Yuhang Li (Resident Fellow 2017-2018) received the Society for Ming Studies for their Inaugural Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for the Best First Book in Ming Studies for her book Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2020).
The selection committee wrote: “… the delight of this book lies in its eye-popping details, its painstaking argumentation, and the complicated humanity of the families and individuals whom Li investigates through texts, tombs, images, and objects. This handsomely illustrated and engagingly written book will fascinate not only specialists of the Ming period, and late imperial China but anyone interested in religious or gender history in the early modern world.”
The full announcement can be found here.