The John K. Fairbank Prize is awarded by the American Historical Association to an author of a book about the history of China, Vietnam, Chinese Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, or Japan since the year 1800. The prize was established in 1969 in honor of East Asian historian John King Fairbank.
2016Barak Kushner.
Men to Devils, Devils to Men : Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice. Harvard University Press. 2015. ISBN 9780674735897. 2015Rian Thum.
The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History. Harvard University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780674736238. 2014Charles K. Armstrong.
Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992. Cornell University Press. 2013. ISBN 0801450829. 2013Barbara Mittler.
A Continuous Revolution : Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. 2012. ISBN 9780674065819. 2012Jun Uchida, Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
2011Carol A. Benedict, Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (Univ. of California Press)
2010James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Univ. Press)
2009Klaus Muehlhahn, Criminal Justice in China: A History (Harvard Univ. Press)
2008Mann, Susan (2007). The Talented Women of the Zhang Family. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520250895. 2007Eugenia Y. Lean, Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China (Univ. of California Press)
2006Zelin, Madeleine (2005). The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231135963. 2005Ruth Rogaski, Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Univ. of California Press)
2004Jordan Sand, House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930 (Harvard Univ. Asia Center)
2003Norman J. Girardot, The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage (Univ. of California Press)
2002Julia Adeney Thomas, Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Univ. of California Press)
2001Peter Zinoman, The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 (Univ. of California Press)
2000Kenneth Pomeranz.
The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2000. ISBN 0691005435. 1999John W. Dower.
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Co./New Press. 1999. ISBN 0393046869. 1998Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Univ. of California Press)
1997Paul A. Cohen.
History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press. 1997. ISBN 0231106505. 1996David G. Marr.
Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power. Univ. of California Press.
1995Kären E. Wigen, The Making of Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 (Univ. of California Press)
1994Kenneth Pomeranz,
The Making of a Hinterland : State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993. ISBN 0520080513. 1993Elizabeth J. Perry, Shanghai on Strike (Stanford Univ. Press)
Tanaka, Stefan (1993). Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520077318. 1992Carter J. Eckert, Offspring of Empire: The Ko-ch'ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 (Univ. of Washington Press)Kathryn Bernhardt, Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950 (Stanford Univ. Press)
1991Andrew Gordon.
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. Univ. of California Press
1990Miriam Silverberg, Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu (Princeton Univ. Press)
1989Prasenjit Duara,
Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-42 (Stanford University Press, 1989)
1988Sheldon M. Garon.
The State and Labor in Modern Japan Univ. of California Press.
1987Joseph W. Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (Univ. of California Press)
1986Carol Gluck, Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton Univ. Press)
1985Philip C. Huang, The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China (Stanford Univ. Press)
1983Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-47 (Princeton Univ. Press)
1981Conrad Totman, The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-68 (Univ. of Hawaii Press)
1979Guy S. Alitto, The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity (Univ. of California Press)
1977Gail Lee Bernstein, Japanese Marxist: A Portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879-1946 (Harvard Univ. Press)
1975Yu-wen Jen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement (Yale Univ. Press)
1973William G. Beasley, The Meiji Restoration (Stanford Univ. Press)
1971Jerome B. Grieder, Hu Shih and the Chinese Renaissance: Liberalism in the Chinese Revolution, 1917-37 (Harvard Univ. Press)
1969Harold Z. Schiffrin, Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution (Univ. of California Press)Tetsuo Najita, Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise, 1905-15 (Harvard University Press)
