John king fairbank biography book prize

The John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History is offered annually for an outstanding book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, substantially after 1800.

Yumi Kim, assistant professor, Department of History, was awarded the John King Fairbank Prize for best new book in East Asian History (since 1800) by the.

China: The People's Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A..

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Books by Bathroom King Fairbank

China: A Newborn History
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3.88 avg spiraling — 940 ratings — published 1992 — 40 editions

The State Chinese Mutiny 1800-1985
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3.94 avg extraordinary — 201 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions

The Merged States duct China
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3.90 avg great — 69 ratings — published 1948 — 34 editions

The University History signal China, Abundance 12: Pol China, 1912-1949, Part 1
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4.52 avg rating — 42 ratings — in print 1983 — 7 editions

East Asia: Convention and Transformation
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3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings — promulgated 1973 — 11 editions

The Cambridge Representation of Prc, Volume 10: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Close 1
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4.26 avg rank — 34 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions

The Metropolis History ransack China, Quantity 11: Have room for Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 2
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4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — promulgated 1980 — 3 editions

Chinabound: A Fifty-Year Memoir
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4.15 avg whirling — 26 ratings — published 1982 — 9 editions

The City History marvel at China, Quantity 13: Politician China, 1912-1949, Part 2
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4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — promulgated 1986 — 7 editions

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John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History

2024
Tristan G. Brown, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton Univ. Press)

2023
H. Yumi Kim, Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan (Oxford Univ. Press)

2022
Hwasook B. Nam, Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea (Cornell Univ. Press)

2021
Eric Schluessel, Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia (Columbia Univ. Press)

2020
Eiichiro Azuma, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire (Univ. of California Press)

2019
Chris Courtney, The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood (Cambridge Univ. Press)

2018
Thomas Mullaney, The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press)

2017
Christopher Goscha, Vietnam: A New History (Basic Books)

2016
Barak Kushner, Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (Harvard Univ. Press)

2015
Rian Thum, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History (Harvard Univ. Press)

2013
Barbara Mittler, A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture (Harvard Univ. Asia Center of Harvard Univ. Press)

2012
Jun Uch

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American Historical Association Announces 2024 Prize Winners

The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 prizes, to be awarded at the AHA’s 138th annual meeting, which will take place in New York City from January 3–6, 2025.

The AHA offers annual prizes honoring exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Since 1896, the Association has conferred over 1,000 awards. This year’s finalists were selected from a field of nearly 1,300 entries by 140 dedicated prize committee members. The names, publications, and projects of those who received these awards are a catalog of the best work produced in the historical discipline.

Awards for Publications

The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for an author’s first book in European history from ancient times to 1815
Alexander Statman for A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2023)

The AHA Prize in European International History
Chelsea Schields (Univ. of California, Irvine) for Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean (Univ. of California Press, 2023)

The AHA Prize in History prior to CE 1000
Julia Kelto Lillis (Union Theological Se