Longlist 2009 Humanities

The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and Its Context
by Wendi Adamek
Published 2007 by Columbia University Press
Hardback, ISBN 978-0-231-13664-8


Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49
by Stephanie Bangarth
Published 2008 by UBC Press
Paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748-1416-4


Artisans in Early Imperial China
by Anthony Barbieri-Low
Published 2007 by University of Washington Press
Hardback, ISBN 978-0-295-98713-2


Being "Dutch" in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500-1920
by Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben (Translated by Wendie Shaffer)
Published 2007 by NUS Press
Paperback, ISBN 978-9971-69-373-2


Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1279)
by Hilde De Weerdt
Published 2007 by Harvard University Press
Hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-02588-2


The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918
by Kees van Dijk
Published 2007 by KITLV Press
Paperback, ISBN 978-90-6718-308-6


Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture
by Michael S. Dodson
Published 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan
Hardback, ISBN 978-1403986450


Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China
by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Published 2008 by University of California Press
Hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-25302-5



Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China
by Robert Harrist Jr.
Published 2008 by University of Washington Press
Hardback, ISBN 978-0-295-98728-6


The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China
by Joan Judge
Published 2008 by Stanford University Press
Hardback, ISBN 978-0-8047-5589-2