John K. Fairbank Prize Winners

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Winners

	Vietnam: A New History by Christopher E. Goscha 4.03 avg rating — 483 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice by Barak Kushner 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History by Rian Thum 4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992 by Charles K. Armstrong 3.93 avg rating — 59 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture (Harvard East Asian Monographs) by Barbara Mittler really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) by Jun Uchida 3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010 by Carol Benedict 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) by James C. Scott 4.14 avg rating — 1,106 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Criminal Justice in China: A History by Klaus Mühlhahn 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Talented Women of the Zhang Family by Susan L. Mann 3.90 avg rating — 69 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China by Eugenia Lean 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China by Madeleine Zelin 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Volume 9) by Ruth Rogaski 4.22 avg rating — 58 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) by Jordan Sand 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage by Norman J. Girardot really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Volume 12) by Julia Adeney Thomas 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 by Peter Zinoman 4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz 3.67 avg rating — 824 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower 4.15 avg rating — 4,237 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Volume 8) (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power) by Louise Young 3.97 avg rating — 118 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth by Paul A. Cohen 3.92 avg rating — 283 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vietnam 1945: The Quest For Power by David G. Marr 4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 (Twentieth-Century Japan : the Emergence of a World Power) (Volume 3) by Kären E. Wigen 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937 by Kenneth Pomeranz 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor by Elizabeth J. Perry 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Offspring of Empire: The Koch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 by Carter J. Eckert 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1992)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (Volume 1) (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power) by Andrew Gordon 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu (Princeton Legacy Library, 5291) by Miriam Silverberg 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1990)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 by Prasenjit Duara 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1989)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The State and Labor in Modern Japan by Sheldon Garon 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings John K. Fairbank Prize (1988)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars