2021 Prize Winners

Faculty

Dr. Margherita Zanasi, Professor of History at Louisiana State University, was awarded the 2021 SEC/AAS Annual Book Prize for her publication, Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, C.1500-1937 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Dr. Charlie Yi Zhang of the University of Kentucky was awarded the 2021 SEC/AAS Annual Article Prize for his publication Releasing Masculinity for a More Just World: Lessons of How to 'Be Water' in Hong Kong in the Journal of Asian Studies 80 no. 3 (April 2021): 683-704.

Students

Bradley Sadowsky was given an award for his paper “Post-War Japanese Society and Mishima Yukio’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.” (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, adviser: Kevin Fogg) 

Sabrina Simpson was given an award for her paper “Animal Ethics in Thai Buddhism.” (Rhodes College, Advisor: Brooke Schedneck) 

SECAAS Member Publications Since July 2021

Xiaolin Duan
History Department, North Carolina State University

Remembering West Lake: Place, Mobility, and Geographical Knowledge in Ming China. Ming Qing Studies, 2021: 9-46.

Documentary, Song Dynasty and Silk. OER World History Project, July 2021.

Joshua H. Howard
History Department, University of Mississippi

Beyond Repression and Resistance: Worker Agency and Corporatism in Occupied Nanjing. Modern Asian Studies. 56.1 (January 2022): 309-349.

Paperback issue of Composing for the Revolution: Nie Er and China’s Sonic Nationalism . Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2021.

Jeffrey L. Richey
(Asian Studies Department, Berea College)

Daoist Cosmogony in the Kojiki Preface. Religions 12/9 (2021):761.

Editor. Special Issue: Chinese Influences on Japanese Religious Traditions. Religions 12/9 (2021).

Timothy Yang
History Department, University of Georgia

A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Cornell University Press, 2021)

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 Nanjing” Modern 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."