Esterline Prize Winners
2009
2008
2007 East-West Center, Hawaii
2006
2005
2004
2003 East-West Center, Hawaii
First Place: Young-Jin Choi, University of Hawaii, Manoa, “Post-Mao Institutional Transformation and SOE Reform in China”
Second Place: Douglas Lanam, Independent Scholar, “Gender Cleansing: The Innocent World of Young Girls in Suzuki Izumi’s 'Onna to Onna no Yo no Naka' (The Age of Woman to Woman)”
2002 Bellingham, Washington
First Place: Scott Handler, East-West Center, Hawaii "Leading to Economic Resilince during the urban Transition in Vietnam”
Second Place: Eileen Vickery, University of Oregon, "Material Girl: Love, Desire and the Modern Chinese woman in Wei Hui’s ‘Shanghai Baobei’"
2001 Monterey, California
First Place: Zhang Tingting, "Assessing the Loss of Agency Control--A Study of Central-Provincial Relations in Post-Mao China"
Second Place: Baek, Young-Nahm, "The Origin of Asian Financial Crisis: a case of government intervention"
Honorable mentions: Cabana, Emilyn, "A comparative Study of Asian Telecommunications Policy Reforms: Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines"
Yang, Mu, "Public Finance and Political Order: Lessons from the Wing's Downfall in Late Imperial China"
2000 Eugene, Oregon
First Place: Erik Esselstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara, “The ‘Invisible Hand” of Russo-Japanese Relations: Kawakami Toshitsune, 1861-1935”
Second Place: Shinyi Chao, University of British Columbia, “Daoist Examinations and Daoist Schools During the Northern Sung Dynasty”
Honorable mention: Brian Bruya, University of Hawaii, “Qing and Emotion in Early Chinese Thought”
1999 San Diego, California
First Place: Swagata Banerjee, University of Nevada, Reno, “Dealing with the Ganges – A Socio-politico-economic Approach: An Extreme Case of Water Pollution.”
Second Place: Sameer Pandya, Stanford University, “The Post Colonial Mahatma: The Nationalist Autobiography at Century’s End”
1998 University of Hawaii
First Place: Harmon, Joshua “Relative Deprivation and Worker Unrest in Mainland China”
Second Place: Hu, Xing, “Sexuality and Subjectivity: Jia Pingwa’s The Abandoned Capital”
Honorable Mentions: Lam, Karen “The Baoying (Retribution) of the Femme Fatale”
Zhou, Baodi, “Thomas S. Foley and Japan”
1997 Hayward-San Jose, California
First Place: Patrick Shorb, Princeton University, “Nationalism, Liberalism, Censorship, War: Toyo Keizai Shinpo, 1937-1945”
Second Place: Gavin Shatkin, Rutgers University “Social Movements for Land and Housing in southeast Asian Cities: A Case Study of Phnom Penh, Cambodia”
1994 Guam
First Place: Ngoc B. Tran, University of Southern California; "Role of the State: The Case of the Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industry since the Late 1980s"
Second Place: William H. Cullinan, University of Hawaii at Manoa; "A Characterization of Nichiren"
Third Place: Elizabeth Chien, Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii; "A Unification Proposal for the Greater China: PRC, ROC, and Hong Kong"