UW Press at AAS 2023

If you’re attending the annual Association for Asian Studies conference this week in Boston, be sure to visit UW Press at Booth 415 for a 30% discount on new and notable books—from a pathbreaking study on a celebrated site of Buddhist art to an examination of wood and woodlands in Asian history. You can take advantage of our conference discount by entering code WAAS23 at checkout now through April 14.

2023 AAS Award Winners

Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize

We are thrilled that two of our books received an inaugural Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, established to honor outstanding and innovative sole-authored monographs on Chinese art history.

Winner: What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming by Aurelia Campbell. This book has also received an Honorable Mention for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.

Honorable Mention: A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing by Rachel Silberstein. This book was also awarded the 2021 Millia Davenport Publication Award, sponsored by the Costume Society of America.