Susan Hanley Explained

Susan B. Hanley (born 1939) is an American academic, author, Japanologist and Professor Emerita of History at the University of Washington.^[1]

Career

Hanley was a Professor of Japanese Studies and History at the University of Washington.^[2] Her primary area of academic research and writing is the material culture of Tokugawa society.^[3]

The Journal of Japanese Studies was edited by Hanley for more than a quarter of a century.^[4]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Susan Hanley, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 20+ publications in 5 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.^[5]

• Population Trends and Economic Development in Tokugawa, Japan (1971)
• Population Trends and Economic Growth in Pre-Industrial Japan (1972)
• Toward an Analysis of Demographic and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan : a Village Study (1972)
• Fertility, mortality and life expectancy in pre-modern Japan (1974)
• Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan (1977)
• Family and population in East Asian History with Arthur P. Wolf (1985)
• (1994)
• Everyday Things in Premodern Japan the Hidden Legacy of Material Culture (1997)

Honors

• Association for Asian Studies, John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 1999.^[6]

Notes and References

1. University of Hawaii, Center for Japanese Studies, affiliate faculty
2. University of California Press, author bio note
3. Hanley, Susan B. (1991). "Tokugawa society: material culture, standard of living, and life-styles." Early Modern Japan, Cambridge Histories Online.
4. Hecker, Felicia J. "International Studies at the University of Washington, the First Ninety Years," University of Washington, Henry Jackson School of International Studies.
5. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities
6. http://www.aasianst.org/publications/book-prizes-hall.htm John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list