Rate My Professor Evelyn Rawski

Rawski's influential publications include Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China (Harvard University Press, 1972), Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China (University of Michigan Press, 1979), Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century co-authored with Susan Naquin (Yale University Press, 1987), The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions (University of California Press, 1998), Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits co-authored with Jan Stuart (Stanford University Press, 2001), and Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She edited volumes such as Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (1985), Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China (1988), and China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795 (2005). Among her honors are predoctoral fellowships from Woodrow Wilson, National Defense Foreign Language, and Foreign Area programs; postdoctoral Guggenheim (1990), Woodrow Wilson Center (1992-93), and NEH (2006-07) fellowships; the Association for Asian Studies Buchanan Prize (2002); and the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. Rawski served as President of the Association for Asian Studies (1995-1996), chaired the ACLS/SSRC Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (1984-1987), and contributed to editorial boards including Ming Studies (1976-1986).