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#AsiaNow Speaks with Christian de Pee

Christian de Pee is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100, which was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2022 and which has received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 AAS Joseph Levenson Prize (Pre-1900). To begin with, please tell us […]

AAS 2024 Annual Conference Resolution of Thanks

The Board of Directors of the Association for Asian Studies, AAS Secretariat staff, and I would like to thank individuals and groups who contributed to the 2024 Annual Conference in Seattle. We are thrilled that 3,138 attendees (including 754 students), exhibitors, and staff joined us in Seattle. So many people and organizations helped to make […]

“Cornerstone of the Nation”: An Interview with Peter Banseok Kwon

“How did an impoverished country that was fully reliant on US military support until the 1970s modernize its defense and commercial industries in less than a decade?” This question propels the story that Peter Banseok Kwon (Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY) traces in his new book, Cornerstone of the […]

Call for Proposals: “Global China” Dissertation Workshop at AAS-in-Asia

July 11-12, 2024Yogyakarta, IndonesiaApplication deadline: April 19, 2024 Thanks to funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Association for Asian Studies is pleased to announce that we will host a dissertation workshop for Ph.D. students currently enrolled in higher education institutions in Asia. The workshop, sponsored by the AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC), […]

Jun Takahashi Receives 2024 Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award

The Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Jun Takahashi (Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, Colby College, ME) is the recipient of the 2024 Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award for Excellence in Japanese Language Teaching. Dr. Takahashi has a background in Japanese language and culture, linguistics, and foreign language pedagogy, […]

Call for Applications — “The Year of Choosing Dangerously: Anticipating the Impact of the 2024 Elections in the Indo-Pacific and the United States”

May 8-9, 2024Washington, DC An East-West Center and Association for Asian Studies Writing and Policy Workshop The East-West Center (EWC) is partnering with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to build a “Network of Networks” bridging the U.S. and the Indo-Pacific. As part of the EWC’s Research Innovation & Collaboration Exchange (RICE) initiative, this collaboration […]

AAS 2024 Prizes

Prizes for Books and Scholarship East and Inner Asia Council Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900) Susan Naquin, Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000–2000 (Brill) Honorable mention: Christian de Pee, Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800–1100 (Amsterdam University Press) Honorable mention: Lawrence Zhang, Power for a […]

Global Anti Asian Racism Front Cover

Capacious Listening and Diverse Entry Points: On “Global Anti-Asian Racism”

By Tina Chen, Jennifer Ho, and Christine Yano Forthcoming from the AAS Publications Asia Shorts series, Global Anti-Asian Racism is edited by Jennifer Ho, past president of the Association for Asian American Studies and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. This collection features a diverse range of contributions from its […]