Joseph Levenson Book Prize Winners

The Merlin Foundation, established by the late Audrey Sheldon, has provided for the two awards, one for works whose main focus is on China before 1900 ...more

Winners

	Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China by Sigrid Schmalzer 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (2018)	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
	Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, & Transcultural Politics by Li Chen 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (2018)	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 Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China by Christopher Rea 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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
	The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court by Leong Ping Foong really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature by Wai-Yee Li it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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 Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China by Luigi Tomba 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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
	Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade by Winnie Wong 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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
	Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 by Andrea Goldman 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China by Dagmar Schäfer 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	Ancestors, Virgins and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China by Eugenio Menegon 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920-2000 by Jacob Eyferth 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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 Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China by Timothy Brook 3.99 avg rating — 136 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century by Susan L. Mann 3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings Joseph Levenson Book 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
	The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966 by Roderick MacFarquhar 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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
	Ink Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre by Maggie Bickford really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China by R. Keith Schoppa 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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
	Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 by James L. Hevia 3.36 avg rating — 28 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1979 by Julia F. Andrews 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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 Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism by Stephen F. Teiser 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry Into the Limits of National Development by Vaclav Smil 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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 Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period by Patricia Buckley Ebrey 3.91 avg rating — 86 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938 by Gregor Benton 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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
	The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West by Longxi Zhang 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West by Jing Wang 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	Chinese Village, Socialist State by Edward Friedman 3.76 avg rating — 38 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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
	Art and Political Expression in Early China by Martin J. Powers 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988 by Philip C.C. Huang 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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
	Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 by Philip A. Kuhn 4.23 avg rating — 433 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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
	Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s by David Strand 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Post-1900 (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
	The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art by Wu Hung 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 (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