Haiyan Lee, an assistant professor of Chinese literature, wins the Joseph Levenson Prize

Haiyan Lee

HAIYAN LEE, an assistant professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, has won the 2009 Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for her book Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2007). She received $1,000 and the citation for best English-language academic book on post-1900 China at the association's annual meeting in Chicago in March. She was cited for taking an innovative approach to the matters of love, emotion and intimacy and for bringing the study of modern China to a new level of theoretical rigor and sophistication.

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