Gary Pak Reads “Brothers” at Box Jelly

Online newsmagazine The Hawaii Independent has partnered with Box Jelly to present a new event series called Quotes, “evening[s] of smart conversation and great company.” For the inaugural Quotes on Wednesday, August 28, 6:30 p.m., the modern Korean and Korean-American experience will be explored with UH-Mānoa English professor Gary Pak, who will present his new novel, Brothers under a Same Sky. He will be joined by Annie Koh, UHM PhD candidate in urban & regional planning, who will contribute additional commentary and discussion.

Sign up here or at the door. Read an excerpt from the book posted earlier on Hawaii Independent. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Five Dollar Friday Sale on August 30 / Five Titles for $5 Each

Get ready to take advantage of this week’s $5 Friday Sale on August 30 from 8:00 a.m. to midnight (HST), good only on our website, while supplies last. Check out the lineup now to be set to go:

• Japanese Sports: A History (paperback) by Allen Guttman and Lee Thompson
• Japanese Language and Culture for Business and Travel by Kyoko Hijirida and Muneo Yoshikawa
• Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life by Laurel Kendall
• Lost Generations: A Boy, a School, a Princess by J. Arthur Rath
• An Underwater Guide to Indonesia by R. Charles Anderson

Mary Sia’s Chinese Cooking Legacy Lives On

Fond memories of grandmother’s kitchen have been brought to life with the republication of Mary Sia’s Classic Chinese Cookbook earlier this year. Two of Mary Sia’s granddaughters, Laura Ing Baker and Louise Ing, will share bits of family history (some quite remarkable), while teaching a class tomorrow using a selection of popo‘s recipes. The CookSpace Hawaii class quickly sold out weeks ago but you can still listen to this morning’s HPR interview with Louise and Laura to celebrate the legacy of Mary Li Sia—hear a mouth-watering description of noodles with Hoisin sauce (find the recipe on page 164 of the cookbook) and match your memories of growing up in 1960s Honolulu with theirs. For another fun blast from the past, see the photo on this earlier post on the HI SPY tumblr blog.

Here’s a sample recipe from page 58 of Mary Sia’s Classic Chinese Cookbook:

BRAISED PRAWNS
6 prawns
4 tablespoons oil
4 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
1½ tablespoons sherry
1 tablespoon chopped fresh ginger
1 small onion, sliced
1 bamboo shoot, sliced
¼ cup water

Remove legs but not shell from prawns. Heat pan, add oil, and fry prawns until they turn pink. Add soy sauce, sugar, and sherry. Sauté 2 minutes. Add ginger, onion, and bamboo shoot, and sauté ½ minute. Add water and simmer 1 minute.
Serves 2.

Enjoy!

Author Victor Mair interviewed in SAS Frontiers

UH Press author, Victor Mair, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania has been featured in SAS Frontiers. Read the full interview https://www.sas.upenn.edu/series/frontiers/even-pace here.

Five Dollar Friday Sale on August 23 / Five Titles for $5 Each

Our next Five Dollar Friday Sale will take place August 23, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. the next morning (HST). Check out these titles ahead to get ready for the $5/book offer, good only on our website, while supplies last:

• Sue Cowing’s Fire in the Sea: An Anthology of Poetry and Art
• Oishi Matashichi’s The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon and I 
• Richard McMahon’s Adventuring in Hawai`i, Revised Edition
• Jenichiro Oyabe’s A Japanese Robinson Crusoe
• Scott Clark’s Japan, A View from the Bath

Latest in KLEAR Integrated Korean text series

This book accompanies KLEAR’s Integrated Korean text series. It contains nearly 1,000 activities on 160 of the most commonly used grammar patterns for beginning and intermediate levels, all sorted by alphabetical order, as well as topics for comprehensive grammar instruction using an interactive approach. Nearly 40 practical activities and lesson ideas for advanced levels are also included. These activities are sorted by skill orientation (e.g., speaking-oriented, reading-oriented, etc.), which will allow them to be used with any Korean-language textbook published in the U.S., Korea, or elsewhere.

A Resource for Korean Grammar Instruction is divided into two main parts: 1) activities by forms for beginning and intermediate levels; and 2) activities by skill for more advanced levels. The first part includes greetings and Hangul, sentence endings, clausal endings, other suffixes, particles, and more. The second covers vocabulary-oriented activities, speaking/listening activities, reading-oriented activities, and writing-oriented activities. Supplementary instructional materials such as Power Point presentations, video clips, photos and images, and sample quizzes are available free for download at http://www.kleartextbook.com under the Instructor section after a simple login. Instructors who teach Korean as a foreign language in colleges, secondary schools, and community schools and even as private tutors will welcome this easy-to-use book.

2013, 440 pages; ISBN: 978-0-8248-3816-4, Cloth $55.00
KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language