accelerated learners in a single academic year. Volume 1 presents lessons on thematically organized subjects, starting with familiar topics. Volume 2 advances to more formal subjects beyond family and friends.

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tongan migrant mothers and adult daughters in Australia, anthropologist Makiko Nishitani provides a unique account of how gifts, money, and information flow along the connections of kin and kin-like relationships.

A thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1, the third volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All the series' volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology.

This workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised third edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1. It provides students with extensive skill-using activities based on the skills learned in the main text.

What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? These are some of the basic questions addressed in this introduction to Chinese Buddhism written for students and those interested in an accessible yet authoritative overview of the subject.

Hawaii's 100th Infantry Battalion Separate was the first US Army combat unit composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Its original members were inducted into the Army before Pearl Harbor. How the loyalty of these soldiers was questioned, put to the test, and finally proved on the battlefields of Europe is the subject of this book.

In this convincing and provocative study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural stereotypes in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro.

During the 1885 to 1924 immigration period of plantation laborers from Japan to Hawaii, more than 200,000 Japanese, mostly single men, made the long journey by ship to the Hawaiian Islands. As it became apparent that they would never return to Japan, many of the men sent for brides to join them in their adopted home. More than 20,000 of these "picture brides" immigrated from Japan and Okinawa to Hawaii to marry husbands whom they knew only through photographs exchanged between them or their families. Based on Barbara Kawakami's first-hand interviews with sixteen of these women, Picture Bride Stories is a poignant collection that recounts the diverse circumstances that led them to marry strangers, their voyages to Hawaii, the surprises and trials that they encountered upon arriving, and the lives they led upon settling in a strange new land. Many found hardship, yet persevered and endured the difficult conditions of the sugarcane and pineapple plantations for the sake of their children. As they acclimated to a foreign place and forged new relationships, they overcame challenges and eventually prospered in a better life. The stories of the issei women exemplify the importance of friendships and familial networks in coping with poverty and economic security. Although these remarkable women are gone, their legacy lives on in their children, grandchildren, and succeeding generations. In addition to the oral histories--the result of forty years of interviews--the author provides substantial background on marriage customs and labor practices on the plantations.

One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisp. This book features a study of Kim and the Kmo sinhwa, followed by a complete English translation of the tales.

Images of the Buddha are everywhere, but what these images mean largely depends on the background and circumstance of those viewing them. James Dobbins invites readers to imagine how premodern Japanese Buddhists understood and experienced icons in temple settings long before the advent of museums and the internet.

Where do surfing waves come from? What makes everyone different? Why do some peel perfectly and others just close out? Why, some days, do waves come in sets, and others days they dont? How do the tides, the wind and the shape of the sea floor affect the waves for surfing? Surf Science answers all these questions and many more. Now in its third edition, this is the first book to talk in depth about the science of waves from a surfers point of view. With illustrations and examples from around the world, it fills the gap between surfing books and waves textbooks, and will help surfers to predict surf. For students, Surf Science is an invaluable introduction to oceanography and the science of waves.

This workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised third edition of Integrated Korean: Beginning 2, the second volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean.

A thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Beginning 2, the second volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. The accompanying workbook provides students with extensive skill-using activities based on the skills learned in the main text.

Half a century after his samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima remains a controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers, he has often been scorned by scholars, who view him as a frivolous figure. Andrew Rankin sets out to challenge this perception by demonstrating the intelligence and seriousness of Mishima's work.

In 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe - Hokule'a - was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hokule'a.

Provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism. Chinese Pure Land Buddhism has previously received very little attention from western scholars. Charles B. Jones examines the reasons for the lack of scholarly attention and why the few past treatments of the topic missed many of its distinctive features.

The first in-depth English-language work to present regional traditions of Chinese architecture based on a detailed study of the timber construction system. Lala Zuo presents case studies of twenty buildings along the Yangtze River built during the Yuan, often considered a transitional phase in Chinese architectural history.

Davida Malo's Moolelo Hawaii is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. The heart of this two-volume work is a new, critically edited text of Malo's original Hawaiian, including the manuscript known as the ""Carter copy"", handwritten by him and two helpers in the decade before his death in 1853.

Davida Malo's Moolelo Hawaii is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. The heart of this two-volume work is a new, critically edited text of Malo's original Hawaiian, including the manuscript known as the ""Carter copy"", handwritten by him and two helpers in the decade before his death in 1853.

Explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging literature on cities in the ""Global South"" as sites of oppression, but also resistance, aspiration, and activism.

Examines the American, international, and Hawaiian representations of David La`amea Kamanakapu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalakaua in English- and Hawaiian-language newspapers, books, travelogues, and other materials published during his reign as Hawai`i's mo`i (sovereign) from 1874 to 1891.