Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize Recipients
The Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize is offered annually for a distinguished book in the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan, prior to 1800.
2023
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity (Univ. of Michigan Press)
2022
Maya Stiller, Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea (Univ. of Washington Press)
2023 Ebrey Prize
Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Hope College
Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity (Univ. of Michigan Press)
Blind in Early Modern Japan is a pathbreaking study that reveals the multifaceted meanings of blindness and sightedness as entangled aspects of lived experience in Tokugawa society. Writing in a gentle and thoughtful voice, Wei Yu Wayne Tan deftly weaves together insights from disability studies and history of medicine with rigorous social and institutional history. This is a book that transports us to the past yet all the while speaks to our present moments of embodied precarity.