Find extended citations from this year’s selection committees for the Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize and the SEAA Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at https://seaa.americananthro.org/awards/past-seaa-awards/
2021 Francis L. Hsu Book Prize
Winner
Sylvia M. Lindtner. Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020).
Honorable Mention
Lyle Fearnley. Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Heath at China’s Pandemic Epicenter (Duke University Press, 2020).
2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize
Winner
Ruiyi Zhu, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
“Aspiring to Standards: Mongolian Vocational Education, Chinese Enterprise, and the Neoliberal Order.”
Honorable Mention
Timothy Y. Loh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS)
“Mother Tongue Orphan: Multiculturalism and the Challenge of Sign Language in Singapore.”