2008

Susan Mann, The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (Univ. of California Press, 2007)

2007

Eugenia Lean, Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China, Univ. of California Press, 2007

Madeleine Zelin, Columbia University, The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2006)

2005

Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University, Hygienic Modernity : Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (University of California Press, 2004)

2004

Jordan Sand, Georgetown University, House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930. (Harvard University Asia Center, 2003)

2003

Norman Girardot, Lehigh University, The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage. (University of California Press, 2002)

2002

Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame. Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (University of California Press, 2001)

2001

Peter Zinoman, U. of California at Berkeley. The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862–1940 (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2001)

2000

Kenneth Pomeranz, U. of California at Irvine. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton U. Press, 2000)

1999

John Dower, MIT. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (The New Press, 1999)

1998

Louise Young, New York U. Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (U. of California Press, 1998)

1997

Paul A. Cohen, Wellesley College, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience and Myth (Columbia U. Press, 1997)

1996

David G. Marr, Australian National U., Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power (U. of California Press, 1995)

1995

Karen Wigen, Duke U., The Making of Japanese Periphery, 1750–1920 (U. of California Press, 1995)

1994

Kenneth Pomeranz, U. of California-Irvine, The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937

1993

Elizabeth Perry, U. of California, Berkeley, Shanghai on Strike (Stanford U. Press, 1993)

Stefan Tanaka, Clark U., Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History (U. of California Press, 1993)

1992

Kathryn Bernhardt, U. of California, Los Angeles, Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840–1950 (Stanford U. Press, 1992); Carter J. Eckert, Harvard University, Offspring of Empire: The Ko-ch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 (University of Washington Press, 1991)

1991

Andrew Gordon, Duke U., Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (U. of California Press)

1990

Miriam Silverberg, U. of California, Los Angeles, Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu (Princeton U. Press, 1990)

1989

Prasenjit Duara, George Mason U., Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942 (Stanford U. Press)

1988

Sheldon Garon, Princeton U., The State and Labor in Modern Japan (U. of California Press)

1987

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

1986

Carol Gluck, East Asian Inst., Columbia U., Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton U.P.)

1985

Philip C.C. Huang, UCLA, The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China (Stanford U.P.)

1983

Bruce Cumings, U. of Washington, The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945–1947 (Princeton U.P.)

1981

Conrad Totman, Northwestern U., The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868 (U. of Hawaii Press)

1979

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

1977

Gail Lee Bernstein, U. of Arizona, Japanese Marxist: A Portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879–1946 (Harvard U.P.)

1975

Jen Yu-wen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement (Yale U.P.)

1973

W.G. Beasley, The Meiji Restoration (Stanford U.P.)

1971

Jerome B. Greider, Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance: Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917–1937 (Harvard U.P.)

1969

Tetsuo Najita, Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise, 1905–1915 (Harvard U.P.) and Harold Z. Schiffrin, Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution (U. of California Press)