53rd Annual Meeting
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
January 17-19, 2014

Book and Article Prize Competitions

The Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SECAAS) requests nominations for its second annual book and article prize competitions. Applications are due August 31, 2013 and winners will be announced at the SECAAS annual meeting, January 17-19, 2014 in Durham, NC. Nominations should be made directly by the author, who must be or willing to become a member of SECAAS.  To be eligible for the book or article prize, the submission should:

·      Have a 2012 publication date
·      Treat a topic in Asian Studies
·      Have been written or researched primarily in the SECAAS region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC.

For the article prize, applicants should submit pdfs via e-mail with “SECAAS article prize” in the subject line to:

·      Chair Mark Ravina -- mark.ravina@emory.edu
·      Denise Ho -- Denise.ho@cuhk.edu.hk
·      Harry Kuoshu -- harry.kuoshu@furman.edu  
 
For the book prize, applicants should send hard-copy, post-marked by August 31, 2012, and labeled “SECAAS book prize” to:    


Past Article Prize Winners:  

2012
Tonio Andrade (Emory University)
"A Chinese Farmer, Two African Boys, and a Warlord: Toward a Global Microhistory." Journal of World History 21.4 (2010): 573-91.

2013
Denise Y.  Ho
"Revolutionizing Antiquity: The Shanghai Cultural Bureaucracy in the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1968."  The China Quarterly 207 (September 2011): 687-705.

Past Book Prize Winners:  

2012
Hiroshi Kitamura (College of William and Mary)
Screening Enlightenment : Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan. The United States in the World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.

2013
Winner
Hung, Ho-fung. Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty.   New York:  Columbia University Press, 2011.
Finalists
Andrade, Tonio (Emory University)
Lost Colony: The Untold Story Of China's First Great Victory Over the West. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Benedict, Carol (Georgetown University)
Golden-Silk Smoke: A History Of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.