MCLC: Andrew Jones honorable mention for MLA award

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Wang Dun <wangdun000 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Andrew Jones honorable mention for MLA award
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MLA has almost never given this to a work in Asian studies, and this
Honorable Mention is chosen from among hundreds of monographs.  I take
this as an honor to the academic field in Asian Studies at large.

 
Dun Wang

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SIMON GIKANDI AND STEPHEN GREENBLATT TO RECEIVE
MLA’S JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PRIZE; ANDREW F. JONES
TO RECEIVE HONORABLE MENTION

 New York, NY – 4 December 2012 – The Modern Language Association of
America today announced it is awarding its forty-third annual James
Russell Lowell Prize to Simon Gikandi, of Princeton University, for his
book Slavery and the Culture of Taste, published by Princeton University
Press, and to Stephen Greenblatt, of Harvard University, for his book The
Swerve: How the World Became Modern, published by W. W. Norton. Andrew F.
Jones, of the University of California, Berkeley, has received honorable
mention for his book Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and
Modern Chinese Culture, published by Harvard University Press. The prize
is awarded annually for an outstanding book—a literary or linguistic
study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical
biography—written by a member of the association.

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The committee’s citation for Jones’s book reads:

Andrew F. Jones’s Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and
Modern Chinese Culture is a fascinating study of how a developmental mode
of thinking derived from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer was reworked
by Lu Xun and other important writers and public intellectuals who played
a vital role in shaping a particularly Chinese form of modernity. Jones
offers elegantly crafted readings of a variety of cultural
objects—journalistic accounts, fiction, criticism, animal tales, and even
toys—that reveal them as animated by an impulse to domesticate an
evolutionary mode of narrative, envisioning a modern nation that could
compete with Western imperial powers. He gracefully evokes a complex
cosmopolitan sphere of culture that is fully enmeshed in the global
struggle between China and the West without being simply reducible to it.
Andrew F. Jones is a professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese at
the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1997. Jones teaches modern Chinese
literature and media culture. His research interests include music,
cinema, and media technology; modern and contemporary fiction; children’s
literature; and the cultural history of the global 1960s. He is the author
of Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music
and Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz
Age; coeditor of The Afro-Asian Century, a special issue of Positions:
East Asia Cultures Critique; and translator of literary fiction by Yu Hua
as well as Eileen Chang’s Written on Water. He is coeditor of The
Discovery of the Child: The Problem of the Child in Modern Chinese
Literature and Culture.
 
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First presented in 1969, the James Russell Lowell Prize is awarded under
the auspices of the MLA’s Committee on Honors and Awards. Recent winners
of the prize have been Jerome McGann, María Antonia Garcés, Giancarlo
Maiorino, Diana Fuss, Paula R. Backscheider, W. J. T. Mitchell, Martin
Puchner, Laura Marcus, Isobel Armstrong, Laura Dassow Walls, and Phillip
H. Round. In recent years honorable mention has been awarded to Eric L.
Santner, Susan Stewart, Wendy L. Wall, Brent Hayes Edwards, Robert Pogue
Harrison, Alan Liu, Wai Chee Dimock, Cynthia Wall, and Joseph Litvak.