Congratulations to our AAS Book Award Winners!
Last week, the Association for Asian Studies presented three of our authors with book prizes and two honorable mentions. Today, we are happy to offer you excerpts from each of these books. Congratulations to our authors, editors, and translators for their exceptional work and exemplary contribution to scholarship. Enter Coupon Code: Awards30 to save 30% on these titles!
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize (China)
Chinese Law in Imperial EyesSovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics |
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Winner of the John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Japan) Edo Kabuki in TransitionFrom the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost |
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Winner of the Franklin Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials Contemporary Chinese Short-Short StoriesA Parallel TextTranslated and edited by Aili Mu with Mike Smith |
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Honorable Mention: John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Japan) HomecomingsThe Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers |
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Honorable Mention: Bernard Cohn Book Prize (first book on South Asia) Negotiating LanguagesUrdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia |
