An expansion of the ""ABC Chinese-English Dictionary"", this alphabetically ordered dictionary of Chinese contains over 196,000 entries.
Draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple... Læs mere
This title gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawai'i place names associated with the ocean - the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle.
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... Læs mere
Using a variety of local documents to analyse the veneration of yonaoshi gods, Takashi Miura looks beyond the traditional modality of research... Læs mere
Until its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. In The Traffic... Læs mere
Analyses popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an ableist society. The... Læs mere
Presents an important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities. Issues of religion and... Læs mere