MCLC: Asia Pacific Perspectives 12, 1

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Melissa Dale <mdale3 at usfca.edu>
Subject: Asia Pacific Perspectives 12, 1
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Asia Pacific Perspectives:  Special Issue + New Website

New issue of Asia Pacific Perspectives
Volume XII Number 1, Fall/Winter 2013-14

To access online, please visit:

http://www.usfca.edu/pacificrim/perspectives/

The editors are pleased to introduce the Fall/Winter 2013-14 issue of Asia
Pacific Perspectives and the journal's new website. This special issue
highlights papers from the University of San Francisco Center for the
Pacific Rim's spring 2013 symposium "The Imperial Court in China, Japan,
and Korea: Women, Servants, and the Emperor's Household (1600 to early
1900s)."

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction
Melissa S. Dale

"Empress Meish? (1623-96) and Cultural Pursuits at the Japanese Imperial
Court"
Elizabeth Lillehoj				

"Women in the Imperial Household at the Close of China's Ming Dynasty:
1573-1644"
Ellen Soulliere

"Plurality in Qing Imperial Medicine: Examining Institutional Formations
beyond the Imperial Medical Bureau"
Sare Aricanli

"Fertility and Childbirth among Royal Women in Nineteenth- Century Korea"
Kim Jiyoung					

Think Piece
"Domestic Diplomacy: Empress Dowager Cixi, Sarah Pike Conger, and the
Chinese Butler Who Brought Them Together"
Grant Hayter-Menzies

Asia Pacific Perspectives is currently accepting submissions for the
upcoming Winter 2014 and Spring 2015 issues. We welcome submissions from
all fields of the social sciences and the humanities that focus on the
Asia Pacific region, and especially those adopting a comparative,
interdisciplinary approach to issues of interrelatedness in the Asia
Pacific region. Submission guidelines are posted at

<http://www.usfca.edu/pacificrim/perspectives>

Melissa S. Dale, Ph.D.Executive Director & Assistant Professor
Center for the Pacific Rim
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., KA-180A

San Francisco, CA  94117-1080
(415) 422-2590