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Fire in the Sea

Sue Brown Cowing

• Hardcover | Engels
• This imaginative and colorful collection of more than 150 poems contains work by poets from many Pacific lands as well as from Europe, Asia, and the A... Lees meer

Alice in Japanese Wonderlands

Amanda Kennell

• Paperback | Engels | Asia Pop!
• Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll's Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese lif... Lees meer

Eyes of the Heart

Catherine Filloux

• Paperback | Engels | Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing | nr. 29
• A collection of six plays by award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux: Eyes of the Heart; Kidnap Road; Lemkin's House; Mary and Myra; Selma '65; and... Lees meer

The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade Along the Mekong

Sverre Molland

• Hardcover | Engels | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory | nr. 28
• For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is constant, the costs of... Lees meer

Ideogram

J Marshall Unger

• Paperback | Engels
• In this latest book, J. Marshall Unger exposes the historical, scientific, cultural, and practical flaws accompanying the widespread belief that Chine... Lees meer

Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes

Anoma Pieris

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Past Colonialism
• During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in So... Lees meer

The Most Offending Soul Alive

Judith M Heimann

• Hardcover | Engels
• An English eccentric and adventurer, Tom Harrisson (1911-1976) sought knowledge and renown in a dizzying number of fields, while breaking most of the ... Lees meer

Integrated Korean Workbook

Mee-Jeong Park, Sang-Suk Oh, Joowon Suh, Mary Shin Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Klear Textbooks in Korean Language | nr. 25
• This workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1, the third volume of the best-selling series developed c... Lees meer

Wandering on the Way

Zhuangzi

• Paperback | Engels
• In this vivid, contemporary translation, Victor Mair captures the quintessential life and spirit of Chuang Tzu while remaining faithful to the origina... Lees meer

Political Bribery in Japan

Richard H Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels
• Scholars often use the term "structural corruption" when discussing modern Japan's political system--a system that forces politicians to exchange favo... Lees meer

Waves of Resistance

Isaiah Helekunihi Walker

• Paperback | Engels
• Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawai'i for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalization... Lees meer

Understanding Reality

Chang Po-Tuan

• Hardcover | Engels
• "A welcome addition to the still limited number of Taoist texts translated from the Chinese originals." - Journal of Chinese Religions Lees meer

Tales of the Tikongs

Epeli Hau'ofa

• Paperback | Engels | Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature | nr. 12
• In this lively satire of contemporary South Pacific life, we meet a familiar cast of characters: multinational experts, religious fanatics, con men, "... Lees meer

The Sea of Regret

Wu Jianren, Fu Lin

• Paperback | Engels
• Published within a few months of each other in 1906, "Stones in the Sea" by Fu Lin and "The Sea of Regret" by Wu Jianren take opposite sides in the he... Lees meer

Kisses in the Nederends

Epeli Hau'ofa

• Paperback | Engels | Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature | nr. 4
• In the best Rabelaisian tradition, this brilliant satire weaves a tale of improbabilities around the seat of the last great taboo. Oilei Bomboki wakes... Lees meer

The Past Before Us

• Paperback | Engels | Indigenous Pacifics
• From the Foreword-- "Crucially, past, present, and future are tightly woven in 'Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) theory and practice. We adapt to whatever histo... Lees meer

Becoming Landowners

Victoria C Stead

• Paperback | Engels | Topics in the Contemporary Pacific
• Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization--globalization, the building of states ... Lees meer

Victim as Hero

James J Orr

• Paperback | Engels
• This is the first systematic, historical inquiry into the emergence of "victim consciousness" (higaisha ishiki) as an essential component of Japanese ... Lees meer

The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle

Takiji Kobayashi

• Paperback | Engels
• This collection introduces the work of Japan's foremost Marxist writer, Kobayashi Takiji (1903-1933), to an English-speaking audience, providing acces... Lees meer

Chinese Theater

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume is the first concise introduction to the splendid variety of the Chinese theatrical tradition. It presents a rounded perspective on the de... Lees meer

Spreading Protestant Modernity

Lou Antolihao, Ryan Bean, Katrin Bromber, Doina Anca Cretu, Lance Cummings, Harald Fischer-Tine, Paul Hillmer

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a moderniza... Lees meer

Sex and Borders

Leslie Ann Jeffrey

• Paperback | Engels
• Prostitution in Thailand has been the subject of media sensationalism for decades. Bangkok's brothels have become international icons of Third World w... Lees meer

Mai Pukaiki Kula Maniania a Puuwai Aloha O Ka Ohana

Wong

• Paperback | Engels
• Aole no nui na moolelo i kakau a i hoolaha ia no Niihau. He puke keia e hoike ana i na moolelo oiaio o ka ohana Niihau. O ka mea i okoa ai o Niihau, h... Lees meer

Lee Boo of Belau

Daniel J Peacock

• Paperback | Engels | South Sea Books
• This is the story of the adventures of a Pacific island prince, Lee Boo, one of the first of the "noble savages" to be feted by London society. Within... Lees meer