SECAAS Member Publications Since June 2020

Annika A. Culver
History Department, Florida State University

Annika A. Culver and Norman Smith, eds., Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approaches to Literary Production (Hong Kong University Press, 2020)

Collection of Literary Selections by Each Ethnicity in Manchukuo-1, "Statements by Selectors". In Jonathan Henshaw, Craig A. Smith, & Norman Smith (Eds.), Translating the Occupation:  The Japanese Invasion of China, 1931–45 (pp. 103-114). (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020).


Joshua H. Howard
History Department, University of Mississippi

Beyond Repression and Resistance: Worker Agency and Corporatism in Occupied NanjingModern Asian Studies. FirstView, 2021

Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2020).


Yuxin Ma
History Department, University of Louisville

Technology transcending ideologies: Chinese cinema technicians at Manying,” Journal of Modern Chinese History, 14:2 (2020), 300-328.

Collaborating with Japanese in Making Entertainment Movies for Chinese Viewers: Chinese Filmmakers at Manchurian Film Association,” The Chinese Historical Review, 27:2 (2020), 119-145.


Masako Mori
Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, University of Georgia

The Infiltrated Self in Murakami Haruki’s ‘TV People’” in Japan Studies Review 24 (2020): 85-108.

Haruki Murakami and His Early Work: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Running Artist (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).


Margherita Zanasi
Department of History, Louisiana State University

Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500-1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).


Congratulations to our prize winners for their outstanding papers, articles, and books!

Dr. Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Assistant Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature and History) at Emory University was awarded the 2020 SEC/AAS Annual Article Prize for her publication, “Kṣētrayya: The Making of a Telugu Poet” (The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 2019).

Dr. Harshita Mruthinti Kamath at Emory University was awarded the 2020 SEC/AAS Annual Book Prize for her publication, Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (University of California Press, 2019).

Two students from the University of Richmond were awarded the 2020 SEC/AAS Annual Undergraduate Student Paper Prize.

Bryan Carapucci, "Governance in a Multiethnic Republic: Nationalist Rule and Response in Xinjiang and the Frontier, 1933-1935."

Peizhen (Pixie) Zhang, "The Impact of the one-child policy on Chinese returnees."