The Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize

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2017     Inheritance of loss : China, Japan, and the political economy of redemption after empire by Yukiko Koga
2016     Unknotting the heart : unemployment and therapeutic governance in China by Jie Yang
2015     The sacred routes of Uyghur history by Rian Richard Thum
2014     Tragic spirits : shamanism, memory, and gender in contemporary Mongolia by Manduhai Buyandelger
2013     Depression in Japan : psychiatric cures for a society in distress by Junko Kitanaka
2012     Governing educational desire : culture, politics, and schooling in China by Andrew Kipnis
2011     In search of paradise : middle-class living in a Chinese metropolis by Li Zhang
2010     Sovereignty at the edge : Macau and the question of Chineseness by Cathryn Clayton; Honorable mention: South Koreans in the debt crisis : the creation of a neoliberal welfare state by Jesook Song
2009     Uneasy reunions : immigration, citizenship, and family life in post-1997 Hong Kong by Nicole Dejong Newendorp; Honorable mention: The comfort women : sexual violence and postcolonial memory in Korea and Japan by C. Sarah Soh
2008     Qigong fever : body, science, and utopia in China by David Palmer
2007     Rural women in urban China : gender, migration, and social change by Tamara Jacka
2006     Final days : Japanese culture and choice at the end of life by Susan Orpett Long