Wang Gungwu Prize
Past Winners Wang Gungwu Prize
2023
Thi Gammon, ‘Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self’
Vol. 47, Issue 3, of Asian Studies Review: 481-499
Shuk Man Leung, ‘Chinese Settler-Colonialism and the Borderless National Imagination in Lü Sheng’s A Madman’s Dream‘ Vol. 47, Issue 3, of Asian Studies Review: 500-517
2022
Hyun-ho Joo, ‘Envisaging East Asia: Korean Daily Newspapers’ Interpretations of Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech’
Vol. 46, Issue 2, of Asian Studies Review: 215-233
2021
Hua Wen (the United Nations Population Fund (China Office), ‘Gentle Yet Manly: Xiao Xian Rou, Male Cosmetic Surgery, and Neoliberal Consumer Culture in China’
Vol. 45, Issue 2, of Asian Studies Review: 253-271
2020
Fei Chen, ‘Transforming an Imperial Frontier: Japanese Knowledge and the Qing Empire’s New Tibet Policy’
Vol. 44. Issue 3 of Asian Studies Review: 422-440
2019
Terje Toomistu, ‘Embodied Notions of Belonging: Practices of Beauty among Waria in West Papua, Indonesia’
Vol. 43. Issue 4 of Asian Studies Review: 581-599
2018
Belinda Rina Spagnoletti, Linda Rae Bennett, Michele Kermode, and Siswanto Agus Wilopo, ‘Moralising Rhetoric and Imperfect Realities: Breastfeeding Promotions and the Experiences of Recently Delivered Mothers in Urban Yogyakarta, Indonesia’
Vol. 42. Issue 1 of Asian Studies Review: 17-38
2017
Ian Chalmers – University of Western Australia, ‘Countering Violent Extremism in Indonesia: Bringing Back the Jihadists’
Vol. 41. Issue 3 of Asian Studies Review: 331-351
2016
Devleena Ghosh – UTS, University of Technology Sydney, ‘Burma- Bengal Crossings: Intercolonial Connections in Pre-Independence India’
Vol. 40. Issue 2 of Asian Studies Review: 156-72
2015
Margaret Becker – University of Adelaide, ‘Constructing SSLM: Insights from struggles over women’s rights in Nepal’
Vol. 39. Issue 2 of Asian Studies Review: 247-265
2014
Karl Gustaffson – Swedish Institute for International Relations, ‘Memory Politics and Ontological Security in Sino-Japanese Relations’
Vol. 38. Issue 1 of Asian Studies Review: 71-86
2013
Philippa Brandt – Lowy Institute for International Policy, ‘Chinese Aid to the South Pacific – Linked to Resources?’
Vol. 37. Issue 2 of Asian Studies Review: 158-177
Prior to the inauguration of the Wang Gungwu prize, the following authors were awarded a separate prize in recognition of the quality of their articles in ASR:
2003
Anne McLaren – University of Melbourne, ‘Mothers, Daughters and the Socialization of the Chinese Bride’
Vol. 27. Issue 1 of Asian Studies Review: 1-21
2002
Lyn Parker – University of Western Australia, ‘The subjectification of Citizenship: student interpretations of School Teaching in Bali’
Vol. 26. Issue 1 of Asian Studies Review: 3-37
2001
Arif Dirlik – Duke University, ‘Markets, Culture, Power: The Making of a “Second Cultural Revolution in China’
Vol. 25. Issue 1 of Asian Studies Review