The New Barwis-Holliday Award for Far Eastern Studies

摘要

Edward Barwis-Holliday instituted an annual monetary award for Far Eastern Studies in the early 1980s. His purpose was to promote research into the anthropology, art, history, literature or religion of Japan, China, Korea or the eastern regions of the then Soviet Union. British universities with Oriental Faculties were informed of the initiative and the first award, of £100, was made in 1981 for a paper entitled, On the transmission of the Shen Tzu and the Yang-sheng yao-chi.rnIn January 2001 the Publications Committee of Royal Asiatic Society agreed to update the award to £250. Universities throughout the English-speaking world are now informed and submissions to the first two New Awards were received from seven different countries. The first New Award went to David Prager Branner of the University of Maryland for his article, On early Chinese morphology and its intellectual history. William South Coblin of the University of Iowa was the recipient of the second New Award for his article Robert Morrison and the phonology of Mid-Qing Mandarin. James Hunltey Grayson has been awarded the third New Award. The Fourth has gone to Richard John Lynn.