THE ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN STUDIES WRITES — The AAS is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s prize competitions and offer congratulations to all honorees. We encourage everyone to attend the Awards Ceremony at the upcoming AAS annual conference in Boston, MA on Friday, March 20, where the award winners will be recognized and receive citations.
Book Prizes
Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize (China)
Lara Blanchard (pictured above), Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire: Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry(Brill)
Honorable Mention: Ori Sela, China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the 18th Century(Columbia University Press)
Honorable Mention: Wen-shing Chou, Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain (Princeton University Press)
Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize (China)
Sasha Welland, Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art (Duke University Press)
Honorable Mention (Posthumous): Gao Hua, How the Red Sun Rose: The Origin and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press)
E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize
Max Oidtmann, Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet (Columbia University Press)
Honorable Mention: Charlene Makley, The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China (Cornell University Press)
Patrick D. Hanan Prize for Translation (China & Inner Asia)
Eleanor Goodman, The Roots of Wisdom by Zang Di (Zephyr Press)
Honorable Mention: Michael Berry, Remains of Life: A Novel by Wu He (Columbia University Press)
John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Japan)
Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan (Stanford University Press)
Honorable Mention: Maren A. Ehlers, Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center)
James B. Palais Book Prize (Korea)
Yoon Sun Yang, From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea(Harvard University Asia Center)
Honorable Mention: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim, The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945 (Harvard University Asia Center)
Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize (first book on South Asia)
Sohini Kar, Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance (Stanford University Press)
Honorable Mention: Ananya Chakravarti, Empire of Apostles. Religion, Accommodation, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India (Oxford University Press)
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize (South Asia)
Santanu Das, India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs (Cambridge University Press)
A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation (South Asia)
Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Vol. VII: Uttarakāṇḍa (Princeton University Press)
Harry J. Benda Book Prize (first book on Southeast Asia)
Sumit Mandal, Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World (Cambridge University Press)
Honorable Mention: Juno Parreñas, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke University Press)
Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Asia Curriculum Materials
Jason A Carbine, Gary Marcuse, and Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez, Global Environmental Justice Collection (Face to Face Media)
Career Awards
Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award
Patricia Ebrey, University of Washington
Distinguished Service to the Association for Asian Studies Award
Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
Graduate Student Paper Prizes
Gerjan Altenberg, McMaster University, “Some Problems with the Theravāda-Vinaya as a Textual Source for the Study of Abortion” (South Asia)
Gavin Healy, Columbia University, “Visual Culture and the Tourism Industry in Mao-Era China: ‘Scenery Export’?” (China & Inner Asia)
Youjia Li, Northwestern University, “Push-car Railways in the Japanese Empire: Colonialism, Technology, and the Spatial Construction in Colonial Taiwan” (Northeast Asia)
Cindy Nguyen, UC Berkeley, “The Social Life of the Hanoi Central Library: Reading Cultures & Public Space, 1919-1941” (Southeast Asia)
Sarah Xia Yu, University of Pennsylvania, “Spitting in the Settlement: Public Nuisance, Health, and Sovereignty in Shanghai, 1911–1941” (China & Inner Asia)
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