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| John K. Fairbank Prize History of East Asia Since 1800 |
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The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History "is awarded for the best work on the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan since the year 1800." The current prize is $1000. The latest winner of the John K. Fairbank Prize is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the prize. We also provide a link to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.
The Latest Winner of the John K. Fairbank Prize for East Asia History since 1800 2007 - Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianquio and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China by Eugenia Lean [2008 award will be announced Spring 2009]
All past Winners of the John K. Fairbank Prize for East Asia History since 1800 1969 - Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise, 1905 - 1915 by Tetsuo Najita
1971 - Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance: Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917 - 1937 by Jerome B. Greider
1973 - The Meiji Restoration by W. G. Beasley
1975 - The Taiping Revolutionary Movement by Jen Yu-wen
1977 - Japanese Marxist: A Portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879 - 1946 by Gail Lee Bernstein
1979 - The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-Fling and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity by Guy S. Alitto
1981 - The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862 - 1868 by Conrad Totman
1983 - The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945 - 1947 by Bruce Cumings
1985 - The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China by Philip C. C. Huang
1986 - Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period by Carol Gluck
1987 - The Origins of the Boxer Uprising by Joseph W. Esherick
1988 - The State and Labor in Modern Japan by Sheldon Garon
1989 - Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900 - 1942 by Prasenjit Duara
1990 - Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu by Miriam Silverberg
1991 - Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan by Andrew Gordon
1992 Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840 - 1950 by Kathryn Bernhardt Offspring of Empire: The Ko-ch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 by Carter J. Eckert
1993 Shanghai on Strike by Elizabeth Perry Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History by Stefan Tanaka
1994 - The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853 - 1937 by Kenneth Pomeranz
1995 - The Making of Japanese Periphery, 1750 - 1920 by Karen Wigen
1996 - Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power by David G. Marr
1997 - History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience and Myth by Paul A. Cohen
1998 - Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism by Louise Young
1999 - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower
2000 - The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz
2001 - The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862 - 1940 by Peter Zinoman
2002 - Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology by Julia Adeney Thomas
2003 - The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage by Norman Girardot
2004 - House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 by Jordan Sand
2005 - Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China by Ruth Rogaski
2006 - The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China by Madeleine Zelin
2007 - Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianquio and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China by Eugenia Lean
2008 - Will be announced early 2009
The Official Website of the John K. Fairbank Prize for East Asia History Since 1800
(Visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of the dozens of book awards listed on Happy Dead Trees.)
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