Since 1947, University of Hawai‘i Press has grown from a regional press to one of the most-respected publishers of American, Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific studies titles in the world. Located in historic Mānoa valley on the island of O‘ahu, UH Press publishes approximately 70 new books and 40 new journal issues annually with subject areas ranging across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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The Beef Taboo in China

Agriculture, Ethics, Sacrifice

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Tango in Japan

Cosmopolitanism beyond the West

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Formulating a Minimalist Morality for a New Planetary Order

Alternative Cultural Perspectives

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Fenua and Fare, Marae and Mana

The Archaeology of Ancient Tahiti and the Society Islands

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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No Island Is an Island

Perspectives on Immigration to Japan

Edited by Michael Strausz
University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Literature for Little Bodhisattvas

Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan

By Natasha Heller; Series edited by Mark Michael Rowe
University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Nature of Kingship

The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Mana of Translation

Translational Flow in Hawaiian History from the Baibala to the Mauna

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Polarizing Dreams

Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea

By Pil Ho Kim; Series edited by Allison Alexy
University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Global Asias: Tactics & Theories

Edited by Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks; Series edited by Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks
University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Countless Sands

Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Remembering Kalākaua

Joseph Mokuʻōhai Poepoe’s Ka Moʻolelo o ka Mōʻī Kalākaua I

By Joseph Mokuʻōhai Poepoe; Translated with commentary by Tiffany Lani Ing
University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Treasury of the True Dharma Eye

Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō, Eight-Volume Set

Edited by Carl Bielefeldt; Translated by Soto Zen Text Project
University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Oceanic Japan

The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Monks and Literati

The Transformation of Buddhism in Late Chosŏn Korea

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Loyal to the Land

The Legendary Parker Ranch, 1992–2022, Volume 4, An Enduring Sense of Place

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Living with the Vinaya

An Ethnography of Monasticism in Myanmar

By Ryosuke Kuramoto; Series edited by Mark Michael Rowe
University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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Tattoo Traditions of Asia

Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Green Star Japan

Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Enduring Erosions

Environmental Displacement and Relocation on India’s Sinking Coasts

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Dialogues with a Trickster

On the Margins of Myth and Ethnography in the Marshall Islands

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Trade-Offs of Legal Status

Safe Migration, Documentation, and Debt in Southeast Asia

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Temples to the Buddha and the Gods

Transnational Drāviḍa Tradition of Architecture in Sri Lanka

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Religion and Sport in Japan

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Koryŏsa

The History of Koryŏ, the Annals of the Kings, 918–1095

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Fundamental Written Chinese

Second Edition, Teacher’s Manual

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Fundamental Written Chinese

Second Edition

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Fundamental Spoken Chinese

Second Edition, Exercise Book

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Fundamental Spoken Chinese

Second Edition, Teacher’s Manual

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Fundamental Spoken Chinese

Second Edition

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Finding Home, a Hawaiian Petrel’s Journey

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Navigating Islands

Plays from the Pacific

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Epistemology of the Past

Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?

Nationhood, Citizenship, and Resistance in Japan

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls‘ Comics Artists and Fans

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Early Ryukyuan History

A New Model

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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