Book Prize

The Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies welcomes submissions for its annual Book prize.

Books written by an Asianist based in the US Southeast, on a topic relevant to Asian studies, and published in the current year are eligible.

Submissions can be sent to the past president of SEC-AAS (see the executive committee listed by clicking here). The deadline is generally October 31, for the prize to be awarded at the annual meeting the following January.

Recent Winners

2025: Prof. Ting Wang (assistant professor of Sociologyat the University of North Carolina-Greensboro) for Lonely Generation: Unraveling China’s Population Crisis after the One-Child Policy (Lexington Books)

2024: Prof. Gennifer Weisenfeld (Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University) for Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan (University of Chicago Press)

2023: Prof. Charlie Yi Zhang (assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky) for Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China (Duke University Press)

2022: Prof. Margherita Zanasi (professor of History at Louisiana State University) for Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, C.1500-1937 (Cambridge University Press)

2021: Prof. Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Associate Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature and History at Emory University) for Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance. (University of California Press)