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.
2022
Maya Stiller, Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea (Univ. of Washington Press)
2022 Ebrey Prize
Maya Stiller, University of Kansas
Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea (Univ. of Washington Press)
Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan is a penetrating study of socioeconomic changes among Chosŏn elite through their graffiti at Kŭmgangsan. Creatively drawing on archival sources and art history, Maya K. H. Stiller accomplishes something difficult and unusual: she illuminates the inaccessible landscape of Kŭmgangsan, an important North Korean mountain for elite inscription carving during the Chosŏn dynasty, while mapping the emergence of a nonaristocratic elite who asserted themselves socially and politically by putting their names in stone alongside famous predecessors.