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2008 K.Y. Chynn Book
Award
for Chinese Studies
Seeking Selection
Committee Members
AAARI is currently
recruiting members to
join the 2008 Selection
Committee. Faculty,
staff and others who are
interested should please
contact Dr. K. York
Chynn via e-mail:
kychynn@verizon.net,
or phone: 201-569-1487.
Over the past decade,
there has been an
increasingly significant
amount of interest in
China, the country, its
people and its culture,
amongst the general
population of the United
States. Since opening
its doors to
market-oriented
development, factors
such as increased
tourism, international
trade and technological
advancements have all
contributed to the
desire and need to
better understand China,
as it becomes a dominant
player in the 21st
Century global economy.
With over 4,000 years of
history behind it, the
subject of China is not
an easy one to
comprehend for the
uninitiated.
Funded by an endowment
from the Chynn Family
Foundation, the K.Y.
Chynn Book Award for
Chinese Studies
recognizes aspiring,
meritorious and
noteworthy authors,
writing on Chinese
subjects in the English
language, by providing
them with a $1,000 award
for their work. The
Book Award supports
literature that promotes
greater awareness and
better understanding of
Chinese history,
culture, and people in
the United States and
other English-speaking
countries.
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Past Recipients
2007 -
Dr. W. Scott
Morton & Dr.
Charlton M.
Lewis
Co-Authors,
China: Its
History &
Culture (2004,
4th Edition)
This brilliantly
lucid and
concise study
traces China's
history and
culture from
Neolithic times
to the present,
working into an
integrated and
authoritative
narrative that
covers centuries
of politics,
warfare and
government,
science and
technology,
economics and
commerce,
religion,
philosophy, and
the arts. Most
valuable of all,
Dr. Morton
illuminates the
essential
Chinese design,
the underlying
mental set of
the people and
the society. He
has given
approximately
equal treatment
to all premodern
periods, as each
has its
importance in
the evolving
history of the
Chinese
experience, and
has illustrated
the work with
numerous
photographs,
maps, paintings
and drawings and
quotations from
the literature.
Newly updated
and revised,
China: Its
History and
Culture, Fourth
Edition, also
carefully
examines the
crucial social
and economic
changes that
have taken place
in China over
the last decade.
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Selection Committee
In Formation
Coordinator
Antony Wong
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