History of Art Professor Martin Powers has been awarded the 2008 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-1900 China for his book Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China. The Association of Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council presents two $1,500 Joseph Levenson Prizes yearly for nonfiction scholarly books on China, one for works whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China. The prizes are awarded to English-language books that make the greatest contribution to increasing understanding of the history, culture, society, politics, or economy of China. In keeping with the broad scholarly interests of historian Joseph Levenson, special consideration is given to books that, through comparative insights or groundbreaking research, promote the relevance of scholarship on China to the wider world of intellectual discourse.