Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize

The Society for East Asian Anthropology invites submissions for the 2019 Francis L.K. Hsu
Book Prize. The prize of $300 is given to the English-language book published in the previous
calendar year (2018) judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. The prize
is named for the late Francis L.K. Hsu (1909-2000), renowned cross-cultural anthropologist and
former President (1977-78) of the American Anthropological Association.

Book submissions from all four fields of anthropology as they relate to East Asia, as well as
books that venture beyond standard ethnographic modes of writing, are very much encouraged.
Nominations for the prize may be made by authors, publishers, or interested third parties (with
the consent of the author). Reference works, translations, textbooks, edited works, and
anthologies are not eligible. Both members and non-members of SEAA are eligible.
The 2019 submission deadline for this prize is May 1st, 2019.

Please send (1) a hard copy of the book and (2) either a PDF or e-book to each of the four
Committee members at the addresses listed below. Books must be received by the May 1
deadline for full consideration.

Dr. Priscilla SONG [Chair of the Book Prize Committee]
Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
Faculty of Arts, Centennial Campus
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong
Email: [email protected]

Professor Satsuki KAWANO
603 Mackinnon Building
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
Canada N1G 2W1
E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Nicole NEWENDORP
Social Studies, Harvard University
William James Hall, 3rd floor
33 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-mail: [email protected]

Professor Young-a PARK
Asian Studies Program
University of Hawaii at Manoa
1890 East-West Road, Moore 321
Honolulu, HI 96822
Email: [email protected]

Past Francis Hsu Book Prize Recipients:

2018: Priscilla Song’s Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)

2017: Yukiko Koga’s Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute 2016).

2016: Jie Yang’s Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China (Cornell University Press 2015).

2015: Rian Thum’s The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History (Harvard University Press 2014).

2014: Manduhai Buyandelger’s Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia (University of Chicago Press 2013).

2013: Junko Kitanaka’s Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress (Princeton University Press) and Judith Farquhar & Qicheng Zhang’s Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing (Zone Books 2012).

2012: Andrew Kipnis’s Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China (University of Chicago Press 2011).

2011: Li Zhang’s In Search of Paradise: Middle Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis (Cornell University Press 2010).

2010: Cathryn Clayton’s Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness (Harvard East Asian Monograph Series 2009).

2009: Nicole Dejong Newendorp’s Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong (Stanford University Press 2008).

2008: David Palmer’s Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia (Columbia University Press 2007).

2007: Tamara Jacka’s Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change (M.E. Sharpe Press).

2006: Susan Orpett Long’s Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life (University of Hawaii Press 2005).

2005: Vanessa Fong’s Only Hope: Coming of Age under China’s One-Child Policy (Stanford University Press 2004).

2004: Bonnie Adrian’s Framing the Bride: Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan’s Bridal Industry (University of California Press 2003).