AAS THE JOHN WHITNEY HALL BOOK PRIZE

The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies announces
the third annual $1,000 prize, named to honor the distinguished historian
John Whitney Hall, to be awarded for an outstanding book published on Japan
or Korea. Nominations must bear a COPYRIGHT DATE OF 1993 OR 1994. Works may
treat any historical period from ancient to modern, so long as their
subject matters falls within the humanities and social sciences.
Translations are eligible if they include a substantial introduction,
annotation, or critical apparatus. Reference works, exhibition catalogs,
textbooks, multi-authored essay collections, poetry, fiction, memoirs, or
autobiographies are not eligible. Authors need not to be AAS members.
Nominations are to be made by trade book publishers and university presses.
Presses are allowed to submit two entries and must notify the Review
Committee Chair in writing of intent to submit - by June 30,1995. They must
also send one copy of each submission to each of the four members of the
review committee below. These copies must be received by JUNE 30, 1995.
Each entry should be clearly labeled: John Whitney Hall Prize". The
recipient of the John Whitney Hall Book Prize will be announced at the 1996
AAS Annual Meeting. JOHN WHITNEY HALL COMMITTEE: Henry D. Smith, II
(Chair), East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027;
Chalmers Johnson, 2138 Via Tiempo, Cardiff, CA 92007-1208; Susan B. Hanley,
Jackson School of International Studies, DR-05, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA 98195; David R. McCann, 303 Fairmount Avenue, Ithaca, Ny 14850.