Professor Yoon Sun Yang and Professor Hwansoo Kim Honored with 2020 AAS Book Awards (James B. Palais Book Prize)
Please join us in congratulating Professor Yoon Sun Yang and Professor Hwansoo Kim, who will each be honored with 2020 AAS Book Awards for their recent monographs, all published by the Asia Center Publications Program.
- Professor Yoon Sun Yang has been awarded the 2020 Palais Book Prize for her book From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea.
- Professor Hwansoo Kim has been awarded the Palais Prize Honorable Mention for his work, The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History 1910–1945. In addition, Professor Kim was also recently awarded a book prize for The Korean Buddhist Empire by the Minister of Education of South Korea for its contribution to Korean Studies in 2019.
The James B. Palais Prize of the Association for Asian Studies was initiated by the Palais Prize committee headed by AAS President Robert Buswell in 2008-09. The Palais Prize is given annually to an outstanding scholar of Korean studies from any discipline or country specialization to recognize distinguished scholarly work on Korea.
