sherman cochran(高家龙),Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.现中文版华东师范大学在译。2008年获得列文森大奖
AAS CIAC LEVENSON PRIZES FOR BOOKS IN CHINESE STUDIES
[ PAST WINNERS OF THE LEVENSON PRIZE ]
The AAS China and Inner Asia Council will offer two $1,000 Joseph Levenson Prizes for nonfiction scholarly books on China published in 2008.
AAS CIAC Levenson Book Prize Winners
Below is a list of the past winners of the AAS China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies (click on the book title to go to the citation):
2009 Pre-1900 Category: Anthony Barbieri-Low, "Artisans in Early Imperial China" (University of Washington Press, 2007)
2009 Post-1900 Category: Haiyan Lee, "Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China" (Stanford University Press, 2007)
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2008 Pre-1900 Category: Martin J. Powers, "Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006)
2008 Post-1900 Category: Sherman Cochran, "Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia" (Harvard University Press, 2006)
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2007 Pre-1900 Category: Peter C. Perdue, "China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia" (Harvard University Press, 2005)
2007 Post-1900 Category: Michael Dutton, "Policing Chinese Politics: A History" (Duke University Press, 2005)
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2006 Pre-1900 Category: Antonia Mary Finnane, "Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550–1850" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2004).
2006 Post-1900 Category: Ruth Rogaski, "Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China" (University of California Press, 2004)
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2005 Pre-1900 Category: John Makeham, "Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2003)
2005 Post-1900 Category: Yan Yunxiang, "Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999" (Stanford University Press, 2003)
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2004 Pre-1900 Category: Robert Hymes, "Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China" (University of California Press, 2002)
2004 Post-1900 Category: Geremie Barmé, "An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898–1975)" (University of California Press, 2002)
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2003 Pre-1900 Category: David Schaberg, "A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001)
2003 Post-1900 Category: Lucien Bianco, "Peasants Without the Party: Grassroots Movements in 20th-Century China" (M. E. Sharpe, 2001)
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2002 Pre-1900 Category: Lothar Ledderose, "Ten Thousand Things" (Princeton University Press, 2000)
2002 Post-1900 Category: Edward J. M. Rhoads, "Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early-Republican China, 1861–1928" (University of Washington Press, 2000)
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2001 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Pamela Kyle Crossley, "The Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology" (University of California Press, 1999)
2001 Twentieth Century Category: Dorothy J. Solinger, "Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasants, Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market" (University of California Press, 1999)
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2000 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Timothy Brook, "The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China" (University of California Press, 1998)
2000 Twentieth Century Category: Lynn T. White III, "Unstately Power, Volume 1: Local Causes of China's Economic Reforms" (M. E. Sharpe, 1998)
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1999 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Susan L. Mann, "Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century" (Stanford Press, 1997)
1999 Twentieth Century Category: Roderick MacFarquhar, "The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961–66" (Columbia University Press, 1997)
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1998 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Maggie Bickford, "Ink Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre" (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
1998 Twentieth Century Category: John J. Fitzgerald, "Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution" (Stanford University Press, 1996)
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1997 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: James L. Hevia, "Cherishing Men From Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793" (Duke University Press, 1995)
1997 Twentieth Century Category: R. Keith Schoppa, "Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China" (University of California Press, 1995)
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1996 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Stephen F. Teiser, "Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (University of Hawaii Press, 1994)
1996 Twentieth Century Category: Julia F. Andrews, "Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1979" (University of California Press, 1994)
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1995 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Patricia Ebrey, "The Inner Quarters: Women and Marriage in Sung Dynasty China" (University of California Press, 1993)
1995 Twentieth Century Category: Vaclav Smil, "China’s Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development" (M. E. Sharpe, 1993)
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1994 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Jing Wang, "The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism of Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West" (Duke University Press, 1992)
1994 Pre-Twentieth Category: Zhang Longxi, "The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West" (Duke University Press, 1992)
1994 Twentieth Century Category: Gregor Benton, "Mountain Fires: The Red Army’s Three-Year War in South China, 1934–1938" (University of California Press, 1992)
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1993 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Martin J. Powers, "Art and Political Expression in Early China" (Yale University Press, 1991)
1993 Twentieth Century Category: Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz and Mark Selden, "Chinese Village, Socialist State" (Yale University Press, 1991)
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1992 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Philip A. Kuhn, "Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768" (Harvard University Press, 1990)
1992 Twentieth Century Category: Philip C. C. Huang, "The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350–1988" (Stanford University Press, 1990)
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1991 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Wu Hung, "The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art" (Stanford University Press, 1989)
1991 Twentieth Century Category: David Strand, "Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s" (University of California Press, 1989)
1991 Honorable Mention: Twentieth Century Category: Melvyn C. Goldstein, "A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State" (University of California Press, 1989)
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1990 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Patrick Hanan, "The Invention of Li Yu" (Harvard University Press, 1988)
1990 Twentieth Century Category: Prasenjit Duara, "Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942" (Stanford University Press, 1988)
1990 Honorable Mention: Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Jerry Norman, "Chinese" (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
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1989 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Andrew H. Plaks, "The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel" (Princeton University Press, 1987)
1989 Twentieth Century Category: Joseph W. Esherick, "The Origins of the Boxer Uprising" (University of California Press, 1987)
1989 Honorable Mention: Pre-Twentieth Century Category: R. Kent Guy, "The Emperor’s Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch’ien-Era" (Harvard University Press, 1987)
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1988 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Robert Hymes, "Statesman and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-Chou, Chiang-his, in Northern and Southern Sung" (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
1988 Twentieth Century Category: Andrew G. Walder, "Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry" (University of California Press, 1986)
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1987 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Frederic Wakeman, Jr, "The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China" (University of California Press, 1985)
1987 Twentieth Century Category: Andrew Nathan, "Chinese Democracy" (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 1985)
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2009 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Anthony Barbieri-Low, "Artisans in Early Imperial China" (University of Washington Press, 2007)
Barbieri-Low pulls off a major achievement: reconstructing the life and work of the craftsmen who created early China’s most impressive works of art. Combining artistic, archaeological, and textual evidence, he gives us a finely drawn portrait of how they created objects, how they suffered, and how other strata viewed them.
Artisan skills, regarded as “clever” but morally unrefined by literati, nevertheless gave them a sense of social solidarity and put them in close contact with the court, the market, and consumers. From an artisan’s perspective, Han China looks surprisingly modern: the most successful men and women used modular designs in an almost industrial production line, they branded their pieces with their own names, and they sought out opportunities for profit whenever possible. Others, however, were not so lucky. They suffered under the oppression of bonded labor and were poisoned by toxic chemicals used in lacquer production.
The author’s rich description of these little-known historical subjects stands out as an exemplary work of social, artistic, and archaeological history.
Selection Committee: Peter Perdue (Chair); Stephen West; Shang Wei.
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2009 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Haiyan Lee, "Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China" (Stanford University Press, 2007)
Revolution of the Heart is an imaginative and well-researched study of sentiment as public discourse in modern China. Haiyan Lee’s innovative approach to the matters of love, emotion, intimacy and sexuality has brought the study of modern China to a new level of theoretical rigor and sophistication. This book raises important questions about the place of love and affectivity in modern political discourse, nationalist struggle, social transformation and revolution. The author makes the modern and premodern divide untenable by taking us back to the cult of qing, demonstrating convincingly how this earlier philosophical tradition and its reworking by modern writers in 1900–1950 can help reframe the highly contested articulations of moral sentiment in the May Fourth episteme of romantic love. Her close readings of familiar and unfamiliar texts are always illuminating and sometimes even surprising and provocative.
Love is a vast subject for an academic book such as this, but Haiyan Lee has risen to the challenge with aplomb. Does love matter to politics? This central question raised by her excellent book troubles the distinction between the public and private spheres and explains why literature has been central to social struggle. As the most prominent public discourse of sentiment, literature occupies the center stage in her study but her concerns are social, political, and historical. The book is distinguished by its dynamic and fruitful engagement with the question of moral vision in modern China and, as such, is richly deserving of the Joseph Levenson Prize.
Selection Committee: Michael Dutton (Chair); Sherman Cochran; Lydia Liu.
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2008 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Martin J. Powers, "Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006)
Pattern and Person is an unusual and engrossing study of material culture in the social thought of Classical China. In it, Martin Powers offers a new way of thinking about ornamentation in relation to social hierarchy, political organization, and personal agency in the Warring States Period. Commencing with an observation of the shift from modular to free-flowing design, epitomized in tropes of clouds and dragons, Powers takes the reader on an extraordinary intellectual journey that raises important questions about art, artisanry, taste, identity, politics, and history.
Along the way, his careful deployment and exposition of texts from early thinkers and writers provides multiple reminders of the wealth of classical resources available for critical political thought in contemporary China. The book is marked by a sustained tone of intellectual inquiry, a richly discursive approach to the problems under consideration, and great versatility in its balance of attention to texts and artifacts. A distinguishing feature of the book is the author’s cautious but explicit comparative approach which illuminates distinctive features of Chinese culture in the period under review while simultaneously revealing parallels and points of convergence between trajectories of thought in China and Europe. This feature makes Pattern and Person an unusually appropriate recipient of an otherwise richly deserved award. In a field of excellent entries that between them covered three millennia of Chinese history, this highly original, engagingly written book was truly outstanding.
Selection Committee: Antonia Finnane (Chair); Peter Perdue; Stephen West.
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2008 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Sherman Cochran, "Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia" (Harvard University Press, 2006)
Sherman Cochran’s study of inter-Asian consumer society opens new ground with the question, who were the agents of commercial modernization in the Chinese business world during the interwar years and the Pacific War? His thesis is that middle-brow Chinese nationals and ethnic Chinese business entrepreneurs established commodity empires with regional rather than national scope. They creatively adapted advertising media and the categories of “modern” and “neo-traditional.” They eluded existing economic, political, managerial barriers to become what Cochran calls “agents of consumer culture.” Their tactics included founding newspapers and purportedly professional journals, mobilizing popular performances, and organizing bureaus of advertisement in their companies. Bringing his expertise in business history to bear on the question of Asian-based consumer advocates, he illustrates the organizational and corporate managerial side of marketing and branding.
Among the points this study of entrepreneurs raises for scholarship generally is the problem of allegiance. Detailed chapters on fixers and colluders, Xu Guanqun (1899-1972) and Aw Boon-haw of Tiger Balm fame, show how closely the business practices of each Chinese mogul mirrored and engaged Japanese economic imperialism before and during the occupation.
Central figures like Xu, Aw, Huang Chujiu and Xiang Songmao came from a petit bourgeois class background and lacked direct exposure to English, European or American schools or management theories. However, as men of the people, Cochran argues, they had the common touch it took to mediate foreign ingress and to “localize” what came from a world beyond 19th century Chinese conventions.
Selection Committee: Tani Barlow (Chair); Ching Kwan Lee; Ruth Rogaski.
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2007 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Peter C. Perdue: China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005)
Peter Perdue’s study fundamentally alters how we understand the relationship between Qing China and the people of Central Eurasia. His book concentrates on the period of time from the rise of the Manchus in the first decades of the seventeenth century to the return of the Torghuts in the last half of the eighteenth century, an event with which, he says, “the steppe ended, and a great chapter in world history closed.” This comment points to a highly commendable feature of this sweeping and meticulous study: Perdue places the Qing march into central Asia squarely in the contexts both of Chinese and of world history. He shows, for example, how the Qing response to trade with Britain on China’s south coast was shaped by the earlier but quite different Qing experience on the Eurasian frontier. On a larger world stage, Perdue compares state building in Qing China, France, and the Ottoman Empire, pointing to both similarities and dissimilarities in these efforts.
Any attempt to summarize the richness of Perdue’s study surely will miss much. It bristles with insights and should occupy a prominent place in the libraries of all serious historians, regardless of their area of specialty. It is noteworthy too that Perdue continues a rich tradition of multilingual research we must not allow to decline. He draws upon sources and scholarship from Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, German, French, and Russian, to say nothing of English, the latter a language he also writes with clarity and grace. We congratulate him.
Selection Committee: Steven Durrant, Chair; Antonia Finnane; Martin Kern.
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2007 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Michael Dutton: Policing Chinese Politics: A History (Duke University Press, 2005)
In this extraordinary book, Professor Dutton re-tells the story of what animated the Chinese revolutionary politics through an empirical history of policing. He skillfully shows how a binary division of friend and enemy was the ground of Mao Zedong’s theory of politics and Maoist practices of politics including mobilizations, purges, assassination, and scapegoating. His binary division became the driving force behind the political passions and violence that marked Communist rule from the Jiangxi Soviet through the Cultural Revolution.
Over the period covered in this detailed study of the police apparatus and its shifting functional spheres in a revolutionary society, Professor Dutton also demonstrates how intense emotions drove a politicization of all spheres of life as a dynamic of loyalty and betrayal took the place of the machinery of crime and juridical punishment. He thus offers a superb illustration of how political theory is inextricable from the history of the political.
This theoretically innovative and remarkably well-sourced study in institutional history gives a compelling portrait of the magic of commitment and faith as well as the institutional politics of post-revolutionary policy. This important book will be widely read by scholars and students in social sciences and humanities, particularly by those interested in political theory and socialist history.
Selection Committee: Li Zhang, Chair; Tani Barlow; Ruth Rogaski
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2006 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Antonia Mary Finnane: Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550–1850 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2004).
Antonia Finnane’s Speaking of Yangzhou is an extraordinary book: a local historical study that at once problematizes and develops the category of local history itself, by exploring a locality whose elites, and thus much of whose social life and culture, were not local but immigrant from elsewhere. It is a rich work of narrative history that weaves into and through its narrative significant responses to current scholarly controversies on a striking range of topics. Finnane both challenges and refines the notion of merger or boundary-blurring between literati and merchants in the Ming and Qing. She extends and develops our awareness of the special character of those cities whose hinterland is not their own surrounding region but, arguably, China as a whole. She delves deep into the earlier roots of the modern phenomenon of Subei ethnicity. The book will be necessary reading as well for scholars interested in gender, in lineage and kinship organization, and not least in the institutional and social workings of the salt monopoly. Finnane shows absolute mastery of both the primary sources and an abundant secondary literature on all these topics. As if all this were not enough, the book is a model of historiographic style: Finnane’s writing is elegant and crystal clear even where her topics are at their most complex.
In a year of strong candidates, Speaking of Yangzhou richly deserves the Levenson Prize for the best new book on pre-1900 China.
Selection Committee: Robert Hymes, Chair; Steven Durrant; Martin Kern
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2006 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Ruth Rogaski: Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (University of California Press, 2004).
This is an outstanding, innovative study of how the concept and practice of weisheng, a term that encompasses hygiene, health, sanitation, public health and disease control, took hold in China, through western and Chinese agency. Weisheng was central to the conception of modernity. Its changing meanings are associated with state power, scientific standards of progress and the fitness of races; these meanings reflect the many dimensions of modern Chinese experiences. This book examines all these topics, and also looks at the dark obverse of weisheng, germ warfare.
Ruth Rogaski’s book matches an exciting theoretical conception with detailed, painstaking research using many different sources. She focuses on one city, Tianjin, the location of several different foreign concessions, and thus the locus of various different medical encounters. The book looks at a long period, from the pre-treaty port period to the start of the Communist era. This long time span allows an examination of traditional medicine, and of the use of germs in warfare.
The writing of the book is clear and engaging, and accessible to specialists and non-specialists. It will have a major impact within and beyond the China field. For all these reasons the members of the Modern China Committee unanimously agreed that this book should be the winner of the 2006 Levenson Prize. We are particularly pleased to name Hygienic Modernity as the prize winner because it was in competition with so many other excellent books.
Selection Committee: Diana Lary, Chair; Hu Ying; Li Zhang
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2005 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
John Makeham: Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects (Harvard University Asia Center, 2003).
In a year with many strong candidates, this year’s pre-1900 Levenson Prize goes to John Makeham’s Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects. Few texts have mattered as much to Chinese life as the Analects; but as Makeham shows, nobody encountered this text without the mediation of commentaries. By carefully examining four particularly important commentaries spanning a period of 1600 years – and the debates that surrounded them in their own times — Makeham shows us changing views of what the Analects was, of who Confucius had been, of the intellectual’s role in politics, and of the cosmological position of historical actors. He thereby sheds light on several major issues in Chinese literary and intellectual history, illuminating both specific periods (and thus historiographies) and Chinese thought more generally. Specialists will find original ideas about each text and period, and readers curious about periods and issues remote from their principal concerns will find complex matters explained with admirable clarity.
But the book is more than four exemplary interpretations of particular commentaries; it offers invaluable insights into the place of commentary in Chinese culture more generally. Perhaps none of us can completely shake the emphasis that modern Western culture places on “original” work as opposed to “mere” commentary, but Transmitters and Creators provides a bracing reconstruction of what it was like to work within intellectual traditions with very different presuppositions. In sum, Makeham shows us centuries of Chinese scholars making sense of Confucius, of each other, and of themselves in fascinating and inter-connected ways. We are pleased to award the Levenson Prize to John Makeham for Transmitters and Creators.
Selection Committee: Kenneth Pomeranz, Chair; Robert Hymes; David Schaberg.
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2005 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Yan Yunxiang: Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999 (Stanford University Press, 2003).
The 2005 Joseph Levenson Book Prize (post-1900 category) is awarded to Yan Yunxiang’s Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999, published by Stanford University Press. An outstanding rural ethnography, the book explores a subject barely touched by previous scholarship: the personal and emotional dimensions of family life among Chinese villagers. Professor Yan draws upon his insider’s understanding of one village in Northeast China, where he labored as a farmer for seven years in the 1970s and where he returned as a trained anthropologist in 1989 to embark on fieldwork spanning more than a decade, to develop a richly nuanced portrait of the personal experiences and moral universe of ordinary villagers. His purview ranges from more public issues such as social networks, family property and support for the elderly, to the private arena of romance, sex, birth control, and gender dynamics. The research is exceptionally thorough, the analysis is highly illuminating, and the presentation is direct, sensitive and moving.
While obviously sympathetic to his informants’ efforts to navigate a confusing and changing world, Yan Yunxiang also paints a sobering picture of a countryside in which unbridled individualism is growing apace, without the requisite public associations to restrain it. Attributing some of the patterns he observes to pre-revolutionary traditions, others to the policies of the socialist state, and yet others to the influence of the post-Mao market economy, Professor Yan offers a complex and dynamic view of the beliefs and behaviors of contemporary Chinese villagers.
Selection Committee: Elizabeth Perry; Hu Ying; Diana Lary.
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2004 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Robert Hymes: Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China (University of California Press, 2002)
Way and Byway combines the rich, fact-heavy result of careful research with a serious awareness of the theoretical problems of the field.
On one level, the book offers a beautifully written picture of religious practice by focusing on the cult to the Three Lords of Huagai Mountain, a Daoist center in Jiangxi. The book draws on a wide-ranging group of sources that include both materials from the Daoist canon and more secular sources.
Hymes won the Levenson prize previously for his earlier social history of the region, Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Song (Cambridge University Press, 1986), and he puts his unique knowledge of Jiangxi local society to excellent use in his depiction of the families who supported the Three Lords.
On another level, the book addresses one of the most powerful paradigms about Chinese popular belief: the view that the Chinese pantheon of the popular deities mirrored the Chinese bureaucracy of the real-world. Hymes proposes instead a much more subtle alternative. Yes, believers sometimes approached the gods as bureaucrats. But more often they addressed them in a personal way, promising the gods rewards if the gods gave them certain boons. To make this argument Hymes engages the rich anthropological literature, concluding persuasively that the Daoist rites of renewal (jiao) offered an opportunity for people with both types of understanding of the gods to worship them side by side.
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2004 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Geremie Barmé: An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898–1975) (University of California Press, 2002)
Barmé has given us a magisterial and elegant work. He writes from inside a decades-long knowledge of Feng Zikai, the foremost artist of China’s cartoon/sketch painting style and a noted essayist. He has tracked down Feng’s every influence, reference, and allusion in the intensely sedimented world of twentieth-century literary and artistic production. The reader is drawn into a world of Buddhist monks who teach Western painting, Japanese artists, feuding leftists, and an artist whose work expressed his own melancholy at the inability to recover a "child’s heart" and at all the political dislocations of Republican China. Barmé’s erudition creates for us the environment in which Feng matured¬one where Schopenhauer, Takehisa Yumeji, the doctrines of Buddhism, late-Ming essayists, and refined attention to quwei (zest or sensibility), as well as the death of three of Feng’s children, were as much part of the landscape as Japanese encroachment, worker demon-strations, student activism, and wartime retreat to the interior. Each chapter sets Feng in the context of Chinese intellectual and artistic history: the impact of modern education, the political engagement of 1920s and 1930s intellectuals, the many varieties of nationalism before and during the anti-Japanese war, and the process of accommodation to CCP rule. In Feng Zikai’s life, Barmé paints us a cultural world infinitely richer and more varied than the conventional twentieth-century story of revolutionary nationalism and ascendant Communism. This is an extraordinarily evocative and gracefully written portrait.
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2003 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
David Schaberg: A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001)
In A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography, David Schaberg shows us how intelligent individuals in early China strove to make sense of their historical experience. The book’s main sources are the Zuo zhuan and the Guo yu, which jointly constitute pre-Imperial China’s most important body of historical narrative. These texts portray members of a highly cultivated aristocratic social milieu manipulating language and shaping memory in a quest for the principles of ritually correct behavior. Schaberg shows masterfully how these protagonists formulated and presented their arguments in a competitive rhetorical arena.
The book, like its source texts, touches upon the full richness of pre-Imperial Chinese culture. With its unique blend of historical, philological, and philosophical perspectives, it creates a new basis for understanding a crucial formative stage of Chinese intellectual history; and through its well-presented comparisons with Western traditions, above all with ancient Greece, it opens up the world of the Zuo zhuan and the Guo yu to readers from the Humanities and Social Sciences at large.
Scholars in and outside the China field will come away impressed by the author’s profound erudition, his sophisticated command of his analytical instruments, his mastery of the elegant yet difficult language of the sources, and his own luminous writing.
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2003 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Lucien Bianco: Peasants Without the Party: Grassroots Movements in 20th-Century China (M.E. Sharpe, 2001)
Lucien Bianco’s Peasants Without the Party: Grassroots Movements in Twentieth-Century China represents a quarter-century of innovative and careful research about peasant discontent. Against whom is such discontent directed, and under what circumstances does it develop? How much did Chinese peasant concerns shape the d
2010 Pre-1900 Category: Robert E. Harrist, Jr., The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China (University of Washington Press, 2008)
2010 Post-1900 Category: Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China (University of California Press, 2008)
如果benshuier能再建一个John K. Fairbank Prize的书单就更好了。具体书目如下。
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John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History
Established by a gift to the Association from the friends of the prominent historian of China and East Asia at Harvard and President of the Association in 1968, the Fairbank Prize is awarded for the best work on the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan since the year 1800. The prize was originally offered from 1969 with a $500 award, but in 1985 it became an annual prize with a cash award of $1,000.
2010 James C. Scott, Yale Univ., The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Univ. Press)
2009 Klaus Mühlhahn, Criminal Justice in China: A History (Harvard University Press)
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
2006 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)
> 我来回应
还缺好多封面啊，豆主辛苦，再搜罗搜罗 orz
封面恐怕要到亚马逊之类的网站上找了。
sherman cochran(高家龙),Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.现中文版华东师范大学在译。2008年获得列文森大奖
谢谢啦
http://www.aasianst.
2009 Pre-1900 Category: Anthony Barbieri-Low, "Artisans in Early Imperial China" (University of Washington Press, 2007)
2009 Post-1900 Category: Haiyan Lee, "Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China" (Stanford University Press, 2007)
2008 Pre-1900 Category: Martin J. Powers, "Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006)
2008 Post-1900 Category: Sherman Cochran, "Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia" (Harvard University Press, 2006)
谢谢，已更新
AAS CIAC LEVENSON PRIZES FOR BOOKS IN CHINESE STUDIES
[ PAST WINNERS OF THE LEVENSON PRIZE ]
The AAS China and Inner Asia Council will offer two $1,000 Joseph Levenson Prizes for nonfiction scholarly books on China published in 2008.
AAS CIAC Levenson Book Prize Winners
Below is a list of the past winners of the AAS China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies (click on the book title to go to the citation):
2009 Pre-1900 Category: Anthony Barbieri-Low, "Artisans in Early Imperial China" (University of Washington Press, 2007)
2009 Post-1900 Category: Haiyan Lee, "Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China" (Stanford University Press, 2007)
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2008 Pre-1900 Category: Martin J. Powers, "Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006)
2008 Post-1900 Category: Sherman Cochran, "Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia" (Harvard University Press, 2006)
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2007 Pre-1900 Category: Peter C. Perdue, "China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia" (Harvard University Press, 2005)
2007 Post-1900 Category: Michael Dutton, "Policing Chinese Politics: A History" (Duke University Press, 2005)
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2006 Pre-1900 Category: Antonia Mary Finnane, "Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550–1850" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2004).
2006 Post-1900 Category: Ruth Rogaski, "Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China" (University of California Press, 2004)
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2005 Pre-1900 Category: John Makeham, "Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2003)
2005 Post-1900 Category: Yan Yunxiang, "Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999" (Stanford University Press, 2003)
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2004 Pre-1900 Category: Robert Hymes, "Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China" (University of California Press, 2002)
2004 Post-1900 Category: Geremie Barmé, "An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898–1975)" (University of California Press, 2002)
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2003 Pre-1900 Category: David Schaberg, "A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001)
2003 Post-1900 Category: Lucien Bianco, "Peasants Without the Party: Grassroots Movements in 20th-Century China" (M. E. Sharpe, 2001)
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2002 Pre-1900 Category: Lothar Ledderose, "Ten Thousand Things" (Princeton University Press, 2000)
2002 Post-1900 Category: Edward J. M. Rhoads, "Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early-Republican China, 1861–1928" (University of Washington Press, 2000)
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2001 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Pamela Kyle Crossley, "The Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology" (University of California Press, 1999)
2001 Twentieth Century Category: Dorothy J. Solinger, "Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasants, Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market" (University of California Press, 1999)
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2000 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Timothy Brook, "The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China" (University of California Press, 1998)
2000 Twentieth Century Category: Lynn T. White III, "Unstately Power, Volume 1: Local Causes of China's Economic Reforms" (M. E. Sharpe, 1998)
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1999 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Susan L. Mann, "Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century" (Stanford Press, 1997)
1999 Twentieth Century Category: Roderick MacFarquhar, "The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961–66" (Columbia University Press, 1997)
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1998 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Maggie Bickford, "Ink Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre" (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
1998 Twentieth Century Category: John J. Fitzgerald, "Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution" (Stanford University Press, 1996)
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1997 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: James L. Hevia, "Cherishing Men From Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793" (Duke University Press, 1995)
1997 Twentieth Century Category: R. Keith Schoppa, "Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China" (University of California Press, 1995)
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1996 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Stephen F. Teiser, "Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (University of Hawaii Press, 1994)
1996 Twentieth Century Category: Julia F. Andrews, "Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1979" (University of California Press, 1994)
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1995 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Patricia Ebrey, "The Inner Quarters: Women and Marriage in Sung Dynasty China" (University of California Press, 1993)
1995 Twentieth Century Category: Vaclav Smil, "China’s Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development" (M. E. Sharpe, 1993)
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1994 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Jing Wang, "The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism of Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West" (Duke University Press, 1992)
1994 Pre-Twentieth Category: Zhang Longxi, "The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West" (Duke University Press, 1992)
1994 Twentieth Century Category: Gregor Benton, "Mountain Fires: The Red Army’s Three-Year War in South China, 1934–1938" (University of California Press, 1992)
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1993 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Martin J. Powers, "Art and Political Expression in Early China" (Yale University Press, 1991)
1993 Twentieth Century Category: Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz and Mark Selden, "Chinese Village, Socialist State" (Yale University Press, 1991)
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1992 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Philip A. Kuhn, "Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768" (Harvard University Press, 1990)
1992 Twentieth Century Category: Philip C. C. Huang, "The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350–1988" (Stanford University Press, 1990)
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1991 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Wu Hung, "The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art" (Stanford University Press, 1989)
1991 Twentieth Century Category: David Strand, "Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s" (University of California Press, 1989)
1991 Honorable Mention: Twentieth Century Category: Melvyn C. Goldstein, "A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State" (University of California Press, 1989)
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1990 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Patrick Hanan, "The Invention of Li Yu" (Harvard University Press, 1988)
1990 Twentieth Century Category: Prasenjit Duara, "Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942" (Stanford University Press, 1988)
1990 Honorable Mention: Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Jerry Norman, "Chinese" (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
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1989 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Andrew H. Plaks, "The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel" (Princeton University Press, 1987)
1989 Twentieth Century Category: Joseph W. Esherick, "The Origins of the Boxer Uprising" (University of California Press, 1987)
1989 Honorable Mention: Pre-Twentieth Century Category: R. Kent Guy, "The Emperor’s Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch’ien-Era" (Harvard University Press, 1987)
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1988 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Robert Hymes, "Statesman and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-Chou, Chiang-his, in Northern and Southern Sung" (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
1988 Twentieth Century Category: Andrew G. Walder, "Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry" (University of California Press, 1986)
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1987 Pre-Twentieth Century Category: Frederic Wakeman, Jr, "The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China" (University of California Press, 1985)
1987 Twentieth Century Category: Andrew Nathan, "Chinese Democracy" (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 1985)
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2009 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Anthony Barbieri-Low, "Artisans in Early Imperial China" (University of Washington Press, 2007)
Barbieri-Low pulls off a major achievement: reconstructing the life and work of the craftsmen who created early China’s most impressive works of art. Combining artistic, archaeological, and textual evidence, he gives us a finely drawn portrait of how they created objects, how they suffered, and how other strata viewed them.
Artisan skills, regarded as “clever” but morally unrefined by literati, nevertheless gave them a sense of social solidarity and put them in close contact with the court, the market, and consumers. From an artisan’s perspective, Han China looks surprisingly modern: the most successful men and women used modular designs in an almost industrial production line, they branded their pieces with their own names, and they sought out opportunities for profit whenever possible. Others, however, were not so lucky. They suffered under the oppression of bonded labor and were poisoned by toxic chemicals used in lacquer production.
The author’s rich description of these little-known historical subjects stands out as an exemplary work of social, artistic, and archaeological history.
Selection Committee: Peter Perdue (Chair); Stephen West; Shang Wei.
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2009 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Haiyan Lee, "Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China" (Stanford University Press, 2007)
Revolution of the Heart is an imaginative and well-researched study of sentiment as public discourse in modern China. Haiyan Lee’s innovative approach to the matters of love, emotion, intimacy and sexuality has brought the study of modern China to a new level of theoretical rigor and sophistication. This book raises important questions about the place of love and affectivity in modern political discourse, nationalist struggle, social transformation and revolution. The author makes the modern and premodern divide untenable by taking us back to the cult of qing, demonstrating convincingly how this earlier philosophical tradition and its reworking by modern writers in 1900–1950 can help reframe the highly contested articulations of moral sentiment in the May Fourth episteme of romantic love. Her close readings of familiar and unfamiliar texts are always illuminating and sometimes even surprising and provocative.
Love is a vast subject for an academic book such as this, but Haiyan Lee has risen to the challenge with aplomb. Does love matter to politics? This central question raised by her excellent book troubles the distinction between the public and private spheres and explains why literature has been central to social struggle. As the most prominent public discourse of sentiment, literature occupies the center stage in her study but her concerns are social, political, and historical. The book is distinguished by its dynamic and fruitful engagement with the question of moral vision in modern China and, as such, is richly deserving of the Joseph Levenson Prize.
Selection Committee: Michael Dutton (Chair); Sherman Cochran; Lydia Liu.
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2008 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Martin J. Powers, "Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China" (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006)
Pattern and Person is an unusual and engrossing study of material culture in the social thought of Classical China. In it, Martin Powers offers a new way of thinking about ornamentation in relation to social hierarchy, political organization, and personal agency in the Warring States Period. Commencing with an observation of the shift from modular to free-flowing design, epitomized in tropes of clouds and dragons, Powers takes the reader on an extraordinary intellectual journey that raises important questions about art, artisanry, taste, identity, politics, and history.
Along the way, his careful deployment and exposition of texts from early thinkers and writers provides multiple reminders of the wealth of classical resources available for critical political thought in contemporary China. The book is marked by a sustained tone of intellectual inquiry, a richly discursive approach to the problems under consideration, and great versatility in its balance of attention to texts and artifacts. A distinguishing feature of the book is the author’s cautious but explicit comparative approach which illuminates distinctive features of Chinese culture in the period under review while simultaneously revealing parallels and points of convergence between trajectories of thought in China and Europe. This feature makes Pattern and Person an unusually appropriate recipient of an otherwise richly deserved award. In a field of excellent entries that between them covered three millennia of Chinese history, this highly original, engagingly written book was truly outstanding.
Selection Committee: Antonia Finnane (Chair); Peter Perdue; Stephen West.
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2008 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Sherman Cochran, "Chinese Medicine Men: Consumer Culture in China and Southeast Asia" (Harvard University Press, 2006)
Sherman Cochran’s study of inter-Asian consumer society opens new ground with the question, who were the agents of commercial modernization in the Chinese business world during the interwar years and the Pacific War? His thesis is that middle-brow Chinese nationals and ethnic Chinese business entrepreneurs established commodity empires with regional rather than national scope. They creatively adapted advertising media and the categories of “modern” and “neo-traditional.” They eluded existing economic, political, managerial barriers to become what Cochran calls “agents of consumer culture.” Their tactics included founding newspapers and purportedly professional journals, mobilizing popular performances, and organizing bureaus of advertisement in their companies. Bringing his expertise in business history to bear on the question of Asian-based consumer advocates, he illustrates the organizational and corporate managerial side of marketing and branding.
Among the points this study of entrepreneurs raises for scholarship generally is the problem of allegiance. Detailed chapters on fixers and colluders, Xu Guanqun (1899-1972) and Aw Boon-haw of Tiger Balm fame, show how closely the business practices of each Chinese mogul mirrored and engaged Japanese economic imperialism before and during the occupation.
Central figures like Xu, Aw, Huang Chujiu and Xiang Songmao came from a petit bourgeois class background and lacked direct exposure to English, European or American schools or management theories. However, as men of the people, Cochran argues, they had the common touch it took to mediate foreign ingress and to “localize” what came from a world beyond 19th century Chinese conventions.
Selection Committee: Tani Barlow (Chair); Ching Kwan Lee; Ruth Rogaski.
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2007 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Peter C. Perdue: China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005)
Peter Perdue’s study fundamentally alters how we understand the relationship between Qing China and the people of Central Eurasia. His book concentrates on the period of time from the rise of the Manchus in the first decades of the seventeenth century to the return of the Torghuts in the last half of the eighteenth century, an event with which, he says, “the steppe ended, and a great chapter in world history closed.” This comment points to a highly commendable feature of this sweeping and meticulous study: Perdue places the Qing march into central Asia squarely in the contexts both of Chinese and of world history. He shows, for example, how the Qing response to trade with Britain on China’s south coast was shaped by the earlier but quite different Qing experience on the Eurasian frontier. On a larger world stage, Perdue compares state building in Qing China, France, and the Ottoman Empire, pointing to both similarities and dissimilarities in these efforts.
Any attempt to summarize the richness of Perdue’s study surely will miss much. It bristles with insights and should occupy a prominent place in the libraries of all serious historians, regardless of their area of specialty. It is noteworthy too that Perdue continues a rich tradition of multilingual research we must not allow to decline. He draws upon sources and scholarship from Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, German, French, and Russian, to say nothing of English, the latter a language he also writes with clarity and grace. We congratulate him.
Selection Committee: Steven Durrant, Chair; Antonia Finnane; Martin Kern.
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2007 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Michael Dutton: Policing Chinese Politics: A History (Duke University Press, 2005)
In this extraordinary book, Professor Dutton re-tells the story of what animated the Chinese revolutionary politics through an empirical history of policing. He skillfully shows how a binary division of friend and enemy was the ground of Mao Zedong’s theory of politics and Maoist practices of politics including mobilizations, purges, assassination, and scapegoating. His binary division became the driving force behind the political passions and violence that marked Communist rule from the Jiangxi Soviet through the Cultural Revolution.
Over the period covered in this detailed study of the police apparatus and its shifting functional spheres in a revolutionary society, Professor Dutton also demonstrates how intense emotions drove a politicization of all spheres of life as a dynamic of loyalty and betrayal took the place of the machinery of crime and juridical punishment. He thus offers a superb illustration of how political theory is inextricable from the history of the political.
This theoretically innovative and remarkably well-sourced study in institutional history gives a compelling portrait of the magic of commitment and faith as well as the institutional politics of post-revolutionary policy. This important book will be widely read by scholars and students in social sciences and humanities, particularly by those interested in political theory and socialist history.
Selection Committee: Li Zhang, Chair; Tani Barlow; Ruth Rogaski
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2006 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Antonia Mary Finnane: Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550–1850 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2004).
Antonia Finnane’s Speaking of Yangzhou is an extraordinary book: a local historical study that at once problematizes and develops the category of local history itself, by exploring a locality whose elites, and thus much of whose social life and culture, were not local but immigrant from elsewhere. It is a rich work of narrative history that weaves into and through its narrative significant responses to current scholarly controversies on a striking range of topics. Finnane both challenges and refines the notion of merger or boundary-blurring between literati and merchants in the Ming and Qing. She extends and develops our awareness of the special character of those cities whose hinterland is not their own surrounding region but, arguably, China as a whole. She delves deep into the earlier roots of the modern phenomenon of Subei ethnicity. The book will be necessary reading as well for scholars interested in gender, in lineage and kinship organization, and not least in the institutional and social workings of the salt monopoly. Finnane shows absolute mastery of both the primary sources and an abundant secondary literature on all these topics. As if all this were not enough, the book is a model of historiographic style: Finnane’s writing is elegant and crystal clear even where her topics are at their most complex.
In a year of strong candidates, Speaking of Yangzhou richly deserves the Levenson Prize for the best new book on pre-1900 China.
Selection Committee: Robert Hymes, Chair; Steven Durrant; Martin Kern
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2006 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Ruth Rogaski: Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (University of California Press, 2004).
This is an outstanding, innovative study of how the concept and practice of weisheng, a term that encompasses hygiene, health, sanitation, public health and disease control, took hold in China, through western and Chinese agency. Weisheng was central to the conception of modernity. Its changing meanings are associated with state power, scientific standards of progress and the fitness of races; these meanings reflect the many dimensions of modern Chinese experiences. This book examines all these topics, and also looks at the dark obverse of weisheng, germ warfare.
Ruth Rogaski’s book matches an exciting theoretical conception with detailed, painstaking research using many different sources. She focuses on one city, Tianjin, the location of several different foreign concessions, and thus the locus of various different medical encounters. The book looks at a long period, from the pre-treaty port period to the start of the Communist era. This long time span allows an examination of traditional medicine, and of the use of germs in warfare.
The writing of the book is clear and engaging, and accessible to specialists and non-specialists. It will have a major impact within and beyond the China field. For all these reasons the members of the Modern China Committee unanimously agreed that this book should be the winner of the 2006 Levenson Prize. We are particularly pleased to name Hygienic Modernity as the prize winner because it was in competition with so many other excellent books.
Selection Committee: Diana Lary, Chair; Hu Ying; Li Zhang
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2005 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
John Makeham: Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects (Harvard University Asia Center, 2003).
In a year with many strong candidates, this year’s pre-1900 Levenson Prize goes to John Makeham’s Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects. Few texts have mattered as much to Chinese life as the Analects; but as Makeham shows, nobody encountered this text without the mediation of commentaries. By carefully examining four particularly important commentaries spanning a period of 1600 years – and the debates that surrounded them in their own times — Makeham shows us changing views of what the Analects was, of who Confucius had been, of the intellectual’s role in politics, and of the cosmological position of historical actors. He thereby sheds light on several major issues in Chinese literary and intellectual history, illuminating both specific periods (and thus historiographies) and Chinese thought more generally. Specialists will find original ideas about each text and period, and readers curious about periods and issues remote from their principal concerns will find complex matters explained with admirable clarity.
But the book is more than four exemplary interpretations of particular commentaries; it offers invaluable insights into the place of commentary in Chinese culture more generally. Perhaps none of us can completely shake the emphasis that modern Western culture places on “original” work as opposed to “mere” commentary, but Transmitters and Creators provides a bracing reconstruction of what it was like to work within intellectual traditions with very different presuppositions. In sum, Makeham shows us centuries of Chinese scholars making sense of Confucius, of each other, and of themselves in fascinating and inter-connected ways. We are pleased to award the Levenson Prize to John Makeham for Transmitters and Creators.
Selection Committee: Kenneth Pomeranz, Chair; Robert Hymes; David Schaberg.
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2005 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Yan Yunxiang: Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999 (Stanford University Press, 2003).
The 2005 Joseph Levenson Book Prize (post-1900 category) is awarded to Yan Yunxiang’s Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999, published by Stanford University Press. An outstanding rural ethnography, the book explores a subject barely touched by previous scholarship: the personal and emotional dimensions of family life among Chinese villagers. Professor Yan draws upon his insider’s understanding of one village in Northeast China, where he labored as a farmer for seven years in the 1970s and where he returned as a trained anthropologist in 1989 to embark on fieldwork spanning more than a decade, to develop a richly nuanced portrait of the personal experiences and moral universe of ordinary villagers. His purview ranges from more public issues such as social networks, family property and support for the elderly, to the private arena of romance, sex, birth control, and gender dynamics. The research is exceptionally thorough, the analysis is highly illuminating, and the presentation is direct, sensitive and moving.
While obviously sympathetic to his informants’ efforts to navigate a confusing and changing world, Yan Yunxiang also paints a sobering picture of a countryside in which unbridled individualism is growing apace, without the requisite public associations to restrain it. Attributing some of the patterns he observes to pre-revolutionary traditions, others to the policies of the socialist state, and yet others to the influence of the post-Mao market economy, Professor Yan offers a complex and dynamic view of the beliefs and behaviors of contemporary Chinese villagers.
Selection Committee: Elizabeth Perry; Hu Ying; Diana Lary.
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2004 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
Robert Hymes: Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China (University of California Press, 2002)
Way and Byway combines the rich, fact-heavy result of careful research with a serious awareness of the theoretical problems of the field.
On one level, the book offers a beautifully written picture of religious practice by focusing on the cult to the Three Lords of Huagai Mountain, a Daoist center in Jiangxi. The book draws on a wide-ranging group of sources that include both materials from the Daoist canon and more secular sources.
Hymes won the Levenson prize previously for his earlier social history of the region, Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Song (Cambridge University Press, 1986), and he puts his unique knowledge of Jiangxi local society to excellent use in his depiction of the families who supported the Three Lords.
On another level, the book addresses one of the most powerful paradigms about Chinese popular belief: the view that the Chinese pantheon of the popular deities mirrored the Chinese bureaucracy of the real-world. Hymes proposes instead a much more subtle alternative. Yes, believers sometimes approached the gods as bureaucrats. But more often they addressed them in a personal way, promising the gods rewards if the gods gave them certain boons. To make this argument Hymes engages the rich anthropological literature, concluding persuasively that the Daoist rites of renewal (jiao) offered an opportunity for people with both types of understanding of the gods to worship them side by side.
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2004 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Geremie Barmé: An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898–1975) (University of California Press, 2002)
Barmé has given us a magisterial and elegant work. He writes from inside a decades-long knowledge of Feng Zikai, the foremost artist of China’s cartoon/sketch painting style and a noted essayist. He has tracked down Feng’s every influence, reference, and allusion in the intensely sedimented world of twentieth-century literary and artistic production. The reader is drawn into a world of Buddhist monks who teach Western painting, Japanese artists, feuding leftists, and an artist whose work expressed his own melancholy at the inability to recover a "child’s heart" and at all the political dislocations of Republican China. Barmé’s erudition creates for us the environment in which Feng matured¬one where Schopenhauer, Takehisa Yumeji, the doctrines of Buddhism, late-Ming essayists, and refined attention to quwei (zest or sensibility), as well as the death of three of Feng’s children, were as much part of the landscape as Japanese encroachment, worker demon-strations, student activism, and wartime retreat to the interior. Each chapter sets Feng in the context of Chinese intellectual and artistic history: the impact of modern education, the political engagement of 1920s and 1930s intellectuals, the many varieties of nationalism before and during the anti-Japanese war, and the process of accommodation to CCP rule. In Feng Zikai’s life, Barmé paints us a cultural world infinitely richer and more varied than the conventional twentieth-century story of revolutionary nationalism and ascendant Communism. This is an extraordinarily evocative and gracefully written portrait.
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2003 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category
David Schaberg: A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001)
In A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography, David Schaberg shows us how intelligent individuals in early China strove to make sense of their historical experience. The book’s main sources are the Zuo zhuan and the Guo yu, which jointly constitute pre-Imperial China’s most important body of historical narrative. These texts portray members of a highly cultivated aristocratic social milieu manipulating language and shaping memory in a quest for the principles of ritually correct behavior. Schaberg shows masterfully how these protagonists formulated and presented their arguments in a competitive rhetorical arena.
The book, like its source texts, touches upon the full richness of pre-Imperial Chinese culture. With its unique blend of historical, philological, and philosophical perspectives, it creates a new basis for understanding a crucial formative stage of Chinese intellectual history; and through its well-presented comparisons with Western traditions, above all with ancient Greece, it opens up the world of the Zuo zhuan and the Guo yu to readers from the Humanities and Social Sciences at large.
Scholars in and outside the China field will come away impressed by the author’s profound erudition, his sophisticated command of his analytical instruments, his mastery of the elegant yet difficult language of the sources, and his own luminous writing.
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2003 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 Category
Lucien Bianco: Peasants Without the Party: Grassroots Movements in 20th-Century China (M.E. Sharpe, 2001)
Lucien Bianco’s Peasants Without the Party: Grassroots Movements in Twentieth-Century China represents a quarter-century of innovative and careful research about peasant discontent. Against whom is such discontent directed, and under what circumstances does it develop? How much did Chinese peasant concerns shape the d
2010 Pre-1900 Category: Robert E. Harrist, Jr., The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China (University of Washington Press, 2008)
2010 Post-1900 Category: Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China (University of California Press, 2008)
如果benshuier能再建一个John K. Fairbank Prize的书单就更好了。具体书目如下。
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Book prize
John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History
Established by a gift to the Association from the friends of the prominent historian of China and East Asia at Harvard and President of the Association in 1968, the Fairbank Prize is awarded for the best work on the history of China proper, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan since the year 1800. The prize was originally offered from 1969 with a $500 award, but in 1985 it became an annual prize with a cash award of $1,000.
2010 James C. Scott, Yale Univ., The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Univ. Press)
2009 Klaus Mühlhahn, Criminal Justice in China: A History (Harvard University Press)
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
2006 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)
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