Author: Ian Reader
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: religion, japan, common, benefits, religious, worldly, practically
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0824820908
ISBN-13: 9780824820909

Praying for practical benefits is a common religious activity in Japan. Basing their work on a fusion of textual, ethnographic, historical and contemporary studies, the authors of this volume demonstrate that far from being marginal, the concepts and practices surrounding "genze riyaku" lie at the very heart of the Japanese religious world. The authors discuss the economic and commercial aspects of how and why institutions promote practical benefits, drawing attention to the dynamism and flexibility in the religious marketplace. The authors also examine the business of guidebooks, which combin

Authors:Mikael Adolphson, Kames Edward, Stacie Matsumoto, Edw
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: peripheries, centers, japan, heian
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2007-02
List price: $57.00
ISBN-10: 082483013X
ISBN-13: 9780824830137

The first three centuries of the Heian period (794–1086) saw some of its most fertile innovations and epochal achievements in Japanese literature and the arts. It was also a time of important transitions in the spheres of religion and politics, as aristocratic authority was consolidated in Kyoto, powerful court factions and religious institutions emerged, and adjustments were made in the Chinese-style system of rulership. At the same time, the era’s leaders faced serious challenges from the provinces that called into question the primacy and efficiency of the governmental system and tested

Authors:Yung-Hee Kim, Jeyseon Lee,
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: korean, textbooks, language, klear, literature, modern, readings
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-04
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0824826272
ISBN-13: 9780824826277

Readings in Modern Korean Literature provides advanced students (those with at least four years of college-level training in Korean) with materials that will help them understand and appreciate modern Korean literary traditions as well as challenge them to use their Korean-language competence to the fullest extent. It offers the student a wide range of literary writing, including three different genres of poetry, short stories, and essays. Each piece is accompanied by a vocabulary glossary and notes, explanations of socio-cultural details, an introduction to the author, and a translation. The

Authors:Ho-Min Sohn, Eun-Joo Lee,
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: intermediate, advanced, korean, integrated
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-01
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0824825683
ISBN-13: 9780824825683

The Advanced Intermediate Level texts are the third of a four-level series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology -- learner-centeredness, contextualization, use of authentic materials, function/task-orientedness, balance between skill getting and skill using, and integration of speaking, listening, reading, writing and culture. Grammar points are systematically introduced with simple but adequate explanations and abundant examples, exercises and dril

Authors:Henry Rosemont Jr., Roger T. Ames,
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: translation, xiaojing, philosophical, reverence, classic, family, chinese
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2009-02
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0824833481
ISBN-13: 9780824833480

For China, one may go so far as to say that family reverence was a necessary condition for developing any of the other human qualities of excellence. On the basis of the present translation of the "Xiaojing" (Classic of Family Reverence) and supplemental passages found in other early philosophical writings, Professors Rosemont and Ames articulate a specifically Confucian conception of ’role ethics’ that, in its emphasis on a relational conception of the person, is markedly different from most early and contemporary dominant Western moral theories. This Confucian role ethics takes a

Author: Hsu Francis L K
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: differences, passages, chinese, americans
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 1981-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 082480757X
ISBN-13: 9780824807573

From the Backcover "When the first edition of Professor Hsu’s book was published in 1953, it became a celebrated book, highly valued among scholars across many fields in the humanities and social sciences.... The publication of the third edition of this book, almost thirty years after its first appearance, certainly says a great deal about its value.... Reading this classic allows the readers to see real people, and how people relate to people, in two culturally contrasting societies. This book will serve a useful purpose for those who have little understanding of the cultural history a

Authors:James R. Brandon, Samuel L. Leiter,
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: stage, kabuki, plays, eighteen, masterpieces
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0824827880
ISBN-13: 9780824827885

Masterpieces of Kabuki contains eighteen outstanding dramas taken from the landmark four-volume series Kabuki Plays On Stage. Together they cover the entire spectrum of kabuki drama from 1697 to 1905, the period during which kabuki’s dramaturgy flourished prior to the onset of Western dramatic influence. Major playwrights, chronological periods of playwriting, and a variety of play types (history, domestic, and dance dramas) and performance styles are represented. All but one are in the current repertory and regularly staged. The volume includes introductions to each play and a new gener