John K. Fairbank Prize

The John K. Fairbank Prize is awarded by the American Historical Association to an author of a book about the history of China, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan since the year 1800. The prize was established in 1969 in honor of East Asian historian John King Fairbank.

List of prizes

2015

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

2014

Charles K. Armstrong.

2013

Barbara Mittler.

2012

Jun Uchida, Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

2011

Carol A. Benedict, Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (Univ. of California Press)

2010

James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Univ. Press)

2009

Klaus Muehlhahn, Criminal Justice in China: A History (Harvard Univ. Press)

2008

2007

Eugenia Y. Lean, Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China (Univ. of California Press)

2006

2005

Ruth Rogaski, Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Univ. of California Press)

2004

Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 (Harvard Univ. Asia Center)

2003

Norman J. Girardot, The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage (Univ. of California Press)

2002

Julia Adeney Thomas, Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Univ. of California Press)

2001

Peter Zinoman, The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 (Univ. of California Press)

2000

Kenneth Pomeranz.

1999

John W. Dower.

1998

Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Univ. of California Press)

1997

Paul A. Cohen.

1996

David G. Marr. Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power. Univ. of California Press.

1995

Kären E. Wigen, The Making of Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 (Univ. of California Press)

1994

Kenneth Pomeranz,

1993

Elizabeth J. Perry, Shanghai on Strike (Stanford Univ. Press)

1992

Carter J. Eckert, Offspring of Empire: The Ko-ch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 (Univ. of Washington Press)

Kathryn Bernhardt, Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950 (Stanford Univ. Press)

1991

Andrew Gordon. Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. Univ. of California Press

1990

Miriam Silverberg, Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu (Princeton Univ. Press)

1989

Prasenjit Duara, Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-42 (Stanford University Press, 1989)

1988

Sheldon M. Garon. The State and Labor in Modern Japan Univ. of California Press.

1987

Joseph W. Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (Univ. of California Press)

1986

Carol Gluck, Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton Univ. Press)

1985

Philip C. Huang, The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China (Stanford Univ. Press)

1983

Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-47 (Princeton Univ. Press)

1981

Conrad Totman, The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-68 (Univ. of Hawaii Press)

1979

Guy S. Alitto, The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity (Univ. of California Press)

1977

Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese Marxist: A Portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879-1946 (Harvard Univ. Press)

1975

Yu-wen Jen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement (Yale Univ. Press)

1973

William G. Beasley, The Meiji Restoration (Stanford Univ. Press)

1971

Jerome B. Grieder, Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance: Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-37 (Harvard Univ. Press)

1969

Harold Z. Schiffrin, Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution (Univ. of California Press)

Tetsuo Najita, Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise, 1905-15 (Harvard University Press)

See also

• John Whitney Hall Book Prize for Japanese history.
• James B. Palais Book Prize for Korean history.
• List of prizes, medals and awards
• List of prizes named after people

External links

• John K. Fairbank Prize WorldCat listing.

• John K. Fairbank Prize American Historical Association.