John Whitney Hall Book Prize

AAS prize

Select list of honorees

• 1994 — Carter J. Eckert, Offspring of Empire, the Koch’ang and Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876–1945
• 1995 — Melinda Takeuchi, Taiga’s True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan
• 1996 — Richard J. Samuels, Rich Nation, Strong Army: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan
• 1997 — John Whittier Treat, Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb
• 1998 — James Palais, Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty
• 1999 — Susan B. Hanley, Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture
• 2000 — William M. Tsutsui, Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan
• 2001 — Mark J. Hudson, Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands
• 2002 — Thomas LaMarre, Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archeology of Sensation and Inscription
• 2003 — E. Taylor Atkins, Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan
• 2004 — Andre Schmid, Korea Between Empires, 1895–1919
• 2005 — Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880–1930.
• 2006 — Andrew M. Watsky, Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan.
• 2007 — Eiko Ikegami, Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
• 2008 — Karen Nakamura, Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity
• 2009 — Ann Jannetta, The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan
• 2010 — Ken K. Ito, An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the Century Japanese Novel
• 2011 — Karen Thornber, Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature
• 2012 — Lori Meeks, Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan
• 2013 — Mary C. Brinton, Lost in Transition: Youth, Work and Instability in Postindustrial Japan
• 2014 — Yukio Lippit, Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in 17th-Century Japan
• 2015 — Fabian Drixler, Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950
• 2016 — Ran Zwigenberg, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture
• 2017 — Noriko Manabe, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima.
• 2017 Honorable Mention— Federico Marcon, The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
• 2018 — Satoko Shimazaki, Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost
• 2018 Honorable Mention— Yoshikuni Igarashi, Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers
• 2019 — Bryan D. Lowe, Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan